Ayesha Chari
Advanced Professional Member| Location | Norfolk, UK |
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Hi! I'm Ayesha and I provide customised editorial services to suit the needs of your project. With 16+ years of editing experience, I'm a friendly professional offering exemplary commitment to quality, schedules, budgets and client confidentiality.
- Types of material: Academic | Non-fiction | Journals
- Primary subject areas: Humanities | Social Sciences | STM (levels 1–3)
- House style expertise: Chicago Manual of Style and Hart’s Rules (US–UK styles)
- Reference styles: Harvard, APA, MLA and Vancouver
I'm happy to collaborate with publishing co-workers, new authors, academics and students alike, and prefer projects requiring direct liaison with authors/translators to resolve queries. I can also adapt quickly to (and enjoy learning) new styles and delight in creating house styles for projects when required.
Technical skills range from in-depth editing (substantive editing, copy-editing, proofreading) of books, journals and monographs to basic typesetting, layout and design of text.
Although I cannot take on full-length book projects at the moment, you can consult me on any aspect of traditional publishing and best practices in the industry.
Skills
Copyediting, editing writing for non-primary English language users, rewriting, on-screen editing and proofreading, research, STM levels 1–3, referencing
Media and Tech
Journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-author book chapters, reports, working papers and other short pieces
Edit primarily in MS Word (with track changes). Competent in using Adobe Acrobat Pro, Google Docs, MS Office, QuarkXPress; familiar with Mac OS and Microsoft Windows
Subjects
Academic (general), biology, business/business studies, earth sciences, country/area studies (India, developing countries, South-east Asia), economics, education, engineering (biomedical, general), English literature (literature in translation, world literature), environment/energy, geography (sustainable development), life sciences (anthropology), management, medicine, non-fiction (general), philosophy, social sciences/studies (culture studies, sociology), STM, tourism/travel (India), transport (policy and planning)
Training and CPD
Courses from the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), now the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP)
- Web Editing (2018)
- Going freelance and staying there (2017)
- Efficient Editing (2017)
- Copy-editing 2: Progress (2014)
Courses from the Oxford Publishing Group
- Rewriting and substantive editing (co-organised with Oxford Brookes University) (2016)
- Project management (co-organised with SfEP) (2015)
Continuing professional development
- Attended annual SfEP conferences (2015, 2017, 2019)
- Led session on STM editing at annual SfEP conference in 2016
Writings, etc.
'Of Indian Englishes, eating heads and doing the needful' (CIEP blog, 16 September 2020)
Experience
Freelance since 2013 (previously freelance 2011–12); editor (trade, academic, fiction & non-fiction – humanities and social sciences), Seagull Books Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, India, 2006–11 and 2013; assistant editor (copy-editing – STM journals, particularly bio-medical), Macmillan India Ltd, 2004–06
Clients
Kognity (Sweden); London School of Economics (UK); The Language Editor (UK); SLG Press (Oxford); UNU-WIDER (Finland); Sunrise Setting Ltd (UK); Oxford University Press (UK); Menard Press (UK); SR Nova–Techset (India); Seagull Books Pvt Ltd (India); independent authors, academics and PhD students (global)
Qualifications
BA Education (subsidiary subjects: English, history, environmental science), MA Education (special education & educational management)