News

We’re pleased to announce that Bristol University Press will be present at the upcoming UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition, where, the Alison Shaw, Chief Executive of Bristol University Press, and Megan Taylor, Press Manager at the University of Huddersfield Press, will explore some of the key challenges and opportunities facing university presses in the rapidly changing world of scholarly publishing. Keep reading

This Academic Book Week, and ten months after the publication of the first Bristol University Press title, Victoria Pittman, our Head of Commissioning, looks back over the year, showcasing our lists so far and explaining why we’re proud and privileged to be part of the academic publishing world. Read more on our blog

By John Mohan, Director of the Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, celebrates the 10 year collaboration between Voluntary Sector Review, the Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham and the Voluntary Sector Studies Network. Read more on our blog

This month we're adding over 25 new titles to our PPSO e-book collection. To celebrate the new upload, the introductory chapters of the new titles will be free to access on the platform until 1st March 2019. Keep reading

We had the immense pleasure of being hosted by Lord Alf Dubs in a House of Lords committee room at the Palace of Westminster last night for the launch of the Policy Press title Unaccompanied Migrants: Identity, Care and Justice, edited by Sue Clayton, Katie Willis and Anna Gupta. Keep reading

We're excited to announce that A handbook of food crime, by Allison Gray and Ronald Hinch, has been chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Keep reading

In our last blog piece of 2018, Chief Executive Alison Shaw looks at the recent UN report on UK poverty and how there is hope for change in publishing research that challenges inequality, prejudice and poor political and economic decisions. Read more on our blog

This week we celebrate University Press Week. We are proud to be part of this important publishing community that helps disseminate academic work to the widest readership possible. Keep reading

Last week, on 8 November, Tim Oliver launched Understanding Brexit: A concise introduction at Loughborough University London. Keep reading

We are delighted to be a part of the Open Access Week celebrations and to be able to showcase OA content and initiatives at Bristol University Press and Policy Press. Journals and OA Director, Julia Mortimer, explains why. Read more on our blog

A new book by Dr Zoe Young, is the first to go inside women’s work and family lives in a year of working flexibly. Keep reading

It’s a pleasure to introduce Futures of Work, which is led by a first-rate team of scholars from the University of Bristol. Keep reading

Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette introduce the new special issue of Critical and Radical Social Work, ‘Marx at 200’, in this editorial. Read more on our blog

The Global Agenda for Social Justice was launched last week at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Philadelphia. Keep reading

Mary O Hara, author of Austerity Bites, has launched Project Twist-It - a brand new anti-poverty multi-platform initiative aiming to shift the negative rhetoric around poverty in the UK and the US. Keep reading

Former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, Professor Chris Brink, returned to launch his new book which explores the role of higher education in society. The Soul of a University: Why excellence is not enough, provides an in-depth analysis of why universities should have a social purpose as well as achieve academic excellence. Keep reading

We're delighted to announce that 'Dead-end lives' by Daniel Briggs and Rubén Monge Gamero has won the 2018 American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology Outstanding Book award. Read more

Congratulations to Diane Reay and her book Miseducation which won the Working-Class Studies Association Jake Ryan Book Award. Keep reading

Squaring the circle on Brexit, by John Erik Fossum and Hans Petter Graver, was the first Bristol University Press book to be published, and since publication it has received some great media coverage we wanted to highlight. Keep reading

Ann Oakley's Women, peace and welfare is Book of the week in Times Higher Education this week. Read the full article