Academic Book Week Giveaway

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2019-03-04

Welcome to Academic Book Week ! To celebrate some of the amazing academic books we have on offer we will be giving away a copy of each book to three lucky winners; Aaron Cassidy and Aaron Einbond’s, Noise in and as Music , David Taylor’s, Beerhouses, Brothels and Bobbies and Richard Steinitz’, Explosions in November . All you have to do [...]

The Journal of Play in Adulthood - new open access multidisciplinary journal launches this week

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2019-02-26

We are delighted to announce that the Journal of Play in Adulthood is now live and accepting submissions. The first issue of this new open access journal will deliver fascinating discussions on play and playfulness, and the expectations of the behavior of individuals outside of childhood. Below, we hear from the journal’s Editor, Andrew Walsh, and his dedication to highlighting the [...]

Welcome to Rebecca - our new student helper

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2019-01-30

Hi everyone, I’m delighted to be a part of the University press team, working as the new student helper. I’m currently a third year English Literature with Creative Writing student, but as part of the team I’ll be organising social media posts and advertising, and writing blog posts (hopefully better than this one). I’m quite a creative person, so after my studies, I would like to venture into [...]

Fields journal: opportunities for Huddersfield students to get published

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2019-01-29

Are you an undergraduate student who is interested in submitting your work to a professional research journal? Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research is a yearly publication, which showcases outstanding research from all seven schools within the university. Submissions can be in the form of a journal article or even a collection of poetry, music scores, photographs or a case [...]

New issue of the Journal of Performance and Mindfulness

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2019-01-29

The new issue of our popular journal Performance and Mindfulness has arrived! The new issue focuses on the importance of spirituality within dramatic performance and asks for its readers to re-think individual meditation. It considers how meditation and Buddhist practices are important in the execution of the dramatic arts. This issue is a fantastic read for those who are [...]

New Editor for Crime, Security and Society

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2019-01-08

Dr Anna Williams has taken over as the new Editor of Crime, Security and Society. Their latest issue was published in December 2018 . I was delighted to have taken over the Editorship of the Crime, Security and Society journal from Dr Jason Roach earlier this year. I am currently Principal Enterprise Fellow (equivalent to Reader) in Forensic Anthropology and Deputy [...]

New issue of Teaching in Lifelong Learning

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2018-12-04

Volume 8 Issue 2 of Teaching in Lifelong Learning is out now. This issue of TiLL is somewhat different from previous ones in that it is a special edition publishing four papers by project teams who were involved in The Education & Training Foundation’s (ETF) funded Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment (OTLA) Phase 3 programme in the north-east and Cumbria. I had the [...]

University of Huddersfield Press first to launch with Janeway - a new open source publishing platform for open access research

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2018-11-28

We are excited and proud to be the first university press to officially launch on the new Janeway publishing platform - all our publications are now available open access on the new platform, which offers a beautifully designed and highly intuitive reader and author experience. Working with the Open Library of Humanities Today is the culmination for over 12 months of hard work [...]

Open access monographs are increasing the dissemination of documentary film research

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2018-10-25

As part of our blog series for Open Access Week 2018, we caught up with Geoffrey Cox, Editor of Soundings: documentary film and the listening experience , to chat about OA monograph publishing is changing the way documentary film research is discovered and read. Documentary film research The sharing of knowledge and discoveries is a fundamental of all scholarly research and [...]

Open access publishing in pharmaceutical research

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2018-10-24

As part of our blog series for Open Access Week 2018, we caught up with Hamid Merchant, Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacy , to chat about how important and revolutionary OA publishing can be in the sciences. A fantastic piece of research can only be appreciated fully if it can be accessed and read freely across the globe.  Often healthcare issues of developing nations are [...]

How is open access publishing changing the way we think about research?

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2018-10-23

As part of our blog series for Open Access Week 2018, we caught up with Franc Chamberlain, Editor of Performance and Mindfulness , to chat about how advances in open access publishing are impacting the way we think about research. The impact of open access outside academia By making research from a wide range of disciplines available to me, Open Access enables me to broaden [...]

Open Access Publishing - a handy infographic guide from the University of Huddersfield Press

Posted by Dawn Cockcroft on 2018-10-23