Jackie Senior

Jackie Senior works as an editor and webmaster for an ambitious international research department (Dept of Genetics, University of Groningen/UMCG). Nowadays she works mostly on biomedical texts but she started as a geologist at Shell, later working as an editor for Shell Research and an international investment bank. She has been editing and translating for more than 40 years but, with the Dutch retirement age becoming a moveable feast, is exploring options for later. She was a founder member of SENSE in 1990, has served twice on its executive committee, and was appointed an honorary member in 2010.

Jackie’s conference presentation is entitled International science needs English editors. Jackie will also participate in a panel discussion with Joy Burrough-Boenisch, Carol Norris, and Nigel Harwood entitled Putting the Dutch practice on editing texts for doctoral theses/dissertations into an international context.