Abi Saffrey
Advanced Professional Member| Location | Saffron Walden, Essex |
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| Abi Saffrey |
I provide copy-editing and editorial project management services to book and journal publishers, assessment boards, corporations, banks and research institutions.
I specialise in economics, social policy and politics, but am able and willing to work on any social science or humanities subject matter.
See my website or my LinkedIn profile for more information about my experience.
Services offered
- Copy-editing (on-screen)
- Editorial project management - both print and digital products
- Editing non-native English
- Blog coordination/commissioning
Experience
My editorial career began with eight years of working in-house for publishers, corporations and non-departmental public bodies as an editor and project manager. I have worked as a freelance editor, proofreader and project manager for over eleven years.
- Author of the CIEP guide Editorial Project Management
- Co-author of the CIEP guide Your House Style
- Co-developer of CIEP's online course Editorial Project Management
- Copy-editor of the Global Discourse journal (2018-)
- Four months of parental leave cover for the Deputy Editor of a European economics journal
- Three months of in-house editorial support for Cambridge University Press
- Two years of project management support for Cambridge Publishing Management
- SfEP blog coordinator (August 2018-January 2019)
- SfEP/CIEP Information Commissioning Editor (January 2019-)
Qualifications and training
- SfEP Annual Conferences (2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)
- Essential editorial project management (Publishing Training Centre, 2019)
- Editorial project management (Publishing Training Centre, 2015)
- Editing digital products (Publishing Training Centre, 2015)
- On-screen editing 1 (SfEP, 2009)
- Brush up your grammar (SfEP, 2006)
- Introduction to copy-editing (SfEP, 2006)
- Introduction to proofreading (SfEP, 2006)
- BA Languages & Linguistics (University of York, 1998)
- A Levels - Economics (2005), English Literature, French and Sociology (1995)
Clients
- Bristol University Press
- Cambridge Assessment International Education
- Cambridge University Press
- Dun & Bradstreet
- German National Library of Economics
- Haus Publishing
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
- The Policy Press
- Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee
Subjects
- Business
- Climate change and sustainability
- Economics (general, development, political, Brexit, European)
- Education (secondary, vocational)
- English language and English literature
- Linguistics
- Politics/government (general, Parliament)
- Social policy (welfare, policing, third sector)
- Sociology