Frania Hall, Senior Lecturer, is the Leader of the Book Specialism. She has 20 years experience in the publishing industry starting as Editorial Assistant working to Publishing Director and Business Manager at three companies. She has worked across a variety of publishing sectors including academic publishing at Routledge, educational at Hodder and Stoughton, business at Pearson with the FT imprint and most recently legal and professional at Informa and at Sweet and Maxwell. She has overseen various publishing businesses and portfolios from trade management books to school text books, academic works to legal databases, B2B newsletters to specialist magazines. Her continuing consultancy covers support in project management, organisational structures and market research for a variety of publishing companies.

Frania has experience managing most aspects of a publishing business predominantly editorial but also marketing, production and subs management as well as experience in advertising and journalism. She has been involved in M&A activity and integration. She has also worked on short secondments in Australia and the US.

 Frania teaches on the following learning units: Content Creation and Development to book content, Content Delivery for the distribution of book content, Publishing Management, Practice and Research and Future Applications for Digital Content to books. She organises Visiting Industry Speakers, workshops with publishers and students, and placements for the Book Specialism.