Poppy Simon Email & Phone Number

Editing manuscripts presubmission to ensure text is written in standard scientific English and is free of unclear or unidiomatic sentences, and ensuring subject-specific conventions and journal formatting guidelines are followed.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Peer review & customer service:
• Liaising with editorial board members to ensure efficient peer review
• Providing tailored author customer service (updates on manuscript status and answering queries)
• Checking editorial decisions for compliance with journal policy within target turnaround times
• Building professional relationships with Editorial Board Members, in particular senior EBMs, Guest Editors and In-House Editors
• Maintaining and developing the Editorial Boards for Plant Science and OphthalmologySocial media & marketing:

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for day-to-day running of the shop, including managing stock levels and cash flow; often sole member of staff on duty.
• Producing social media content and responding to customer queries.
• Writing newsletters and blog posts for the website.

• I worked in the cellar, vineyard and laboratory for a small, sustainable winery in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand for the harvest season.
• Cellar tasks: grape processing, cap management, tank transfers/draining/racking, barrel downs, additions & inoculations, ferment monitoring and cleaning.
• Laboratory tasks: full juice and wine analysis.
• Vineyard tasks: yield estimates, berry sampling and picking.

• As before, as well as:
• Building and maintaining client and journalist relationships
• Sole responsibility for event planning (product launches, press trips abroad etc)
• Training new staff members

• Writing Press Releases
• Assisting in event planning (tastings & masterclasses, winemaker dinners, seminars and competitions)
• Monitoring press and social media coverage
• Sending out samples to journalists

London, United Kingdom

• Managing 40 home-workers (assigning work according to workloads, following up on missed deadlines)
• Providing training and helping with recruitment
• Summarising articles in multiple languages

• Press content summaries for clients. Within 6 months I progressed from simple keyword summaries to responsibility for bespoke summaries for high-value accounts, and capability to cover all other accounts when necessary.
• Magazine circulation and AVE data research and coordination with Client Services department.

• Updating database of publication circulation and advertising rates.
• Coordinating between Press Content Production, Client Services and IT departments.

Creating logs of client mentions in broadcast news, current affairs, business and talk show programmes.

Self-employed audio transcriber for market research interviews and focus groups.

Msc, Sustainability & Ecology

Msci, Zoology, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Science Features Writer, London Student• 4-year Integrated Masters of Science (MSci) in Zoology • Final year.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Southwark Literacy Scheme• 4 A-levels: Biology (A), Chemistry (A), French (A), Italian (A) • 10 GCSEs (7 A*s, 3.