A bit more about me

I am a qualified proofreader with specialist knowledge in natural history and wildlife conservation and a background in science.

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After graduating from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Zoology in 2008 I started a career in wildlife conservation. More recently I have turned to my other passion, words and the English language, a change which has been precipitated by illness and the need to do something more sedentary.

While I still keep up with my interest in the natural world—my bookshelf is stuffed with species identification books and I am part of the management team of a local conservation group—I now work as a proofreader.

I really enjoy the challenge of searching for and correcting mistakes in a piece of writing—I find there’s something innately satisfying about ensuring that a text has no errors within it that will distract the reader. I relish figuring out how grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors can be rectified. The wildlife books now compete for space with English language reference books!

Qualifications

  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
  • Basic Proofreading V4 (ELE) by Distance Learning, The Publishing Training Centre: Pass with Merit
  • Proofreading 3: Progress, the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreadering: Pass
  • BSc Zoology (Hons), University of Nottingham: 2:1
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