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Everyone will be treated with dignity and respect at Mattering Press. Bullying and harassment of any kind are in no-one’s interest and will not be tolerated in the workplace; this includes bullying or harassment of Mattering Press staff, employees or volunteers. This policy applies to all Trustees, members, volunteers and staff, including those working away from…Read more
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We take complaints very seriously. If you have a complaint about Mattering Press we want to hear about it and we will do our best to put it right. Our Complaints Procedure has the following goals:• To deal with complaints fairly, efficiently and effectively;• To ensure that all complaints are handled in a consistent manner…Read more
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Why this policy exists This policy covers serious incident reporting to the charity regulator, the Charity Commission (“the commission”), as it relates to Mattering Press. This policy provides Mattering Press with an effective and easy to follow process that closely follows the commission’s guidance. Scope This policy covers all activities of the charity and its operations. It…Read more
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The concept of unpaid trusteeship has been one of the defining characteristics of the charitable sector, contributing greatly to public confidence in charities. Individual Trustees should not be deterred from playing their full part because of incidental costs and trustees are entitled to have their expenses met from the funds of the charity. Expenses can…Read more
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1 Introduction1.1 This policy (the Policy) applies to the charity trustees of Mattering Press (the Charity) and sets out guidance and procedures for identifying, monitoring and managing actual and potential conflicts of interest. 1.2 Conflicts of interests may arise where an individual’s personal or family interests and/or loyalties conflict with those of the Charity and…Read more
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Mattering Press maintains the funds in its bank account at a level which would allow for a minimum of one year of ongoing activities, sufficient to cover wages and administration costs. Approved by the Mattering Press Trustees, 5th February 2025
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Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. Mattering Press has a…Read more
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Joe Deville, Mattering Press / Lancaster University / Open Book Collective Talk given on 17th September 2024 at the OASPA 2024 Conference, Lisbon, as part of a panel on ‘Open Access and Precarity in the Academic Landscape: Learning from the Experiences of Authors and Scholar-led Publishers’. The panel also included presentations from Dr Judith Fathallah…Read more
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Boxes: A Field Guide Mattering Press is proud to announce the publication of a major new text, Boxes: A Field Guide, edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi. This book invites readers into a new field: box studies. It explores the ‘wildlife’ of box practices, in the process aiming to challenge our senses…Read more
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By Joe Deville & Julien McHardy [Originally published on the OpenAIRE website on 8th July 2018, at https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=3546] The New Platforms project met for its final workshop on 25th June. The workshop was hosted by the Centre for Post-Digital Cultures at Coventry University. Present were representatives from most of the presses on the project, including Joe…Read more
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What untapped potential is there for universities and Open Access publishing initiatives to provide each other with mutual benefit and support? This is a question that has stayed with me since the end of a small workshop that I organised in late July, funded jointly by the Institute for Social Futures and the Centre for…Read more
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Reflections on the Experiments in Knowledge Production workshop. Originally published June 18th, 2014. Science and Technology Studies (STS) has a long-standing interest in analysing the politics of knowledge production. One of its strengths has been the demonstration of the contingencies, blindspots and power-plays that are wrapped up in the creation, standardisation, and distribution of knowledge…Read more
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Originally published 4th December, 2013. Mattering Press is a new book publishing initiative committed to the creation and publishing of widely accessible, carefully produced, and intellectually vibrant books in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Our first books are due to be published in 2014. In September of this year we had the opportunity to introduce the…Read more
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