My name is Nicky Robertson – this is me – and I am the person behind Angel Editorial Services. I’m a freelance proofreader and proof-editor based in West Yorkshire in the UK.

I have been a post-graduate student (I have a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds), a seminar tutor and exam marker at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield and a librarian. During this time I wrote and delivered numerous conference papers and have even had a few articles published, most notably in Anglo-Norman Studies 28 (2005).

After leaving academia in 2010 I went for a complete career change and worked as a contractor in financial services for almost a decade. I started with banking complaints before being promoted to a Quality Checker, ensuring that others were doing things properly.

Today I am building on over two decades of working on my own publications, looking over articles for friends, marking undergraduate essays and exams, and checking and correcting letters sent out to customers. They say the devil is in the detail, well I love the details so I’m not sure what that must say about me!

I recently joined the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) as an Entry Level member working my way upwards and completing their Proofreading training.