The Press is governed by the Management Board which consists of the Chair of the Editorial Board, the Press Manager, the Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead, and two external members: one non-UW academic and one publishing professional. The Management Board’s role is to consider matters of finance, management and strategic direction for the Press, and not the academic merits of individual book and journal proposals (which is the role of the Editorial Board).

Falling within the responsibility of the Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead (who sits on the Library & Archives Service senior management team and University Research Committee), UWP is part of university-wide planning and reporting via Student and Academic Services.

UWP is represented (as above) at University Research Committee and contributes to its remit to identify and disseminate good practice and innovation in relation to:

1. Open research practices including the Concordat on open research data and responsible research evaluation, and
2. Open research infrastructure including the University of Westminster Press.

UWP also provides an annual report to the University’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Steering Committee.

All UWP's publications are assessed via peer review using specialist expert advisers from across the world before consideration by our Editorial Board, comprised of University of Westminster scholars.

Editorial Board

Professor Pippa Catterall is Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster and Chair of the UWP Editorial Board. She edits the journal National Identities and has published extensively on twentieth-century history. Her current research focuses on prime ministers and policy strategy.

Dr Adrija Dey is a UKRI Future Leader Senior Research Fellow in the Schools of Social Sciences and Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. She was previously a lecturer in digital media at the University of Sussex and British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS.

Jenny Evans is Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead at the University of Westminster with previous posts as Research Information Manager at Middlesex University, Liaison Librarian at Imperial College London and in the Library Advisory Services of the State University of Western Australia.

Professor Catherine Loveday is Professor of Psychology at the University of Westminster. She is the author of The Secret World of the Brain and frequently appears as an expert psychologist on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. Her research focuses on the neuropsychology of memory and on music in the brain. She is an active member of the British Psychology Society.

Professor Guy Osborn is Professor at Westminster Law School and is Co-Director of Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture, Editor of the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal and of the Routledge Book series ‘Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture’.

Dr Eugenie Shinkle is a Reader in the School of Arts at the University of Westminster. Her practice focuses on the haptic and embodied dimensions of our relations with images and image-making technologies. She is co-editor of the online photobook platform c4journal and also writes widely for Foam, Aperture, The Journal of Architecture, Art Journal and 1000Words.

Professor Andrew Smith is Professor in Tourism and Events at the University of Westminster. His research centres on events as tools for the regeneration of cities; place image and reimagining the city; and urban tourism. He is the author of Events in the City: Using Public Spaces as Events Venues (2016) and co-editor of Destination London: The Expansion of the Visitor Economy (2019).

Dr Roza Tsagarousianou is Reader in Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. She has published extensively on electronic democracy, diasporic media and audiences and European Muslim cultures. Her publications include Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (2013) and The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture (edited with Jessica Retis).

Professor Gerda Wielander is Professor of Chinese Studies and Associate Head of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the link between the personal and spiritual to wider social and political developments in China. She has published on Christian thought and belief in contemporary China, on social organisations, and on the meaning of socialism in the Chinese context.