Joy Window’s résumé

I have worked as an editor and proofreader for 27 years. Twelve of those were spent in-house in Sydney at CCH Australia, as a copyeditor of many legal publications, an editorial trainer and a team leader. I was promoted to editorial coordinator of the CCH Laboratory Safety Manual and managing editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety—Australia and New Zealand.

Since leaving CCH I’ve spent 15 years running my own business as a freelance editor and proofreader.

Subjects I edit and proofread

Science (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, natural history, zoology, botany, the environment), computers and IT, medicine, law, business, any non-fiction topic

Academic qualifications

I have a science degree and a graduate diploma in publishing and editing.

  • Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing, Macquarie University (1995)
  • BSc (Hons, Zoology), University of Adelaide (1974)
  • Subjects studied: zoology, botany, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry
  • Research project: healing cell damage using drugs
  • Publication: Casley-Smith, J. R. and Window, J. Qualitative morphological correlations of alterations in capillary permeability, following histamine and moderate burning, on the mouse diaphragm, and the effects of benzopyrones. Microvascular Research 1976, 11: 279–305
  • Six TAFE units in Bush Regeneration, Wollongbar, NSW  (2001)

Freelance experience, July 1996–present

See the full list of titles (categorised into subjects) I’ve edited here and proofread here. My clients include:

  • Cambridge University Press
  • Oxford University Press
  • Elsevier Australia
  • Pearson Education Australia
  • McGraw-Hill Australia
  • Excerpta Medica
  • Heinemann
  • Nelson Australia (Cengage Learning)
  • Southern Cross University
  • New Holland Publishers
  • Allen & Unwin
  • John Wiley and Sons
  • Scholastic Australia
  • Horwitz Martin
  • CSIRO
  • Open Training and Education Network
  • Practice Innovators Australia
  • Securities Institute Education
  • CCH Australia
  • College of Law
  • New Hobson’s Press
  • Custom Publishing
  • WIRES (Wildlife Information and Rescue Service)
  • McClendon and Associates.

My experience in full-time publishing is here, and before publishing here.

How to contact me

Please contact me at livinglanguage@bordernet.com.au