UCL Publishing
@uclpublishing.bsky.social
UCL MA in Publishing and UCL Centre for Publishing | Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Publishing and book cultures research and education | Bloomsbury
Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing
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So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
Job alert: closing date today, 8th September!
Closing date coming up soon: Monday 8th Sept for the Lecturer (Teaching) in Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society role (permanent, full time). Click below for details and to apply!
Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Job alert: closing date today, 8th September!
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Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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August 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Second up: Lecturer Humanities Data Science - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Second up: Lecturer Humanities Data Science - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Third up: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods – 0.5 FTE Grade 7 - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Third up: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods – 0.5 FTE Grade 7 - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH
Join us on 16-18 December in Chieti to explore how texts — from hypertexts and digital narratives to literature and social media — shape human experience: influencing social change, reframing histories. CfP open now digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 1/
Text Affects at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH
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Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end
Text Affects at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end
Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing
Join our in-person short course aimed at staff handling rights for literary agencies and publishing houses, covering the rationale for selling rights as well as the practicalities.
⏰ 8-9 May 2025, 10:00AM - 5:00PM
📍 Senate House, London
BOOK NOW: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/selli...
⏰ 8-9 May 2025, 10:00AM - 5:00PM
📍 Senate House, London
BOOK NOW: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/selli...
Selling Rights Short Course
ies.sas.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing
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There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing.
Deadline: 10 April
More info here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Deadline: 10 April
More info here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Fellowship Applications and Renewals
ies.sas.ac.uk
April 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing.
Deadline: 10 April
More info here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Deadline: 10 April
More info here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Can books be bad for you?
Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online.
@ies-sas.bsky.social
theconversation.com/can-books-be...
Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online.
@ies-sas.bsky.social
theconversation.com/can-books-be...
Can books be bad for you? Only if you’re a ‘bad reader’ like Don Quixote
There are many books where characters take fiction too seriously and are driven mad.
theconversation.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Can books be bad for you?
Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online.
@ies-sas.bsky.social
theconversation.com/can-books-be...
Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online.
@ies-sas.bsky.social
theconversation.com/can-books-be...
As if the MA Publishing students didn't have enough to talk about in their Ethics in Publishing module next week...
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
As if the MA Publishing students didn't have enough to talk about in their Ethics in Publishing module next week...
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Just a few days before submissions close for this exciting collection (31 March)
Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.
2025 Call for Chapter Submissions: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit to a collection of essays tentatively entitled Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition, to be edited by Melissa Terras, Paul Goodi…
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March 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Just a few days before submissions close for this exciting collection (31 March)
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This new issue of @jepub.bsky.social is out, and its first article is from @literaturegeek.bsky.social: 'Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure'. I recommend @jepub.bsky.social as a place to organize Just and Joyful collaboration in the future.
March 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This new issue of @jepub.bsky.social is out, and its first article is from @literaturegeek.bsky.social: 'Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure'. I recommend @jepub.bsky.social as a place to organize Just and Joyful collaboration in the future.
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Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!
Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Call for a Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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March 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!
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📣 New on the blog! 📣
Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century
Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social
@saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
🔗👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...
Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century
Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social
@saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
🔗👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...
Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century
ies.sas.ac.uk
March 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📣 New on the blog! 📣
Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century
Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social
@saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
🔗👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...
Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century
Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social
@saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
🔗👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...