Mr Daniel Harding | The humanities and social/political sciences. Trade and academic non-fiction.
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- Organisation
- Spartan Eloquence
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Daniel
- Copy-editor with over ten years’ experience, specialising in the humanities and social/political sciences.
- Educated to post-graduate level, with an MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Philosophy and the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Leeds.
- Familiar with the demands of both traditional publishers and research organisations, with extensive experience with the publication processes for books, journals and research papers.
- Advanced professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading since 2014.
Subjects
All trade and academic non-fiction across the humanities and social/political sciences, including:
- Politics
- Development studies
- Political economy
- History (esp. politics, economics, science, culture and religion)
- Philosophy
- Popular science
- Social science
- Anthropology
- Geography (esp. human, developmental and political)
- Country/area studies
- Music (electronic, house, techno, EDM)
- Classics
- Biography
- English literature
- Environment (popular, history)
Clients
I specialise in editing books, journals and reseach papers for a range of clients, including trade and academic publishers, professional bodies, societies, charities, NGOs and individual authors.
Recent clients include:
Books and journals
- Oxford University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- Pluto Press
- Policy Press/Bristol University Press
- Manchester University Press
- Agenda
- Edward Elgar
- Hurst
- I.B.Tauris
- SAGE
Research organisations and NGOs
- Overseas Development Institute
- Institute of Economic Affairs
- Resolution Foundation
- Commonwealth Secretariat
- Bond
- SciDev.Net
- Tate
- Serpentine Gallery
Experience
I have almost 30 years' experience in the book trade in editorial, marketing and bookselling, and have been an advanced professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading since 2014.
I have worked with communications professionals in a wide range of industries, and as marketing manager at the sustainability publisher Earthscan I played a key role in winning the coveted Independent Publisher of the Year award, as well as Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year and International Achievement of the Year in 2010.
Training
As well as academic training, I am committed to maintaining a high professional standard and have completed the following editing courses;
- Basic Proofreading, SfEP distance learning course (merit)
- Brush Up Your Grammar, Society for Editors and Proofreaders
- Onscreen Editing, Publishing Training Centre
- Proofreading Problems, Society for Editors and Proofreaders
- Introduction to Proofreading, Society for Editors and Proofreaders
- Copy-editing Skills, Publishing Training Centre
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Disclaimer note
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