Overview
Having worked at LexisNexis as an editor and commissioning editor then IOP Publishing as a production editor, I built a successful career in legal and STEM publishing before specialising as a freelance academic copyeditor/proofreader, first for Palgrave Macmillan and then Oxford University Press and Intellect. More recently I have established successful supplier partnerships with Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol University Press/Policy Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, The Geological Society, and Newgen Publishing UK.
Selected academic journals copyedited for OUP include: Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases, The Economic Journal, Analysis, and Journal of the LMS.
My background in legal/STEM publishing has also given me the opportunity to work on high-profile projects for global leaders in their respected fields, including Thomson Reuters, Chambers and Partners, and The International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Establishing clear expectations at the beginning of the copyediting schedule is key to my successful working relationship with authors of monographs through to editors of multi-contributor titles. Building a sense of reliability and trust is paramount, contacting the author(s) to introduce myself and outline my approach to the copyediting process.
Giving an author a copyedited sample chapter at the earliest opportunity also makes for a happy working relationship so that the correct level of editorial intervention is established early on. My job as a copyeditor is ultimately to help shape the manuscript into clear, consistent, concise and accurate copy for all stakeholders involved – with more than 20 years' experience in publishing, nothing brings me more satisfaction than knowing that I am working with authors to help deliver print-ready titles.
Services
Non-Fiction
Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences
Education & Reference
Humanities & Social Sciences
Law
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Political Science & Current Affairs
Psychology
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Awards
- John Bell Award for Journalism Excellence, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK
- The International Library of Poetry Open Poetry Contest ‘Grand Prize Winner’
Certifications
- BA (Hons) English, University of Wales
- Secondary PGCE in English, University College Worcester
- Understanding Magazine Design – Design for Publishing, Ingrid Shields, PPA, London
- Effective Subbing, PPA, London
- The Copy Course – Copywriting and Tone of Voice, Gideon Todes, Saatchi & Saatchi, Bristol
Work experience
Self-employed
Jun, 2012 —
Present
CLIENTS (2012–present):
Oxford University Press
Copy-editing academic journal titles and book titles (see Portfolio for selected works).
Palgrave Macmillan
Copy-editing academic book titles (see Portfolio for selected works).
Bloomsbury Publishing
Copy-editing Bloomsbury Academic book titles (see Portfolio for selected works).
Bristol University Press and Policy Press
Copy-editing/proofreading academic book titles (see Portfolio for selected works).
Intellect
Copy-editing academic book titles (see Portfolio for selected works).
Thomson Reuters
Project management of IDS Employment Law Brief, ELA Briefing, European Lawyer Reference titles.
Chambers and Partners
Copy-editing Global Practice Guides: Telecoms, Media and Technology.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Editing and proofreading IISS publications.
The Geological Society
Copy-editing of geology journal titles.
MULTIMEDIA SKILLS
Editing/subbing/proofing:
Academic books/journals copy-editor/proofreader, STM-publishing production editor and law-looseleaf editor
Design/layout/illustration:
B2B contract magazines, journals production and corporate publications
MS Office, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and Quark (Mac/PC)
Online:
Experience in web design/production and digital-edition design/production for iPad
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Dreamweaver, Flash and CMS
IOP Publishing
Aug, 2009 —
Jun, 2012
(almost 3 years)
Contract-magazine production, layout, editing and planning; magazine redesign of key titles; web production (physicsworld.com) including coding, editing, amending static pages/promo boxes and social-media functions; Design Studio responsibilities: digital-edition design and production of publications for iPad; production of marketing materials, reports, newsletters and catalogues for corporate and external clients; picture research, editorial illustration and conceptual-image design (including journal covers, books, CD/DVD).
IOP Publishing
Apr, 2007 —
Aug, 2009
(over 2 years)
Project management of regional branch newsletter production for the Institute of Physics (planning, print-buying, editorial liaison, InDesign templates, layout, subbing, proofing and passing for press); web editor for Environmental Research Web.
Jordan Publishing Ltd
Jul, 2003 —
Apr, 2007
(almost 4 years)
Project management: editing main works (law loose-leafs, books) and online services, copy-editing and subbing complex technical manuscript (for print and electronic services).
