Gemma Coleman Email & Phone Number

I am a freelance editor, specialising in publishing services for educational publishers and resource creators. I offer support with developmental editing, commissioning, editorial management, proofreading, and copyediting. I am currently working with Collins (developmental editing, editorial management, and consultancy); Oxford University Press.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• I was the editor of Hello World, the Raspberry Pi Foundation's magazine for computing and digital making educators. The magazine is designed to support and inspire primary- and secondary-level computing educators with.
• Commissioning classroom teachers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts to write articles
• Editing articles, working closely with writers to offer feedback
• Managing a team of sub editors, leading discussions about style guides, grammatical changes, sentence structure, fact checking, and page layout
• Writing news articles and interview pieces
• Liaising with a design agency, offering feedback on InDesign and PDF files

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• I was a commissioning editor, working on science and computing products for international qualifications. Responsibilities included:
• Researched, wrote, and presented business cases and secured investment for new products
• Visited teachers around the world to carry out market research for new resources
• Commissioned, contracted, and briefed authors for teaching and learning resources
• Led the editorial vision for each product I worked on
• Provided feedback on authors’ work

I was the publishing assistant for the schools' English, maths, and computing teams.Within this role, I was the moderator of two online research communities, where I worked with international teachers to discuss their ideas and needs concerning print and digital resources.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Linguistic data analyst for the intelligent personal assistant 'Alexa', evaluating data to improve the success rate of the device. I was part of the 'IN' team, helping prepare the device for the Indian market, using my knowledge from my teaching period there. I also trained teams in Chennai, teaching other analysts how to evaluate data.

Coimbatore, India

Primary school TA on the Generation UK-India programme. Responsible for leading classes and designing my own syllabuses for four year groups.

Represented the university at open days and offer holder days, demonstrating extensive knowledge of the university and the university application process Responsible for encouraging students from low socioeconomic backgrounds to consider university as an option for them through the Widening Participation programme Planned and led tours of the campus for.

Produced a weekly blog about student life for current and prospective University of Nottingham students Covered topics such as study abroad; long-distance relationships; applying for student jobs and university events My blogs can be accessed here: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/studentlife/author/ldygc1/

Paris Area, France

• Write fortnightly travel blogs from Paris for the University of Nottingham branch of online female magazine Her Campus
• Blogs are humorous and cover topics such as food, culture and lifestyleMy blogs can be accessed here: http://www.hercampus.com/author/gemma-coleman

• Tutor English, Maths, Chemistry and Physics to students aged 11-16 covering lower school level and GCSE topics in preparation for exams
• Provide oral and grammar French lessons to students aged 11-16
• Tutor geography to GCSE students, including practical fieldwork measuring rivers in the Trough of Bowland, Lancashire.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations, First Class

Activities and Societies: Revival Gospel Choir

Education record

Semester Abroad

French (A), Latin (A*), Geography (A*), English Literature (A*) And English Language (A*)

Activities and Societies: Public Speaking Debate Choir Captain of SchoolSchool Captain 2012/13 Secretary of Charity Committee, Public.