Educator, media specialist, speaker and writer with more than 20 year's industry experience.Her consultancy (@TheMagazineExpert Ltd) specializes in new title launches, relaunches, audience engagement, editorial development and building sustainable business strategies. A keen member of the publishing community, Mary serves as a facilitator on the International Magazine Centre's Hive events, a judge on The Publisher Podcast Awards, and @MappingtheMagazine - an international, biannual conference and gave a keynote at the 2021 PPA Leadership Summit.As an educator, Mary has a fractional at Bournemouth University and was awarded a HEA Senior Fellowship since leaving her role as Head of Features Journalism at Solent University to establish her consultancy in 2015. To date, she has written numerous articles and authored three books - How To Launch A Magazine In This Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2014), Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing (Routledge, 2018) and Writing Feature Articles (Routledge, 2019). Recently, she embarked on a PhD at Bournemouth University investigating servitization in publishing. Her interests include sustainable publishing models and developing pedagogical practices to enhance employability. Mary regularly gives guest lectures to under and postgraduates at institutions in the UK and US. Her research has been presented at international conferences, including Mapping the Magazine 5 (Chicago, 2018), the AJE Magazine Conference at Edinburgh Napier (2019) and Mapping the Magazine 6 (virtual, 2020).