Alastair Horne

Alastair worked in a wide range of roles across the industry before taking up his current role as Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Stirling in 2020. He spent four years as Social Media and Communities Manager for Cambridge University Press’s English Language Teaching division, founding its successful blog and webinar series, and increasing its social media following ten-fold. He has run training on social media for several publishers and universities, in addition to running social media campaigns for the Think Check Submit initiative, and online events for clients including UCL Press, Knowledge Unlatched Research, and Glasstree Publishing. He has also worked as a journalist and editor specialising in scholarly publishing, has written several books for Amber Books, and is currently completing a PhD on mobile storytelling.