Educational qualifications
- PhD, Health Promotion
- MA, Health Promotion
- BA, Psychology and Music
- Postgraduate Diploma, Quality Management (Lean Systems – Black Belt)
- Postgraduate Certificate, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Training and professional development
- Certificate in Copy-Editing (Publishing Training Centre, London)
- Certificate in Proofreading (Publishing Training Centre, London)
- PRINCE 2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management
- Mini-MBA (Irish Management Institute)
Experience
I worked for 22 years in higher education as a lecturer, researcher and academic administrator. My focus was the development, delivery and evaluation of educational programmes (both online and face-to-face) for postgraduate students of medicine, nursing, allied health, social sciences, arts and humanities, as well as second-level teachers.
Since 2008 I have worked as a proofreader and copy-editor with a wide variety of clients across the fields of education, health, humanities and social sciences.
Services offered
I specialise in academic and other non-fiction work, including:
- Journal article pre-submission review
- PhD and Masters theses/dissertations
- Reports
- Grant applications
- Training and instruction manuals
- Books
- Bibliographies and reference lists
- Websites and other digital resources
Subject areas
I have worked on projects in a diverse range of non-fiction subject areas including nursing, medicine and allied health, education and training, psychology, social care and social science, disability, ethics and professional practice, mental health, heart disease, biomedical engineering, research methods, history, poverty and deprivation, community development, ethnic minorities, health promotion, personal development, adult literacy, educational theory and curriculum development (both second-level and third-level).
Clients include
- SOLAS Further Education and Training Authority (formerly FÁS)
- Health Service Executive (HSE)
- NUI Galway
- University of Limerick
- Psychological Society of Ireland
- Irish Centre for Social Gerontology
- Western Development Commission
- Middletown Centre for Autism
- Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials