Writing, editing and ghostwriting

  • ‘Defiant Resistance: Shattering the silence on violence against Indigenous women’ by Marlene Longbottom (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2026) – structural and copy editing
  • ‘Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and Cancer’ edited by Gail Garvey and others – project manager for this book about cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for Indigenous and Tribal peoples globally (published by Springer, September 2024) (promotional video available on YouTube)
  • ‘A Culture Standard for the Construction Industry’ and supporting documents, for the Construction Industry Culture Taskforce – copy editing and proofreading
  • Easy Read documents for the Queensland Ombudsman, including ‘What we do’ and ‘Inspector of Detention Services’ (prisons, youth detention centres, and watch-houses), plus easy read summaries of reports by the Inspector of Detention Services
  • Easy Read Version of the Metro North Disability Services Action Plan for Metro North Health; available via the Metro North Health Website
  • Queensland Audit Office – editing of reports to parliament
  • ‘Family Focus’ by Monash University, a website to support families when children are diagnosed with skill loss – copy editing and proofreading
  • ‘How to Hear Me: Walking the Journey’ by Jill Olver (published by WWILD) – copy editing for this manual for counsellors about working with women with intellectual disability who have experienced trauma
  • Community, Culture, Commerce: The Intermediary in Design and Creative Industries‘ by Jock McQueenie, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn (Palgrave Macmillan 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7889-2) – copy editing
  • ‘The Leadership Path: A Guide for Leading Yourself, Your Team and Your Organisation’ by Blake Repine – working alongside Blake to write his second book about leadership
  • PhD candidates at Queensland University of Technology and The University of Queensland – thesis editing
  • Individual academic staff at Queensland University of Technology, Australian Catholic University, and Central Queensland University – copy editing of academic research papers prior to publication

Research and facilitation

  • Goodstart Early Learning – qualitative implementation review of Goodstart Plus
  • QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute – facilitating two citizens’ juries about sun safety and vitamin D (published in Health Promotion Journal of Australia, DOI: 10.1002/hjpa.786)

Training for groups and individuals

  • Department of Primary Industries – writing training for extension officers, focusing on case studies and technical and scientific writing; this training is linked to two eLearning modules I developed with the department
  • Heritage Branch, Department of Environment, Science and Innovation – plain English writing workshops (2025)
  • Queensland Writers Centre – workshops about self-editing: ‘Release your inner editor: How to polish and self-edit your manuscript’ (2025) and ‘From good to great: Revising and editing your manuscript’ (2024)
  • Tenants Queensland – organisational writing training for tenancy advice workers
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, QUT – facilitated a 2-day writing retreat for early career researchers (2024 & 2025)
  • Women in STEMM, QUT – facilitated the academic women’s 2-day writing retreat (2018 to 2025)
  • Queensland Business Writers’ Conference 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2025 (organised by Lexi Communications) – presented various sessions about workplace writing and plain English (including document structure, reader focus, simplifying sentences, moving beyond the first draft, and plain vs. easy English)