LexisNexis
Mar, 2003 —
Jun, 2003
(3 months)
Business development of main works and backlist law titles, copy chasing, negotiating fees and contracts, arranging and chairing author meetings, liaison with authors and contributors.
LexisNexis
Jan, 2001 —
Mar, 2003
(about 2 years)
Editing main works (law loose-leafs, books, newsletters) and online services, copywriting and subbing newsletter articles and marketing literature, proofing press copy, tabling and indexing, passing for press.
AIRB
Apr, 1995 —
Aug, 1995
(4 months)
Scheduling, flat-planning and designing advertorial magazine features, liaising with advertising clients and sourcing artwork, scanning transparencies and creating vector artwork, copy chasing and DM copywriting.
Practical Musician
Oct, 1994 —
Mar, 1995
(5 months)
Magazine layout, design and subbing of new music title (unpaid work experience).
Portfolio
With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book explores the Father Function in the East in the process of 'Modernisation', arguing that 'Modernisation' and 'Westernisation' are euphemisms for the advent of capitalism in Asiatic and African societies which lead to ... read more
A new phase is emerging in the relationship between energy and resource activities and the communities that are affected by them. Any energy or resource project - a mine, a wind farm, a dam for hydroelectricity, or a shale gas development - will involve a mix ... read more
Trusted by generations of students and academics alike, the ninth edition of this leading text continues to provide far-reaching coverage of the essential topics taught on most environmental law courses. The authors consider the areas thematically, tackling th... read more
This book provides comprehensive coverage of EU energy law in practice, evaluating the effectiveness of the Third Energy Package, the rise and importance of national and EU renewable energy measures in electricity markets, interconnection and infrastructure as... read more
This collection of essays surveys the full range of challenges that territorial conflicts pose for constitution-making processes and constitutional design. It provides seventeen in-depth case studies of countries going through periods of intense constitutional... read more
The rise of China's economy has led to a substantial increase in disputes involving intellectual property rights, including patents. Not only are foreign companies suing domestic companies and vice versa, but patent disputes between foreign companies are also ... read more
The 1990s and 2000s have witnessed a spurt of energetic institution-building in the developing world, as regulatory agencies emerge to take over the role of the executive in key sectors. This rise of the regulatory state of the south is barely noticed both by ... read more
The financial system and its regulation have undergone exponential growth and dramatic reform over the last thirty years. This period has witnessed major developments in the nature and intensity of financial markets, as well as repeated cycles of regulatory re... read more
The legal position of visiting forces transcends domestic and international law and is of growing importance in our increasingly globalized and insecure world. 'In area' and 'out of area' operations, both for the purpose of establishing and maintaining peace a... read more
This fully updated third edition of The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law sets out an international manual of humanitarian law accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned ex... read more
International legal positivism has been crucial to the development of international law since the nineteenth century. It is often seen as the basis of mainstream or traditional international legal thought. The Project of Positivism in International Law address... read more
This book explores the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law. It examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the UN in peacekeeping and enforcement action, and the increasing role of regional organizatio... read more
Offering unrivaled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International Relations, Seventh Edition, provides a genuinely accessible and engaging introduct... read more
The two years since publication of the first edition of The Law of EU External Relations: Cases, Materials, and Commentary on the EU as an International Actor have been characterized by the large amount of case law on the new provisions on external relations, ... read more
This classic textbook has provided students of medical law and ethics with a framework for exploring this fascinating subject for over 25 years. Providing coverage of all of the medical law courses, it gives an overview of the inter-relationship between ethica... read more
Cloud computing, whereby software, data processing, data storage and other key IT requirements are delivered as a service via the Internet, is evolving rapidly. However, whilst many organisations are becoming reliant on cloud resources, contracts for cloud ser... read more
Nicholls, Montgomery, and Knowles on The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance is a leading work in this complex and growing area of law. It provides a comprehensive and analytical treatment of the laws covering the extradition arrangements between the UK a... read more
Illustrating the scope of this fascinating and wide-reaching subject to the student, this clear and concise text gives a broad introduction to international human rights law. Coverage includes regional systems of protection, the role of the UN, and a variety o... read more
What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Ri... read more
Zombies, vampires, and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences’ hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here, Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-... read more
Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. The rich interchange of somatics and dance has altered both fields, but scholarship that substantiates these ideas through the findings of twentieth-ce... read more
Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes. The book is organised around the study of a series of dynami... read more
Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.
