Why We Post Tour of Chinese Universities
Today’s guest post is by Xinyuan Wang, author of Social Media in Industrial China. Between 12th-24th September 2016, Professor Daniel Miller and two researchers on the Why We Post project, Tom...
View ArticleCall for submissions: The Radical Americas Journal
The Radical Americas Network is delighted to announce a call for submissions for the brand new Radical Americas Journal. Submissions from both early career and established scholars worldwide will be...
View ArticleLife Within Social Media: Stories from Social Media in Industrial China
Today’s guest blog is by Xinyuan Wang, author of Social Media in Industrial China In recent decades China has witnessed the largest ever migration in human history. By 2015 the number of Chinese people...
View ArticleTaking Why We Post to China
Although the Why We Post project is primarily an attempt to study the use and consequences of social media, there were other broader aims. Particularly, the hope that the project would show that while...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: FRINGE series
The aim of the FRINGE Series is to integrate elusive subjects (‘fringe’) within the the discipline of Area Studies into existing research agendas (centre). Our belief is that reconceptualising the...
View ArticleAn Excerpt for Valentines Day: Romantic relationships on social media
Today’s excerpt is from Social Media in Industrial China by Xinyuan Wang, UCL Deprtment of Anthropology. Every day after work, a group of young female factory workers leaves the factory plant together,...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day Excerpt: Women on excavation
Today’s excerpt, to celebrate International Women’s Day, is from The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections, edited by Alice Stevenson. On 10 March 1923, the London...
View ArticleWhy commemorate Guido Gezelle?
Today’s guest post is by Paul Vincent, an award-winning translator and scholar who has published two volumes of translated poetry with UCL Press: Herman Gorter: Poems of 1890, A Selection, which...
View ArticleTalking to the BBC about social media in China
Today’s guest blog is by Tom McDonald of Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University. He is author of Social Media in Rural China Earlier this month, I was very fortunate to be interviewed by the BBC...
View ArticleWhy the suburbs are important
Today’s excerpt, by Mark Clapson of the University of Westminster, is the foreword of Suburban Urbanities, a multi-contributor volume edited by Laura Vaughan, UCL Bartlett. In recent years there has...
View ArticleReflections on publishing Memorandoms by James Martin
Today’s Guest Post is by Tim Causer, editor of Memorandoms by James Martin and Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project. Those of us researching the history of convict transportation to...
View ArticleLosing weight without a diet: manipulating a type of brain cell gets results...
Today’s guest post is by Nicholas Lesica, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at UCL and author of A Conversation about Healthy Eating. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read...
View ArticleInternational Translation Day Excerpt: On Translation
This excerpt, by Andre Lefavre, is taken from Poems of Guido Gezelle: A Bilingual Anthology, where it is entitled “Translating a National Monument” I think that of all the activities open to those who...
View ArticlePublishing with UCL Press – an author’s perspective
Today’s guest post is by Gabriel Moshenska, Senior Lecturer in Public Archaeology at UCL and author of Key Concepts in Public Archaeology, a textbook produced as part of JISC’s Institution as...
View ArticleGlobal Encyclopaedia of Informality Book Launch Event
Join UCL Press and the FRINGE Centre for the launch of the two-volume Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, which marks the first publication in the FRINGE Series. Date: Thursday 22nd March 2018 Time:...
View ArticleBrexit and the democratisation of knowledge
Today’s guest post is by Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger, editors of Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe, and is part of a special series to celebrate UCL Press reaching one million...
View ArticleFutures of academic publishing
Today’s guest post is by Ilan Kelman, from UCL’s Institute for Global Health and Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, editor of Arcticness: Power and Voice from the North, and is part of a...
View ArticleWhy I wrote… Mapping Society
Today’s guest post is by Professor Laura Vaughan, author of Mapping Society (published today), editor of Suburban Urbanities, and Professor of Urban Form and Society at the prestigious Bartlett School...
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Today’s guest post is by Muki Haklay, Professor of GIScience at UCL, and one of the editors of the brand new book Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy It originally appeared...
View ArticleAn open letter from the Editor-in-Chief of UCL Open: Environment
Today’s guest post is by Prof Dan Osborn, Editor-in-Chief of UCL Open: Environment, which opens for submissions today. It originally appeared here. UCL Open: Environment – why are we doing this? Very...
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