Margaret Aherne
Margaret is an experienced proofreader, copy-editor, project manager and editorial trainer. She's a tutor on the Publishing Training Centre's online 'Grammar at work' module and on the PTC's distance-learning course 'Basic proofreading', of which she is co-author with Gillian Clarke (see below). She's also a mentor in proofreading and copy-editing on the SfEP’s mentoring scheme, and is author of Proofreading Practice: Exercises with model answers and commentary (2011).

Sue Bennett
Sue has had a varied career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She's been giving courses on personal effectiveness for some years and formerly ran her own company, Training Matters. She currently works for Warwick University, where she is director of the Centre for Student Careers and Skills.

Gillian Clarke
Senior author of the Publishing Training Centre's distance-learning course 'Basic proofreading', Gillian has been teaching copy-editing and proofreading skills for a number of years, including for the PTC.

Caroline Drake
Caroline has worked in publishing for more than 25 years, initially in Berlin and Oxford, and then at Cambridge University Press, where she trained copy-editors for 15 years. Freelance since 2005, she specialises in copy-editing and editorial training in the humanities and social sciences. She is a tutor on the Publishing Training Centre’s 'Copy-editing by Distance Learning' course and co-editor of the fourth edition of Butcher’s Copy-editing.

Fiona Eadie
Fiona is passionate about language and about bringing writing to life. An Advanced Member of the SfEP, she has more than 30 years' experience as an editor working on a wide range of publications from illustrated books to websites. Fiona runs the 'Essentials of Grammar' course for Gloucestershire Enterprise Ltd and has been an SfEP tutor since 2007.

Peter Nickol
Peter works as a music book editor and music engraver and increasingly as a composer. His song cycle Sea, Shore and Tide was chosen by the London Schubert Players for their 2011 programme, and the Texas-based Madera Wind Quintet are performing and recording his Ultramarine in 2012. He is the author of Learning to Read Music (How To Books) and co-author of Pop Music: The text book (Peters Edition).

Penny Poole
Penny provides writing, editing and strategic-level communications support to a wide range of non-publishers, from public and voluntary sector organisations to multinational service providers and manufacturers.

Sarah Price
After more than 20 years in the IT industry as a technical editor and writer, Sarah became a freelance editorial professional in 2002. She works on academic books and journals, and her main subject areas are social sciences, music, business and IT. She's delivered SfEP courses for staff at the House of Lords and House of Commons, Wiley–Blackwell and L’Oréal. She's now learning Welsh, the language of her ancestors, following a move back to her roots in south-west Wales.

Rosemary Roberts
A freelance copy-editor specialising in academic and reference works, Rosemary was managing editor of the Grove dictionaries of music and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and latterly at Thames & Hudson. Besides her SfEP courses, she has created and taught workshops for corporate clients and industry bodies in Britain and abroad.

Christina Thomas
Christina has been a freelance editor and proofreader since 1989, working on a variety of non-fiction publications for publishers and commercial organisations. She has project-managed websites for non-commercial clients, as well as editing web copy on a variety of topics. She is a tutor on the Publishing Training Centre's distance-learning course 'Basic proofreading' and has been running tailored in-house training courses since 1996.

Anne Waddingham
Anne has been tutor on SfEP, Publishing Training Centre and in-company editorial courses since 1991. She also specialises in on-screen editing and project management. She authored the on-screen editing chapter in the fourth edition of Butcher's Copy-editing and contributed to New Hart's Rules, and she wrote the SfEP guide Editor and Client: Building a professional relationship.

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