Working at Edinburgh University Press
Staff at Edinburgh University Press are usually based at our Edinburgh office, with a hybrid working policy. We offer 40 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) a year and a range of non-contractual benefits including reading days and wellness days.
Vacancies
We advertise all external vacancies via our news feed and through channels such as Publishing Scotland and The Independent Publishers Guild.
Work experience
We do not offer unpaid work experience. We are happy to collaborate with students who require to undertake a period of work experience as part of course credit. Please get in touch with our HR Business Partner Caroline Danks Caroline.Danks@eup.ed.ac.uk outlining your course requirements and any preferences for placement, including area of specialism or dates.
Interns and Trainees
We have explored different options to provide internships and traineeships. In 2024/25 we have offered a full-year internship. In 2025/26 we are hosting a six-month traineeship in collaboration with Creative Access. We will continue to seek new opportunities where funding allows. Details of any future traineeships or internships will be posted on our news page and advertised.
Working in publishing
If you are interested in what an entry-level role in academic publishing involves, you may like to check out the blog post 'Getting Started with the EUP Publishing Internship' by Amy Norton, EUP's Publishing Intern 2024-25.
If you want to learn more about academic publishing from an author’s point of view, you may find it useful to browse our Early Career Researcher Hub.
You may be able to find publishing opportunities and advice through the following organisations:
- Publishing Scotland
- The Society of Young Publishers
- The Independent Publishers Guild
- The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
- Publishers Association
- The Book Trade Charity
- The Bookseller
- Creative Scotland
- Creative Access
Edinburgh University Press is committed to widening participation in the publishing industry. When we advertise internships and entry level roles, we are particularly keen to hear from school leavers, people who are in the first generation of their family to attend university, people who received scholarships and/or bursaries to support their studies, and people from communities that are currently underrepresented in the publishing industry.