Meeting the challenge of publishing blended products and services for GCSE Science. Changing how we work and shifting to continuous delivery of content to meet customer needs.

Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars

Tue 8 November 2016 at 12.05 pm

Guy Gadney

Founder of To Play For

Taking Place: JHB Charabati Room

Guy will talk today about some of the latest digital developments and how they impact storytelling and the publishing industry.

He is an internationally recognised digital media leader, with a career spanning online games, app development, television and running the digital teams for international media companies. He has produced BAFTA and EMMY-recognised digital projects including the international success for the BBC drama Sherlock, the online AI thriller The Suspect, and transmedia projects for Home and Away, RTL Media and the BBC.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Wed 26 October 2016 at 11.05 am

Sally Bayley

Lecturer in English at Balliol College, Oxford and author of the crowd-funded book The Private Life of the Diary, published by Unbound

Taking Place: JHB Charabati Room

Sally will talk about both this new book but also her other writing projects, including her work on Sylvia Plath. She will share her thoughts on how authors operate and in particular, how they interact with their editors.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 11 October 2016 at 11.05 am

Jonathan Glasspool

Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic & Professional.

Taking Place: JHB Charabati Room

Today Jonathan will tell you of his past and more recent publishing world experiences in the hope of inspiring you in your publishing career.

This division of Bloomsbury includes the active imprints of Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Professional, Hart, Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Fairchild Books, and more. They produce the award-winning digital Berg Fashion Library and Drama Online, Bloomsbury Collections, Bloomsbury Professional Tax and Law Online, and the Churchill Archive.

Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars

Tue 12 April 2016 at 10.30 am

The wisdom of crowds - crowdfunding and crowdsourcing

Seminar at the London Book Fair, Olympia

Taking Place: Olympia Room, Grand Hall

The popularity of platforms such as Kickstarter is a testimony to the appetite of consumers to get involved in creative projects at an early stage. How are authors and publishers taking advantage of this phenomenon to source both content and funding? An expert panel assesses both the successes and the failures, and passes on tips for those wishing to venture into this exciting world.

The panel is chaired by Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. His most recent books include Inside Book Publishing (with Giles Clark) and Turning the Page: The evolution of the book. He is the editor of the premier publishing journal Logos.

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Type of Event: Publishing | London Book Fair Seminar

Tue 12 April 2016 at 8.00 am

London Book Fair 2016

Come and see us at the London Book Fair!

Once again we will be exhibiting at the London Book Fair at Olympia. Come and visit our stand and talk to us about our research, degree programmes and consultancy. A range of staff and students from OICPS will be attending the Fair, and we are presenting a seminar on Tuesday 12 April: 'The wisdom of crowds – crowdfunding and crowdsourcing'.

Type of Event: Publishing

Wed 23 March 2016 at 12.00 pm

The Game of Thrones app

Emily Labram (Publishing Technologist, Bibliocloud)

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs 301

Previously Product Manager at HarperCollins, adapting books into products that meet needs. She managed and launched an app for Game of Thrones which won FutureBook's app of the year and received rave reviews.

Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars

Wed 16 March 2016 at 12.10 pm

Grove Street Media

Tom Scholes (MD Grove Street Media )

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs 301

Providing interface design, programming and animation services to the publishing industry

Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars

Wed 9 March 2016 at 12.00 pm

CANELO

Michael Bhaskar (Co-Founder & Publishing Director CANELO)

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs 301

Canelo is http://www.canelo.co

Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars

Mon 7 March 2016 at 10.00 am

Working in Publishing Day 2016

An annual event at Oxford Brookes for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, Working in Publishing Day offers a day of advice and networking with industry professionals. There are workshops in the morning, and in the afternoon we run a speed-dating session with a large number of publishing companies. Previous speakers have included Richard Charkin, Joanna Prior and David Shelley.

Type of Event: Publishing

Thu 3 March 2016 at 9.00 am

Assessing Key Issues in Book Publishing

Westminster Media Forum

Taking Place: Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR

This seminar will examine the key commercial opportunities and challenges for the UK consumer book market.

Planned sessions consider the impact of increased competition from new media - particularly mobile - on readership, distribution and pricing strategies.

Delegates - including authors, agents, publishers, retailers and aggregators - will discuss latest thinking on strategies to compete in the wider content economy, examining innovative digital services, the quality and differentiation of product, and how to secure a fair playing field for all stakeholders in the value chain.

Emma House, Director for Publisher Relations, The Publishers Association and Nicola Solomon, Chief Executive, The Society of Authors have agreed to be Guests of Honour at this seminar and deliver keynote addresses; and other speakers include Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.

For more information please visit here: http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=1130

Type of Event: External Publishing Event

Wed 2 March 2016 at 12.00 pm

Academic book sales and the take up of ebooks

Kieron Smith (Digital Director, Blackwell Ltd)

Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs 301

Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars

Tue 1 March 2016 at 10.00 am

Google Analytics

Tom Scholes

Taking Place: King’s Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford

Tom Scholes is founder and Director of Grove Street Media, supplier of digital assets to the publishing industry, and Associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University

This one-day introduction to Google Analytics (GA) is aimed at anyone interested in the practical aspects of implementing and using GA, from understanding the terminology surrounding it, through to advanced reporting techniques. The course also includes example strategies for evidence-based digital publishing.

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Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses

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