Past Events
Wed 17 February 2016 at 12.00 pm
Why a small digital publishing company can be beautiful
Charley Darbeyshire (Charley Darbeyshire, Founder, Educake)
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs 301
Educake is www.educake.co.uk
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars
Wed 10 February 2016 at 5.00 pm
Postgraduate open evening
Come and talk to staff from Publishing about our MA degrees
A postgraduate qualification can help you to kickstart your career in publishing, or to develop your skills and experience.
This University-wide open evening offers you the chance to find out about a range of postgraduate and professional development opportunities we offer.
Both academic and professional support staff from the University will be available to answer your questions and give you advice and information about our MA programmes in publishing.
For information about the event please visit here
Type of Event: Publishing
Wed 10 February 2016 at 12.00 pm
Transforming Digital Science Publishing at Pearson Education
Elizabeth Munns (Content and Learning Delivery Lead: Science, Pearson Ed. )
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs 301
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 9 February 2016 at 10.00 am
Content marketing for publishers
Alison Jones
Taking Place: King’s Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford
Alison had a long career in publishing, during which she helped pioneer digital publishing. She is now a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher.
Traditionally publishers have viewed content as the preserve of editorial, and marketing has been focused on increasing sales of that content. Content marketing brings editorial and marketing mindsets together to create a powerful way of engaging and exciting readers, building direct relationships and improving discoverability.
Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Thu 4 February 2016 at 10.00 am
Taking Control of Permissions: A Practical Guide to Clearing Permission to Use Third Party Content
Clare Hodder and Ruth Tellis, Rights2 Consultants
Taking Place: The King's Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford
- Do you find the process of seeking permissions time-consuming and chaotic?
- Are you confused when trying to interpret licences correctly?
- Have you found it difficult to ensure you are compliant with licence terms?
As digital publishing develops, more and more asset types are being included in publishing projects, and they all require licenses from their respective rights holders (often multiple per asset) before they can be used. This highly practical course is designed to steer you through the increasingly complicated minefield of clearing permissions when using third party content.
This one-day course will help demystify the process of obtaining permission, proving an insight into
the language and meaning of licence terms, and help you to ensure your business is compliant in the
use of third party material.
Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Wed 3 February 2016 at 10.00 am
Rewriting and Substantive Editing
Andrew Steeds
Taking Place: The King’s Centre, Osney, Oxford
Increasingly, texts pose greater challenges than editors would expect to find in their standard copy-editing activity. How do you make a case for more-substantive editing than had been envisaged for a text? How do you set about reworking a text that doesn’t work in its submitted form? And how do you do so while keeping the person or people responsible for writing it on board? These, and other, questions are explored in Rewriting and Substantive Editing, a training course that presents ideas and strategies for making the process of rewriting less daunting than it can at times appear to be.
Course outline:
- Identifying problems and considering solutions
- When sentence construction breeds confusion
- Adjusting the level of a piece of rewriting
- Clarifying the message of a text
- Maintaining the author's voice
- The pros and cons of bullet points
- Approaches to cutting text
- Editing text written in English as a second language
- Considering jargon and specialist vocabulary
Date: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Venue: The King's Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford
Tutor: Andrew Steeds has a background in writing and editorial consultancy. In addition to his work for the Migration Museum Project, he runs two companies – Simply Put Ltd and the Writing Clinic – that work with organisations to make public written communication clearer and more accountable. His work for both companies involves writing, project management, consultancy and training. He started off working as a teacher before going on to work in educational research and educational publishing. He was heavily involved in the publication of the then Department for Education and Skills’ adult core curriculum documents, including manuals on working with refugees and asylum seekers, and with EAL learners (learners with English as an additional language).
Price: £150
Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Thu 14 January 2016 at 10.00 am
eBook Design and Production
for Publishers, Editors, Typesetters and Freelance designers or anyone familiar with InDesign.
Chris Jennings
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Publishing IT Suite
Introduction
This short 1 day (10am to 4.30pm) course is intended for anyone who is familiar with book design for print but need to understand the implications when eBooks are required.
Location and Facilities
The course will take place in the Publishing IT suite in the Tonge Building at Oxford Brookes University (Gypsy Lane Campus). The room is equipped with 42 iMacs and lecturer projection. The MACs have all the latest software including Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, InCopy, Photoshop etc), HTML editors, scripts for ePubs and multimedia editing tools. Google drive is installed so that delegates can save work to be retrieved at a later stage.
Skills Level Expected
Experience of InDesign or other page layout software would be useful but not essential.
Course Objectives
After attending this short course, delegates will:
- appreciate the workflow options including web first and XML
- understand the choices available to publishers when publishing content to multiple platforms
- become familiar with the available technologies to deliver eBooks
- understand the different formats of eBooks and how to create them
- be able to use page layout software with an awareness of output options
Price for the course: £160
Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Tue 24 November 2015 to Wed 25 November 2015
Publishing Strategy Toolkit
Kay Symons (formerly publishing director and MD of Heinemann Secondary and Vocational, now publishing consultant and trainer)
Taking Place: The Executive Suite, Oxford Brookes University
This two-day introduction to crucial competitive strategic thinking for print or digital publishers is for anyone charged with maximising the success of a list or market segment and competing effectively,
In two intensive days participants learn how to:
- be clear about their overarching goals and those of the organisation they work in
- analyse the opportunities and competitive environment in their market
- identify the important strengths of their organisation
- generate strategic options and choose the most successful
- create financial plans which tell the strategic story
- plan for an uncertain future
- communicate plans concisely and effectively
Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Tue 3 November 2015 at 12.00 pm
Judge a book by its cover?
