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‘I want to achieve high-quality healthcare for all’: an interview with Professor Kurinchi Gurusamy

February 27, 2025

We caught up with Professor Kurinchi Gurusamy to discuss why he wrote A Guide to Performing Systematic Reviews of Health and Disease, which publishes out today.

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion

February 26, 2025

Join the editors of Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan on 5th March from 18:00 for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the book’s publication.

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New Event: Diversifying scholarly writing and publishing

February 24, 2025

Join Pat Gordon-Smith discuss how scholarly communication is slowly diversifying, and share examples from her work as commissioning editor for UCL Press as part of the Academic Writing Seminar Series run out of UCL IOE.

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Essential reading for World Day of Social Justice

February 20, 2025

To mark World Day of Social Justice 2025, we asked our journals team to share a selection of articles on 2025’s theme: ‘Strengthening a Just Transition for a Sustainable Future’.

‘I want to change the world’: Wendy Sims-Schouten on childhood resilience

February 19, 2025

We caught up with Professor Wendy Sims-Schouten to talk about her work on childhood resilience, her interdisciplinary approach to research, and the shortfalls and her desire to change the world for the better.

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Romantic relationships on social media

February 14, 2025

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we bring you an excerpt from Xinyuan Wang’s popular book Social Media in Industrial China . In it, she describes the role of social media in the romantic relationships of the factory workers that she observed for he…

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Two new launch events for Palaeontology in Public

February 12, 2025

Join the authors for two events for the recently published book Palaeontology in Public. The book examines how palaeontology has impacted on public culture, and how the public role of the field has shaped the science of palaeontology across its histo…

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How a world-class university was founded

February 11, 2025

To mark the 199th anniversary of the UCL’s foundation, we are proud to share an extract from The World of UCL exploring how the university was founded, and how – though not as its founder, as commonly believed – untilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentha…

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Making The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society accessible for all

February 10, 2025

UCL Press is pleased to announce that the latest volume of The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, volume 24 (2024), has published with alt text in the html and PDFs for all images.

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