Dawn Nell
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- Oxford-based academic editor, specializing in editing and bibliographic research for academic books and journals.
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- D.Phil from the University of Oxford. BA(Hons) and MA from the University of Cape Town.Academic Editor. Former Articles Editor of Oxford International Review. Recent clients include Business History, Japanese Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation.Postdoctoral research fellow, University of London's Institute of English Studies. Visiting lectureships and fellowships at the University of Birmingham, the National Maritime Museum, & Duke University.Academic writing published in Cultural & Social History, African Affairs, South African Historical Journal, Oral History, Enterprise & Society, Environment & Planning (see below).
Forthcoming
D.Nell, ‘Sustainability, Transnational Science and the Antecedents of the Wildlife Industry in Africa’, Environment and History.
D. Nell, ‘The Press in Africa, 1970-2004’, The History of Oxford University Press, Vol. IV, (Oxford, 2013).
D. Nell, ‘The Development of ELT, 1970-2004’, The History of Oxford University Press, Vol. IV, (Oxford, 2013).
D. Nell, ‘The Press in the New Europe, 1970-2004’, The History of Oxford University Press, Vol. IV, (Oxford, 2013).
D. Nell, ‘Turning Points: 1970-1984 (i) Distribution’, The History of Oxford University Press, Vol. IV, (Oxford, 2013).
D. Nell, ‘Oxford University Press in Africa, 1890s-1970’, The History of Oxford University Press, Vol. III, (Oxford, 2012).
D. Nell et al. The Coming of the Supermarket to Britain, 1945-70, (Farnham, 2012).
D. Nell et al. ‘Helping Yourself: Self-Service Retailing and Shoplifting in England, 1950-75’, Cultural & Social History, Vol. 8, 2011.
D. Nell, A. Bailey, A. Alexander, and G. Shaw, ‘Consumer Behaviour and the Life Course: Shopper Reactions to Self-Service Grocery Shops and Supermarkets in England, 1947-75’, Environment & Planning A, forthcoming 2010.
Published
D. Nell et al. ‘Investigating Shopper Narratives on the Rise of the Supermarket in England, 1947-75’, Oral History Journal, Volume 37, no. 1 (Spring) 2009, pp. 61-73.
D. Nell, Andrew Alexander, Adrian Bailey, and Gareth Shaw 'The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain', Enterprise and Society. Volume 10, pp. 529-558.
D. Nell, ‘Retail Revolution’, Ancestors, June 2007, pp. 18-19.
D. Nell, ‘Treating People as Men’: Bastaard Landownership and Occupancy in the Clanwilliam District of the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century. South African Historical Journal, 53 (2005), pp.123-145.
D. Nell, 'An Historiographical Overview of Environmental History’, Blackwell's History Compass, 2 (1), 2004.
D. Nell, 'Thomas Ofcansky’s ‘Paradise Lost: A History of Game Preservation in East Africa’, African Affairs, 102 (409), 2003, pp. 675-677.
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- Academic editing
- Developmental editing
- Journal editing
- Academic referencing (incl. APA, AMA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, MHRA, ASA, Cambridge, Oxford, ISO 690, and regional/national style conventions incl. Japanese, French referencing)
- Health sciences, psychology and business statistics
- Bibliographical research
- Academic research and writing
- Dissertation editing
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- " I also wanted to take the opportunity to thank you and your staff for the proofing on this article - it was clear as I read through this that a number of fixes had been made and I really appreciate this level of close inspection and assistance in polishing the final product!""I’ve been able to go through the issue now, and again it’s very pleasing, so thank you for all your work on it.... Signs of enthusiasm for the work that can’t be faked, like those CMOS stylistic points you mentioned and checking out old weblinks."
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Posts
- May 04, 12
I recently came across some stats on the nationalities of the authors submitting articles to the science journal Nature in 1962 and out of curiosity popped them onto a bar graph to look at some comparisons. I removed the UK and the USA from this graph because they dominated the numbers of article submissions, obscuring [...]
- Apr 24, 12
… would these things be if they weren’t collected together in a pot/jar/mug on your desk? The quotidian flotsam and jetsam washed up on mine includes: staples, none of which ever fit any of the staplers I own paperclips a staple-remover given to me by a colleague and which he inherited following a mass sacking at a New York [...]
- Apr 21, 12
It’s not my intention to develop a whole austerity theme here. Frankly my affinity for Pol Roger and the hazelnut torte from Paul would make me a pretty unconvincing poster-girl for frugality. But I do hate waste. So when I found I had some left-over brioche I decided it use it up as the base [...]
- Apr 18, 12
Basically the lack of sunshine has turned me into a horticulturally experimental hippy. Usually I’m a big fan of the cut flower, but recently I saw this idea of planting daffodil bulbs into vases and now the house is filled with things that need watering. It’s worth it though because they last longer than cut [...]
- Apr 17, 12
… where is it? In the mean time I’m buying this from Hobbs in the hope that one day we’ll have summer days that are more Pimms and bunting than cold and rain.
- Apr 14, 12
Yes I know no one rates hamburgers among the culinary highpoints of Brussels, but since the famous Rick’s closed a few years ago, the city has been lacking a dependable burger place. This afternoon we went to Cool Bun which doesn’t have the expatriate boisterousness of Rick’s (nor the frozen margaritas), but more than makes [...]
- Mar 14, 12
This is from the MLA and although we haven’t had similar guidance from the other principal publishers yet, it probably isn’t going to be much different. Basically it’s Last Name, First Name (Username). “The tweet in its entirety.” Date, Time. Tweet. I’m guessing that that ‘tweet in its entirety’ means hashtags as well (let’s face [...]
- Mar 12, 12
I finally had my arm twisted into going to see The Iron Lady this weekend after successfully avoiding it until it had almost vanished into the realms of cinematic oblivion. In the end, a persistent cold and the gloomy weather meant the list of Fun Things To Do On The Weekend had been whittled down [...]
- Mar 06, 12
I love the talk by Susan Cain on the strengths of introverts and solitary working. On the publishing industry scale of extrovert–introvert, fast-talking, Blackberrys-for-brains sales reps being extrovert, and lexicographers being … well lexicographers, editors are regarded as only slightly less solitary than … well, lexicographers. Wisely we’re generally left alone to our epic battles [...]
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