About Rosemary

The thing I love most about editing is transforming copy into beautiful, flowing arguments.

Having worked with students and academics in different ways over many years, I know that it’s easy to get lost in the details when writing, and unfocused prose makes for tiring reading. Getting to the core of what someone is trying to communicate and bringing that to the fore in an easily digestible but professional way, appropriate to the format, is incredibly satisfying. All academics have to write, but not all academics are natural writers. Helping them communicate their hard-earned knowledge effectively is a privilege and thrill.

My ambition to be an academic editor began in 2016

while working for a neuroscience laboratory at the University of Amsterdam. In this position, my work was published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and since then, I’ve known that this is the career I want to pursue. Returning to Australia in 2017, I began working as a freelance academic editor, while starting and finishing a Master of Publishing, working for book publishers Simon & Schuster Australia and Cambridge University Press, as a research assistant with Professor Jenifer Barrett and as a Writer’s Hub tutor at the University of Sydney.

Forstmann, B. U., de Hollander, G., van Maanen, L., Alkemade, A., & Keuken, M. C. (2017). Towards a mechanistic understanding of the human subcortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18(1), 57. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.163