Kate Blackham FRAS
Advanced Professional Member| Location | Milton Keynes |
| Telephone | 07511 710754 |
| Website | kateblackham.space/about/ |
Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society.
Associate Lecturer in the Physical Sciences department at the Open University.
Skills
Editorial project management, development editing, on-screen editing, copy-editing, mark-up languages, proofreading, Americanizing, anglicizing, on-screen proofreading, writing, rewriting, editing non-native English
Media
Books, distance-learning materials, educational materials, illustrated books, manuals, multi-author books, online materials
Specialised software
Equation setting (LaTeX including MiKTeX), oXygen XML editor, MathType, MathFlow MathML editor, Adobe Acrobat Pro
Qualifications and awards
Graduate student, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, UWTSD (in progress)
MSc Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
BSc Physics, Imperial College London
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
British Astronomical Association, Member
Society for the History of Astronomy, Member
Institute of Physics, Member
Experience
Freelance since 2010; technical architect/editor, Wrox Press, 1997–2001
CIEP proofreading mentor
CPD
Editorial project management (SfEP) 2018
Understanding academic references and citations (SfEP) 2016
Comic book editing and project management (Comics Experience) 2013
Basic proofreading by distance learning (Publishing Training Centre) 2011
Grammar at work (Publishing Training Centre) 2011
Client list
CAB International, Cambridge University Press, Elliott & Thompson, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Royal Astronomical Society
Subjects
Astronomy/space sciences (aerospace, archaeoastronomy, astronautics, astrophotography, astrophysics, cosmology, cultural astronomy, ethnoastronomy, history of astrology (Babylonian-Kepler), history of astronomy, photometry, planetary science, popular, space systems engineering), biology (agricultural science, anatomy and physiology, botany, veterinary science, zoology), chemistry (popular, school), complementary therapies (aromatherapy), earth sciences (geophysics), education (secondary science, cognitive science, distance learning, e-learning), information science and technology (computer programming, computer technology, software, hardware, electronics, internet), mathematics, physics, sciences (academic, popular, school, technology)