Experience

Oxford Brookes University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Support Coordinator, School of Arts

  • Oct 2014 - Present

  I provide a first point of call for students with academic issues or personal problems, giving appropriate advice or referring them on to relevant faculty or university student support functions. I work with academic advisors and programme teams, providing direct support and, where appropriate, onward referral for all students. I produce programme communication including newsletters, emails, posters, and liaise with colleagues in marketing as appropriate. I recruit, train and support student representatives in conjunction with the Students’ Union. I am an active participant in the cross-University Student Support Coordinator network and with Student Services/ the Student Union, sharing good practice and developing new methods of working to keep up to date with legislation and relevant University policies/procedures. Show less

• Programme Administrator

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2014

• Departmental Administrator

  • Aug 2009 - Oct 2011

  • Being responsible for the Department’s administrative processes, ensuring the smooth running of all of the Department’s work, including developing, implementing and monitoring improvement• Writing and making available agendas and minutes for Departmental committees and meetings• Administering Department-initiated conferences, internal and external events and external activities undertaken by Departmental staff in the course of their duties• Identifying, building and maintaining a network of external contacts and partners for the provision of student work placements and academic exchanges• Collating and producing databases of information from student feedback • Supporting the development of the Department’s work in CPD and consultancy• Designing and carrying out the induction of new staff and visiting researchers into the School’s procedures, systems and computing and other resources• Authorizing expenditure from certain Departmental budgets• Writing prospectus entries and advertising material for courses and Departmental public events Show less



Routledge

• Development Editor, Theatre and Performance Studies

  • 2008 - 2008

  • Liaising closely with authors and colleagues in the UK and New York to ensure the timely flow of information • Guiding authors through the process of book publication from start to finish, and being the first point of contact throughout • Ensuring that authors deliver manuscripts and companion website materials on time and to budget • Developing big texts on the Theatre, Performance and Dance Studies list (by process of peer and student review, sourcing illustrations, establishing text design and providing editorial feedback) to ensure that structure, organization and content were correct for the market • Travelling to universities and colleges to meet with academics in order to discuss both new proposals and the current market • Writing and distributing minutes of author, book proposal and team meetings • Reviewing inventory, sales figures and adoption information; keeping the main database updated • Conducting market research into key subject areas, including desk and field research • Preparing reports and helping to develop new projects, feeding into the commissioning process • Creating spreadsheets to indicate current market trends in subject areas • Proposing and developing all new Dance Studies and A-level texts • Attending conferences as Editorial representative Show less



Bradt Guides

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editorial Project Manager

  • 2007 - 2008

  • Acting as the first point of contact with authors to ensure that projects arrive on time and within budget, and putting into place any amendments for reprints • Assessing the quality and structure of manuscripts upon submission, according to house style and standards • Working closely with freelance copy-editors, proofreaders, cartographers, photographers, designers and printers to ensure that new titles and new editions publish according to the company's publishing schedule • Writing copy for the back cover of new titles and new editions • Responsibility for new titles in the Eccentric series • Working closely with in-house colleagues in Sales and Marketing • Determining photographs for use in the colour section and ensuring that all permissions were obtained Show less