Bridget Giles Email & Phone Number

London

London

Developing a new educational series for teaching reading comprehension and creative writing for primary-school-aged children and their global equivalents.

For Newgen Knowledge Works: copyediting, proofreading and standardising educational revision books for GCSE students. For DK: Consulting editor on Africa: the definitive visual history of a continent.

Supporting YAIM co-founder and secretary Bai Mustapha Sallah in his SCI fellowship.

London, United Kingdom

• Ensured the commission and delivery of many expert printed and online handbooks and policy books for benefits advisers.
• Led the redesign and rebranding of CPAG’s Poverty journal, introducing illustrations and photography in four colour.
• Introduced contracting procedures for contributors that resolved copyright and delivery issues.
• Developed easy-to-access CPAG editorial and contributor guidelines, improving product quality and consistency.
• Established procedure for tracking spends on a project level, enabling improvements to budgeting and finances.
• Hands-on editing in DTP sofware, content management system and online, which involves XML editing.

Southwark, London

• Supporting and empowering women to escape domestic abuse and rebuild their life.
• Helping survivors navigate legal options, local government, housing, child and social services, ensuring support is received.
• Maintaining and updating client records stored securely on confidential database.

London, United Kingdom

• Overseeing the timely and on-budget delivery of high-quality illustrated books for children and adults.
• Contracting authors, imprimaturs and freelancers as well as hiring and appraising staff.
• Commercial, financial, logistical and strategic planning as well as analysis of post-publication performance.
• DK is a global publisher, so my role involved creating material for markets as diverse as, for example, Japan, India, Germany, Canada, US, and France, as well as working with people from around the world.
• Rebuilding a successful global children’s publishing company. In 2008, DK’s children’s publishing was fragmented across several teams. On my departure, DK Children’s had 60+ staff in the UK and 40+ in Delhi.
• Setting up DK India’s Children’s Group, ensuring higher standards and improving communication.

• Began as project editor and successfully applied for more senior role.
• Oversaw several teams of editors and designers creating multiple natural history and science books, encyclopaedias and reference sets for a wide range of readers and publishers, including Scholastic, DK and Oxford.
• Reported to directors on progress, schedules, contracts and budgets.
• Commissioned, contracted and liaised with authors, academic and educational consultants, illustrators, cartographers, artists and subcontractors.
• Arranged photoshoots.
• Devised, developed, planned and marketed new projects, including online resources.

London, United Kingdom

Written many children’s books on animals as well as books for young people on the nations, peoples and cultures of Africa, including Kenya (2006) and Nigeria (2007) for National Geographic’s Countries of the World series, which were innovative for their positive and comprehensive treatment of such subjects.

• Promoted from researcher/writer to assistant editor (1993) then project editor (1994).
• Excelled at learning how to present, illustrate and author complicated information in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Using knowledge from my undergraduate degree at SOAS plus further research, I wrote and edited many excellent illustrated books for young readers on the geography, history and cultures of Africa, which were innovative.

Msc, Migration, Mobility And Development, Merit

Activities and Societies: As well as completing three core modules, I audited several modules, including Gender and development &.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Geography And Religious Studies Of Africa, 2:1

The Religious Studies element of my degree included modules in Modern Standard Arabic, African Art, African Religions and African.