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Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries
Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Fatemeh Sadeghi, Sumrin Kalia, Erol Saglam, Alexander Pymm,
01 October 2026
How Alex Bloom Built Radical Democratic Secondary Education in Post-war London
Michael Fielding, Mark Erickson,
15 September 2026
Creating a Framework for Developing Sessional Teachers in Higher Education
Neil Sutherland, Alex Standen,
24 August 2026
Hosts, Hospitals and Hospitalities
Susana Araújo, Catarina Nunes de Almeida, Santiago Pérez Isasi,
27 July 2026
Bringing Powerful Knowledge into Classrooms
Mark Hardman, Marie Nilsberth, Mikko Puustinen,
02 July 2026
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An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
Stijn van Ewijk, Julia Stegemann,
05 December 2023
Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Deepak K. Kalaskar B.Tech PhD, Professor Peter E. Butler MD, FRCSI, FRCS, FRCS (Plast), Shadi Ghali,
02 August 2016
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Alex Bloom: an English giant of democratic education
October 7, 2026
Originally published on the IOE Blog, this article by Michael Fielding and Peter Moss explores the legacy of Alex Bloom, the pioneering headteacher who built one of the UK’s most remarkable examples of radical democratic education. Drawing on Fieldin…
October 6, 2026
UCL Press was the UK’s first fully Open Access university press, but what is Open Access, and and why does it matter?
Celebrate World Architecture Day with the Design Research in Architecture series
October 5, 2026
Today is World Architecture Day. To mark the occasion, we’re highlighting the open access Design Research in Architecture series.