The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network brings together ECRs across the humanities and social sciences disciplines, regardless of their funding source or background.

Introduction

Launching your academic career after completing a PhD? Interested in learning more about how to publish a book but don't know where to start or how to go about it? Join this British Academy Early Career Researcher Network event at Nottingham Trent University, where you can learn from the experiences of authors, editors, and publishers.

Aim

The aim of this event is to provide training and development for British Academy Early Career Researcher Network members interested in authoring a book or editing a joint-authored publication. To attend the event, you must be a registered member of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.

Approach

Like other forms of publishing, there is no formal training or development. Researchers are often supposed to know how to approach authoring and editing through help from informal networks or peers offering advice, an uneven and inaccessible form of knowledge-sharing.

This national British Academy Early Career Researcher Network event is specifically aimed at researchers who have not authored or organised a joint-authored publication but are expected to do so at some point in their academic career.

Authors, editors, and publishers will share their real experiences. The event will share the researcher and publishing perspectives on the partnership, from proposal to publication.

The British Academy

The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future. From artificial intelligence to climate change, from building prosperity to improving well-being – today’s complex challenges can only be resolved by deepening our insight into people, cultures and societies. We invest in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas, engage the public with fresh thinking and debates, and bring together scholars, government, business and civil society to influence policy for the benefit of everyone.

British Academy Early Career Researcher Network

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network is a UK-wide network for all Social Sciences and Humanities researchers from a broad background, including those that are Academy funded, and those that are not. The network aims to create an environment where researchers can strengthen their skills and networks to compete effectively in the job market. Researcher interests will inform the activities and opportunities the network will offer.

The objectives of the network are:

• To support the individual researchers to realise their potential by providing opportunities that they do not currently have access to.
• To contribute to equality of opportunity for researchers through encouraging diversity and inclusivity.
• To develop networks to nurture and facilitate greater engagement between and across researchers and the wider research community, regionally and nationally.
• To draw on the Academy’s unique ability to convene and nurture intersectoral collaboration to create unique opportunities for researchers.

Lunch

12noon-1.00pm

Afternoon

Speakers biographies

Alison Hardy

Alison is an Associate Professor, writer, researcher, and podcaster. Alison's work centres on design and technology education. She has edited Learning to Teach Design and Technology, Debates in Design and Technology Education and Redesigning D&T. Alison researches the values different people attribute to design and technology education, the influences, origins and consequences. You can find out more on Alison's website: dralisonhardy.com and hear her sharing ideas on her Talking D&T podcast.

Frances Howard

Dr Frances Howard is Senior Lecturer in Youth Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She has previously worked in local authorities, arts education and youth work. Frances leads the Youth Research group within the Department of Social Work, Care and Community and is also Co-Convenor of the British Educational Research Association special interest group for Youth Studies and Informal Education. Her first monograph: Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: how and why the arts can make a difference, has just been published with Policy Press.

Iryna Kuksa

Dr Iryna Kuksa is a cross-disciplinary, practice-based researcher, an author, and a community builder. She holds a permanent Senior Research Fellowship in art and design at Nottingham Trent University. Iryna carved out a distinctive niche for herself, by delineating and theorising the emerging phenomenon of personalisation. She uses design as a research tool to identify steps needed for system-changing solutions to how our lives could progress productively and sustainably in the increasingly digital world. She studies the relationship between the creator, the viewer and the artefact in the light of an on-going conflict between the ‘virtual’ and the ‘material’. She is the lead author of 'Making Sense of Space: The Design and Experience of Virtual Spaces as a Tool for Communication’ (Chandos 2014) and 'Understanding Personalisation: New Aspects of Design and Consumption’ (Elsevier 2022); and the lead editor of 'Design for Personalisation' (Routledge 2017).

Nicholas Morton

Nicholas Morton is an Associate Professor in History at Nottingham Trent University. The author or editor of many books on medieval Near Eastern history, he is also the editor of three book series for Routledge: Rulers of the Latin East, Global Histories before Globalisation, and The Military Religious Orders. His most recent book is The Mongol Storm: making and breaking empires in the medieval Near East, published in October 2022 by Basic Books.

Dominika Olszówka

Dominka Olszówka is the Senior Administrator for the Content Strategy & Acquisition team at Oxford University Press, where I work closely with the Director of Content Strategy and Acquisition and the Heads of Acquisition to support the delivery of strategic projects and ensure the smooth running of the department. I’m currently leading an Early Career Researcher working group, designed to devise a global Research Books ECR offer that will provide meaningful support and build a community of Early Career Researchers at the heart of OUP.

British Academy, James Rivington (Head of Publishing)

Thomas Stottor (Oxford University Press, Acquisition Editor, History)

Tom Stottor is Acquisition Editor for History at Oxford University Press. In this role, Tom commissions books across medieval, early modern, and modern history and across a range of formats, including monographs, Oxford Handbooks, and scholarly editions. Tom particularly enjoys collaborating with early-career researchers and he is currently part of a cross-divisional team who is working to establish the best ways to support them before, during, and after their OUP publishing journey.

Annamarie Kino

Annamarie Kino is Publisher for Secondary Education, School Leadership and Early Years Education at Routledge. With over fifteen years of experience in academic publishing, she commissions books to support initial teacher training, textbooks for students on early years and childhood studies courses, and practical resources for teachers and school leaders on both the Routledge and David Fulton lists.

Neil Smyth (Nottingham Trent University)

Neil Smyth is the Lead Organiser of the Academic Book Publishing Conference 2023: a British Academy Early Career Researcher Network. Neil has organised, published or delivered papers for publishing publications and conferences, including: “The Future of the Academic Book in University Libraries”; The Academic Book of the Future; and, “Beyond the Book? The future of academic publishing.” He is the Researcher Development Consultant at Nottingham Trent University.


The Network can cover travel and accommodation expenses for ECRs, speakers and partners to attend the event. This can be done in two ways you can cover the costs and be reimbursed or this can be booked for you and details will be sent. If  you require the latter you will need to let the team know 3 weeks before the event to give us enough time to book this for you. If you would like your expenses covered either way register your interest by sending us an email at ecr_network@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.  

ABOUT THE BRITISH ACADEMY

The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future.

From artificial intelligence to climate change, from building prosperity to improving well-being – today’s complex challenges can only be resolved by deepening our insight into people, cultures and societies.

We invest in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas, engage the public with fresh thinking and debates, and bring together scholars, government, business and civil society to influence policy for the benefit of everyone.
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