Past Events | Publishing Seminars
Mon 27 February 2012 at 6.00 pm
Children’s Publishing
Please note that there are 2 speakers during this event.
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Willow 10
Jasmine Richards is Senior Commissioning Editor for Children’s at OUP and an Author. Her talk is about the role as an author and editor.
Neil Burden is CEO of Child’s Play International and his talk concerns Child’s Play’s philosophy and the challenges they face in the digital future.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 13 February 2012 at 5.30 pm
Non-Profit Publishing
Robert Cornford (Communications Manager at Oxfam)
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Willow 10
How Non-Profit Publishing works at Oxfam.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 15 November 2011 at 5.00 pm
The challenges of independent publishing - John Elford
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Willow
John will discuss what it means to be Green in publishing. He will address global issues as well as how to apply green approaches to the business of publishing. He will talk also about his experience of running a small ethically-minded publishing company for over 20 years and the lessons he has learned. The talk will also explore how things are changing in the broad current economic and environmental climate and how this might affect business in general in the future.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 1 November 2011 at 5.00 pm
My Life as an Editor - Juliette Mitchell
Misconceptions, mistakes and rewards
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Buckley BG10/11
Juliette Mitchell talks about her experiences at Penguin, including the commissioning process, seeing a manuscript through from start to finish and different approaches to editing. She will touches on dealing with authors and agents and launching the book into the world.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 27 April 2011 at 10.00 am
Usability, user centred design and persuasion
how to make sure people are engaged, complete tasks efficiently and effectively, and like what they see/do
Jon Dodd (BunnyFoot)
Taking Place: Tong IT Suite, Brookes
Jon Dodd founded BunnyFoot in 1999, in the early days of usability, we were the first consultancy to offer professional accessibility services and the first to offer eyetracking as standard. They concentrate on user centred design and usability, and also offer specialist eyetracking services to ad agencies and for market research.
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Wed 13 April 2011 at 1.30 pm
Children’s Publishing Around the World - London Book Fair Seminar, 13th April
London Book Fair, Earls Court, London
Wednesday 13 April 2011
14:30, Children's Theatre, Earls Court 1
Taking Place: London Book Fair
Once upon a time, children’s publishing was an ugly duckling. Now, with the sales of children’s bestsellers matching those of titles aimed at adults, and new technology inviting children to engage in different ways with stories, the duckling-become-swan holds its head high, and publishers are vying with each other to sign up and keep key authors.
Three speakers, representing different parts of the world and different roles within the exciting field of children’s publishing, will discuss what’s happening and what the future may hold. Let’s hope it’s not tears before bedtime!
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Seminars
Mon 28 March 2011 at 3.30 pm
Catching the Wave – Confessions of a Digital Opportunist
David Attwooll (Attwooll Associates)
Taking Place: BG10, Buckley Building Gypsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
An irreverent romp through 40 years of analogue and (from 1984) digital publishing – which should prompt some career ideas or at least cautionary tales. Based on his current business, David will also suggest how a growing number of 21st-century publishing businesses and careers will look radically different from the current ‘norm’.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 28 February 2011 at 5.00 pm
The story behind the spread - Dorling Kindersley
Christine Keilty (Dorling Kindersley)
Taking Place: Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University
A DK spread is a visual feast of eye catching design and informative text. This talk will be an insight into how a spread is created from concept to printed book; Covering The Art Book, the development of its unique page design, the finer points of reproducing pieces of art, gaining permissions from an Artist estate and the surprise of finding out Van Gogh’s Sunflower’s true colours. Christine Keilty will also discuss digital publishing and how this is changing their approach to photo shoots which can now include video and commissioning illustration even in a 3D environment.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 23 February 2011 at 11.00 am
The challenges of magazine publishing for the iPad
Neil Ayres (Digital Producer for Centaur Media)
Taking Place: Brookes Willow 10
Neil Ayres. is Digital Producer for Centaur Media's creative community titles, incorporating Creative Review and Design Week magazines, as well as several spin-off products.
