New publication in IJSP. Prospective teachers and the socio-pedagogical mission of education: insights from a qualitative inquiry journals.uclpress.co.uk/ijsp/article... Eleftheria Beazidou This article explores prospective teachers’ perceptions regarding the socio-pedagogical role of education.

New publication in LRE The academic lives of commuter students: examining the use of the physical and digital spaces within the contemporary university. journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/... The study explores participants’ engagement with their institution’s campus and online/digital spaces

📢 New publication in AMPS 📢 This is a fascinating article that explores accounts of the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City through a Marxist retrospective. doi.org/10.14324/111...

Discussions of #DiamondOpenAccess often focus on funding. But the model also raises questions about #CommunityOwnership, inclusion, & whose voices are supported in #ScholarlyPublishing. In the third post of our series, we explore Diamond OA as a cultural shift. 📖 Read more: bit.ly/4aM62yT

Part of a newly launched collection on Planetary Health, this editorial positions cities as the primary locus where planetary challenges and transformative responses converge 👇

“If authors don’t pay, someone must lose.” In the second post of our series, we explore the economics of #DiamondOpenAccess & how collective funding and shared infrastructure offer a sustainable alternative to author-facing charges. 📖 Read more: bit.ly/3MGqSXl #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure

📢 Calling all researchers! Our UCL Open Environment survey is still open. Your input will help shape the future of environmental research. ⏱️ < 10 minutes 👉 Take part: bit.ly/4kMBUH0 #AcademicPublishing

On this World Day of Social Justice, we are highlighting our journals that touch on the interrelated pillars of social development. 🧵

As @ucl.ac.uk celebrates its bicentennial this year, UCL Press explores the life and legacy of its spiritual founder, Jeremy Bentham. Explore the legacy of Jeremy Bentham on the Journal of Bentham Studies blog: journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/news/159/ @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social

Could your research benefit from findings in our highly cited articles? 🔍 Explore 30 articles that resonated with researchers in our ‘Highly Cited in 2025’ collection: bit.ly/4rle0EC #DiamondOpenAccess

UCL Press journals are excited to be part of this great initiative! 👇Read below for more info about the EDCH registry and the Diamond Discovery Hub too.

🔓 If #OpenAccess removes barriers, why do so many researchers still face them? In the first post of our new series, we reflect on why #DiamondOpenAccess is gaining renewed attention and what this means for equity and sustainability in publishing. 📖 Read more: bit.ly/4tBwfHI #ResearchEquity

New article published in London Review of Education! Construction of teacher identity in a novice teacher with innovative traits: a biographical narrative study. lnkd.in/d4vzXrtK Authors: María José Martínez-Martínez and Susana Fernández-Larragueta

Latest research from the International Journal of Social Pedagogy. A relationship-based approach to tackling unemployment in disadvantaged communities. Authors: Angela Hodgkins and Carla Solvason lnkd.in/dct9Sp2F

🔓 #OpenAccess is now expected, but the hardest questions remain. Who pays? And what does “sustainable” really mean? In a new blog series, we share insight from our experience of #DiamondOpenAccess and the debates shaping its future. Read the blog post: bit.ly/3Ztm76b #ScholarlyPublishing

UCL Press publishes UCL Open Environment, a diamond open access journal for environment research 🌍 Help us better understand what researchers value when choosing where to publish, and awareness of the journal. ⏱️ < 10 minutes 🎁 Prize draw 👉 Take the survey: bit.ly/4anusxc #ScholarlyCommunications

We’re celebrating research that made an impact in 2025 with a new collection of highly cited, #OpenAccess articles published across the UCL Press Journals portfolio. 📚 Highly Cited in 2025 Explore the collection: bit.ly/4bmahC0

What happens when pupils step into a museum and encounter the materiality of the past during an educational visit? This article focuses on the relation between pupil and object in a museum setting to foster historical consciousness. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

Interested in Editing an influential and impactful #DiamondOpenAccess journal on History Education? Look no further! The @histedresearch.bsky.social is open for applications to join their Editorial Board as a Deputy #Editor - Read the call below 👇 @ioe.bsky.social @cpaucl.bsky.social

A fantastic initiative! we at @uclpress.bsky.social are thrilled be a part of this initiative! All @uclpressjournals.bsky.social are Diamond OA and included in the Open Journals Collective and you can seen what others are included in the online catalogue: www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/

Hear from author Michael Frush on why he chose to publish in AMPS and why, in the 21st century, architecture no longer exists as an autonomous discipline concerned only with buildings. Short Notes on Architecture and Late-Stage Capitalism, on the AMPS blog: journals.uclpress.co.uk/amps/news/149/

🎉Celebrating the #InternationalDayofEducation2026 with UCL Press Journals! We're proud to publish cutting-edge scholarship that challenges assumptions, informs policy and advances global conversations on equitable and inclusive education. Read more in our blog: journals.uclpress.co.uk/news/150/

📢Just published!📢 In the AMPS paper 'Interrogations of consumption', author Michael Frush, explores architecture’s expanded role as a lens through which to understand late-stage capitalism and the spatial conditions that it produces. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.14324/111...

On the HERJ blog today, author Jason Todd explores the themes in his research article and why he chose to publish in HERJ. This is a fascinating, personal blog. Stories We Inherit, Stories We Make: History, Culture and Belonging doi.org/10.14324/HER...

