UCL Press News & Views

The transformation of migration in Polish cities
November 18, 2024
For her new book, Polish Cities of Migration: The migration transition in Kalisz, Piła and Płock, Anne White carried out extensive in-depth interviews with Polish return migrants, Ukrainians and people from other countries living in the Polish cities…

Essential reading for COP29 from UCL Open Environment
November 15, 2024
From 11-22 November 2024, nearly 200 world leaders and 30,000 delegates will come together in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to coordinate global climate action for the year ahead at the latest UN Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties (COP…

New series editor for Literature and Translation series
November 14, 2024
UCL Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Kathryn Batchelor as a series editor of the popular series Literature and Translation. Currently Professor in Translation Studies at UCL, she joins fellow editors Prof. Timothy Mathews and D…

The hidden health costs of ultra-processed foods
November 12, 2024
In Packaged Plants: Seductive supplements and metabolic precarity, published this month by UCL Press, authors Anita Hardon and Michael Lim Tam offer an absorbing ethnography and cultural history of how the production and consumption of plants for foo…

Episode 5 of The Greatest Good now available!
November 11, 2024
UCL Press Play is delighted to announce the release of the fifth – and final – episode of the podcast series The Greatest Good, which explores the lasting influence of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose radical progressivism was the intellectual i…

CfP: Urban Africa series
November 8, 2024
To celebrate World Urbanism Day, the editors of the open access Urban Africa series, co-published with the International African Institute, have opened a new call for proposals for new books.

Facing the challenges of shared parental leave
November 6, 2024
To mark the publication of Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood by Katherine Twamley, we are proud to share an extract exploring the competing pressures that prevent couples from taking up shared parent…

Episode 4 of the Greatest Good now available!
November 5, 2024
UCL Press Play is delighted to announce the release of the fourth episode of the podcast series The Greatest Good.

New series editor for FRINGE series
November 4, 2024
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Uta Staiger as a new series editor of the FRINGE series.