• Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
(since 2020; formerly the Society for Editors and Proofreaders), 2014

• Professional Copy-editing course (Society for Editors and Proofreaders), 2013

• Advanced Copy-editing course (Publishing Training Centre), 2013

• Rewriting and Substantive Editing course (Publishing Training Centre), 2013

• Efficient Copy-editing course (Society for Editors and Proofreaders), 2013

• Digital Editing course (Publishing Training Centre), 2012

• Desktop Publishing course (Book House Training Centre), 1988

• In-house training (Thames & Hudson), from 1987 to 1998

• Editorial course (London School of Publishing), 1986

• BA (Joint Honours), 2:1 in French and German (University of Bristol), 1984