Some of my bigger editing projects

1. Reports and publications
2. Books
3. Annual reports
4. Educational textbooks and resources
5. Eingana journal
6. Cultural and archaeological heritage reports
7. Newsletters
8. And lots more …

• Technical and other reports for CSIRO Land and Water, including copyediting numerous reports for the:
  • Roper River Water Resource Assessment 2022–2024
  • Victoria River Water Resource Assessment 2023, 2024
  • Southern Gulf Water Resource Assessment 2023, 2024
• Report for the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation:
  • Suomi A, Kim J, Biddle N, Dowling NA, Hahn M, Cowlishaw S, Butterworth P, Thomas A, Hodgins D, Heywood W, Scott P, Myers P, 2023, Victorian population gambling and health study 2023, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, Melbourne (2024)
• Reports and publications for the Bureau of Meteorology, including:
  • Nine technical reports for the National Hydrological Projections Assessment 2021 (copyedit, proofread, write alt text)
  • National Performance Reports on urban water utilities 2019–20, 2018–19 and 2017–18 (copyedit, write alt text, proofread)
  • Consultation Draft Flood Warning Infrastructure Standard (pdf) 2018 (copyedit)
  • Water in Australia 2017–18, 2016–17 and 2015–16 (copyedit and proofread)
• Technical reports and management/conservation plans for Parks Victoria (copyedit, proofread):
  • Young M, Ierodiaconou D, Porskamp P, Tinkler P, Gray S, Sams M, Howe S, Pocklington J, Whitmarsh S (2023) An integrated monitoring program for Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park, Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 120, Parks Victoria, Melbourne. [pdf]
  • Whitmarsh SK, Porskamp P, Tinkler P, Gray S, Howe S, Ierodiaconou D, Sams MA and Young MA (2023) An integrated monitoring program for Cape Howe Marine National Park, Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 119, Parks Victoria, Melbourne.
  • Young, MA, Porskamp, P, Critchell, K, Treml, E, Ierodiaconou, D, Pocklington, JB, Sams, MA (2022) Statewide assessment of Victorian marine protected areas using existing data. Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 118, Parks Victoria, Melbourne. [pdf]
  • Ierodiaconou D. Young M, Wines S, Carnell P, Tinkler P, Allan B, Whitmarsh S, Howe S, Pocklington J 2021. An integrated monitoring program for Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 117. [pdf]
  • Young M, Porskamp P, Murfitt S, Wines S, Tinkler P, Bursic, J., Allan B, Howe S, Whitmarsh S, Pocklington J, Ierodiaconou D 2021. Baseline habitat mapping and enhanced monitoring trials of subtidal and intertidal reef habitats in Victoria’s marine national parks and sanctuaries. Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 116.
  • River Red Gum Conservation Action Plan 2019 (copyedit)
  • Draft River Red Gum Management Plan 2017 (proofread)
• Reports and publications for Science in Public and its clients, including:
  • Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2024 for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (copyedited and proofread sections)
  • Articles, frameworks and guidelines for the Environment Protection Authority Victoria 2021 (copyedit)
  • Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2019 for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (substantive edit)
  • Guide to Life Sciences Investing (pdf) 2018 for AusBiotech (structural edit and copyedit)
  • Global Status of Carbon Capture and Storage 2016 for the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (copyedit and proofread)
  • National Marine Science Plan 2015–2025 for the Australian Institute of Marine Science (copyedit, proofread)
  • Stories of Australian Science (copyedited 2015 edition; coordinated, copyedited and proofread 2010–14 editions)
  • Stories of Australian Astronomy 2012 (coordinated, copyedited and proofread)
• Numerous magazine-style publications, technical reports and fact sheets for clients of Coretext (2018–ongoing; variously proofread, copyedit, write alt text), including:
  • Grain Research and Development Corporation
  • Monash University
  • Australian Library and Information Association
  • Fisheries Research and Development Corporation,
  • Fire Protection Association Australia
  • Australian Counselling Association
  • University of Portsmouth, UK
  • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
  • FrontierSI
• Working paper for health research initiative Generation Victoria (Gen V) 2020 (copyedit)
• Mid North Coast regional social profile 2019 for Mid Coast Communities, NSW (substantive edit, copyedit and writing)
• The same four walls: Inquiry into the use of isolation, separation and lockdowns in the Victorian youth justice system 2017 for the Commission for Children and Young People (proofread)
• Reports and publications for clients of Ragg & Co, including:
  • Osteoporotic refracture prevention model of care, second edition (pdf) 2017 for the  NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) (copyedit)
  • ACI initiatives August 2017 (pdf) for the ACI (substantive edit)
  • ACI initiatives February 2017 (pdf) for the ACI (substantive edit)
  • Enhanced management of orthopaedic surgery: a case study in innovation, Clinical Innovation Program  (pdf) 2017 for the ACI (copyedit)
  • Home oxygen discharge: a case study in innovation, Clinical Innovation Program, (pdf) 2016 for the ACI (copyedit)
  • ACI Year in review 2015–2016 for the ACI (copyedit)

