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The Placement
All students undertake an extended work placement in the publishing industry. This gives students the chance to see at first hand how the industry operates, apply knowledge gained from the preceeding terms and make contacts in the industry. Placements are organised across the publishing industry and include; trade and mass market publishers and more specialist academic and reference publishers, literary scouts and agents and occassionally other related players such as PR agencies. Students are expected to produce a reflective report at the end of the placement outlining what they gained from the experience.
If you are interested in hosting a student please email n.canty@ucl.ac.uk
Duration
The placements run for a minimum of five weeks. Students are expected to work full time and the hours of work are usually the same as the other employees. The placements traditionally run over April/May to coincide with the London Book Fair. Students have a mentor who oversees their stay and can provide guidance and advice during the attachment to the host organisation.
Previous Hosts
The following organisations have in the past hosted UCL students:
- Little, Brown
- Sage Publishing
- Hodder Headline
- Viking
- Michael Joseph
- Macmillan Journals
- A&C Black
- Wiley Blackwell
- Harper Collins Group
- Cengage
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Oxford University Press
- Penguin Group
- Blake Friedmann
- Hamish Hamilton
- British Medical Journal
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Nielsen
- Quercus
- Bloomsbury
- Transworld
- Scholastic
- Ros Ramsey Agency
- Cambridge University Press
- Pearson Education
- Vallentine Mitchell
- Orion Publishing Group
- Rogers, Coleridge & Wright
- Puffin
- A.M. Heath
- Laurence King Publishing
- Sweet & Maxwell Group
- John Murray
