UP Redux Programme

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Chair: Jennie Collinson, Director of Sales & Marketing, Liverpool University Press
Speakers:
Peter Berkery, Executive Director, Association of University Presses 
Dennis Lloyd, Director, University of Wisconsin Press
Stephanie Williams, Wayne State University

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Chair: Alison Fox, Marketing and Distribution Manager, UCL Press
Speakers:
Hannah Jefferies, Liverpool University Press
Micah Kleit, Director, Rutgers University Press
Lara Speicher, Head of Publishing, UCL Press

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Chair: Rob Dale, Head of Production, Edinburgh University Press
Speakers:
Alice Burns, Journals Marketing Executive and Sustainability Co-Lead, Liverpool University Press
Katharine Easterby, Senior Production Editor/Sustainability Co-Lead, Liverpool University Press
Jen Mellor, Head of Operations, Manchester University Press

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Chair: Alison Welsby, Editorial Director, Liverpool University Press
Speakers:
Kim Eggleton, Head of Peer Review & Research Integrity, IOP Publishing

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Chair: Catherine Dutton, Head of Books Marketing, Liverpool University Press
Speaker:
John Sherer, Director, The University of North Carolina Press

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Published in autumn 2025, the Publishing Futures report from Cambridge University Press & Assessment highlighted four urgent challenges facing the scholarly publishing ecosystem: rising volumes that pressure the peer review system, the financial unsustainability of current models, widening equity gaps for researchers in low- and middle-income countries, and the need to change academic reward systems that incentivize quantity over quality. This session will unpack those challenges for the conference audience and highlight the ways in which CUPA – and other publishers – can and are working to deliver radical change in academic publishing.

Chair: Anna Champion, Rights & Publishing Services Assistant, Liverpool University Press

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Chair: Paul Stevens, Publisher, Bristol University Press
Speakers:
Allison Levy, Brown University Library
Kimberley Williams, Digital & Audio Publisher and Co-head of PUP Europe, Princeton University Press
Nicola Wilson, University of Reading

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Chair: Melissa Thomas, Books Marketing Assistant, Liverpool University Press
Speakers:
Andrew Barker, Director of Library Services & Learning Development, Lancaster University
Paula Kennedy, Head of Publishing, University of London Press
Kate Petherbridge, Press Manager, White Rose University Press

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New generative and agentic technologies, whether on publisher platforms or through third parties, are changing user behaviours. In a world where agents can pull answers from the whole scholarly record, without a human ever visiting an article page or downloading a book, publishers and librarians are questioning how and whether AI counts as usage. COUNTER, the international standard for usage metrics, is developing new best practice guidelines to help us all tackle this question. In this session, we'll learn about how different types of AI usage interact with the existing, trusted Code of Practice; the solutions the recent community consultation defined for reporting that usage; and what you can do to ensure you're getting the full AI usage picture.

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Chair: Philippa Grand, Head of Publishing, LSE Press
Speaker: Marion Thain, Edinburgh Futures Institute