Innovation and sustainable practice

In the last of our University Press Week articles, Global Sales Manager Julie Atkins gives a shout out to booksellers who, through launches and other events, help university presses to get their titles to the people who want them.…Read more

In the latest in our #UPWeek blog tour, Thea Cook outlines how we promote equity, whether that be by breaking academic silos, changing age-old publishing formats or working with partners to widen access to our content. …Read more

Noel Cass calls for a different approach to discouraging the 15% responsible for 70% of airline seat bookings. Active restraint or flight-shaming is what’s needed.…Read more

On Transforming Society, Sarah Bird, Managing Editor of Global Social Challenges Journal, explains why we signed the Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaborations – the first publisher to do so.…Read more

Timothy J. Dixon and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, authors of 'Urban Futures' offer examples of deliberative democracy in action, giving people a real choice in how they want the future of their city to be shaped.…Read more

Tristan Partridge and Javiera Barandi remind us that systems that renewable energy will replace do not neatly come to an end. Energy transitions must be built around decommissioning frameworks. …Read more

Helen Penn discusses how far we’ve come away from the community nurseries of the 1980s: a local accountable service for local people. Now it’s big business and the children are not the beneficiaries.…Read more

Hannes Gerhardt, author of 'From Capital to Commons', considers what an alternative, commons approach to our electricity provision could look like. …Read more

Ed Atkins, author of 'Just Energy Transition', shows how the existing energy model must do more to support those vulnerable to climate change. …Read more

Sunit Bagree explains how inclusive urbanisation is all very well, but only if accessibility is affordable for the urban poor, and their human rights are considered. …Read more