CV

EDITORIAL, DESIGN AND PRODUCTION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sub-contractor with Consulting Services Limited, at the Development Directorate within the Training & Development Agency for Schools (TDA): Duties: web lead, interfacing between the MarComms team and the TDA public website management; creating content for the website, and serving on the IC Board; project managing a DVD on targeted youth support (Every Child Matters); writing regular articles on change management methods for the TDA Newsletter; and editing team copy. Other Government agencies worked for: QCA. Also writer/editor (case studies) eComms Dept for International Development, London

Bid writer: recent experience includes a high-profile public sector contract for Bupa, with case studies, and assistance for Telereal.

Newspapers and magazines: Writing, sub-editing/layout subbing and editing for eg News Ltd; New Scientist magazine; Sunday Times colour magazine; Thomson Business Publishing; and Trinity Mirror Southern (award-winning Croydon Advertiser). At Thomson Business Publishing I edited, wrote and commissioned for, a full-colour b2b magazine (circulation 100,000), while also chief subediting across several professional titles, such as Today's Life Science. Other responsibilities: Quality and training.

Health, science, and technology: Freelance communications manager with the south-east sector of the NatP&CT, where I initiated, designed and edited the e-Newsletter, PCTransformations, aimed at senior decisionmakers within the NHS; Subeditor on New Scientist magazine; columnist for a glossy newsstand magazine, Electronics Today International. Agency editing for Oxford Instruments; Kewill-Trifid; GenRad. Sydney University: Editor at the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education; designed and edited departmental research reports. Project editor: Sheldon books (SPCK)

TEACHING and TRAINING
Sessional Lecturer/Consultant for The Management School, London. Subjects: Media Management; Speechwriting; Feature- and Newswriting; Advanced Public Relations. I have taught a number of modules for the London School of Journalism, both onsite and by distance. These include Journalism and Newswriting; Subediting and Design; Promotions/PR; New Technology; and Web Journalism and Web Design. As freelance tutor/trainer for the NUJ, I taught Internet Publishing, Internet Research and QuarkXpress to fellow professionals. I have also trained junior writers at Thomson Business Publishing.

SOFTWARE
QuarkXpress, InDesign, XML, Photoshop and Office. Design and development of MS Access databases for charity sector clients.

MEMBERSHIPS
MBC - Member, Communicators in Business (CiB), National Union of Journalists, Women In Journalism, Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)

Employment History

Education