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Hazel Bird

Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, UK
Versatile editorial project manager, copyeditor and proofreader delivering services that empower non-profits, charities, businesses and authors to confidently share their expertise and impact.

Services offered:

➡️ Full Edit (a combination of developmental editing, line editing and copyediting, as your project requires)
➡️ Final Eyes (light copyediting or proofreading, as your project requires)
➡️ Referencing Check-Up
➡️ Editorial Report
➡️ Editorial Project Management
➡️ Workflow and style guide development consultancy

Whatever the scale and complexity of your project, I offer a nuanced, dynamic and efficient service that fits around you and your workflows.
Technical and professions:

- Business and leadership
- Charity operations, governance and fundraising
- Climate
- Defence
- Education
- Futures
- Healthcare
- Investment
- Marketing
- Peace processes and peace research
- Resources and transit
- Software and data management

Humanities and lifestyle:

- Anthropology
- Art history
- Genealogy
- Health and fitness
- History
- Media, culture and communication
- Mountaineering and expeditions
- Politics
- Psychology
- Religion
- Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered - Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) since 2011
- PRINCE2® Practitioner since 2021
- BA with First-Class Honours in English Literature from Durham University, UK, 2005
- Advanced Copy-Editing (Publishing Training Centre)
- Basic Proofreading (Publishing Training Centre)
- Introduction to Web Editorial Skills (CIEP)
- On-Screen Editing 2 (CIEP)
- Proofreading Problems (CIEP)
- Working with XML (Publishing Training Centre)
Selected list:

- SfEP and CIEP conferences (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022)
- ChatGPT for Editors: Leveraging AI to Transform Your - Workflow and Upgrade Your Efficiency (ACES)
- Copyright for Editorial Professionals (CIEP)
- Developing a Quality Editorial Process End-to-End (ACES)
- Editing in a Multilingual World (ACES)
- Efficient Editing: Strategies and Tactics (CIEP)
- Engaged Style Guides: Co-creating Standards with Your Community (ACES)
- Indexing Workshop for Editors and Proofreaders (Society of Indexers)
BBC Bitesize
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Behavioural Insights Team
DSC – Directory of Social Change
Dubai Future Foundation
Flemish Peace Institute
Inclusive Peace
LID Business Media
National Osteoporosis Society
Omnichannel Institute
Oxford University Press
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Professional Ghost
Quakers in Britain
Royal Osteoporosis Society
SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
University of Gloucestershire
Wiley Blackwell

Plus numerous individual authors and self-publishers
- Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) since 2011
- Member of ACES: The Society for Editing
- Member of IPSE
  • Basic Proofreading (up to version 5)
Merit
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