Nick Walker
- Contact Details
- Co-Convenor and Principal Lecturer
- Graduate Publishing and Editing Program
Profile
Nick Walker is a lecturer in the Graduate Publishing and Editing Program. He has been with the National Centre for Australian Studies since 1996. Nick is a law graduate from the University of Adelaide, and has an Arts degree from Flinders University of South Australia and a Diploma of Education from the University of Adelaide. He was admitted as a barrister, attorney, solicitor and proctor of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1972.
Nick has extensive experience in the publishing industry, having completed professional courses offered by the Publisher's Association in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. He was the overseas editor of Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd in London, publisher at Wakefield Press in Adelaide and Sales and Marketing Manager and Assistant Director of Melbourne University Press from 1988-1991.
He is currently director of Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd based in Melbourne.
Teaching
- PUB4002 Authorship, Editing and Text
- PUB4003 Publishing Processes and New Technology
- PUB4007 / 5007 Advanced Editing
- PUB4010 / 5010 Selling the Book and Publication Rights
- PUB5005 Publishing Research Project
- PUB5006 The Publishing Firm
- PUB5100 Publishing Internship Project
Publications
Training materials
- Instructor-led and CAL multimedia training products, produced for Andersen Contracting for Telstra and AXA, 1994-2001.
News media
- Editor of The View, Australia, an Arts magazine, for Designs Australia, 1995-96;
- Regular monthly columnist (with Dr Diane Carlyle), 'New Scholarly Releases by Australian Publishers', first for Campus Review, 1992, and then for the Higher Education Supplement of The Australian, 1993 to present, and currently contracted till June 2006.
Academic newsletters
- The publication and editing (with Dr Diane Carlyle) of the Australian Scholarly Newletter and the Australian Scholarly Review, 1991-92.
Scholarly articles
- 'The University Press in the 21st Century', in David Myers, ed.,Re-inventing the Humanities: International Perspectives, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1995; republished in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Forthcoming 2005, early 2006
- McPherson & Kelley of Dandenong (a book). A history of a century-old law firm, the largest outside the Melbourne CBD (July 2005).
- 'New Technology and the Publishing Firm: Business Development, Culture and Models', and article completed for a book on the publishing industry, edited by Professor David Carter and Dr Ann Galligan, for University of Queensland Press (early 2006).