July 2022 open access books

Posted on August 01, 2022 by Alison Fox

Summer is finally here, and we've got some wonderful reading for those of you who are taking a well-earned break (and those who aren't).

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Expected or not? The UK’s exceptional record-breaking weather

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Alison Fox

In June 2021, when the evidence report for the 3^rd UK climate risk assessment (CCRA3) was released, talk was of southern England summer temperatures over 40°C being experienced sometime “before 2050”. However, recent events have now overtaken these projections when the thermometers hit 40°C last week. Editor of UCL Open: Environment Prof Dan Osborn explores.

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Fieldwork in a time of crisis

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Alison Fox

Today's guest post, by Jayaseelan Raj, discusses just what it's like to be an ethnographer in your own community. His experiences and findings for the basis for his brand new open access book Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian tea belt, which publishes today.

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