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EdinburghUniversity

pressAnnuAl report

2013

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contents introduction FroM tHe cHieF eXecutiVe

Contents

introdUCtion from the Chief exeCUtive .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Book PUBlishing 2012–13 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4Book Publishing highlights ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4Book Publishing report ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7

Prize Winners .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7key reviews ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8Publicity highlights ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11

the Press Committee ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12

rePort from the head of JoUrnals .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13Journals Publishing highlights ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

frequency increases .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14online Publication .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14tiered Pricing ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15special issues ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15Publicity highlights ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 16

finanCial information ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17summary 2011–13 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17sales 2009–13 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17

PeoPle ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18the Board of trustees ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18the Board of management .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18the eUP team .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

introdUCtion from the Chief exeCUtive

This year has been another successful one amidst

continuing economic uncertainty leading to difficult trading

conditions in many markets including north America, europe

and the Far east. We have also continued to face significant

challenges in the industry, from the continuing advancement

of ebooks to the on-going debate around open Access.

these challenges represent opportunities and during the

year we invested in a number of areas in order to strengthen

our ability both to meet our goal of furthering the university’s

mission of excellence in education, scholarship and research

and to fulfil our core business objectives. Following a review

of the books area we appointed in november a new Head of

editorial to lead the commissioning team and implement an

ambitious growth plan. over the course of the next year we

will appoint two new commissioning editors, develop our

textbook list and increase our pool of us authors.

in January we appointed a new Head of sales &

Marketing and during the course of the year oxford

university Press, the world’s largest university press with the

widest global presence, became our new sales, marketing

and distribution partner in north and south America. this

is a vital appointment for edinburgh as we see a significant

proportion of our sales growth coming from this region over

the next five years.

Growing our ebusiness has also been a key objective this

year and alongside library suppliers we have established a

number of new partnerships with textbook aggregators like

coursesmart and Vital source.

despite the huge changes that we are seeing in the

industry, revenues from print books and journals still remain

the core part of our business. We published a record 140 new

books last year and output will increase significantly over the

next three years. our journals business remains a vital part of

what we do and we continue to look for new opportunities to

add to our list of 39 journals.

in spite of the challenges, we delivered print book and

journal revenues 3% ahead of last year at over £2.16 million.

ebook sales were £215,000 – a like-for-like increase of 59%.

surplus before interest was £197,000. these are good results

by any benchmark and i would like to pay tribute to all the

staff here at edinburgh for their continued hard work.

over the next twelve months we expect trading

conditions to remain challenging in many of our core markets.

However, with our on-going programme of investments and

a record 170 new titles being published across the humanities

and social sciences, we are well placed to build the business

from our new offices at the tun, Holyrood, where we will

move in december.

Timothy Wrightchief executive

[email protected]

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Book PuBlisHinG 2012–13 Book PuBlisHinG 2012–13

Book PUBlishing 2012–13this year has seen the development of a new book publishing strategy with the aim of increasing both revenue and profitability

for this part of the business. Monographs currently account for 75% of commissioning values but they generate the majority of

this revenue in year one. commissioning more textbooks (with better long-term revenue) and reference titles (with better short-

term and ebook revenue) will provide a more sustainable revenue stream and allow the business to grow more efficiently.

in order to facilitate this change we need to give commissioning editors the time that is required to develop textbooks and

reference volumes. A substantial investment is therefore being made in the recruitment of two new commissioning editors to

publish in what have been identified as our two core textbook lists: linguistics and Politics.

Book PUBlishing highlights

Understanding ethics: 3rd editionTorbjörn Tännsjö

A revised edition of the bestselling

textbook on the philosophy list which

makes an already excellent book

even better.

Henry raeburnViccy Coltman and Stephen Lloyd

A retrospective art history of scotland’s

most famous portrait painter, offering

a timely and well-received critical

examination of his global reputation.

