UCL Press News & Views

Five years since COVID: Notes from the USA
April 3, 2025
Last month marked five years since the WHO declared the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic. In commemoration of this moment, the Marjorie Elaine, Lu Liu and Sophia L. Ángeles look back at what has changed and what has remained the same in the USA since the…

Five years after COVID: Notes from South Africa, the UK, and Russia
April 2, 2025
Last month marked five years since the WHO declared the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic. In commemoration of this moment, the authors of Family Life in the time of COVID look back at what has changed and what has remained the same in their respective cou…

Chasing a ghost: Dark matter physics
March 31, 2025
Find out about the discovery of dark matter and how dark matter science may develop in future years in this fascinating post from Professor Ignacio Ferreras.

Book launch: Revisiting Childhood Resilience
March 19, 2025
Join the the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the Critical Childhood Studies Centre for the launch of new books, including Revisiting Childhood Resilience by Wendy Sims-Schouten on 1st April, 5-7pm.

London Review of Education welcomes new editors-in-chief
March 12, 2025
UCL Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof John Gray and Prof Miguel Pérez-Milans as joint editors-in-chief of the open access journal London Review of Education.

Why the work of Millicent Garrett Fawcett still matters
March 8, 2025
On International Women’s Day, Fiona McTaggart explains why she welcomed the first scholarly appraisal of Millicent Garrett Fawcett Fawcett in over 30 years.

Call for editorial board members: London Review of Education
March 7, 2025
London Review of Education, UCL Press’s flagship fully open-access journal based in IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, is seeking to expand the membership of its editorial board.

Walking the metro line in Lahore
March 4, 2025
Published last month, Lahore in Motion provides a portrait of the Pakistani metropolis by tracing the path of the city’s first metro rail corridor. Construction for this major piece of public infrastructure began in 2015 and, over subsequent years, t…

New open access books published in February 2025
February 28, 2025
It’s been another grey, dark, wet month, but we’ve almost been too busy to notice. With six more exciting open access books to read, who can blame us?