How do you teach history in classrooms when you know there is more than one way of encountering, representing, and understanding the past? On the HERJ blog, Katherine discusses the questions that underpin her article. Read the full blog here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/147/

On the journal blog, author Steven Sverdlik discusses his two articles: Bentham’s Utilitarian Penal Code journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/news/146/

Just published in the Journal of Bentham Studies. What fundamental moral assumptions contributed to the development of Bentham's thinking about punishment? Read the full article to find out: doi.org/10.14324/111...

What makes laws authoritative? On the Journal of Bentham Studies blog, author Erica Kim Ollikainen-Read discusses her fascinating article, Jeremy Bentham and the Communication of Legal Authority. Read the blog here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/jbs/news/145/

On the AMPS blog, author Scott Hancock discusses his career & his research interests that led to the writing of his article in AMPS. If you haven't read Scott's article yet, begin with the blog & explore 'Why Black People Mattered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania': journals.uclpress.co.uk/amps/news/143/

Concluding the Socio-Cultural Theory series in AMPS, guest editor, Santosh Kumar Ketham, provides a summary of the articles in this series, set within the political, social and cultural contexts these papers were written in: doi.org/10.14324/111...

New publication in Radical Americas: Staging the crime scene: feminicide and performativity in Ciudad Juárez This must-read commentary examines the patriarchal-colonial conditions that make the murder of women possible and widespread Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.14324/111...

New publication in AMPS Transforming heritage discourse on the landscape at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania This must-read article examines efforts to centralise the presence and stories of African Americans in the Gettysburg landscape and the narrative of the Civil War: doi.org/10.14324/111...

New publication in The Journal of Bentham Studies. This fascinating article considers the creation of the Indian Penal Code of 1860 through a utilitarian lens, offering an assessment of how codifying the law was a means of legitimising colonial authority: doi.org/10.14324/111...

📢New publication This study investigates how an intervention in place-based history education can be planned and implemented by history teachers and staff from cultural heritage institutions at a local archive. Part of the Mixed Methods series, read the full paper here: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

In this fascinating paper, author and EiC of Radical Americas reviews Schenoni and Mainwaring’s ‘US hegemony and regime change in Latin America’: doi.org/10.14324/111...

Teachers, especially history teachers, are crucial to helping students realise their role as citizens within democratic society. On the HERJ blog the authors of 'A vote for Australian democratic consciousness' discuss the intention behind their article: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/109/

On the HERJ blog, the authors of this paper discuss the implications of their findings and why they chose to publish in HERJ: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/110/ Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

This article explores how cultural creative potential was lost for marginalised artistic and #LGBTQ communities with the eradication of Toronto’s red-light district and the gentrification of the city. Read more in Architecture_MPS: doi.org/10.14324/111...

How can a journal grow while staying true to scholarly values? Since joining UCL Press, the London Review of Education’s annual downloads have increased 40-fold, and it keeps evolving. Read the case study: bit.ly/4h8AYep #EducationResearch #OpenAccess #UCLPress #DiamondOpenAccess

The HERJ series 'Democratic Resilience & Regression in History Education since 1945' has started publishing. Read the articles from the series: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/collect... Sign up to the HERJ newsletter to receive updates from the journal: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/site/su...

“The move to open access in 2014 safeguarded the journal’s continuity.” Learn how the London Review of Education adapted, evolved and grew with the support of UCL Press. Read: bit.ly/4o1hdI0 #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #UCLPress #DiamondOpenAccess

Key findings: £14.2B saved via lower electricity prices £133.3B saved via reduced natural gas prices £43.2B in subsidies offset → Net consumer savings: £104.3B 🔗 Full paper: doi.org/10.14324/ucl... #WindEnergy #UKEnergy #Sustainability #CleanPower #AcademicResearch #NetZero #EnergyPolicy

New preprint paper now online. This study presents new evidence on the financial impact of wind power in the UK energy market (2010–2023), challenging the assumption that sustainability, security and affordability are inherently in conflict. 🔗 Full paper: doi.org/10.14324/ucl...

ICYMI: “Editorial resilience and robust infrastructure can revitalise a journal.” Read how the London Review of Education continues to grow and lead in making education research openly available to all. Case study: bit.ly/3J7QRFf #AcademicImpact #UCLPress #ScholarlyComm #DiamondOpenAccess

📈 From 15K to 1 million annual downloads Our latest case study explores how the London Review of Education grew through “editorial commitment, institutional support and integration into UCL Press.” Read: bit.ly/3KOHOtn

New case study! How did the London Review of Education become one of UCL Press’s most-read journals? Diamond Open Access, a highly engaged Editorial Team & professional publisher support made it possible. Read: bit.ly/3KOHOtn #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #UCLPress #DiamondOpenAccess

World Mental Health Day is a reminder that wellbeing is essential for learners and educators in every context. A recent article in LRE explores how educators, experts and policymakers in Malta respond to cyberbullying among secondary school students. 🔗 journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/...

What comparisons can be made between architectural design and mental healthcare? This article examines design principles at a time of critical psychiatric reforms, highlighting key shifts in the role that architecture can play beyond a medical model of mental healthcare doi.org/10.14324/111...

Ready to share your work? We launch several thematic special series throughout the year, each exploring the journals aims scope. Keep an eye on all current special series calls for papers here: bit.ly/4phOgc7

📖 Did you know? All UCL Press Journals are #DiamondOpenAccess – free to read and free to publish. Explore our full range of journals, covering research across the humanities, social sciences, and STEM: bit.ly/4njXSkG #OpenAccess