Ayesha Chari
Advanced Professional Member| Location | Norfolk, UK |
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I provide customised editorial services to suit needs of a project. With over 15 years of editing/publishing experience, I'm a friendly professional offering exemplary commitment to quality, schedules, budgets and client confidentiality.
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.
- Main types of material: Academic | Non-fiction
- Primary subject areas: Humanities | Social Sciences | STM (levels 1–3)
- I am well versed with Chicago Manual of Style and Hart’s Rules (US–UK styles); familiar with Harvard, APA, MLA and Vancouver reference styles
I work on academic, non-fiction and general interest material. I'm happy to collaborate with publishing co-workers, new authors and students alike, and prefer projects requiring direct liaison with authors/translators to resolve queries. I can sometimes take on small assignments at short notice. I can also adapt quickly to (and enjoy learning) new styles; delight in creating house styles for projects when required.
Skills
Copyediting, editing non-native English, rewriting, on-screen editing and proofreading, research, STM levels 1–3, referencing
Media
Books, journals, monographs, multi-author books, theses and dissertations
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
Recent 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
Clients
Kognity (Sweden); London School of Economics (UK); The Language Editor (UK); SLG Press (Oxford); UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research (Finland); Sunrise Setting Ltd (UK); Oxford University Press (UK); Menard Press (UK); SR Nova–Techset (India); Seagull Books Pvt Ltd (India); independent authors and PhD students (UK)
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, physics, social sciences/studies (culture studies, sociology), STM, tourism/travel (India), transport (policy and planning)
Qualifications
BA Education (subsidiary subjects: English, history, environmental science), MA Education (special education & educational management)