Academics see beyond borders. They often live beyond borders.

Despite the new de-globalisation agendas assaulting both academic freedoms and funding, the academic experience is still one that bridges cultures, languages, identities and many other boundaries. The rewards I enjoyed from dedicating time in this sector are deep and intangible.

Subject-matter intimate | accurate academic copy-editing
With pressure to provide research output, international academics are productionizing their efforts. They rely on an ever-narrower niche of experts to help execute this.

Yet they meet serious obstacles.

On the one hand, subject-matter experts with robust and eagle-eye copy-editing skills are as rare as hen's teeth; on the other, commercial proof-readers usually fail to follow complex content or to truly get the subtle connotations, so their technical proofing quality is often poor and based on blinkered assumptions.

There is a need for a subject-matter-intimate copy-editors that have long track records of working with academic expression. I get regularly commissioned or contracted to meet such demands.

Trusted scholarly foundations
With associations in the literary centre-of-the-universe, London’s Bloomsbury, I thrived for a quarter of a century providing services in the higher education community. With tenure and a base within the University of London's iconic Senate House, at SOAS, I ran tertiary-level teacher training, and academic literacy training across disciplines, as well as supporting Economics, Finance, International Business and Management courses, for example. This included coaching postgraduate and doctoral candidates (in many other universities too) to write clearly, accessibly, richly and competently. Also, I was commissioned to write and copyedit extensively:

1. Copyediting scholarly research articles for authors from Middlesex University, Southampton Business school, SOAS University of London, University of Birmingham, University of Exeter, Beijing Normal University, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Loughborough University, and others. Topics typically ranged from finance, accounting, human resource management, business strategy and management, to linguistics, for publication in prestigious academic journals with the strictest standards.

2. Authoring and co-authoring four text-books, including English for Management Studies, published by Garnet Education for worldwide distribution (winning the 2009 ESU Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award, and a significantly high-revenue product for Garnet in the first year of sales) and re-writing it as the second edition in 2024 for release in 2025.

3. Authoring, co-authoring, co-editing and implementing extensive commercial e-learning and online content for Garnet Education and for ACL Pty Ltd., the former published globally, and the latter bought to market in Australia, China, Thailand and Vietnam universities and other educational institutes.

4. Authoring countless in-house courses on writing, presenting, communication, critical thinking, all areas of academic development, and on English for Economics, Finance, Management, International Business, at University of London SOAS, and English for Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Management and other vocational areas at Middlesex University, and on postgraduate writing and research dissertations at the above two universities and the Aga Khan Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Also, authoring content for (and delivering) training to postgrad MBA and Finance students in employability and recruitment processes at HEC Paris, Kings College London, Queen Mary University of London, Instituto Marangoni, and London Metropolitan University. Also, authoring courses for both staff and students (and delivering them) on communication skills, internationalisation and lecturer CPD at Masaryk University in Brno.

5. Supporting (tutoring and coaching) countless high-calibre postgraduate, doctoral and post-doctoral candidates in their research and writing, at University of London SOAS, Kings College London, University of the Arts London, London Metropolitan University, University of Technology Sydney, and the Aga Khan Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

6. Designing and writing materials for (and delivering) an MA Interpreting module in Professional Enhancement, including authoring complex assessment descriptors, subsequently delivered for many years at Middlesex University.

7. Singly undertaking and authoring a review for an educational department restructure at Middlesex University, and project managing an annual university-wide browser-based skills and literacy diagnostic for 7000 learners, at the same.

Should you require a linguistically aware academic copy-editor with intimacy in commercial subject matter and a vast track record in developing scholarly expression, feel free to get in touch.