BIOGRAPHIES
Katherine Allen
Senior Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics, Wiley
Katherine leads Wiley’s Enterprise Data & Analytics team, delivering actionable insights that drive better decision-making across the organization. She has 20 years experience in journal performance analytics, data communication and society partnership at Wiley, and was a founding contributor to Wiley Journal Insights, the analytics platform for societies and editors. Katherine is particularly interested in how AI is reshaping discovery, communication and consumption, what that means for how we evaluate journal content, and in how AI can enhance data communication
Thomas Barker
Journals Commissioning Assistant, Emerald Publishing
Working primarily in Emerald’s Accounting, Finance and Economics portfolio, Thomas provides administrative and commissioning support in alignment with Emerald’s commitment to the UN SDGs. He also volunteers for the Northern branch of the Society of Young Publishers and proofreads for The Publishing Post magazine. Passionate about diversity, Northern publishing, and continuous learning, he is looking forward to discussing his experiences as an early career publishing professional.
Professor Dorothy Bishop
Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford
Dorothy Bishop is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-2448-4033). She is an honorary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, and the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. She resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 2024. She has published substantial books and papers on the nature and causes of developmental language disorder, focusing on psycholinguistics, neurobiology and genetics. Beyond psychology, she is active in the field of open science and research reproducibility, and in retirement has taken up academic fraud-busting. She is active on social media, @deevybee.bsky.social and @deevbee on mastodon.social) and has a popular blog, Bishopblog.
Helen Cooke
SVP Sales, Publisher Market, Digital Science
Helen Cooke is a senior commercial leader with over two decades of experience driving growth and strategy in academic publishing and information services. As SVP Sales, Publisher Market at Digital Science since 2021, she leads strategic business development and commercial sales for global publishing partners, previously serving as Managing Director, Publisher Sales and Interim EVP Publisher Market. Her extensive international background includes senior roles at GeoScienceWorld, SAGE Publications, and Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley). Helen also co-owned Burgundy Information Services for eight years, representing STM and HSS publishers. Known for solution selling, market expansion, and executive relationship management, Helen combines sector knowledge with a collaborative, customer-focused approach to advancing publisher success.
Arianna Ferioli
Editorial Assistant, Taylor & Francis
Arianna is Editorial Assistant for Applied Linguistics books at Routledge, Taylor & Francis. This is her first role in the publishing industry, following an MA in Publishing at UCL and experience at Penguin Random House and the Society of Young Publishers. With a focus on author care and relationship building, she is excited to support researchers at every stage of their career and make their work accessible to academic audiences and beyond.
Tim Gillett
Editorial Director & Co-Owner RI Media
Tim has more than 25 years’ experience as a journalist across print and digital media. He was editor of Research Information and head of content for the previous owner of the title, before forming RI Media and acquiring the publication in 2024.
Jessica Heath
Biochemical Society / Portland Press
Jessica works as a Publishing Assistant for the Biochemical Society and has worked with the company for 2 years. Before this year, she worked as a Commissioning Assistant for the company. Her current role involves working from the initial submission of articles to production and their eventual publication, alongside commissioning work. It is mainly a customer facing role, involving a lot of communication with authors, reviewers, editorial boards and other teams within the company. Jessica is passionate about science and keen to see how publishing develops in the future.
Sabrina Holley-Williams
Program Manager, Customer Solutions, Digital Science
Sabrina joined Digital Science in 2024, where she manages the delivery of complex engagements to federal government agencies, non-profit funders, and publishers. She works with technical teams to support customers through private instances, dashboard configuration, as well as data and analytics services. Sabrina holds an MS in Library and Information Science and has over twenty years of experience supporting academic, federal, and corporate researchers.
Jon Hunt
Commercial Director & Co-Owner, RI Media
Jon has 25 years’ experience in sales and marketing in B2B publications. He was Sales Director and Head of Business Development at Europa Science – the previous owner of Research Information – and became co-owner of RI Media along with Tim Gillett in 2024.
Adya Misra
Associate Director, Research Integrity, Sage
Adya Misra is responsible for publishing ethics and research integrity activity in Sage’s 1300+ journals portfolio. Adya leads the Global Research Integrity Team at Sage responsible for the resolution of all research integrity issues. Adya leads the development of policies and cross-functional processes to support the effective resolution of publication ethics issues.
Adam Pulford
Product Portfolio Manager – Engagement & Impact, Oxford University Press
Adam Pulford is the Product Portfolio Manager for Engagement and Impact at Oxford University Press with a background across marketing, product management, and insight. He is focused on maximising the impact of OUP’s Academic products and services, with responsibilities spanning insight analysis, discoverability strategy, and more recently driving forward investigations and initiatives in response to the impact of AI on the research landscape.
Tyler Ruse
Director, Publisher Solutions, Digital Science
Tyler joined Digital Science in 2017 and spends most of his time helping publishers get business value out of data-focused products. Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado, and has been working with scholarly, trade, and education publishers for more than twenty years. Over these two decades, Tyler has held leadership and technology roles at RR Donnelley, LibreDigital, Ingram Content Group, and OCLC in addition to the previous 7 years at Digital Science. Tyler currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Verity Stuart
Commissioning Editor, Bloomsbury Publishing
Verity is a Commissioning Editor at Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. Previously, she was an Editorial Assistant at Wiley Blackwell, and recipient of a Rising Star Award from The Printing Charity.
Peter White
Senior Product Strategy Manager for Research, Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Peter White is Senior Product Strategy Manager for Research at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, with extensive experience across a variety of roles in research publishing. In recent years, he has become particularly focused on understanding how Generative AI is reshaping and disrupting established scholarly discovery journeys, challenging long‑standing models of journal usage and opening new possibilities for how researchers find, evaluate, and engage with published work. Peter is currently a member of the COUNTER Working Group on Generative and Agentic AI , which has recently issued draft best‑practice guidance for reporting AI usage.
Hong Zhou
Vice President of Product Management, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd
Dr Hong Zhou is VP of Product Management at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., where he guides product vision and strategy, leads cross-functional teams, and drives innovation across publishing solutions for researchers, librarians, and publishers worldwide. Previously, he was Senior Director of AI Product & Innovation at Wiley, defining AI strategy and leading the roadmap. He helped shape Wiley’s AI ethics principles, advanced the Wiley Research Exchange and Atypon platforms, and led development of Wiley’s first AI-driven papermill detection tool, which won the 2025 Silver SSP EPIC Award for Excellence in Research Integrity Tools. He is a recognized industry leader in AI, product innovation, and workflow transformation. He also received an individual honorable mention for the 2024 APE Award for Innovation. He holds a PhD in 3D Modelling with AI and an MBA in Digital Transformation (Oxford University).He also serves as a COPE Advisor, Scholarly Kitchen Chef, Co-Chair of ALPSP’s AI Special Interest Group, and Distinguished Expert at China’s National Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining for Medical Journals.”