This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in Southern Europe. Providing a comparative analysis about LGBT issues in Italy, Spain and Portugal, it discusses how activism can generate legal, political and cultura... read more
Exploring the forms and meanings of mediated politics beyond the news cycle, this book encompasses genres drawn from television, radio, the press and the internet, assessing their individual and collective contribution to contemporary political culture through... read more
This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's acc... read more
The book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that cu... read more
Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds n... read more
Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.
This book argues that narrative practice does not have a coherent formulation of personhood in the way one finds in other fields, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioural therapy. It examines the post-structural principles that underpin narrative pract... read more
This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West becam... read more
Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact... read more
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national experiences, content and markets, and policies.
When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy,... read more
This book analyzes how the media covers women leaders and reinforces gendered evaluations of their candidacies and performance. It deals with current transformations in political communication that may change the nature and scope of leadership in contemporary ... read more
Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the princi... read more
How did digital media happen ? Through a unique approach to digital documents, and detailed intricate histories of illicit internet piracy networks, The Digital Culture Industry goes beyond the Napster creation myth and illuminates the unseen individuals, code... read more
Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the most popular American authors in the world today. Two novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang, are regarded as literary classics and have never been out of print. His forty-four published books, and hundreds of short s... read more
The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the third edition of his best-selling textbook, Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to present an engaging, contextual account of ... read more
This is the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political scien... read more
Practising fundamental patient care skills and techniques is essential to the development of trainees' wider competencies in all medical specialties. After the success of simulation learning techniques used in other industries, such as aviation, this approach ... read more
Susan Sauvé Meyer presents a new translation of Plato's Laws, 1 and 2. In these opening books of Plato's last work, a Cretan, a Spartan, and an Athenian discuss legislative theory, moral psychology, and the criteria for evaluating art. The interlocutors compar... read more
How Nations Innovate compares how affluent capitalist economies differ in their patterns of technological innovation. Building on the 'varieties of capitalism' literature, this book goes beyond the traditional focus on 'radical versus incremental innovation' i... read more
Eighteenth-century fiction is full of mechanical devices and contrivances: Robinson Crusoe uses his gun and compass to master his island and its inhabitants; Tristram Shandy's conception is interrupted by a question about a clock and he has his nose damaged at... read more
Bipolar disorder is a chronic and debilitating mental illness affecting a significant proportion of the world's population. It is associated with significant impairments in health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning, and has significant illnes... read more
This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established hi... read more
The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological developments, which include advances in networked information and communications, biotechnology, neurotechnology, nanote... read more
Political Thinkers is the most comprehensive introduction to Western political thought written by a team of internationally renowned scholars. The third edition provides students with a clear and engaging introduction to the canon of great theorists, from Socr... read more
This practical manual of freshwater ecology and conservation provides a state-of-the-art review of the approaches and techniques used to measure, monitor, and conserve freshwater ecosystems. It offers a single, comprehensive, and accessible synthesis of the va... read more
International Law presents a comprehensive yet student-focused approach to the subject, providing a contemporary and stimulating account of international law. With critical coverage delivered through a wide range of learning features, students are encouraged t... read more
Approximately one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and at least ten times as many attempt suicide. A considerable number of these people are in contact with members of the healthcare sector, and encounters with suicidal individuals form a com... read more
Europe's Border Crisis explores current dynamics in EU border security and migration management. It argues that a crisis point has emerged because 'irregular' migrants are seen as both a security threat to the EU and also as a life threatened and in need of pr... read more
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary an... read more
A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic experimentation.
Through attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his involvement in processes of dialogue and influence. Shelley recognizes that poetic individuality is the reward of ... read more
Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics provides a perfect introduction to the study of global politics. An accessible writing style, analytical approach, and a wide range of international examples to conte... read more
Research-based but highly accessible, this fresh, contemporary, and engaging volume helps students appreciate the science of psychology and understand how its principles apply to their own lives.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FEATURESCONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES, NOT JUST CONTEMP... read more
