Experience

Elephant Rock Boutique Hotel
• United Kingdom
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Managing Director

  • Nov 2020 - Present


MDPI

• Switzerland
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Nov 2019 - Nov 2020

  Day-to-day management of MDPI's paid-for English editing service.Responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are edited to a high quality and in a timely manner to meet targets and provide a good service to authors, ensuring repeat business.Managing an international team of Freelance English Editors.Overseeing various aspects of MDPI's Author Services, such as Layout, English editing and plagiarism checks.Liaising with various teams, such as billing and production, to ensure that the service provided to authors is streamlined and delivered within specified deadlines.Recruiting new English Editors and training them.Performing various tasks to maintain quality of the service, such as spot checks on Editor's work and developing training materials.Responsible for checking and confirming Freelance English Editors' monthly invoices.Using the skills developed over the course of my two degrees to provide Specialist Edits in the field of Chemistry and Materials Science.Dealing with complaints to the service by assessing the validity and taking appropriate actions.Obtaining solutions for a wide variety of issues that arise daily, such as managing sudden influxes in submissions to ensure that these do not lead to a delay in the return of manuscripts to the authors.Writing and delivering presentations on Academic Writing (delivered via Webinar to Chinese University students and scholars).Writing articles on tips for writing academic papers. Show less

• • Apr 2019 - Nov 2019

  Providing editing services for manuscripts submitted to a variety of MDPI journals, all to strict deadlines. Running plagiarism checks, performing premium and specialist edits that offer technical feedback to help bring author’s work up to publishable level.Training new in-house and freelance editors and providing support to freelance editors based all over the world. Assuring journal editors with letters, abstracts, calls for authors and journal marketing.

• • Jul 2018 - Apr 2019

  - Checking and editing manuscripts submitted for publication to a wide range of journals published by MDPI, ensuring that the standard of English meets a high standard and that no technical errors are present.- Performing specialist edits in which I offer further editing in terms of the structure and style of the paper, in addition to checking the validity of scientific arguments and conclusions.- Submit edited papers that have been checked with high attention to detail within 24-hour deadlines. Show less



University of St Andrews

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Student

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2017

  Elucidating the crystal structures and phase changes of several functional perovskite materials using both powder X-Ray and neutron diffraction methods, with a specific interest in ferroelectric and multiferroic materials. Structural characterisation was aided by Rietveld refinement methods, symmetry mode analysis and dielectric measurements. In addition to my research, I supervised numerous undergraduate project students and summer research students of both secondary school age and university level and proof-read papers, theses and dissertations for other members in the group. Postgraduate Demonstrator - Supervised undergraduate physical chemistry laboratory sessions. - Responsible for marking and grading students' lab reports. - Co-ordinated and managed third-year undergraduates "miniproject" carried out within my group. Supervising their practical work and providing feedback on their final report and presentation. Show less

• Undergraduate Student

  • Sep 2009 - Jun 2013

  Undergraduate Research Student (master's) under the supervision of Prof. Philip Lightfoot Hydrothermal synthesis of novel crystalline materials with potential applications as cathode materials. Characterisation using powder and single crystal X-ray analysis. Undergraduate Research Student (batchelor's) under the supervision of Prof. Paul Wright Hydrothermal synthesis of AlPO materials, with synthetic strategies involving doping to manipulate the charge on the framework, with potential uses in catalysis. Show less