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John Emerson

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SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Dr John Emerson

  • Director and founding publisher of the University of Adelaide Press, , which has now achieved 1.3 million readers worldwide for 80 titles. (2008-2018)

  • Visiting Research Fellow, Adelaide Law School (since 2002)

  • Advised and coached over 500 academics across Medicine, Engineering, Sciences, Law and Arts to optimise their monographs and edited volumes from proposal to release

  • Built national and international stakeholder relationships across all continents

  • Developed Open Access digital book publishing strategies and workflows

  • Expertise in editing, publishing, digital marketing

  • Extensive experience collaborating with editors, designers, software engineers and IT specialists

  • Doctorate in French from The University of Adelaide and Masters in Cinema from the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris-III)

  • Published three legal biographies and at least 100 articles, chapters and oral history interviews.