Past Events
Mon 20 September 2010 at 8.00 am
Digital Publishing Certificate: Survey
Want to enhance your knowledge of digital publishing and gain a professional qualification?
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (OICPS) is developing a Certificate in Digital Publishing; a course for publishing professionals with modules on Digital Media Publishing and E-publishing. Please help us tailor this to your needs and find out more by completing our short survey.
A donation will be made to Medecins sans Frontieres for each survey completed.
For more information, please contact Mary Malin at mmalin@brookes.ac.uk
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Sun 19 September 2010 to Tue 21 September 2010
An Oxford education: Short courses in Oxford for wine lovers and aspiring food writers
Taking Place: Hertford College, University of Oxford
Oxford Gastronomica, the UK’s only specialist centre for the study of food, drink and culture, is running two residential courses, in September 2010, in the beautiful and historic setting of Hertford College, University of Oxford.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Fri 16 July 2010 at 8.30 am
Onix Summer School
Join us for a day when we’ll demystify ONIX and show you how you can unleash its power. You’ll wonder how it ever seemed so daunting.
Taking Place: Tonge IT Suite, Oxford Brookes University
9.30am - 5pm
Audience: No previous knowledge required, but an interest in streamlining the use of bibliographic data is necessary
Price: £295 per delegate
(Price includes a memory stick containing a full single user licence of the Onix Central Publishing Manager worth £315 and all tools necessary to create catalogues and AIs from ONIX worth £1250. Discounts on data migration available for delegates.)
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
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
Tue 27 April 2010 at 5.30 pm
Career Progression in Publishing: OPuS Event
Drinks: 18.30
Talk Starts: 19.30
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University (Gypsy Lane Campus)
Refreshments will be served in the Lloyd Board Room and the talks will be in the Lloyd Lecture Theatre
Sign up today! Speakers:
- Jamie McOuat, Rights Focus Ltd
- Claudia Filsinger, Consultant
- Graham Hobbs, STM publishing
Whether you move ahead in your career via knockout scores in psychometric tests, networking skills, insider dealing, or hard graft, you need to make sure you are well prepared to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Come and hear from people who know how to do it - it's a panel session with brief talks from our three speakers, followed by a longer-than-usual Q & A session with you, the audience.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 21 April 2010 at 4.00 pm
Postgraduate Fair
Taking Place: Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes University
Your chance to talk with staff andstudents, go on acampus tour andattend talks onfunding andscholarships.
Find out about our postgraduatecourses, doctoral training programmes,research programmes, and preparatory courses.
A postgraduatequalification can enhanceyour career prospects.
Register online at: www.brookes.ac.uk/postgraduate/fair or register on arrival on the day.
Tue 20 April 2010 at 11.30 am
Midlist Crisis - London Book Fair seminar
How to revive the middle market?
Taking Place: Wellington Rooms, Earls Court 1, London Book Fair
No publisher will publicly admit to having its midlist authors, but there are authors who were previously supported by publishers over a number of books – awaiting their sales breakthrough – who now find it difficult to place their next book. With some authors even expected to break through with their first book, has the culture of bestsellers gone too far? Should there be a renewed emphasis on the craft of writing and an author’s career, rather than what are seen by some as short-term commercial gains? An expert panel from all parts of the book trade discusses the possibilities for a revival of the middle market of quality fiction and non-fiction.
The event is chaired by Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Mon 19 April 2010 to Wed 21 April 2010
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the 2010 London Book Fair
Taking Place: Various seminar rooms at Earls Court, London
Visit the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the London Book Fair in April 2010. We're at Stand O580, and would be delighted to meet with you - feel free to drop by, or to make an appointment contact Mary Malin, Business Development Manager mmalin@brookes.ac.uk
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Mon 12 April 2010 at 9.00 am
International Publisher Training Programme April 2010
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
12-16 April 2010
Join us here in Oxford in advance of the 2010 London Book Fair for a 5-day International Publisher Training Programme
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Mon 29 March 2010 at 4.00 pm
Michael Bhaskar, Nobody Knows Anything - especially publishers
Michael Bhaskar, Digital Publishing Manager, Profile Books
Taking Place: Room BG01, Buckley Building, Gipsy Lane Campus
Michael Bhaskar is the current Digital Publishing Manager at Profile Books, where he is developing their ebook programme. Previously at Pan Macmillan from 2007 to 2010, he developed the digital programme from scratch. He will be talking about the challenges for big and small companies in the digital world, and how, when it comes to ebooks, publishers are misinformed. Michael also writes for BookBrunch.
All are welcome to attend.
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Wed 24 March 2010 at 6.30 pm
OPuS event: The Societal Tsunami
Social media and social networking in publishing
Taking Place: Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Speakers: Sam Missingham (The Bookseller) and Davina Quarterman (Wiley-Blackwell)
Do you tweet? Are you connected to the blogosphere? Do you have a Facebook profile?
For those of you who don’t have a clue what we’re on about, welcome to the brave new world of social media and social networking.
Type of Event: External Publishing Event
Wed 17 March 2010 at 12.05 pm
Emma Barnes, How to get ahead with Digital Publishing
Emma Barnes
Co-founder and Managing Director of Snowbooks, an independent publisher
Director, OnixCentral, a xml-based software supplier to the publishing industry
snowbooks.com
onixcentral.com
Lunchtime Digital Seminar
Room BG11, Buckley Building
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 15 March 2010 at 5.00 pm
Research seminar: Clive Stanhope, Audiobooks
'Audiobooks: A Whole New World of Bibliophilia or Infantilising Literature?'
Taking Place: Fuller Lecture Theatre
Clive Stanhope is Managing Director of the independent UK-based audiobook publisher CSA Word. Having worked for 20 years in the music industry, he moved into the world of audiobooks on the recommendation of his friend, the actor Martin Jarvis, who suggested a collaborative effort on a compilation of short stories. Widely respected, the CSA Word list now includes the books of George Orwell, PG Wodehouse, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh read by such high-profile names as Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emilia Fox, and Richard Dawkins.
Type of Event: Publishing Seminars
Wed 10 March 2010 at 4.00 pm
Department of Arts Research Seminar: Adam Chodzko
Taking Place: RHB115
Adam Chodzko
Type of Event: Brookes University
Tue 9 March 2010 at 9.00 am
Working in Publishing 2010
Tuesday 9 March 2010
An annual event at Oxford Brookes for our undergraduate and postgraduate students, Working in Publishing Day offers a day of advice and networking with industry professionals. There are panels of recruitment professionals as well as our alumni, and in the afternoon we run a speed-dating session with a large number of publishing companies.
If you are a publisher or in publishing recruitment, and you would like to be involved, please get in touch with Catherine Foley:
Type of Event: Publishing
Wed 3 March 2010 at 12.05 pm
Simon Juden, The Future of Digital Publishing
Dr Simon Juden
Chief Executive, Publishers Association
Lunchtime Digital Seminar
Room BG11, Buckley Building
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars