UCL Press News & Views
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?
‘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.
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.
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.
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…