Experience

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  Essex county council

  Dec 2011 - Jan 2012

  Communications intern
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  Brentwood school, uk

  Feb 2012 - Aug 2014

  I developed skills in press and public relations, drafting and editing copy, DSLR photography, preparing marketing collateral and typesetting documentation such a prospectuses, flyers and leaflets.

  • Communications Officer

    Jul 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Communications Intern

    Feb 2012 - Jul 2013
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  University of essex

  Oct 2015 - Jan 2019

  Graduate teaching assistant

  I delivered two undergraduate modules, ‘Creative Writing Skills’ and ‘Close Reading Skills’ to students, including marking and assessing work, group teaching, lecturing, and holding individual tutorial sessions.

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  Muscaliet press

  Oct 2017 - now

  Founder, editor-in-chief

  I own, direct, and facilitate the day-to-day operation of the press. This involves assessing submissions, editing manuscripts and typesetting books and pamphlets for publication. In 2022 Muscaliet was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award for poetry pamphlets.

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  University of essex

  Feb 2021 - Oct 2022

  Researcher of poetry, publishing and creative writing. I devised and delivered ‘The Publishing Project’, teaching essential editorial and book design skills to students, resulting in the publication of two editions of ‘Creel’, a student creative writing anthology. I taught the module ‘Poetry: A Very Short Introduction’, which spanned topics such as psychogeographical poetry, textworks, and various forms and styles of lyric poetry.

  • Associate Fellow

    Sept 2019 - Oct 2022

  • Teacher of Publishing

    Sept 2019 - Jul 2021

  • Teacher of Creative Writing

    Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
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  Birkbeck, university of london

  Nov 2021 - now

  As an expansion of my previous role, I research and develop publisher-level open access policy to best practice standards and manage the implementation of both publisher-level and journal-level policy across our 34 diamond open access journals. I oversee our processes for, and advise our editors on, areas of publication ethics, malpractice and research integrity in open access scholarly research.I also identify editorial processes that require additional guidance to be issued and work in consultation with colleagues and editors to create new guidance, ensuring that such resources are clear, well informed, accessible and current. Show less I oversee the editorial processes for online open access academic journals, and I am Managing Editor of our flagship Open Library of Humanities journal. This includes communicating with journal editorial teams and authors of scholarly articles, commissioning and curating special collections, copyediting articles, mediating and making editorial decisions based on peer review processes, and training others in the use of the Janeway journal publishing platform. I also ensure best practice in scholarly open access publishing is being adhered to by our journals through reviewing our publisher policies so that they follow COPE and OASPA guidance, and by auditing and expanding our journal indexing and archiving practices. Show less

  • Managing Editor, Open Library of Humanities

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Editorial Officer, Open Library of Humanities

    Nov 2021 - Nov 2024