Annual Fellowship

The Unwin Trust's UK-Australia Fellowship was originally funded for four years for two people in Australia to visit the UK and two people from the UK to visit Australia, to carry out projects of mutual benefit to the book industry of each country. It was announced in 2007 that the fund will be extended for another four years.

The Fellows and their reports

The Fellow for 2009/10 is Natalie Costa Bir, from HarperCollins Australia. She will be visiting the UK later this year to study how social blogs and online communities can help increase sales.

Amy Tipper, Product Manager, Brands & Licensing and DK Children's Books at Penguin, went to Australia in 2008/09. She investigated digital publishing and online retailing.

Digital Publishing and Online Retailing: how is the digital revolution affecting the evolution of the Australian book industry? (Microsoft Word .doc 370Kb)

Faye Sutherland, an Australian bookseller, was the recipient of the fifth Fellowship. She came to the UK to research academic bookselling, the response to market change and its relevance to Australia.

Academic Publishing in the UK: the response to market change and its relevance to Australia (Microsoft Word .doc 5Mb)

The fourth Fellow, Hannah Westland, is a literary agent with Rogers, Coleridge & White in London. She spent three months in Australia, from October 2006 to January 2007, investigating the benefits to Australian and non-Australian authors of selling Australian rights separately to Australian publishers, and measuring this against the relative benefits of the traditional approach of selling British Commonwealth rights, including Australian rights, to UK publishers.

Looking After the Author's Best Interests: an investigation into the relative benefits of the various publishing aproaches available to authors within the Australian market (Microsoft Word .doc 203Kb)

Annabel Fleay, Children's Product Manager at Pan Macmillan Australia, was awarded the 2005 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. She analysed the shift toward a bestseller environment in the children's book industry.

Trends in the Book Industry: an analysis of the shift toward a bestseller environment in the children's book industry (Adobe Acrobat .pdf)

The second Fellow, Rebeka Cohen, investigated trends in book and cover design at art and museum publishers in Australia.

Art and Museum Publishing in Australia: trends in book and cover design (Adobe Acrobat .pdf  318Kb)

The first of the Fellows, Lorien Kaye, visited the UK from Australia in 2003. She conducted research into the publisher-booksellercooperation in the UK

Publisher-Bookseller Cooperation in the UK Book Industry (Adobe Acrobat .pdf)

Eligibility and contact details

The successful candidate (who will have at least three year’s experience in the book industry, either in bookselling or publishing) will have put together a proposal to carry out a project which will enhance their understanding of the Australian book trade and will provide a means to increase understanding of each market by the other.

They will also have provided a timetable and approximate budget.

It is expected that time spent in Australia will be 2-3 months and the Trust will provide funding for travel, accommodation etc up to £10,000.

Contact Details
For further details contact Georgina Miller at georginamiller@btinternet.com

Visit the Australian Publishers Association website page about the Fellowship