Meet the Team
Management
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Dr Paul Ayris, Paul Ayris Pro-Vice-Provost (Library, Culture, Collections, Open Science), UCL and CEO of UCL Press Paul is the founder and CEO of UCL Press, and serves on UCL’s Senior Management Team. He chairs the UCL Press Executive Board. |
Martin Moyle Martin manages a large portfolio of teams in UCL's department of Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science (LCCOS), among them open access services including UCL Press. |
Lara Speicher Lara joined UCL in 2013 and worked with colleagues to set UCL Press up from scratch. She was previously Commissioning Editor at British Library Publishing. |
Editorial: Monographs and Edited Collections
UCL Press considers book proposals for all subjects including any that don't fall into the commissioning editors' stated key areas.
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Dr Chris Penfold
Commissioning Editor for Anthropology, Built Environment, Development and Sustainability, Modern Languages, Political Science, and any related areas. Chris has been commissioning books for UCL Press since 2015. Prior to this role he was Commissioning Editor at Palgrave Macmillan.
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Pat Gordon-Smith
Commissioning Editor for Education and related social sciences, Archaeology, Heritage, History and Museum Studies, and any related areas.
Pat brings 30 years' experience to the role, during which time she commissioned works for a number of academic publishers and professional organisations.
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Editorial: Textbooks
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Dhara Snowden
Textbook Programme Manager Dhara is currently developing our OA Textbook Programme. She previously held editorial roles at Rowman & Littlefield, Edinburgh University Press and Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Production
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Jaimee Biggins Jaimee leads our production team and has extensive experience of book production. Prior to UCL Press she was Production Team Leader at OUP for 6 years. |
Adam Lawley-Hughes Adam joined the UCL Press team in 2022 and has previously worked with Pearson, McGraw Hill and Hodder Education in a variety of print and digital production roles. |
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Sales and Marketing
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Alison Fox Alison has led our marketing, distribution and sales team since 2015. She previously held a variety of marketing roles at Wolters Kluwer (LWW) and Informa. |
Margie Coughlin Margie has expertise in publishing and the book trade, having worked for Waterstones and a diverse range of publishers and literary agencies. |
Laurie Sakura McNamee Laurie has extensive experience working in a variety of library roles including customer service and special collections. She has also worked for Waterstones. |
Journals
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Ian Caswell
Journals Manager
Ian leads the UCL Press journals programme. He has worked on journal portfolios at Wiley and BioMed Central.
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