Clare Midgley Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Lavender Bay, Nsw, Au

Australia

- Team leadership for team of in-house Production Editors, including line management, operational management and change management - Supporting Production Department as Production Process Expert for Open Access- Process improvement project work, including project leadership for departmental projects - Management of Production process for academic journals across various disciplines, including portfolio of high-prority titles - Supervision/support for outsourced Production Editors

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

- Management of Production process for academic journals across various disciplines, including several high-prority titles- Supervision/support for outsourced Production Editors- Production contact for authors and editors of academic journals, including day-to-day support and change management around process improvements - Project team leader and member for departmental process improvement projects

Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

IAFOR (www.iafor.org) is a Japan-based research organisation, publisher and academic conference organiser that publishes 13 online, Open Access journals and THINK, an online magazine. As Publications Manager I was responsible for overseeing IAFOR’s journals, THINK magazine, the annual IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, proofreading textual output and enforcing IAFOR style, and running the Publications Desk at IAFOR’s international academic conferences.

Kobe/Osaka, Japan

Working as a freelance proofreader, editor and writer in the Kansai area of Japan.

Experience proofreading thesis chapters for University of Cambridge PhD candidates.

Cambridge, Uk

PLOS is a nonprofit, online scientific publisher and advocacy organisation that publishes 7 Open Access journals. I was based in Publishing Services/Editorial, overseeing day-to-day operations for one of the journals (PLOS Computational Biology) and supporting its scientific editors, reviewers and authors.I began working for PLOS as a Publications Assistant in August 2010, working on the journals PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology.

Douglas, Isle Of Man

Performed accounting tasks such as producing bank reconciliations using Excel spreadsheets. Gained basic knowledge of how to produce end-of-year accounts. This involved juggling several projects simultaneously to meet deadlines and attention to detail to ensure figures balanced.

London

6-month traineeship. Main responsibilities included:- Trade sales, involving communicating via both phone and e-mail with booksellers, sales reps, wholesalers and distributors as well as monitoring sales online and producing orders, invoices and statements;- Special sales, involving research to secure deals with non-trade retailers;- Liaising with press department over special offers and publicity; writing, designing and proofreading sales emails;- Posting job advertisements and corresponding with new traineeship candidates.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree