Placements

Many companies expect students to have experience of working within the publishing industry before applying for their first position.

The aim of our publishing work placement is to ensure that you have that experience. It will enable you to consolidate and apply your publishing studies, while experiencing the commercial realities of industry.

As part of the Postgraduate Publishing programme here at Edinburgh Napier University, we help to provide each student with an organised work placement.

The publishing placement takes place in trimester 2 and is organised for the student, who makes their selection from a range of relevant host companies. Provision is also made for those students who would prefer to organise their own publishing placement.

2011 Postgraduate Publishing students report on their placements, read their blogs….

Jonathan Washington discusses his placement at Penguin, read more….

Catriona Wallace talks about her placement with the Edinburgh International Book Festival …

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Please use our “Search” facility to find out about ALL the publishing placement experiences of our students (just type in “placement” into the search window on this site and all the student blogs will be listed).

Prof advises Guardian Careers Blog

Professor Alistair McCleery joined representatives from Penguin and Skillset to contribute to the Guardian Careers Blog on Publishing. Find out more…

Our Professional Publishing Placement module has proven highly successful, even leading to full-time employment for some students. Find out more…

The following companies have been kind enough to offer placements to some of our Publishing students. Please note that this should not be read as a definitive list: it is constantly being updated and provides only a brief glimpse of the opportunities that are on offer.