The new Creative Review app will be one of the world's first magazine products to be truly iPad native. Oxford Brookes students have the opportunity of seeing the app in action before it's launch in March.
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Wed 16 February 2011 at 11.00 am
Going Digital Gracefully
Alison Jones (Director of Digital Development Palgrave Macmillan)
Taking Place: Brookes, Tonge 620
What has to change for traditional publishers as they migrate to digital publishing? What stays the same? And can they make the transition without losing themselves in the process?
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Mon 14 February 2011 at 4.30 pm
Richard Hart – Hart Publishing
Taking Place: BG10, Buckley Building Gypsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Hart Publishing is an independent academic publisher based in Oxford specializing in legal books and journals. In his talk, Richard Hart will depict the role of independent academic publishers within the publishing industry and speak about how smaller academic publishers can indeed compete with large corporations and sometimes even do a better job than big businesses.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 9 February 2011 at 11.00 am
The ActiveTeach Product: - from strategy to creation
Marc Bloch (Head of Digital Publishing for Secondary Education, Pearson)
Taking Place: Brookes Tonge: Room T315
ActiveTeach was a landmark product for Pearson. The launch of ActiveTeach changed the entire market dynamic, making an equivalent digital component essential for any new course.
This product will be demonstrated during the talk, which will cover the development of the idea and the execution of the product creation.
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars | Publishing Seminars
Wed 24 November 2010 at 12.30 am
Publishing seminar - Toby Mundy
Independent trade publishing in the UK
Taking Place: Buckley Building, Gypsy Lane, Oxford Brookes University
Toby Mundy is a leading figure in the publishing industry. After training as a graduate recruit at HarperCollins, where he was editorial assistant to Stuart Proffitt, and later took on responsibility for Fontana Press, he joined Weidenfeld & Nicolson as editorial director in 1998. In 2000 he became managing director and publisher of newly formed Atlantic Books, whose bestsellers include the Booker winning The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, and recent titles such as The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.
Atlantic Books is the British subsidiary of the American independent publishing house Grove/Atlantic. It was founded in February 2000 and published its first book in May 2001. It has since developed a list that has a world-wide reputation for quality, originality and breadth, and includes fiction, history, politics, memoir and current affairs.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Wed 10 November 2010 at 12.30 am
Publishing seminar - John Thompson
John Thompson talking about his new book on trade publishing, Merchants of Culture
Taking Place: Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University
John Thompson is Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Recent publications include Books in the Digital Age (2005) and Merchants of Culture (2010). He was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences in 2001 for his work on political scandal.
In his book Merchants of Culture he provides a fascinating account of the high-risk culture in consumer publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. Revealed is the world of agents and scouts, of auctions and deals, often with large sums of money paid out to authors, as publishers gamble in the hope of signing the next Harry Potter or Dan Brown.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 19 October 2010 at 11.30 pm
Publishing seminar - Barbara Trapido
Oxford based novelist Barbara Trapido talks about her experiences as an author
Taking Place: Buckley Building, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Barbara Trapido is an internationally successful author, renowned for her dark satirical comedies. She has written a number of novels, including Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982), which won the Whitbread Special Prize for Fiction, Temples of Delight (1990), shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, Juggling (1994), and Frankie & Stankie (2003). In its mix of people from different spheres, Sex and Stravinsky, published by Bloomsbury in May 2010, throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
Born in South Africa and now Oxford based, she has a loyal and ever growing following of fans and is a popular and regular speaker at book events and festivals.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 17 May 2010 at 12.00 pm
Florence summer school
Taking Place: Villa Finaly, Firenze, 17 to 28 May 2010
Postgraduate publishing students from Oxford Brookes will be taking part in a two-week summer school in Florence, Italy. Working on projects around the overall subject of children's publishing, they will study alongside students from partner universities in Paris, Milan, Leipzig and Ljubljana. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a European context with lectures and seminars on a variety of topics, including authorship, illustration, bookshops, comics and the digital future.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars