Educational qualifications
BEd Hons (Education and History); BA Hons (English and History); DCRE (Diploma in Compensatory and Remedial Education); MSc (Publishing Studies)
Training and professional development
Publishing Training Centre, London: Basic Proofreading, Basic Editing, Book Production for Editors, Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts, Writing and Editing for the Web, Editing Digital Products
Society for Editors and Proofreaders, London: On-Screen Editing I and II
London School of Publishing: QuarkXpress
Big Wave Media Training, Dublin: Adobe InDesign
Languages
Professional Irish qualification as part of BEd degree
Experience
Primary school teacher
abstract writer, assistant editor: H. W. Wilson Company, Dublin
editor, senior editor, project editor, The Educational Company of Ireland, Dublin
freelance editor
Services offered
Copy-editing, rewriting (plain English), developmental editing, proofreading, formatting, project management
Media
School textbooks, general non-fiction, journal articles, annual reports
Subject areas
children’s literature, education, law, public administration, health, business, social sciences
Clients include
Celtic Press, Clarus Press, Educational Company of Ireland, Focus Ireland, Folens, Gill, Health Research Board, HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, Institute of Public Administration, Irish Manuscripts Commission, MKO Chartered Accountants, National Advisory Committee on Drugs, National Educational Welfare Board, O’Reilly Consultants, Pensions Board
Examples of work undertaken
Primary and post-primary textbooks, health reports, annual reports, journal articles, abstracts, bulletins, newsletters, general non-fiction