Abi Saffrey
Advanced Professional Member| Location | Saffron Walden, Essex |
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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 LinkedIn profile for more information about my experience.
Services offered
- Copyediting
- Editorial project management - print and digital products
- 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 fourteen 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 (2018-2021)
- 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 2019-2021)
- CIEP Information director (September 2021-present)
Qualifications and training
- CIEP annual conferences (2020, 2021, 2022)
- SfEP annual conferences (2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)
- Efficient Editing: Strategies and Tactics webinar (CIEP, 2021)
- Word for Practical Editing (CIEP, 2021)
- 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
- Cambridge University Press
- Directory of Social Change
- Dun & Bradstreet
- EMC Design
- Europa Editions
- Haus Publishing
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
- The Policy Press
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