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The Making of a University - book review

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-12-07

We are pleased to bring you this great review from John Hargreaves. Dr John A. Hargreaves graduated from the University of Southampton and has taught in secondary, higher and adult education in West Yorkshire. He completed his MA and PhD as a part-time student at Huddersfield where he is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in History. He gave the Annual J.H. Whitley Lecture for the University [...]

Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies - a new look at 19th Century policing

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-11-28

We have been really excited here at the Press about our latest release: Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies by David Taylor. The culmination of David's detailed research, the book explores issues facing the police in the 19th Century, focusing on Huddersfield and the surrounding district. The stories contained in the new book are real eye openers, and give a tangible taste of life for policemen, [...]

The launch of the British Journal of Pharmacy

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-11-16

We are very excited to announce the official launch of a brand new pharmacy journal: the British Journal of Pharmacy . Read Issue 1 of BJPharm A first in its field, BJPharm offers an open access publishing opportunity with no Article Processing Charge (APC)whilst maintaining a high quality peer review and editorial process. We caught up with Editor Hamid Merchant to [...]

Huddersfield's history explored in new book

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-11-14

New book explores the history of the University of Huddersfield Last week saw the launch of the latest addition to the Press portfolio: The Making of a University by the late John O'Connell. Attended by John's family and friends, plus University Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan CBE and Pro Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning Professor Tim Thornton, the launch was a lovely way to [...]

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is here!

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-11-14

This week we see the return of the fabulous Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf), and with it a whole host of original performances, talks, events and displays to get your teeth into. Plan your visit to the hcmf festival There is a great online guide to the ten day programme to help you plan your visit, and you can also download the whole brochure to flick [...]

New Issue of the Journal of Performance Magic

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-10-31

Just in time for Halloween we have a new issue of the Journal of Performance Magic! With articles on mentalism, mediation, David Blaine and an interview with Todd Robbins, the issue is packed with interesting research topics. Contents Hoedt, Madelon Editorial. Dean, Edward (Re)Discovering the Body in Mentalism. Turner, Elizabeth “I Am Alive in [...]

Noise in and as Music -an open access success

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-10-25

It has been over 14 months since the publication of one of our first open access books: Noise in and as Music, and with #OAWeek in full swing it feels like a perfect time to get reflective and see how the book is doing in its second year. Noise was published as both a print book to order online, and an open access eBook version which can be downloaded from the University Repository completely [...]

Making student research available to the world

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-10-25

We are currently working on the 2017 issue of Fields - in the meantime, have a read of the blog from our Teaching and Learning Institute from last year on the development of Fields so far.

How can Kudos help you to share your research?

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-10-25

Have you come across Kudos yet? We have been working with Kudos since their launch in 2014 and have been seeing some great results for researchers at Huddersfield. Kudos was created to provide a set of tools for academics, their institutions and publishers to measure the impact that their articles are having, and to allow the authors to take action to increase the impact. These actions [...]

Open Access Week 2016

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2016-10-24

All this week we are celebrating open access research and publications as part of #OAWeek. We will be sharing links to events and discussions going on throughout the week, and also holding a special giveaway of some of our open access titles. Follow us on Twitter to get involved: @HudUniPress