Lost in the BackwoodsJenni Calder

investigates the diasporic scots who

colonised America’s wilderness. the

author featured at the edinburgh

international Book Festival.

private Law and Human rightsEdited by Elspeth Reid and Daniel Visser

the first comparative study of scottish

and south African jurisdictions in

relation to human rights, furthering

the comparative law strengths of the

euP law list

scotland’s ChoicesIain McLean, Jim Gallagher and Guy Lodge

A bestseller for euP, this appraisal

of the ‘independence versus union’

debate has already reprinted twice

and had sold over 2,000 copies by

August 2013. it works through the

complexities of the debate before the

referendum in september 2014.

The edinburgh Companion to the History of DemocracyEdited by Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen

Stockwell

this major reference title continues

to build democracy studies as a core

theme of the euP politics list.

scottish education: referendum, 4th editionEdited by Tom Bryce, Walter Humes, Donald

Gillies and Aileen Kennedy

the 4th edition of this bestselling title

is established as the core textbook

for all education students in scotland.

it sold over 1,000 copies in the first

month of publication.

Introductions and Notes from the Magnum OpusEdited by J. H. Alexander

these two supplementary volumes appear in the edinburgh

edition of the Waverley novels, a monumental publishing

endeavour led by Professor david Hewitt which has brought

all 28 volumes of sir Walter scott’s novels back into print in a

fully annotated critical edition.

Historical Linguistics, 3rd editionLyle Campbell

A new edition of one of euP’s most

successful textbooks. the co-

publication agreement with Mit Press

brought in £16,800 of revenue.

Changing Methodologies for TesOLJane Spiro

the first book to publish in the new

edinburgh textbooks in tesol series,

aimed at the postgraduate tesol

courses.

TraDITIONs IN WOrLD CINeMa serIesEdited by Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer

We published 5 new

hardback monographs

in this series, including

spanish Horror Film by

Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and post-Beur Cinema

by Will Higbee.

King and Court in ancient persia, 559 to 331 bcelloyd llewellyn-Jones (debates and

documents in Ancient History series)

the first easily-accessible book on

the Persian court takes a fresh look at

ancient evidence and scholarly debate.

it was very positively reviewed in the

London Review of Books.

THe eDINBUrgH HIsTOry OF aNCIeNT rOMe serIes

From rome to Byzantium ad 363 to 565: The Transformation of ancient romeA. D. Lee

The end of the roman republic 146 to 44 bc: Conquest and Crisis Catherine Steel

We published two further

titles in this eight-volume

series on the history of

rome and the roman

world, bringing the

current total of published

titles to six.

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Book PuBlisHinG 2012–13 Book PuBlisHinG 2012–13

eDINBUrgH sTUDIes IN MODerN araBIC LITeraTUre serIesEdited by Rasheed El-Enany

three new volumes appeared in this growing series: post-War anglophone Lebanese Fictionby Syrine Hout

sufism in the Contemporary arabic Novel by Ziad Elmarsafy

The arab Nahdah by Abdulrazzak Patel

PriZe Winners

The Written Word in the

Medieval Arabic Lands

by konrad Hirschler

won the BrisMes

Book Prize, awarded

by the British society

of Middle eastern

studies.

A Military History of

Scotland edited by

edward M. spiers,

Jeremy A. crang and

Matthew J. strickland

was named the saltire

society History Book

of the Year and was

awarded the templar

Medal Book Prize from

the society for Army

Historical research.

Muriel Rukeyser and

Documentary by

catherine Gander

won the Peggy

o’Brien Book Prize of

the irish Association

for American studies.

Jeffrey Geiger’ s

American

Documentary Film was

a finalist in the theatre

library Association /

richard Wall Memorial

Award 2012.

Yuka kadoi’s Islamic

Chinoiserie gained an

Honourable Mention

in the saidi-sirjani

Book Award /

international society

for iranian studies.

Book PUBlishing rePortin the 2012-13 publication period the Press published 145 new books and issued 40 books new in paperback.

The Collected Fiction of Katherine MansfieldEdited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan

the two volumes make available to scholars of Modernism

the first complete edition of Mansfield’s short stories.

