The slides from the Society of Young Publishers Milkround event at Oxford Brookes MA Publishing Studies, Thursday 28 October, 2010

1. SYP Oxford talk
30/09/10

2. Skillset

3. The Industry: demand
Number of People Working in Publishing
News agencies,
7,642, 4%
Other publishing,
35,098, 19%
Other information
service activities
n.e.c, 8,926, 5% Book publishing,
33,828, 19%
Directories and
mailing lists, 2,860,
2%
Newspaper
publishing, 50,651,
28%
Journals and
periodicals, 41,400,
23%
Book publishing
Directories and mailing lists
Newspaper publishing
Journals and periodicals
Other publishing
News agencies
Other information service
activities n.e.c
Source: Labour Force Survey (April 2009 to March 2010)

4. The industry: demand
Changes in Size of Publishing Workforce
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150,000
200,000
250,000
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April 2009 to March 2010
2005-2007 quarterly average
Source: Labour Force Survey

5. The industry: supply
Number of Publishing Studies Students in the UK
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1000
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2000
2500
1999/2000
2000/2001
2001/2002
2002/2003
2003/2004
2004/2005
2005/2006
2006/2007
2007/2008
2008/2009
Total HE students
FT UGs
FT PGs
PT UGs
PT PGs
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency

6. What skills do you need?

7. What else? Online presence

8. Continuing professional development

9. Network, network, network
• SYP
• Conferences
• Events
• Tweet-ups

10. How can Skillset help?

11. How can Skillset help you?
• Information on publishing
http://www.skillset.org/publishing/
www.blog.skillset.org
• Get in touch:
– suzannek@skillset.org
– @sashers