Overview
With a background covering a wide range of experience (from engineering and security to medico-legal and not-for-profits), I am open to many subjects. Apart from those that are editing-related, my qualifications cover security, risk management, finance, technology, training and assessment, and project management. In the past few years, while working full-time as an editor at a security consultancy, I've run my own editing business catering mainly to university students - some I've journeyed with from undergraduate to post-PhD publications, providing support covering writing, referencing and formatting. I work a lot with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, having volunteered with Islamic Sciences and Research Academy for 10 years, which lead to becoming the copyeditor for the Australian Journal of Islamic Studies (AJIS) since its inception. I am forthright in my feedback, which some can find confronting, but other find comforting as I will never lie. Satisfaction is essential and I go beyond the ordinary to come up with solutions to issues authors may experience. In my "spare" time, I swim (one day I will manage to overcome my fear and do an ocean swim), cycle and walk.
Services
Non-Fiction
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Philosophy
Religion & Spirituality
Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Sociology
Languages
English (AUS)
English (UK)
English (US)
Certifications
- Accredited Editor
- Certificate IV in Security and Risk Management
- Diploma in Vocational Education and Training
- Diploma in Training Design and Development
- Graduate Certificate of Social Science (Technical Communication)
- Diploma of Professional Writing (Editing and Proofreading)
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
Work experience
Self-employed
Mar, 2004 —
Present
I provide editing, formatting and similar services to students and academics who are mainly from CALD communities
• Edit, proofread and format academic papers, training material, advertising material, websites, PowerPoint presentations, autobiographies, non-fiction manuscripts, journal articles and PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s theses
• Ensure accuracy of footnotes, in-text references and bibliographies against style guides (APA, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, AGLC4, OSCOLA)
• Copy edit the Australian Journal of Islamic Studies
• Style edit academic journals (Australian Journal of Islamic Studies; previously the University of New South Wales Law Journal, the Indigenous Law Review and the Environmental Law Review)
• Provide support and training (one-on-one and group) to tertiary students regarding essay writing, thesis preparation/presentation and study techniques
Major achievements
• Chosen by the Institute of Professional Editors to be part of a three-member panel to conduct a whole-of-publication review of the draft 7th edition of the Australian Government Style Manual (update and upgrade to online platform)
Control Risks
Oct, 2010 —
Jul, 2020
(over 9 years)
Control Risks is a global risk and strategic consulting firm specialising in political, security and integrity risk.
• Edited, proofread and formatted reports, proposals, tenders, file notes, journal articles, letters, PowerPoint presentations, policy and procedure documents, personal profiles and marketing material for staff from the Asia Pacific region
• Provided specialised editing and training to the security, data analytics and cyber teams on technical writing, graphics and tailoring reports
• Contribute to company user manuals and style guides
• Provided advice and training on technical writing, formatting and editing in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Created and managed templates and template updates on customised company Word ribbon/toolbar
• Assisted finance, marketing and security consultants with projects in Excel requiring complex formulae
Portfolio
While the themes of radicalization and Islamophobia have been broadly addressed by academia, to date there has been little investigation of the crosspollination between the two. Is Islamophobia a significant catalyst or influence on radicalization and recruitm... read more
This book centres on the key concept of diversity and relates it to the identity formation of Muslims. Muslim identity differs specifically within certain theological, social, political and regional circumstances and discourses. Considering the diversity of so... read more
