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Bristol University Press is pleased to announce an exciting new journal for 2022: Consumption and Society. Keep reading

We are delighted to announce that Bristol University Press has been shortlisted for the PLS Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year at the Independent Publishers Award 2021. Keep reading

We are pleased to introduce the new Editors of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice: Joanna Mack, Open University, UK and Marco Pomati, Cardiff University, UK. Joanna and Marco will take over from the current Editors in September 2021. Keep reading

Bristol University Press, and its imprint Policy Press, are delighted to announce our 2020 Journal Impact Factors. This year has seen us make significant gains in the Journal Citation Reports. Keep reading

Bristol University Press is delighted to announce the call for papers for its first fully open-access journal launching in 2022: Global Social Challenges Journal. Keep reading

Alison Shaw, Chief Executive of Bristol University Press, has been conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, one of 37 new Fellows. Keep reading

Sarah Bird, Commissioning Editor, talks about how our peer reviewers in 2020 raised over £10,000 for Bristol University Press' charity of the year, Julian House. Read more on our blog

We have acquired a new book by Labour politician Ali Milani. The Unlikely Candidate, about Milani’s bid to unseat the Prime Minister in the 2019 Parliamentary elections, will be published in spring 2022. Keep reading

BUP is proud to announce it has become a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goals Publishers (SDG) Compact, which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020. Keep reading

Free access to introduction chapters of new books in December. Our acclaimed eBook collection on University Press Scholarship Online platform now offers access the over 750 high-quality monographs. Keep reading

We are pleased to announce an exciting addition to the Policy Press journals list for 2021: Justice, Power and Resistance (JPR). JPR is the journal of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and is currently published by EG Press. We are delighted to be working together on the re-launch of the journal with Policy Press in September 2021. Keep reading

Bristol University Press and its imprint Policy Press are proud to announce the launch of our inaugural Library Advisory Board (LAB). Keep reading

We’re very pleased to have been shortlisted for two categories in the 2020 Independent Publishing Guild Awards: the PLS Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year and the IPG Marketing Award for our campaign for The Class Ceiling. Keep reading

We are delighted to be shortlisted for the University Press Redux Sustainability Award, which celebrates an initiative, publication, product or project aimed at addressing one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Keep reading

A message from Vanessa May and Sue Heath, on behalf of the Morgan Centre, University of Manchester. David was the author of Snobbery, part of the British Sociological Association 21st Century Standpoints series. Keep reading

Bristol University Press, and its imprint Policy Press, are delighted to announce our 2019 Impact Factors. This year has seen us make impressive gains in the Journal Citation Reports. We have also received the first Impact Factor for the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. Keep reading

The latest update to our Policy Press Scholarship Online platform is now complete and the introductory chapters of new titles will be free to access until the end of July. Keep reading

Bristol University Press is pleased to announce Work in the Global Economy, an exciting new journal launching in 2021. Keep reading

To support our research communities at this challenging time, we want you to be able to access our content as easily as possible. Keep reading

Women of Power: Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide by Torild Skard has been awarded the Bertha Lutz Award 2020. Keep reading