Training

After leaving nursing in 2011 and deciding on a second career in publishing, I completed the following training modules:

• Q&A: Editing children's books (CIEP webinar), 2025
• Introducing the new CIEP CPD tool (CIEP webinar), 2025
• Younger children's fiction (CIEP webinar), 2025
• Editing for fantasy worldbuilding at sentence level (CIEP webinar), 2024
• Style sheets for fiction editing (Louise Harnby, Teachable), 2024
• CIEP conference 'Embracing change' (online delegate), 2024
• CIEP conference 'Language matters' (online delegate), 2023
• CIEP conference 'Editing in a diverse world' (online delegate), 2022
• Word for practical editing (CIEP distance learning course), 2021
• SfEP conference 'In the beginning was the word', 2019
• SfEP conference 'Education, education, education', 2018
• Introduction to fiction editing (SfEP distance learning course), 2018
• Basic editing (Publishing Training Centre distance learning course), 2017 – pass
• Grammar at work (Publishing Training Centre distance learning course), 2017
• Practical mark-up of PDFs (workshop), 2017
• SfEP/Society of Indexers joint conference 'Collaborate – innovate', 2015
• Proofreading mentoring scheme (SfEP), 2014
• Basic proofreading (Publishing Training Centre distance learning course), 2013 – merit
• Proofreading problems (SfEP study day), 2012
• Proofreading and editorial skills (Chapterhouse distance learning course), 2011