Oxford Brookes UniversityPublishing Staff and their Interests
Angus Phillips
Angus Phillips
Director, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Angus Phillips is a leading academic and author in the area of publishing studies, with many years experience of working in and with the publishing industry. Before joining Oxford Brookes he ran a trade and reference list at Oxford University Press. He works as a consultant to the industry and is often invited to speak at international conferences and events. His books include Inside Book Publishing (with Giles Clark) and The Future of the Book in the Digital Age (with Bill Cope). He is currently working on a new book for Routledge, Turning the Page: the evolution of the book. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the premier publishing journal Logos.
Steve Ball
Senior Lecturer in Publishing
Steve researches journals publishing and scholarly communication, academic publishing, the interplay between publishing and politics, issues in academic publishing such as quality, cost and change, and all editorial functions.
Adrian Bullock
Associate Lecturer in Publishing
Areas of publishing, with particular reference to: design; production management; printing; binding; raw materials; procurement; and financial and project management. All areas of teaching, learning, course development, and assessment.
Dr Caroline Davis
Senior Lecturer
Caroline Davis's research interests include book and publishing history from the 19th century to the 21st century. Her current research is on postcolonial publishing, and in particular the history of literary publishing in Africa.
Clare Fletcher
Senior Lecturer in Publishing
Clare Fletcher has many years experience in marketing and sales in the publishing industry including Routledge (now part of Taylor & Francis), Penguin Press and Butterworth-Heinemann (part of Elsevier Science).
Bob Hughes
Senior Lecturer in Digital Publishing
Bob Hughes's interests include electronic media, creative work, and publishing for social change. He is the author of "Dust or Magic" (Addison-Wesley, 2000: a history of electronic media and 'survival guide' for those working in the new industry). Bob has worked as a calligrapher, as an advertising copywriter, and (from the mid-1980s) as an electronic media developer. He has taught part-time at Brookes since 2001, and writes and campaigns on human rights issues. He is currently writing a book on the utopian possibilities of new technology, to be published by Pluto Books in 2011.
Chris Jennings
Senior Lecturer in Digital Publishing
Chris is particularly interested eBook development and has produced a number of eBooks. His special interest is in eBook Typography and he has published an eBook distributed in the Apple iBookstore 'eBook Typography for Flowable eBooks'.
Sheila Lambie
Senior Lecturer in Publishing
Sheila is an international marketer with a strong sales focus, experienced both in print publishing and electronic media - she specialized in the areas of reference, education, and non-fiction over many years with a number of major publishers. She regularly provides consultancy to companies interested in addressing issues critical to their future success, and is managing the university’s part in the Centre’s first Knowledge Transfer Partnership, fostered and funded by the government to encourage co-operation between universities and companies. She is actively engaged in training publishers from around the world, and most notably has been to the Arab World, India, and South Africa in the last three years to equip publishers to make the most of their opportunities as the Market Focus at the London Book Fair.
Mary Malin
Associate Lecturer
Mary is an associate lecturer at OICPS, currently teaching on the Publishing Business (Undergraduate) and Editorial Management (Postgraduate) module. Before joining OICPS, Mary worked in STM publishing for over 16 years, and still works as a freelance Editor.
Sue Miller
Business Development Manager for The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.
Sue was founder of the Oxford Publicity Partnership, the first company to provide freelance marketing services for publishers. During 18 years as a Director of OPP, she worked for many of the best-known academic, educational, professional and trade publishers in the UK, as well as many prestigious US publishers. She is now Director of Oxford Creative Marketing and runs the European and Middle East marketing office for the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dr Jane Potter
Senior Lecturer in Publishing
Jane's research and teaching focuses on book and literary history. Her monograph Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 (OUP 2005; paperback 2007) was joint winner of the 2006 Women’s History Network Book Prize and she has published widely on many aspects of war literature, book history, and women's writing. Her current research is a collaborative project on the written responses to trauma of wartime medical personnel from the Second Anglo-Boer War to Iraq. Previously Research Editor for Literature (1780-2000) at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Editor of the Wilfred Owen Association Journal, a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and an academic advisor for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust.
Leander Reeves
Senior Lecturer in Publishing; Subject Coordinator for Publishing Media Undergraduate Programme
Leander has a broad range of Book and Magazine publishing experience, with many years spent as a print and interactive designer in London and New York. Her research interests include: hyperreality, science fiction, gender portrayal, and sexual behaviour in magazines.
Beverley Tarquini
Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Programme Leader, MAs in Publishing
Beverley's teaching focuses on editorial and rights modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and her future research will include looking at specific aspects of educational and academic publishing. She continues to work as a freelance editor for several publishers.
Nicola Timbrell
Senior Lecturer in Publishing
Nicola teaches publishing technology and epublishing modules for both undergraduate and MA publishing courses. She is currently involved in ensuring that students graduate with state-of-the-art digital publishing skills and knowledge needed in today’s publishing industry. As Schools Officer, she educates and encourages young people to think about a career in publishing.