Extensive experience and professional training

Experience

• Ten years' experience in editorial and production roles at Queen's University Belfast, Blackwell Publishing and Edinburgh Business School.
• Full member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP).
• Four years' experience of managing multilingual e-learning content and editing web pages using XMLSpy.
• Freelancing since 2006.

Training and qualifications

• MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
• Trained in copy-editing by the Publishing Training Centre and SfEP.
• Further professional training in copy-writing, web design and desktop publishing.

Current/recent clients

• Project-managing consumer education books for Hodder Education.
• Copy-editing for Wiley-Blackwell, Hodder Gibson and the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education.
• Writing best-practice documents for Baptie and Company.
• Proofreading for Mainstream Publishing and Pearson Education.

Specialisms

• Sport: particularly football but also rugby, athletics and GAA.
• Literature in English, including literary history and criticism.
• English language.
• Ethnicity and nationalism.
• Medicine: particularly ophthalmology, addictions, social care and patient information.
• Education: secondary, further/higher, distance learning.
• Business/management training: marketing, human resource management, strategic planning.

© 2010 Stuart Allan