Educational qualifications
MA Law Oxon 1983
Training and professional development
PTC Certificate Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning Pass with Merit 20 June 2005
PTC Certificate Copy Editing by Distance Learning Pass with Merit 24 November 2009
Experience
I have been working as a freelance copy-editor and proofreader since 2005 and in that time have worked for many different publishers and authors, but my particular speciality has been law and the area of health and safety publications. I have also edited and rewritten bespoke manuals for companies such as Janssens Biological and Toyota
Services offered
Copy-editing, proofreading, rewriting, fiction editing
Media
Books, journal articles, websites
Subject areas
Law, health and safety, business editing, literary criticism and biography, education, education manuals and guides, history, public administration, philosophy, religion, sociology, film/media studies, music, theatre, sport, academic theses
Clients include
Health and Safety Publishers, Pan Research, academic theses
Examples of work undertaken
Poppleton, Serve Them Right, Harbour Books, 2005, Nagai, Empire of Analogies, Cork University Press, 2006, Farrell, Shadows of the Gunmen, Cork University Press, 2008, Divine Right, Cork University Press, 2008, Signposts, SESS, 2008, Guidelines to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Quarries) Regulations 2008, HSA, Safe System of Work Plan Pictograms (SSWP) (Revision 1) Working on Roads, HSA 2008, Clients in Construction HSA 2010, Employee Safety Handbook Government Services Management Board 2010, COP for Quarry Drivers HSA 2011, Geoffrey Shannon Family Law (4th edn) Law Society of Ireland 2011, HSA Annual Report 2011 2012, Fifth Report of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection Department of Children and Youth Affairs 2012, Fork Truck Health and Safety Publishers 2012, Construction Stage Health & Safety Plan HSA 2012, ADR Guide for Business HSA 2012, Occupational First Aid Manual Health and Safety Publishers 2013, People Handling Handbook Health and Safety Publishers 2014, MEWP Health and Safety Publishers 2014, Chainsaw Operators Manual Health and Safety Publishers 2016, Working in Confined Spaces Health and Safety Publishers 2016, Paediatric First Aid Manual Health and Safety Publishers 2017, Powered Pallet Trucks Health and Safety Publishers 2017, Working at Heights Health and Safety Publishers 2018