The MinaretJonathan Bloom (edinburgh studies in

islamic Art series)

this lavishly illustrated exploration

of the origin and development of

the minaret is written by one of the

world’s leading islamic art historians.

arabic in the FrayYasir Suleiman

this new title develops the

distinguished Yasir suleiman’s

groundbreaking project on Arabic in

the social world.

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key revieWs

LINgUIsTICsreview of Francesca Bargiela-

chiappini, The Handbook of Business

Discourse in Language and Intercultural

Communication:

‘Its great strength lies with its scope and diversity, and with the overall themes it presents, of critique, context, collaboration and intercultural awareness, all of which

are relevant to a future in which the field of business discourse research can continue to thrive.’

review of Melinda Whong, Language

Teaching in Choice:

‘This is an excellent introductory textbook that will serve pre- service, second language teachers well . . . The most valuable feature of this book is the clarity with which the theoretical perspectives are explained. It also provides a similarly clear overview of current

approaches and methods of language teaching.’

FILMreview of torunn Haaland, Italian

Neorealist Cinema in Choice:

‘This study’s heft and range set it above the valuable introductory surveys that have preceded it. This is a worthy addition to the indispensable scholarly series Traditions in World Cinema. Highly recommended.’

review of Alex Marlow-Mann’s New

Neapolitan Cinema in Modern Italy:

‘Marlow-Mann produces detailed analyses of a substantial body of films […] enriched by first-hand insights and interviews with directors, as well as a useful set of appendices charting exhibition statistics, figures relating to production companies and audience

location. Marlow-Mann’s book is a comprehensive and well-researched discussion of an important cinematic phenomenon whose treatment, in English, has been limited and fragmentary.’

CLassICsreview of J. s. richardson’s Augustan

Rome, 44 bc to ad 14 in Choice:

‘Richardson augments his well-written, clear narrative with a few unobtrusive footnotes, a chronology of events, eight figures, and one map. In lieu of a formal bibliography, the book includes a helpful index and guides to ancient authors and further reading. Highly recommended’

review of lloyd llewellyn-Jones’s King

and Court in Ancient Persia in the Times

Literary Supplement:

‘Llewellyn-Jones blends an easy mastery of widely disparate sources with a clear-cut, jargon-free prose style.’

pHILOsOpHyreview of daniel W. smith’s Essays on

Deleuze in Journal of French and

Francophone Studies:

‘Daniel W. Smith’s work on the great French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) is owed a debt by English-speaking readers of Deleuze that is difficult to overstate . . . Essays on Deleuze

clearly marks an important landmark in the study of Deleuze’s philosophy.’

review of sean Bowden’s The Priority of

Events: Deleuze’s Logic of Sense in Notre

Dame Philosophical Reviews:

‘A timely and invaluable resource . . . Bowden provides a welcome gift to both the novice reader and the experienced scholar.’

sCOTTIsH HIsTOryreview of roger davidson and Gayle

davis’s The Sexual State: Sexuality and

Scottish Governance, 1950–80 in Social

History of Medicine:

‘Brings considerable nuance and regional comparative element to . . . the contemporary history of sexuality in Britain . . . Indispensible . . . should be valued by all working in this field.’

review of Viccy coltman and stephen

lloyd’ s Henry Raeburn: Context,

Reception and Reputation in ART

Scottish Art News:

‘Offers great insight into a remarkable artist who holds a unique position in the canon of Scotland’s best loved painters.’

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LaWreview of John Finlay’s The Community

of the College of Justice in the

Cambridge Law Journal:

‘John Finlay’s latest book provides a vivid insight into the unique history of Scotland’s College of Justice . . . an essential read for students and researchers interested in both Scottish legal or social history.’

review of edda Frankot’s ‘Of Laws

of Ships and Shipmen’ in Edinburgh

Law Review:

‘The book makes a significant contribution to Scottish legal history, and anyone interested in medieval maritime law will wish to study it closely and constantly.’

pOLITICsreviews of iain Mclean, Jim Gallagher

and Guy lodge’s Scotland’s Choices: The

Referendum and What Happens

Afterwards:

‘An invaluable contribution to the referendum debate that counters the scaremongering and the confusion.’Iain McWhirter, Sunday Herald

‘Scotland’s Choices, a hard-headed non-scary guide to the practical options facing Scotland and the UK, is a very good place for active citizens to start. It is a key text, because it reminds us of wider realities. September 2014 may settle one question. But it throws open a dozen more, with implications that stretch across the whole UK.’Martin Kettle, The Guardian

‘A careful, lucid, objective description of the state Scotland is in.’John Lloyd, Financial Times

LITerary sTUDIesreview of Glenda norquay’s The

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish

Women’s Writing in Feminist Collection:

‘Provides readers with an accessible introduction to approximately five hundred years of Gaelic and English language women’s writing in Scotland, across literary genres.’

review of laura salisbury’s Samuel

Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

in Comparative Drama:

‘Just as Salisbury proves the comedic always to exceed itself, so too does her own work exceed . . . the bounds of Beckett studies . . . to become a work of interest in its own right.’

IsLaMIC & MIDDLe easTerN sTUDIesreview of kristina richardson’s

Difference and Disability in the Medieval

Islamic World in H-Net Reviews:

‘Richardson has written an original and highly learned first book that reveals much about the cultural construction of difference and disability and about scholarly friendships and communities that shaped that culture.’

review of Alex Metcalfe’s The Muslims

of Medieval Italy in American Historical

Review:

‘Metcalfe . . . deserves the gratitude of everyone who teaches medieval Mediterranean history . . . The author’s ability to access sources in all of the relevant languages permits an unusually balanced

treatment that gives as much attention to Arabic as it does to Greek and Latin documentation . . . A useful survey of a complicated subject that deserves the attention of our students.’

PUBliCity highlights

• We attended 21 conferences in the uk and europe including, for the first time, the

International Medieval Congress in leeds and the International Congress of Linguists in

Geneva, and travelled to four north American conferences, enhancing our reputation in the

us. our editors missed out on two key American conferences in the period due to weather

events. By attending a full range of conferences across every subject area we successfully

promoted the euP brand, cemented relationships with authors, gained new contacts and

sold many books.

• We sent single and multi-book flyers to over 90 conferences this year, promoting a range

of key front and backlist titles across our core subjects, and reaching audiences in some

of our niche publishing areas. the pre-publication flyer that we produce for every new

book continues to be popular with our authors and provides a good starting point for the

dialogue between author and the marketing department.

• We held 10 book launches throughout the year and we have placed

advertising in a range of publications from core journals to the trade

and mainstream press, including the Bookseller Buyer’s Guide, Times Literary

Supplement, Scottish Review of Books, Sight and Sound, Deleuze Studies

and History Scotland.

• We changed our provider for marketing emails in november 2012 and

this gave us the impetus to resume regular subject mailings. We have

seen our twitter following grow steadily and we can use this to build

our brand and our relationships with authors.

• April 2013 saw the release of Scotland’s Choices

which we supported with a full publicity

campaign working with stonehill salt Pr. this

gained widespread coverage in the national press

and on tV and radio. sales had exceeded 2,000

at the end of July, leading to two reprints. stock

was scaled our across Waterstones shops and

was in the top 400 bestselling books across all

categories on Amazon.

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tHe Press coMMittee rePort FroM tHe HeAd oF JournAls

rePort from the head of JoUrnalsWe published 39 journals in the 2012–13 financial year, with revenues of £733,232.

three journals joined the fold in 2012: Nottingham French Studies, Cultural History and Irish

University Review and one journal left euP in 2012: Episteme. At the end of 2012, the Katherine

Mansfield Studies journal changed publication format to become an annual euP book

publication. there were no title changes in 2013.

JoUrnals PUBlishing highlights We publish journals in a range of subject areas covering the arts, humanities, social sciences

and science. our journals are all selective, rigorously edited and peer-reviewed by established

and widely published scholars in their respective fields. Many of our journals are prestigious,

long-established journals that we publish on behalf of learned societies and associations.

the Press Committeethe Press committee, as a court committee, embodies the academic relationship between the university and its Press by

validating the academic standards of the books published with the university’s name on them.

FOr THe 2013–14 aCaDeMIC sessION, THe press COMMITTee MeMBersHIp COMprIseD:

Professor ewen Cameron convener

Convener: Professor ewen Cameron, ma, Phd, frhists, fsascotHistory

dr mark newman Ba, ma, Phd, frhistsAmerican studies

Professor andrew erskine, ma, dPhilAncient History

Professor heinz giegerich, ma, Phd, frselinguistics & english language (english linguistics)

Professor robert hillenbrand, dPhil, honorary Professorial fellow islamic & Middle eastern studies

Professor John e. Joseph, Ba, ma, Phd, frsalinguistics & english language (Applied linguistics)

Professor Penny fielding, Ba, dPhilenglish literature (scottish literature & 19th-century literature)

Professor olga taxidou, Ba, msc, Phdenglish literature (Modernism, drama & Film)

dr alex thomson, ma (hons), ma, dPhilenglish literature (continental Philosophy)

dr gary West, ma, Phdceltic & scottish studies

dr elizabeth Cripps, Ba, ma, PhdPolitics

Professor elspeth Christie reid, ma, llB, diplPlaw

mr shenxiao tong, ma, Phduniversity library

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rePort FroM tHe HeAd oF JournAls rePort FroM tHe HeAd oF JournAls

freqUenCy inCreases

in 2012, the African Journal of International and Comparative Law increased to three

issues a year and the Journal of British Cinema and Television increased to four issues

a year. in 2013, the Journal of Qur’anic Studies increased to three issues a year. this

should lead to greater visibility for these journals and an increase in citable articles.

online PUBliCation

reaDersHIp aND sUBsCrIBer prOFILeFrom 2012 we included online access with all institutional subscriptions

and this has significantly increased online usage across the euP journals

list. there were over 134,000 articles accessed via euP Journals online

in 2012, compared with 82,000 in 2011, an increase of 64%. over 68,500

articles were accessed between January and July 2013.

eUp arCHIve aND preMIUM aCCessthe euP Archive is an ever-expanding collection of scholarly content published

prior to 2000. the Archive was extended in 2012 with 50 back volumes of

Nottingham French Studies, over 20 back volumes of Journal of Scottish Historical

Studies and missing back volumes of Oxford Literary Review and The Innes Review.

the Archive is available for outright purchase or annual subscription. We also offer a

premium subscription option for journals with an extensive back-run (access back

to 2000 is included, where available, with all standard subscriptions).

http://www.euppublishing.com/page/infoZone/librarians/eUparchive

tiered PriCing

in 2013, we introduced a differentiated pricing model for our journals to stabilise

existing revenues and provide a framework for sales growth for journals. the new

pricing model is designed to relate more closely, the cost of a subscription to the

potential usage within an institution. tiered pricing has become an industry norm,

and represents a fairer alignment of price to value than the traditional ‘one price

for all’ model with its print-based origins. our new site licence includes extended

access for larger institutions, and we have also introduced a lower price for smaller,

marginal-usage institutions.

http://www.euppublishing.com/page/infozone/librarians/eUpTieredpricingInformation

sPeCial issUes

the journals below published a special issue as both journal issue and separate

book publication. the issues are included within a journal subscription and are also

available for separate purchase via standard book channels.

