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UCL Press 2015-2025
10 years of award-winning open access publishing
UCL Press is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in June 2025. Find out more about our origins, Open Access model, the scholarly books, journals and student textbooks we have published, and their impact. You can browse our publications and download or read them online for free, anywhere in the world!
21.77 million open access downloads
418 books published
242countries and territories reached
15journals
9.1 millionjournal downloads
New titles
Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,
15 September 2025
Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann,
26 August 2025
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The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.
A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices.
Urban Informality and the Built Environment
Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx,
12 March 2024
The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy
Vadim Radaev, Zoya Kotelnikova,
07 July 2022
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World
Mererid Puw Davies, Sonu Shamdasani,
15 April 2020
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Call for proposals: Reimagining teachers’ work and teacher education for our futures
October 10, 2025
UCL Press is delighted to share a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning (IJDEGL): ‘Reimagining teachers’ work and teacher education for our futures – Global perspect…
Discover object-based learning: Workshop and book launch with Thomas Kador
October 9, 2025
Join Thomas Kador, author of the new textbook Object-based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
UCL Press at IPG
October 7, 2025
UCL Press Production Manager Jaimee Biggins recently attended the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Autumn Conference at the Shaw Theatre in London, where over 300 publishers from across the academic and trade sectors came together for a day of disc…