What makes writing academic, and who gets to decide?
Out today, Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing explores the politics and practices of academic writing development in UK higher education.
The book addresses access, equity, and generative AI in relation to student writing, asking why academic writing matters and how the field could change for the better.
Open access and available now via link in bio.
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📜 Private letters that reshape public history. 📜
This supplementary volume deepens our understanding of Bentham’s family life, political thought and key projects such as the panopticon, while revealing connections with figures including John Quincy Adams and Prince Potemkin.
Meticulously edited by Philip Schofield, Tim Causer and Chris Riley.
👉 Read and download free via link in bio.
🎨 🎵 Politics you can read, see and hear. 🎵 🎨
Russian Pendulum by Alena Ledeneva combines analysis, original artwork and music to trace recurring patterns such as doublethink, zigzags and waves that define Russia’s complexity and unpredictability.
Free to download, and ideal for students, scholars and anyone seeking to understand hidden forces shaping society.
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Listen to the full series now: Beautiful Minds, the second season of UCL Press Play 🎧
Uncover facts about the mind as our expert speakers challenge misconceptions, clear up common myths and propose strategies for making our society more inclusive.
Episode topics include autism and empathy, sleep hygiene, how to support neurodiverse children, and much more.
Learn more through the link in our bio.
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What do Bentham’s unpublished letters reveal about law, reform and intellectual networks in the late eighteenth century?
📚 Out now in open access: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary letters
This new volume presents more than 270 letters, many published in full for the first time, alongside Bentham’s 1785 will. Spanning 1779 to 1791, the correspondence sheds fresh light on Bentham’s legal and political thought, the panopticon scheme, and his connections with figures such as Samuel Romilly, Étienne Dumont, Jacques Pierre Brissot and John Quincy Adams.
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We are delighted to share that Shelley with Benjamin by Mathelinda Nabugodi has been shortlisted for the BARS First Book Prize 2026.
Published by UCL Press, the book offers a new reading of Shelley through the work of Walter Benjamin.
Read the book free online via link in bio.
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What happens when universities treat experimentation as a way of working?
📚 Out now and free to read: Transdisciplinary Experiments #openaccess
This new book brings together international scholars, artists, scientists and educators to explore how experimental approaches can reshape research, teaching and institutional practice in higher education.
From project‑based learning and flexible course design to new forms of organisation and leadership, the book rethinks how knowledge is created and shared. A closing section of provocations reflects on failure, possibility and creative intervention.
🔗 Read and download free via the link in bio
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ICYMI Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969 by Ashok Malhotra is available now to read and download free!
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‘A brilliant, sophisticated and probing account of the colonial pre-history of Anglo-American ecological research and proselytism. Ashok Malhotra’s highly readable volume is an important intervention in global food studies and the history of sustainability, demonstrating the imperial dimension of nutritional and environmental science.’
— Miles Taylor, Humboldt University of Berlin
‘Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities guides scholars to rethink the way we learn from the violence that has indeed wracked the cities of our world. A billion people live in slums. That’s violence too. Billions are underemployed or unemployed, and hundreds of million starve. That’s violence too. The marginalised speak in this book to tell you that they understand violence in a way that should serve as the basis for the politics of our cities.’
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Correspondent for Globetrotter
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities is available now to read and download for free via link in bio!
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Did the medieval world embrace gender diversity more than we think?
In this documentary, Professor of Medieval Studies Professor Bob Mills joins Professor Philip Schofield to explore the legend of Saint Wilgefortis: a virgin martyr who grew a beard to escape forced marriage.
Through striking artworks and shifting church responses, this film challenges the myth of a strictly binary Middle Ages, and the idea that gender diversity is a modern phenomenon.
Watch on our website.
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