The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR 95.3. It is available to read Open Access as part of LUP Open Planning: ‘9DF: a nine-dimensional framework for community engagement’, by Lucy Natarajan and Sara Hassan. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the authors stated the following: Community engagement lies at the heart of participatory planning and development initiatives worldwide. It represents a concerted effort to involve local residents, stakeholders, and communities in decision-making process ..read more

To celebrate our 125th anniversary this year, we are taking the opportunity to highlight and thank a selection of key figures in LUP’s recent history. The next post in this series has been written by our Senior Commissioning Editor Clare Litt, who has taken the opportunity to reflect on Mary Whitby’s impact on LUP, and on the work of countless historians, for almost four decades. Liverpool University Press greatly benefits from the stalwart efforts of our many series editors; perhaps none embodies the all-round diplomat, combining determination to steer the ship forward with scholarly rigor as ..read more

Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Shandean from 2024. The Shandean is a scholarly journal dedicated to the life, work and times of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768). Founded in 1989, it has earned an unequalled reputation for promoting research into all aspects of Sterne’s life and writing, foregrounding new discoveries in the field, and illuminating many aspects of Sterne’s reception, with a particular strength in material and visual culture. A large reviews section and a list of books received keep readers in touch with recent publications. This new p ..read more

The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 46.2. It is available to read Open Access as part of LUP Open Planning: ‘Ecologies of sustainable development goals: a mid-term perspective’, by Daanish Mustafa, Perdita Matson, Erin Roberts, and Justin Sharpe. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the authors stated the following: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) gains made prior to 2020 have since been impacted by the cascading and intersecting crises of: COVID-19, enhanced e ..read more

Liverpool University Press is hiring a Books Marketing Assistant. Read our below job description to find out more about the role and how to apply. Widely recognized for its progressive and energetic approach to publishing, Liverpool University Press (LUP) is an award-winning scholarly publisher, producing over 150 books every year, 48 academic journals and a growing list of digital collections and open access initiatives. The Press has grown significantly in recent years and is located in a beautifully refurbished Georgian townhouse on the edge of the University of Liverpool campus. The Books ..read more

2024 marks the tenth anniversary of an imprint which includes winners of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year. Pavilion Poetry is celebrating its tenth year in 2024. Edited by Deryn Rees-Jones, Pavilion Poetry seeks to publish the very best in contemporary poetry and has proven itself successful with several award-winning collections since its first releases in April 2015. An imprint of Liverpool University Press – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Liverpool – Pavilion Poetry has not only published 29 ..read more

Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction offers the first analysis of the representation of computational algorithms and their cultural consequences in twenty-first-century fiction, defining an emerging tradition of fiction attempting to redefine the novel’s relevance within digital culture. In this blog post, author Jaime Harrison delves into how, coinciding with the completion of his manuscript, the public conversation surrounding digital culture underwent a significant transformation following the introduction of ChatGPT. To say that public discourse on digital culture shifted somewhat foll ..read more

We are pleased to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning, has now reached its target for 2024. This means that this year’s content from our planning and development journals, Town Planning Review (TPR) and International Development Planning Review (IDPR), is now available to read freely via Open Access alongside content from 2023 and 2022! As leading planning and development journals, TPR and IDPR provide a forum for communication between researchers and students, policy analysts and practitioners. We are proud to bring the latest content to all reade ..read more

As part of our 125th anniversary celebrations we are taking a look at the future of academic publishing with a spotlight on Early Career Academics. In this post we hear from Maria Czepiel whose work has been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (BHS), recognised across the world as one of the front-ranking journals in the field of Hispanic research, and a journal which started life at LUP in 1923 and last year celebrated its 100th anniversary. Tell us a bit about yourself and your research My name is Maria Czepiel and I am currently a Lecturer in Spanish at Brasenose and Balliol Col ..read more

The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR Volume 95.2. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: ‘Ideology, statecraft and the ‘double shuffle’ of Conservative planning reform in England’ by Edward Shepherd, Andy Inch, John Sturzaker, and Tim Marshall. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the authors stated the following: Planning for housing development in England has long been politically divisive. New housing can be met with significant local opposition by communities concerned about ..read more