Ms Belinda Cunnison

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www.bel-copyediting.co.uk

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I offer a copyediting service to meet your needs and budget. I work for a range of publishing organisations, usually within an academic context, with individual writing projects and frequently on work by non-native speakers of English. I have worked freelance, predominantly as a copyeditor but also as a proofreader, since the year 2000. 

Testimonials below: more available on my website.

Subjects

Humanities and social sciences: economics; international development; anthropology; film studies; literature

Media

• Books
• Law reports
• Journal articles

Qualifications and awards

• BA English/Development Studies (Stirling University and Open University)

Experience

• Proofreading/copyediting full-length books 
• Proofreading/copyediting journal articles 
• Proofreading website copy
• Proofreading legal judgments

Training

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (formerly Society for Editors and Proofreaders)

• Plain English for Editors (2024)
• Proofreading 2 (2019)
• Proofreading 1 (2018)
• References (2018)
• Editing with Word (2016)
• Efficient Copy Editing (2016)
• On-Screen Editing 1 & 2 (2015)

Publishing Training Centre

• Rewriting and Substantive Editing (July 2021)
• Editing Fiction (March 2021)

Cadman Training

• Advanced PerfectIt 4 (March 2021)

Recent Clients

• Biuro Tłumaczeń, UZUS
• Carnegie Publishing
• Boydell & Brewer
• Cambridge University Press (journals)
• Edinburgh University Press
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• European Commission for Human Rights

I have also worked on dissertations and other papers for individual writers.

Testimonials

Belinda is a meticulous and dependable copy editor. Throughout my archaeological dissertation, she consistently delivered work of outstanding quality, demonstrating a keen eye for detail and a strong grasp of academic writing conventions. Her input ensured the technical accuracy of my final submission while preserving the originality of my work. She easily met the required deadline and, above all, has given me the confidence that I am submitting a high-quality document that is free from writing errors.

Dominic Farrugia, University of the Highlands and Islands

It was an absolute pleasure to work with Belinda on my Edinburgh University Press volume. She was attentive to details and always available to reply to queries. The book is much stronger for her involvement, and I would highly recommend working with her to produce an error-free book.

Peter Sloane, University of Buckingham  

Belinda regularly proofreads and copyedits all sorts of documents, such as research papers, books, website content and other materials, checking them for grammatical, stylistic and logical correctness and making sure they are written in error-free English. Numerous articles proofread by Belinda have been published successfully in renowned, high-impact international journals. She is professional and always sends documents on time. Her comments and suggestions are very helpful. Her kind and honest attitude to work is much appreciated. I highly recommend her editing services.

Barbara Komorowska, UZUS Translation Agency, Poznań, Poland

Belinda is a thorough and conscientious copy editor. For our books on political science Belinda has consistently produced very high-quality work and we know we can depend on her to deliver on schedule.

Simon Ward, ECPR Press

Belinda has been a joy to work with. Copy-editing is such a crucial and technical skill: one that few authors possess. It was therefore such a relief to work with a true professional. I would heartily recommend her services and I fully intend to make use of them again in future.

Dr Paul J. du Plessis, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

I was extremely satisfied with Belinda's work and believe it vastly improved the readability of my book. I found her very good at distilling particularly pedantic bits into more engaging prose while not altering my intended meaning. The process of working with her was also very efficient and I appreciated her routine and thorough communications.

Jesse Paul Lehrke, PhD, Research Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer