I began my career working in laboratories as a chemical analyst. All that changed in 1996 when I enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham. A first class honours degree in English Literature and Cultural Studies led to a PhD on popular writing on London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which was awarded in 2004. I had a spell in the Heritage sector, eventually being appointed as Curator of the Birmingham Assay Office, a post I held for 5 years. For a while, I was the Assistant Director of the Centre for West Midlands History at the University of Birmingham, before moving to work for the College of Arts and Law as a Senior Research Facilitator in 2010. I set up Sally Baggott Editing in 2015.

My experience and expertise is directly relevant to my clients’ research and publications, and they appreciate the insight and understanding I bring to the work I do for them as a result. While I was studying for my PhD, I got the opportunity to teach undergraduates, including in the internationally renowned Department of Cultural Studies at Birmingham. Postgraduate teaching followed, along with the chance to be directly involved in several externally funded research projects. Experience of getting my own research published in The Oxford Art Journal and by Yale University Press, and co-editing a volume for publication with Ashgate was edifying at the time and continues to be extremely useful. The role in research support was rewarding, to say the least, but it also proved my ability to understand the very nature of research in the Arts and Humanities and enabled me to experience to the full the wider context of academia.

I have edited every kind of academic writing from monographs to journal articles, theses and dissertations to job applications and book proposals. I have also supported many academics and early career researchers in successfully securing research funding across the range of schemes offered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. 

I live on the North Devon coast. As well as my family, I love my cats and my garden.

If you want to work with an experienced and professional proofreader and copyeditor who specialises in the Arts and Humanities, or if you need support with research, then please get in touch.

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