UCL Press News & Views

As out 10th anniversary celebrations come to a close, we asked Sonja Astrakhan, a student at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) to share her perspective on the Press as a student.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines boredom, tautologically, as ‘the state of being bored’, and provides us with two synonyms, perhaps by way of compensation: ‘tedium’ and ‘ennui’…but how can we really define boredom?

UCL Press announced that it had reached its 20 millionth open access download at a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its first publications.  

Today’s blog post, by Katherine Twamley, describes the issues around parental leave in the UK that she discusses in her recent open access book.

This June, UCL Press marks a decade of open access publishing and over 19.5 million global downloads.

Space Syntax, a collection of the late Bill Hillier’s work that reflects the progression of his influential ideas across his career, published in April. One of the volume’s editors, Professor Laura Vaughan, reflects on Bill Hiller’s legacy, the futur…

The European European Accessibility Act (EAA) comes into force in June 2025. Angela Thompson, UCL Press Production Editor, writes about a recent training course that she attended, and the recent changes that UCL Press has implemented to make content…

Join a free online discussion on how we think about ‘authorship’ for AI-assisted writing, where the boundaries might lie, and what the future might look like.

Like the x-ray permeating objects to reveal internal structures, photographs permeate museum practices at all levels- but do we really know what photographs are ‘doing’ in museums?