ePress is made up of a management team, an editorial committee and an advisory committee. The management team is charged with the daily operation of ePress; the editorial committee leads the editorship of specific types of publications, and the advisory committee offers guidance for ePress strategy, governance, growth and relationships in the wider open-access and scholarly publishing communities.

ePress Management Team

The team receives all submissions, manages the process from review to copy editing, design and layout, website content management, and ePress communications and promotion. The editor in the management team is the only funded ePress position.

Chair & Executive Editor: Evangelia Papoutsaki. Contact epapoutsaki@unitec.ac.nz  Evangelia’s experience is in communication for development and social change, and island studies. Previously an International Research Fellow at the University of Kagoshima in Japan and the Head of the Communication Arts Department at Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea, Evangelia spent several years working and doing research in the Asia Pacific region. Her most recent position was as a Head of the Communication and Media Program at the School of Arts and Science,  University of Central Asia. Evangelia is leading the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative and is also part of the Tūāpapa Rangahau Research Office team at Unitec – Te Pukenga. She is co-founder of the refereed journal Contemporary PNG Studies (DWU Press), co-editor of Caucasus Higher Education in Transition, an edited volume on institutional and curricular reforms in the Caucasus (CEP, Tbilisi, 2004). Evangelia’s research-based publications include Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea (DWU Press, 2006), South Pacific Islands Communication Issues (AMIC, USP, PMC) and Communication, Culture and Society in Papua New Guinea (DWU Press & PMC, 2011). Her most recent edited volume is Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia (2023), published by Lexington Books. She is also on the editorial boards of SHIMA, Island Studies Journal and Deep Times.

Editor: Marie Shannon. Contact mshannon@unitec.ac.nz
Marie is a visual artist working in the media of photography and video, with a particular focus on text, language and memoir. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as internationally, and has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition that has toured to the main centres of Aotearoa. She is a graduate of the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Art. She has taught photography in the Design and Visual Arts Pathway at Unitec, as well as at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts and the Manukau Institute of Technology’s School of Visual Arts, as well as teaching English as a second language.

ePress Editorial Committee

Editorial Committee members are charged with reviewing submissions, determining if they are of interest and, if so, requesting a completed manuscript for evaluation via independent peer review. They manage the reviews process and take a specific interest in their area of editorship.

Executive Editor: Associate Professor Evangelia Papoutsaki, Communication and Media Program Lead, School of Arts and Science, Naryn Campus, University of Central Asia, Tajikistan. Contact papoutsaki@yahoo.co.uk

Editor: Marie Shannon. Contact mshannon@unitec.ac.nz

Associate Editor, Natural Sciences: Dr. Dan Blanchon, Environmental and Animal Sciences Pathway, Natural Sciences. Contact dblanchon@unitec.ac.nz

ePress Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee meets twice a year and is renewed annually by invitation. Members of this committee are not paid and are mandated to advise on ePress strategies and actions; to champion and ensure the continued development of a scholarly publishing model; to advise, in particular, on maintaining a distributed editorial framework; and to advise on the nature of the governance and financial arrangements under which a distributed publishing model of this kind should operate.

Associate Professor Jonathan Leaver has a PhD in Geothermal Reservoir Engineering and Signal Processing. Jonathan is an Associate Professor at Unitec Institute of Technology, specialising in energy systems modelling and signal processing. Prior to this Jonathan was the Chief Petroleum and Geothermal Inspector for the Ministry of Commerce. Contact jleaver@unitec.ac.nz

Marcus Williams is an artist, curator, environmentalist and Associate Professor at Unitec. He has a transdisciplinary practice working in a wide range of media with a strong emphasis in photography, participatory research and creative community development. Marcus is currently the Director of Research and Enterprise at Unitec and is leading research for the institution, with rapidly developing capability in kaupapa Māori, environmental and other applied research areas.  Contact mwilliams@unitec.ac.nz

Melissa Laing is an artist, a curator, researcher, writer and theorist. She is involved in the alternative education initiative University Without Conditions, and is currently the Whau Community Arts Broker. Whau Community Arts Brokering is a community service supported by the Whau Local Board, tapping into the existing creative community in the Whau area to support the presentation of a range of temporary arts activities and activations in the urban environment. Contact melissa@melissalaing.com

Dr Virginia Barbour is the Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. Based in Brisbane, she has a long history of working in open access publishing. She became Medicine and Biology Editorial Director of Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2014. She studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, then Medicine at UCL and Middlesex Hospitals, London. She was Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) from 2012-May 2017, and is currently Professor between the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity and the Division of Technology and Learning Services at Queensland University of Technology. Contact eo@aoasg.org.au

Sarah Powell is currently the Rights Specialist at Auckland Museum where her role consists of managing rights and permissions for digital images of the collections. A key aspect of the role is to open up images of the Museum’s collections, where possible, through Creative Commons licensing and in line with NZGOAL. Sarah has a strong interest in engaging communities with GLAM collections and connecting them with their heritage and inspiring new possibilities. She is also a current board of trustee for the New Zealand Fashion Museum. Contact spowell@aucklandmuseum.com

ePress  Production Team

Production Editor members maintain and ensure production standards are met; be responsible for the entire publishing process to make sure that content meets quality standards and is published on time.

ePress Production Team

Designer: Warren Olds, Studio Ahoy Ltd

Editorial Support: Nick Shackleford

Proofreader: Ingrid Dubbelt