School of Informatics

Guest speakers

Over the past few years, our students have heard, first hand, about e-publishing from:

Alf Hermida Technology Editor, BBC News Online
Tim Hood Founder, Yoosk.com
Emily Bell Editor-in-chief, Guardian Unlimited
Richard Burton Deputy editor, telegraph.co.uk
Nick Chapman Former Managing Director, BBC Worldwide Publishing
Richard Calvert Head of Experience Design at TMWDigital. Previously head of information architecture at Razorfish.
Elizabeth Varley Director, OnlineContent UK
Caspar Melville Executive Editor, OpenDemocracy.net
Eloise Grey Product manager, AOL UK
Gail Rebuck Chairman and Chief Executive, The Random House Group Ltd.
Ashley Friedlein The best selling author of 'Web Site Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Sites' and 'Web Project Management Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites'. Founding partner of e-consultancy.com. Formerly with wheel.co.uk
Richard Charkin Chief Executive, Macmillan.
Alan Giles Chief Executive, HMV Group.
Julie Howell Web accessibility expert and Internet Campaigns Officer Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB).
Anthony Forest Watson Chief Executive, The Penguin Group (UK).
Philip Smith Editor Revolution, author of Directing Web Traffic: How to Get Users to Your Site - and Keep Them There.
Paul Eedle 'Internet Journalist of the Year' 1999
Carla Passino Carla is content director for the country portfolio at IPC Media in London
Simon Broad BBC Interactive Digital TV
Virginie Carniel of swissinfo.org
Anne Foster Managing Director, Electronic Publishing Services
Simon Philips Usability expert, former editorial director of Agency.com
Paul Brooks Creative Director, M&C Saatchi
Alex Kirby BBC NewsOnline
Danny Sofer Kitsite Content Management
Bill Thompson Technology critic and essayist
Ian Jacobs Electronic publishing expert and Publishing Director at Thames and Hudson


If you are a speaker who would like to address our students please contact the course director.