Publishing News
ePublishing Pearson Student Prizes Announced
Pearson Education, a publishing company with local offices in Oxford, has been involved with the MA epublishing module here at Brookes for the eighth year running. Small teams of students worked on proposals for new online educational resources and developed prototype websites based on Pearson's Heinemann range of books.
At the end of the course the prototype websites were presented and in addition to each one being graded as normal, Stephen Fahey, Development and Technology Director, and Elaine Anderson, Head of Content Development, from Pearson were in attendance to choose first and second prize winners.
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New MA in Creative Writing
From September 2008 we will be running a new MA in Creative Writing:
This course will provide students with excellent opportunities to pursue their writing at postgraduate level in different genres and for different audiences. The course will be taught by leading contemporary writers, will include a programme of invited speakers and connections to the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, and will make full use of our situation in Oxford, a wonderful place to be a writer!
More news and details, including information on how to apply, please get in touch with the Admissions Tutor, by calling 01865 484127 or emailing .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 06 May 2008 around 8am
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Movie of talk by Mark Kermode for ‘Film Studies’, posted up.
Film Studies students Georgia Waite and Riccardo Bacigalupo created a video of Mark Kermode in conversation with John Naughton last year and this has now been published on the web.
The video was shot by Georgia Waite & Riccardo Bacigalupo and all the post work was done by Riccardo Bacigalupo.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 02 May 2008 around 7am
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First sponsored publishing student at Torquay conference
The UK Serials Group conference was held in Torquay, 7-9 April 2008. Emma Anderson, MA in Publishing and Language, was given a free place at the conference. She writes:
Once all the Fawlty Towers jokes had been exhausted - yes, we had done them all in my family, right through from the hearing-aid to the two doctors, and from the ingrown toenail to Basil the rat - I was ready to hit Torquay.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01 May 2008 around 7am
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Learn how to get results in a digital world
The embracing of the digital age is fast becoming a necessity, not an option for publishers. It can be a confusing and perplexing situation, not helped by the perceived commercial risk. Oxford Publishing and Digital Media is running a series of courses starting on 2nd June 2008 for publishers, marketers, business development managers, editorial staff , online project managers and all those who are involved in developing online content. Have a look at the programme and see how we can help you.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 29 Apr 2008 around 8am
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Dr Joanne Bailey awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Dr Joanne Bailey, Senior Lecturer in History, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to the value of £34,474.00 over two years to fund research on parenting in England c. 1760-1830. One over-arching question stands at the heart of her project, which will be published as articles and a monograph: what did the two generations of men and women born and reaching adulthood between 1760 and 1830 feel and think about being parents? In addressing this question several inter-connecting themes are uncovered: the history of parenting as an idea, the emotional and material worlds of motherhood and fatherhood, the construction of the self as a parent and through being parented, and the parent-child relationship as a conduit for the transfer of social and cultural values. The study’s investigative strategies stem from a specific set of new historical questions which are broadly directed by the themes of gender, identity and generation.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 28 Apr 2008 around 12pm
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MA in History of Medicine students are published in the Reinvention Journal
Two MA in History of Medicine students have had articles published in Reinvention: A Journal of Undergraduate Research. Fraser Joyce has published 'Prostitution and the Nineteenth Century: In Search of the "Great Social Evil"' and Lauren Paice has published 'Overspill Policy and the Glasgow Slum Clearance Project in the Twentieth Century: From One Nightmare to Another?'
The two articles are available at the Reinvention Journal web site.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 23 Apr 2008 around 9am
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From OX to OZ
Publishing undergraduate student Megan Saunders, on a semester exchange at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia has written a report on her first impressions of being 'down under'.
Megan writes from Brisbane:
Issues I have had during my time away, so far, include…mosquitoes (enough said), sunburn (red head + fair skin + strong sun = bad idea), distractions from my work – when offers of a weekend at the beach are laid on the table you do not turn them down!
You can read the full report on the Publishing department's web page on student work experiences.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 23 Apr 2008 around 8am
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Publishing visits the Bologna Book Fair
Students and staff from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies recently visited the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Helen Swain, a student on the European Master in Publishing, reports:
Bologna welcomed Claire Squires, Caroline Hamilton and a number of Oxford Brookes students for the Children’s Book Fair 2008 on April 1 and 2. The beautiful, sun-drenched city itself caused immediate general infatuation of the eyes and taste buds, and initial impressions of the Book Fair were that it was smaller and more compact than its counterpart in Frankfurt. The Fair featured a significant graphic presence, with an impressive exhibition of illustrators’ drawings from all over the world and several interviews in the Illustrators’ Cafe. Another interesting aspect of the fair was the series of lectures and interviews on the subject of translation.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 21 Apr 2008 around 6pm
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ASECS Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship
The ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Women's Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship, is an annual award of $1000 to support an editing or a translation work in progress of an eighteenth-century primary text on a feminist or a Women's Studies subject. This year it has been awarded to Nicole Pohl in the Department of English. The award will be used to support her edition of the Collected Letters of Sarah Scott (Huntington Library Press, forthcoming).
For more information about ASECS please vist click here.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 21 Apr 2008 around 11am
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