• Glenn Denning, 2023, Universal Food Security, Columbia University Press (via Coretext)
• Robert Natanek and Calvin J. Irons, 2023, The amazing beginning of mathematics, Hardie Grant Media
• Claudia Lantos, 2021, The shiftability pocket, Lantos Coaching & Consultancy
• Sarah Midford and Rhiannon Evans, 2017, Caesar’s triumphs over Gaul and Rome [pdf], La Trobe University

• FLEET (the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Victorian Responsible Gaming Foundation (sections of) 2021–22, 2022–23
• Bureau of Meteorology (sections of) 2016–17, 2017–18
• WIRADA (Water Information Research and Development Alliance) 2016–17
• Australian Institute of Marine Science 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, via Science in Public
• EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Australia 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, via Science in Public
• Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute 2012, 2013, via Science in Public
• RIKEN, Japan 2013–14, via Science in Public
• Centenary Institute 2011, via Science in Public

• Year 10 science textbook for Queensland, Cambridge Education (2023) (copyedit)
• Year 11 and Year 12 Environmental Science textbooks for Victoria (in 2021) for Environment Education Victoria (copyedit and proofread)
• Year 9 Science textbook for Queensland, Cambridge Education (in 2020) (copyedit)
• Year 10 Science textbook for Victoria, Cambridge Education (in 2019) (copyedit). This series was an Educational Publishing Awards Australia: Winner – Secondary junior student resource – Mathematics/Science in 2020
• Senior Biology Year 11 and 12 texts for NSW for Macmillan Education (in 2017) (structural edit)
• Biology teachers resource material for Macmillan Education (in 2017) (copyedit)
• Primary school science work booklets and teacher resource books for  The Education Consultancy (2017) (copyedit)
• VCE Environmental Science textbooks for VCE Units 3 and 4 (in 2016) VCE Units 1 and 2 (in 2015) for Environment Education Victoria (copyedit, proofread)

In 2020, I copyedited and proofread reports for Extent Heritage, including conservation management plans and historical archaeological assessments, that assess the archaeological and cultural values of sites.

in 2016, I copyedited a number of cultural heritage management plans for Urban Colours Arts. The plans assess Indigenous heritage values on sites where developments are planned and are submitted to Aboriginal Victoria.

I edited the Editors Victoria newsletter from November 2014 to April 2019. This involved compiling and producing content, copyediting, posting online on the website and the online email service. Cass Ball kindly helped out each month with eagle-eyed proofreading.

I edited the monthly national newsletter for the Australian Institute of Physics for many years beginning in 2008, while I was working at Science in Public.

And lots more …

Other jobs and activities include:

• Transcribing and summarising conference talks as articles for LinkedIn for Deakin University
• Helping academics at the University of Melbourne refine their ‘national interest statements’ in their grant proposals to the Australian Research Council, and running a training course on writing the statements
• Polishing text on constellations to accompany Sarah Spencer’s Stargazing, a giant knitted star map, for the Handmade Universe exhibition at the State Library Victoria in 2022
• In-house training in editing for plain English
• Editing/proofreading a couple of short articles and an infographic for STEM Matters
• Talking to postgrad students as part of a panel on science career paths outside academia for the RMIT node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP)
• Copyediting a grant proposal from Finland for English
• Proofreading documents on food processing in Indonesia and the Morwell mine fire, via Science in Public
• Collating submissions on draft guidelines for the Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion, via Cadman Editing
• Copyediting documents on malaria, TB and influenza for the World Health Organization, via Cadman Editing
• Copyediting text for apps being developed by Glasshouse Creative Media
• Drafting university promotion nominations and prize-winner CVs
• Copyediting fact sheets for the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator via Science in Public

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