The Stationers’ and Newspaper Makers’ Company is currently advertising a range of scholarships which can support the study of publishing at University level.
The range of awards offered include the Quarterly, Annual and the Francis Mathew Stationers’ Company Awards. Please see the Scholarships page of the Company’s website for more details.
For more details on study opportunities at the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication, see our Study page.
Associate Professor, Master Tutor of Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, China.
‘As one of the earliest departments of publishing in the world, the Centre for International Publishing and Communication at the University of Stirling, has an advanced concept of teaching and a perfect curriculum structure. It benefits from teaching staff and visiting speakers of high-level scholarship and wide professional vision, uses case studies of strong applicability and currency, and flexible and varied teaching methods. As a Chinese colleague of higher education of Publishing, I benefited a lot from it and will apply it in my Chinese teaching practice.’
Members of the MSc in International Publishing Management recently attended the Frankfurt Book Fair. Shaofang Tian reports on her visit:
Before, when I mentioned the name Romy Schneider, I would think of the movie Princess Sissi. But now, I will also think of the related novel. This change has happened since I started my studies in Stirling. It is very good that I had the chance to go to the movie’s home country to attend a book fair.
On 14 October, I arrived in Frankfurt to attend the 60th Frankfurt Book Fair with my classmates. The Frankfurt Book Fair is a meeting place for the publishing industry’s experts, like publishers, booksellers, agents, film producers or authors. Each year in October, they all come together and create something new. This time, China is the Guest of Honour, so I am very proud of it.
Because the Guest of Honour delegation involved more than 800 people, including 500 representatives from the publishing industry, I met many compatriots at the Fair. I spoke with them and receive some useful information. I attended two seminars about digital development in China. The High-Level Education Press contracted with Cambridge University Press to establish a digital database. It’s completely a good piece of news.
I also visited other countries’ stands. In London Book Fair in May, I met the publishing companies Random House, HarperCollins, and Hachette which were mentioned at class, and this time I met them again. I took a photo of “Penguin” – it’s not an animal! I talked with a publisher from America about tie-in books. When they heard that I have worked for five years in the movie industry, they were very happy because they want to exploit their business in China. We exchanged the contacts and hope to communicate further.
Besides books, there were performances of Chinese culture, like the Beijing Opera. I also watched a Germanic movie with my classmates.
This trip is an unforgettable experience to me. I hope I will attend Frankfurt Book Fair again in the future.
The sun was out, the weather was warm, and the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication was delighted to welcome its new cohort of MLitt in Publishing Studies students to the University.
This year, our students are a truly international bunch! They have travelled from countries including China, France, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkmenistan and the United States to join the course, and some of our students already have experience of working in publishing in their own countries. The international students are joined by UK students from Scotland, England and Wales – including alumni from our undergraduate courses.
The students are very warmly welcomed, and we wish them well with their studies this year!
Interested in what they’ll be doing at Stirling? Then find out more about about studying in the Centre.
The Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication is now accepting applications for the MLitt in Publishing Studies and the MSc in International Publishing Management, as well as for research degrees.
Go to our Study page for more information.