UCL Press News & Views

UCL Press is inviting applications for the role of Editor-in-Chief of UCL Open Environment, an open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research that addresses the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

To mark the ICCEES 2025 World Congress at UCL in London this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books from UCL Press. If you’re attending, Dr Chris Penfold, our commissioning editor, will be there to talk you through our…

UCL Press is delighted to announce that it has recently signed the PAAG Charter for Accessible Publishing, joining a growing number of publishers committed to improving accessibility in digital publishing.

Join UCL for the launch of Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West, a new volume exploring decolonial, interdisciplinary approaches to Area Studies. Featuring editors Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell and Michał Murawski.

UCL Press is proud to announce that it will become the publisher of Current Legal Problems as a book series from 2026, in collaboration with UCL Faculty of Laws.

The History Education Research Journal (HERJ) invites scholars, educators, and practitioners to contribute to a special series:  ‘Truth-telling in History Education: Truth and Justice in a ‘Post-truth’ Era.’

As out 10th anniversary celebrations come to a close, we asked Sonja Astrakhan, a student at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) to share her perspective on the Press as a student.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines boredom, tautologically, as ‘the state of being bored’, and provides us with two synonyms, perhaps by way of compensation: ‘tedium’ and ‘ennui’…but how can we really define boredom?

UCL Press announced that it had reached its 20 millionth open access download at a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its first publications.