Current and recent projects

What I’m doing in December/January so far …

• Completing a copyedit of a conservation action plan for Parks Victoria. This project involves formatting and creating a poster, and I’ve brought the multi-talented Lorna Hendry onboard to take care of the graphic design aspect
• Copyediting an annual report for research group FLEET (the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies)
• Proofreading two publications (for different clients) via Coretext
• Taking some time for a family Christmas and a beach holiday!

 

Recently completed projects

• Editing the November 2019 issue of Eingana, the journal of Environment Education Victoria
• Proofreading a couple of publications on trials of grain varieties for the Grain Research and Development Corporation, via Coretext
• Reviewing Lisa Harvey-Smith’s recently published book for children, Under the stars: astrophysics for bedtime, for Chemistry in Australia
• Substantive editing of the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report (released 30 August 2019) for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, via Science in Public
• Writing articles for Healthdirect, via Ragg & Co
• Giving some in-house training in copyediting and proofreading
• Writing up my IPEd2019 conference presentation for the conference proceedings
• Writing newsletter articles for Editors Victoria
• Attending and giving a talk at the national editors conference in Melbourne, IPEd 2019 Beyond the Page – the page of resources mentioned in my talk is here
• Proofreading FISH magazine for the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, via Coretext
• Editing a science textbook for Cambridge University Press.
• Copyediting the articles for the April issue of Eingana, the journal of Environment Education Victoria
• Copyediting and proofing Water in Australia for the Bureau of Meteorology
• Distributing my final monthly newsletter for Editors Victoria, which I’ve been editing for about four and a half years. You can see the newsletters here
• Copyediting profiles of Australian fish stocks for the web and an app for the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, via Coretext
• Copyediting the 2018 annual report for FLEET (the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies)
• Copyediting National Performance Report 2017–18: urban water utilities for the Bureau of Meteorology
• Proofreading an industry magazine, Fire Australia, for Fire Protection Association Australia via Coretext
• Writing articles for Healthdirect and Pregnancy, Birth and Baby via Ragg & Co
• Copyediting and proofreading the December 2018 issue of Eingana, the journal of Environment Education Victoria
• Sub-editing a handful of technical reports for FrontierSI (which grew out of the CRC for Spatial Information) via Coretext
• Copyediting the 2017–18 annual report for the Bureau of Meteorology

See more

• Some of my bigger editing projects
• Examples of my science writing
• My clients