Deleuze studiesDeleuze and Philosophical Practice, edited by Guilluame collett, Masa kosugi and

chryssa sdrolia

paragraphCixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis, edited by Mark dawson, Mairead Hanrahan and

eric Prenowitz

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rePort FroM tHe HeAd oF JournAls FinAnciAl inForMAtion

finanCial information

sUmmary 2011–13

Fy 2011 Fy 2012 Fy 2013 Total sales £2,207,003 £2,221,226 £2,378,713 Production cost of sales -£515,502 -£492,196 -£580,307royalty cost of sales -£200,840 -£178,092 -£215,598 gross Margin £1,490,661 £1,550,989 £1,582,808 rights & royalty income £204,875 £173,246 £224,793stock charges £19,842 -£36,927 -£32,524stock & royalty Write-off Provision £0 £0 £0 operating contribution £1,675,694 £1,687,308 £1,775,077 overheads -£1,357,761 -£1,462,974 -£1,577,582 operating Profit £317,993 £224,334 £197,495 university loan interest £0 £0 £0Bank interest received £4,000 £8,368 £12,145 Net result £322,390 £232,702 £209,640

£0

£500,000

£1,000,000

£1,500,000

£2,000,000

£2,500,000

£3,000,000

FY 2013FY 2012FY 2011FY 2010FY 2009

£2,602,000

£2,341,000

£2,725,000

£2,416,334

£2,402,891

sales 2009–13 (inClUding rights inCome)

Financial year runs 1 August to 31 July

PUBliCity highlights

INCreasINg aCCess• regular promotion of journal content, to sustain end-user engagement with each

new issue published as well as with back content, boosts the profile and usage of

our journals. For example, a one-month free access period to journals boosted the

average usage for the period by more than 50%.

LaUNCH OF TIereD prICINg FOr INsTITUTIONaL CUsTOMers• communicating with our institutional customers and the complex chain of agents

and affiliates with whom we work was essential to maximise the success of the

launch of our new differentiated pricing model. We intended to:

• Advise our existing customers of forthcoming changes in a timely manner;

• support customers through the transition to minimise administrative and

processing activity and any ‘tier’ disputes, which would have an adverse effect on

end users;

• encourage speedy renewal of existing/new subscriptions; and

• Minimise cancellations due to price changes.

CaMpaIgN resULTs• clear, regular and consistent communication and interaction with our customers

strengthened our profile and positive image;

• Fewer than expected cancellations, the majority of which cited reasons other than

price – 2.6% cancellation rate compared with a predicted 6% rate of attrition.

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PeoPle PeoPle

PeoPle

the Board of trUstees

the Board of trustees is a non-executive body charged with the general oversight and control of the Press which is in itself a

division of the university corporate services Group. the individual trustees are senior members of the university, independent

of management, and all bring their individual expertise to bear on issues of strategy, performance, resources, key appointments

and standards of conduct.

mr nigel PaulVice Principal and director of corporate services

and chairman, Board of trustees (pictured)

Professor stephen g. hillier Vice Principal, international

Professor ewen Cameron

school of History, classics and Archaeology and

convenor of Press committee

ms sheila guptadirector university Hr service

the Board of management

the Board of Management consists of a non-executive chairman, two non-executive members, chief executive, Head of

editorial (Books), Head of Journals, Head of Finance and subscription Management, Head of sales and Marketing, and Head of

Production. the Board meets four times a year alongside the trustees. the executive Management Group, excluding the three

non-executives, meets weekly.

ivon asquithnon-executive

chairman

geoff nuttallnon-executive

the eUP teamFront row: timothy Wright, Anna Glazier, nicola ramsey, sarah edwards, ian davidson.

Back rows (left to right): John Watson, Frances Affleck, James dale, Avril cuthbert, liz Aitken, Jenny daly, Andrew Bianchi,

Gavin Jack, Jenny Peebles, ruth Allison, carol lonie, eddie clark, louise collings, carol Macdonald, Gillian leslie, catriona Murray.

Missing from picture: ellie Bush, naomi Farmer, Zuzana Hajasova, carla Hepburn (maternity leave), Michelle Houston

(maternity leave), Jackie Jones, rebecca Mackenzie, iona McAdam, Jan thomson, Ann Vinnicombe.

Jan thomsonHead of Finance and subscription

Management

Willie andersonnon-executive

timothy Wright chief executive

nicola ramsey Head of editorial

(Books)anna glazier

Head of sales and Marketing

sarah edwardsHead of Journals

ian davidsonHead of

Production

NoN-ExEcutivE ExEcutivE

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