Reflecting on publishing and research culture during Open Access week 2025 - with Professor Devyani Prabhat - University of London Press

At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher. In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures. In our next post in the series, we talk to Devyani Prabhat, author of Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law: Scales, Locales, Themes and Practices. Devyani Prabhat is Professor in Law at University of Bristol Law School, UK, with legal practice experience in Constitutional law. She has an LLM and a PhD from New York University and is an enrolled Attorney at Law, NY. She researches and teaches Migration, Citizenship and Nationality from a socio-legal and comparative perspective. Her first monograph Unleashing the Force of Law (Palgrave/Springer) won the Society of Legal Scholars (UK and Ireland) best book award in 2017.