Career highlights include 20 years as a newspaper subeditor, and 14 years as a production editor at The University of Queensland, Gatton campus.

I hold a Graduate Certificate of Editing and Electronic Publishing from Macquarie University, and am an Accredited Editor with the Institute of Professional Editors (Australia).

When not at my desk I might be in the garden, walking the dog in the forest or at the beach (composing endless haikus in my head), on the yoga mat, helping my husband with his Australian native stingless bee business Beezotted, or, best of all, reading.

***

Clients (past and present) include:

• The University of Queensland
• Good to Great Schools Australia
• Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
• Darling Downs Public Health Service
• Queensland Mental Health Commission
• The University of Southern Queensland
• The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)
• The University of New England

***

Theses (copy edited and/or formatted and proofread) include:

• Children’s rights, international legal standards and the system of juvenile criminal justice in Sri Lanka
• The impact of residential respite care on the behaviour of older people
• The whole-of-life approach and the financial viability of build-to-rent as innovative solutions to housing affordability challenges in Australia
• Fatigue and recovery in shiftworking emergency department nurses
• Enacting Pasin through storying as research: Ways of rethinking the health workers’ curriculum in Papua New Guinea
• Including the excluded: Marginalised poor communities and participatory development practices in rural Nepal
• Australian preservice teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs about numeracy
• Components of teamwork that influence successful implementation of a total quality management program in a Saudi Arabian healthcare setting
• Evaluating recovery planning for threatened species in Australia
• The role of online discussion forums in supporting learning in higher education
• The psychological strengths used by older Australians in maintaining their health and quality of life
• ECEC educator perspectives toward administrative burden of quality improvement plans and its impact on role-identity and relationships
• The roles of agricultural extension services, local knowledge and practice in meeting smallholder farmers’ needs: Case of smallholder rice farmers in Guangxi, China
• Understanding COPD patients’ barriers to behavioural and lifestyle changes using a resilience, readiness to change and self-management model
• Equine amnionitis and foetal loss: the role of caterpillars
• Supply chain collaboration in the Malaysian pineapple chains
• Improved legal and institutional arrangements for peri-urban invasive animal management in Australia
• Where do people from regional areas go after industry closures? Evaluating the spatial implications of two major coal industry closures on internal migration patterns
• Exploring the efficacy of commercial biofungicides to control powdery mildew of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
• Effect of environmental factors on parthenium weed germination and early seedling growth
• A case study of community participation in the West Moreton Landcare Group
• How nutrition influences the distribution and abundance of chital deer (Axis axis) in northern Queensland
• Evaluating the adaptation and implementation of market orientation in agribusiness: An exploratory study of the Australian onion industry
• Why are cities running out of fresh drinking water? An evaluation of the physical and population characteristics of Cape Town and Brisbane water catchments
• Factors that impact on communication between patients and physicians in an intercultural setting
• Work–life balance in the Australian financial sector: A mixed methods study
• Development of the theoretical framework of factors influencing the implementation of ICD-10
• Agrifood transformation and smallholder farmers’ inclusion in modern supply chains: a review
• Towards the optimal mapping of land cover changes using remote sensing for Mauritius, a tropical and developing island
• A road map for health information management in Oman
• Isolation and genetic characterisation of rumen methanogens in cattle
• Collaborative supply chain in the cut flower business: a case study of producers and wholesalers in Kathmandu, Nepal
• ECEC educator perspectives toward administrative burden of quality improvement plans and its impact on role-identity and relationships

***

Publication:

Craig-Smith, SJ, Middleton, JC & Pearson, CJ 1996, Gatton College:  100 years of science with practice, University of Queensland, Queensland.
ISBN-13: 978-0-909816-28-5, ISBN: 0-909816-28-X

***