General

The following organisations and individuals offer training, support and/or advice about different areas of publishing or being an author. Please note that the PTC is not responsible for content on other websites.

*Denotes a PTC partner organisation.

Advice and support

• BookCareers 
• The Book Trade Charity (BTBS) 
• Louise Harnby 
• The Printing Charity*

Corporate membership organisations

• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)*
• Cyhoeddi Cymru (Publishing Wales)
• Independent Publishers Guild (IPG)*
• International Publishers Association (IPA)*
• The Publishers Association (PA)*
• Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS)
• STM Association

Individual membership organisations

• Association for Cultural Enterprises (ACE)*
• Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders & Indexers of Ireland (AFEPI)
• BookMachine 
• Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) 
• Editors Canada
• Publishing Ireland* 
• Publishing Scotland*
• Society of Indexers*
• The Society of Young Publishers*

Working as a freelancer

• CIEP suggested minimum rates
• Copy-editor: explore careers
• ELT Publishing Professionals
• Freelance Corner
• Getting ahead in publishing
• GOV.UK
• Proofreader: explore careers
• Reedsy.com
• Successful Editorial Freelancing
• SYPLaunch mentorship scheme*

Working in publishing

• Creative Access
• Female Leadership in Publishing (the FLIP)
• LDN Apprenticeships*
• Living Wage Foundation 
• National Careers Service 
• National Occupational Standards
• Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS)
• The Publishing Post
• Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 

Writing for a living

• Irish Writers Centre*
• London Writers’ Café
• The Literary Consultancy*
• The Society of Authors 
• Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 

At the Publishing Training Centre, we are lucky to be able to draw on the experience of a dedicated board of trustees, who have between them held some of the most senior positions in UK publishing:

Lis Tribe (Chair)

Lis Tribe is Managing Director of the Hodder Education Schools Division, one of the largest secondary schools publishers in the country. She joined Hodder from Routledge in 1993 as commissioning editor for vocational subjects, and has worked in a variety of publishing roles since then. At a time when the pace of change in educational publishing is really very rapid, Lis firmly believes that training is of great value to companies in supporting and developing their staff in their existing as well as future roles.

Jonathan Glasspool

Jonathan Glasspool is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic and Professional and Deputy Managing Director of A & C Black Ltd. He was formerly Product Director in Bloomsbury's Electronic Media Division. Previous jobs include Publisher with Reed Elsevier in Singapore, Melbourne and Oxford. Jonathan was also Head of Publishing at the Institute of Management, where he worked with Hodder Headline, Pearson and Butterworth-Heinemann. He started his career at Cambridge University Press.

Edward Milford

Edward Milford is currently Development Director for the IPG and has had a successful and distinguished career in publishing over the last 30 years.

Robin Hunt

Robin Hunt is Publishing Director at Scholastic Education, having previously worked at Nelson Thornes from 1997 – 2004. He is a member of the PA’s Educational Publishers Council and is currently serving as Vice Chair.

Emma House

Emma House is the Director for Publisher Relations for the Publishers Association, she heads up the international anti-piracy campaigns on behalf of PA members, as well as monitors and lobbies for secure market conditions in key export territories.

Claire Thomas

Claire Thomas is Director of Organisational Development and Talent for Penguin Random House, the world’s leading trade publisher.

Claire’s role is to help keep the company moving forward: through the culture and employee experiences Penguin Random House cultivates and the talent they attract, hire and grow. She has worked in publishing for over twenty years.

Owen Meredith

Owen Meredith is Managing Director/Director of External Affairs at the PPA (Professional Publishers’ Association).

Rolf Grisebach

Rolf Grisebach is CEO at Thames & Hudson. He previously ran Pearson's operations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and before that headed Macmillan's $250m education and STM division in the USA.

Astrid deRidder

Astrid deRidder is Head of Global Custom Publishing for Macmillan Education, Springer Nature

Learn and work from home as a proofreader or an editor

The Publishing Qualifications Board

PQB is a charitable organisation, established 18 years ago. One of its key aims is to provide assessed, vocational training for anyone pursuing a publishing career.

It is a subsidiary of the Publishing Training Centre (PTC) - an organisation which promotes excellence in publishing through training. PTC is best known for delivering high quality editorial skills training to publishers. In the past decade alone, it has trained more than 12,000 delegates.

PQB offers distance and online learning courses, which give you:

• the chance to work at your own pace
• your own experienced tutor to mark your work and answer queries
• the backing of a training centre that is recognised by the publishing industry.

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Training in Indexing
The Society of Indexers offers a distance learning course. Visit the website or email for further information .