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OICPS at the London Book Fair 2016
Students and staff from the Centre (OICPS) were busy throughout the London Book Fair, held at Olympia from the 12th to 14th April 2016. We had our own stand from which we marketed our degree programmes, staff publications, research and consultancy, the June conference of the Oxfordshire Publishing Group, and our July summer school. Over 40 students helped out with the running of the Fair, including manning the seminar rooms and the Author HQ; and two students helped on the Frankfurt Book Fair stand. On the Tuesday morning Angus Phillips chaired a seminar, ‘The wisdom of crowds – crowdfunding and crowdsourcing’, on how authors and publishers are taking advantage of this phenomenon to source both content and funding.
At our stand reception on the Wednesday evening, attended by over 100 people, we met up with friends of the Centre and alumni working at the fair. Pictures of the party cake, which had a design celebrating the new Confucius Institute at Brookes, were tweeted round the fair before it was eaten by the guests.
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Angus Phillips interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book
Open Book on BBC Radio 4 this week examined self-publishing, with Mariella Frostrup interviewing bestselling author Rachel Abbott and Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. They talked about the routes to self-publishing including ebooks and crowdfunding.
The programme was first broadcast on Sunday 17 April and is available to listen again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0773ldz
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Bloomsbury offers paid placement to Brookes Publishing graduate
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional Division is pleased to announce that they will be offering an Oxford Brookes Publishing graduate a 12 month paid placement in their Editorial and Digital departments. It is expected that the successful candidate will move into a full-time role within the division thereafter. Starting early September 2016, the role will involve assisting the Humanities Editorial teams on the Philosophy, Linguistics, Classics and Religious Studies lists for the first six months. The final six months will be based with the Digital Publishing team, working with them on the development of a new digital product. This is a valuable opportunity to learn about the workings of a busy Editorial department, acquire relevant skills first hand and gain experience in digital publishing.
This offer will also be available to students graduating in 2017.
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Field trip to Amsterdam
Under the leadership of Leander Reeves and Jane Potter, undergraduates from Publishing visited fellow students at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) in March. Highlights of the visit included joint project work and a visit to the Centraal Boekhuis, the distribution centre for books in the Netherlands.
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MA Editorial group presentations
The MA Editorial group presentations have taken place.
Students were asked to propose the commissioning of a new title for an existing publisher, and an entertaining and informative afternoon was had by all, with the standard of presentations high.
The winning group proposed a new title for Bloomsbury Children's Publishers, entitled The Big Brains Club: Great Greek Philosophers and received book tokens from Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, who sponsored the prize.
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Another Successful Working in Publishing Day
Students on the MA programmes in Publishing Media and Digital Publishing and third year undergraduate students in Publishing participated in our annual all day event that helps them make direct, individual and personal links with people already working in the publishing industry.
This involves many companies visiting our campus to meet up with students in a 'speed dating' event which follows sessions on identifying your unique selling points, tailoring your cv to job specifications to hone your application -- all skills that are relevant to getting a job in publishing anywhere in the world.
Students make personal links with people in the visiting companies which include agents, designers, trade and academic publishers, journals publishers, and recruitment agencies.
The 2016 event took place in the 'Terrace' space at Oxford Brookes University and was well attended by over 50 companies. Please expore the photos from the event.
Towards the end of the day, the students heard an inspirational talk from Jamie Byng, MD of Canongate Books.
See this blog article by Samantha Jacquest, an MA Publishing student.
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Wiley Scholarship 2016
We are delighted to announce a new scholarship for MA students studying publishing at Oxford Brookes University. Wiley is offering a fee-waiver bursary of £1,000 to a full-time or part-time student at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies on the MA in Publishing or MA in Digital Publishing. The student will also receive the guarantee of a work placement for a minimum of three weeks at Wiley in Oxford. The scholarship is for entry in September 2016.
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Oxfordshire Publishing Group Summer Conference
The online shop is now open to take bookings for the Summer Conference on 14th June at St Catherine's College Oxford.
Come and here out stunning line-up of keynote speakers: Gail Rebuck in conversation with Mariella Frostrup, Joanne Harris, Nigel Newton, and Richard Ovenden and take part in breakout sessions on an exciting range of topical subjects.
No matter what publishing company you are from, large or small, academic or trade, there is something for every publisher at this event.
Come and join us at see why Michael Bhaskar said 'The OPG Summer Conference is one of the best in the world'.
For more information and to book, go to the Conference web page
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Scholastic signs debut author Sue Wallman
Sue Wallman, a graduate of the BA in Publishing, has signed a two-book deal with Scholastic. As reported in The Bookseller:
'Scholastic UK has signed a two-book deal with journalist and debut author Sue Wallman. The first title, a YA thriller called Lying About Last Summer, will be published in May 2016.
The story centres around a girl called Skye, who is sent to a camp for troubled teenagers after her sister dies in an accident. However, once she is at the camp she starts receiving text messages from someone pretending to be her dead sister.
Wallman is currently writer-in-residence at Kingston University and won the 2013 First Chapter Competition, part of the prestigious Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
She said: “The idea for Lying About Last Summer started with a swimming pool, but you’ll have to read the book to find out why! I've spent a lot of time in pools, daydreaming about being published as I plough up and down, so it's unbelievably exciting to have a two-book deal with Scholastic.”'
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Publishing stand at Careersfest 2016 wins ‘Best Exhibit’ award!
The key theme this year was ‘Opportunities to Inspire’, the idea being to inspire young people to see their potential and set ambitions for the world of work by connecting schools to the knowledge, expertise and the experience of volunteers from business. Over 1,600 schoolchildren from 15 local schools attended the event.
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