Journalist and Editor

Margie is a freelance editor, writer and science communicator based in Northcote, Melbourne. She worked in-house at Science in Public from 2008 to 2016 and still applies her editing skills to some of our projects.
Earlier, Margie lectured in environmental policy and management at Deakin University after working in wetlands policy with the state government. She has a PhD in zoology and a graduate certificate in technical communication.

Margie regularly writes online health content and book reviews, and she has edited numerous annual and technical reports, textbooks, industry magazines and articles. She has worked on publications for Commonwealth and state governments, universities, publishers, not-for-profit organisations, professional societies, private companies and others.

In 2014, Margie realised that her constant referral to the Style Manual was a clue that she was specialising as an editor. So she joined Editors Victoria (the state branch of IPEd, the Institute of Professional Editors) and was promptly appointed their newsletter editor. She currently volunteers on the Editors Victoria executive committee as communication officer.

Her freelance work gives Margie the pleasure of wrangling text into shape (both the words and formatting) and removing jargon and waffle to present scientific information clearly and directly.

Margie is online at The Open Desk.