Hire Me

I focus on research grant applications and promotion and tenure dossiers, with a special emphasis on the health sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

My Schedule

I am currently booking projects starting in March 2026.

Please note that my freelancing schedule is often booked in advance, and I am rarely able to offer turn-around times of less than one week. Should you need a rush job, I would be happy to recommend one of my colleagues.

My Services

Although I do perform more superficial copyediting and proofreading services on occasion, my specialties are in developmental, structural, and stylistic editing. I also revise formatting, figures, and tables for clarity. For authors whose voice I know well, I sometimes rewrite sections of their work, based on content and research supplied by the author. I am happy to recommend services tailored to your draft and budget.

Grant Application Editing

I have expertise in editing and formatting all components of grant applications, including editing the designs of figures, tables, and images.

For academics, I have experience editing successful grant applications for:

• SSHRC Insight & Insight Development grants
• SSHRC Partnership & Partnership Development grants
• CIHR Project & New Investigator grants
• MSHRBC Scholar & Reach Programs
• CFI IF applications
• Internal, institutional seed, SoTL, teaching & learning, partnership, dissemination, and scholar grants

Promotion and Tenure Documents

I provide developmental, structural, and stylistic editing, as well as coaching and writing support, for academics pursuing tenure or promotion. I edit research statements, teaching statements, appendices, and CVs. I have experience supporting academics who have created both paper and digital P&T dossiers, though my preference is for PDFs.

Learn more about what P&T dossier editing involves.

I charge between $0.075/word + tax and $0.09/word + tax, payable by email money transfer or direct deposit (if your institutions prefers). The rate varies depending on the type of edit you need, the speed at which you need the work done, and the depth of editing required. For projects for which a per-word rate is not appropriate (e.g. CVs, grant applications), please contact me for my per-hour rate.

For an estimate of the cost of your project, please provide the following:

• The length of the project (in number of words).
• The date by which you require the work returned to you.
• The kind of editing you need (i.e., work on grammar & word choice, or more substantive, structural feedback).
• Any concerns or details about areas of weakness in your writing.
• A short sample (5-10 pages) of the work to be edited.

Graduate students, please note that I follow Editors Canada’s Guidelines for Ethical Editing of Theses / Dissertations to ensure the academic integrity of your work.

Not sure that I’m the right person to support you? Or do you work in a discipline that I’m not best-positioned to support? Or are you a UBC grad student for whom I’m not going to provide support? If this sounds like you, please check out my “how to hire an editor” resource.