About Me
Oxford-based Academic Specialist. I am a qualified and highly experienced proof-reader and proof-editor providing a bespoke, professional, and high-quality service.
Based in Oxford, the UK, where I have lived for many years, I am a qualified and highly experienced proof-reader and proof-editor. I provide a bespoke, professional, and high-quality service. I specialise in academic documents of all kinds, with an expertise in undergraduate dissertations and post-graduate theses in the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business-related subjects. In particular, I have a proven track record of working effectively with international undergraduate and post-graduate students and scholars. I abide by the Code of Practice of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proof-reading (CIEP), with whom I trained and of which I am a member.
I am studying for a part-time PhD in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen. My specialism is in early modern prints, drawings, and illustrated books. Being an active researcher gives me valuable insight into the needs of my clients, whether they are students or scholars. I have delivered papers at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. My thesis is entitled: “Paper-Kingdoms: the illustrated books of John Ogilby and the early modern world.” It is an interdisciplinary study which will provide the first ever comprehensive study of the illustrations in the folio illustrated books of the Scottish theatre impresario, entrepreneur, translator, editor, and publisher, John Ogilby (1600–1676), who was the first person to translate Virgil into English, the second to translate Homer into English, the first to publish a standardised scaled road map of England and Wales, and the first to publish deluxe atlases. It will also be the first ever major study of post-1603 English illustrated books. Otherwise, I read voraciously, when I can, and take walks around the Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, the oldest botanic garden in the UK.
Academic qualifications
BA (Hons) History (Nottingham)
MA (with Distinction) History of Art (British and Irish Art) (Nottingham)
Diploma (First) History of Art (Renaissance and Baroque Art) (Cambridge)
MA (Cum Laude) Arts and Culture (Art, Architecture, and Interior before 1800) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
PGCert (First) Education (History) (UCL Institute of Education)
(In progress) PhD History of Art (Aberdeen)
Professional qualifications
Certificate in Editing and Proof-reading (with Merit), London School of Publishing (LSP)
Proof-reading Theses and Dissertations, Chartered Institute of Editing and Proof-reading (CIEP)
Proof-reading 1: An Introduction, Chartered Institute of Editing and Proof-reading (CIEP)
Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL), Via Lingua, Prague, Czechia
Professional affiliations
Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proof-reading (CIEP)
Member of the Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS), University of Aberdeen
Member of the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA)
Member of the Doctoral Researchers Network (DRN), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC)
Member of the Association of Art Historians (AAH)
Member of the Association of Print Scholars (APS)
Selected work experience
Consultant/Research Assistant for English Heritage
Picture Cataloguer and Researcher at Dorling Kindersley, Penguin Random House Limited
Teacher of Business English, European Language Institute, Prague, Czechia
University Teacher of English Language and Literature, Department of Human Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy
Correlatore (Assistant Supervisor), Department of Human Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy
Teacher of English for Law, English for Architecture, and English for Medicine, Inlingua School of Languages/University of Ferrara
Instructor in History and History of Art, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), University of Ferrara Study Centre
Researcher and Writer for Blues Guides, the leading cultural travel guidebook series
Teacher of English Language and British Culture, Hertford College, University of Oxford
Assistant Professor in English for Academic Purposes, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (to postgraduate students who were mostly Business, Management, and Marketing majors)
Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes, University of Reading (to undergraduate students who were mostly Business, Management, and Marketing majors)
Contributor to Smarthistory, the award-winning and most-visited art history resource in the world
One of the Editors of the Elphinstone Review, a student-led academic journal based at the University of Aberdeen