Kat Morrell and Sophie O’Rourke (Creative Services Manager and Business Development Manager of emc design)
Taking Place: Willow Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
People say not to judge a book by its cover, but if you had the choice between two books with exactly the same story inside, both identically priced, the only difference being that just one has a beautifully designed cover - which would you stretch to pick up off the shelf first?
emc design is one of the UK’s leading design agencies for the publishing industry. They specialise in beautiful design for ELT, education and trade publishers. Today they will be telling us the story behind those lovely designs.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Tue 6 October 2015 at 3.30 pm
The last remaining chain of specialist bookshops?
James Daunt (Managing Director of Waterstones)
Taking Place: Willow 10, Oxford Brookes University
Waterstones are the last remaining chain of specialist bookshops on the high street. With more ways to read than ever, as well as competition from things like computer games and the sheer mass of information in the digital space, James will tell us the how Waterstones has risen to the challenges of recent times
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Seminars
Mon 14 September 2015 at 9.00 am
Try Programming
Emma Barnes, CEO Bibliocloud
Taking Place: The Tonge Publishing IT Suite, Oxford Brookes University
Frustrated by watching other people become more technically literate than you? Ever wanted to try your hand at real programming? This course is designed to show you that modern programming doesn’t have to be a frightening leap into the dark. It teaches you how to develop and deploy a real web application with Ruby on Rails, the open-source web framework that powers top websites such as Twitter, Hulu, and Yellow Pages.
Taught by the team who developed the Futurebook award-winning Bibliocloud.com, this hands-on course will give you the opportunity to create your own web application for storing and displaying book metadata. You'll be guided step-by-step, learning important concepts and techniques through demonstration and practice. We will assume that you have no prior experience of programming, although you should be familiar with what HTML is and unfazed by using a computer. By the end of the course you will know how to structure and write your own Ruby on Rails app, and how to publish it to the web.
Type of Event: Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses
Mon 6 July 2015 to Fri 17 July 2015
International Publishing Summer School 2015
'Everything was perfect! Please continue this summer school again and again!'.
Thankrit Khongjan, Thailand - a delegate on the 2014 Summer School
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University
The two-week, residential International Publishing Summer School will take place from 6th-17th July 2015 at Oxford Brookes University.
Who Is It for?
The programme is designed for those with experience in the industry from trade, academic, educational and professional backgrounds. You are likely to be a go-ahead entrepreneur within a small or large publishing company, eager to find out about the latest developments and thinking across the industry and keen to develop your strategic and decision-making skills.
Type of Event: Publishing | Publishing Consultancy and Training
Thu 2 July 2015 at 5.30 pm
OPuS event - Mark Haddon
Come to hear Mark Haddon talking about his work
The 2015 OPuS author event
Mark Haddon, celebrated author, illustrator and screenwriter, winner of numerous prizes (including two BAFTAs) will talk about his experience of writing, being edited, and working with publishers (and agents). He will give insights into how he creates words and pictures, how he deals with success (and failure), and how difficult the process of writing actually is, whether for adults or children.
Mark will happily discuss his work, take questions, and after the event sign copies of his books. He will also let us know why part of him would quite like never to have to talk about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time ever again ...
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Fri 19 June 2015 at 6.30 pm
The Author/Editor Relationship
A view from behind the scenes
Esther will be in discussion with Sally Bayley from the Rothermere Institute as chair, and former André Deutsch authors Clare Chambers and Jon Elkon.
This event is in association with the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and the Society of Young Publishers, and is sponsored by Felicity Bryan Associates, Ingram Lightning Source, Book Machine and Atwood Tate.
Entry £5 (£3 students); refreshment available.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 25 March 2015 at 12.00 pm
Experiences of building an App
Charlotte Beauchamp (International Labour Organization)
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University, Willow 1
Type of Event: Publishing | Lunchtime Digital Seminars
Thu 19 March 2015 at 10.00 am
Finance Refresher
Building on What You Know (and What You Don’t!)
Philip Shaw and Helena Markou
Taking Place: The King’s Centre, Osney, Oxford
Many people working in publishing have budget responsibilities, whether in editorial, marketing, or production departments. But most publishers have little or no financial training and simply learn what they need to know on the job. The result is that they might have a good understanding of their own projects, but have no real idea of how this fits into the bigger picture of their company’s finances.
The Finance Refresher course is for anyone with financial responsibility who wants to feel more confident about the financial work they do and who wants a better understanding of balance sheets, P&Ls, and the financial implications of their work. It will cover all the principal financial aspects of publishing, including the finance of digital projects, and will answer all those questions publishers don’t want to reveal that they don’t fully understand!
Delegates will gain an understanding of four key areas: business models and the financial principles used in developing a publishing programme; the financial tools commonly used in the management of a publishing business; the interpretation of financial statements; and the valuation of publishing assets.
- Philip Shaw is from Bertoli Mitchell LLP and is also Associate Lecturer, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
- Helena Markou is Senior Lecturer, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Type of Event: Publishing | Oxford Publishing Group Training Courses