Corporate Profile

Corporate History

Cambridge Language Consultants specialises in providing services pertaining to English language. We originally incorporated in Cambridge, England in 1993 as Cambridge ESP Consultants, with a view to serving large corporations and banks. At that time our area of operation was mainly South Korea. In 1999, we changed our name and introduced a modified set of services, geared towards individuals in the academic and corporate environments who require specialised, quality, and reliable language services.

We are now a truly international organisation. We provide a worldwide editing and consulting service, with experienced editors drawn from a number of English speaking countries.

Personnel

Our consultants are all highly qualified, holding a PhD in an appropriate discipline. All have functioned effectively in the academic and corporate worlds and have vast experience of proofreading and editing documents in a wide variety of subjects.

Our Director, Chris Wright, is a former Fulbright Scholar and Carnegie Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. He has taught Philosophy as a Teaching Fellow at Pittsburgh University, a Supervisor at Cambridge University, and a Lecturer at Anglia University. In addition, he has given seminars on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche at Yonsei, Ewha, and Korea Universities in South Korea. He founded Cambridge Language Consultants in 1993 and has many years' experience of designing language programmes, teaching English, proofreading, and editing in Asia. He is a Member of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, the Society for Philosophy in Practice, and the Pali Text Society. His research interests include Buddhist, Chinese, and Korean Philosophy, Process Philosophy, the moral and legal status of animals, Chinese Medicine, and East Asian History. His leisure interests include Chinese painting, creating digital fantasy art, and raising guinea pigs.

Our Manager, Steve Mitchell, is a civil engineer and an earth/environmental scientist. In 1998 he gained a PhD from the University of Birmingham in the field of sediment transport in estuaries. After that he worked for a short time as a consulting engineer and scientist before taking up a permanent post as a lecturer at the University of Brighton, then at London South Bank University. He is the lead author of over 30 papers in the field of environmental and earth sciences, and is a member of the editorial board of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, also acting as a reviewer for journal papers in this and other journals. He is a Chartered engineer and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management. He currently does research in and lectures on estuarine science, sustainability, and the relationships between business and finance and engineering.

Senior Editors

Rhian Salmon studied Chemistry at the University of Leeds, where she received the Dawson Prize in Physical Chemistry. A Commonwealth Scholarship for graduate studies next took her Toronto, Canada, where she completed a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry for which she received the York University Dissertation Award for the best-written thesis. Her scientific career continued at the British Antarctic Survey, UK, where she worked as a Tropospheric Instrumental Chemist including three summer seasons and one "over-winter" season at Halley Research Station, Antarctica. She next moved to the International Programme Offfice of the International Polar Year, 2007 ? 2008, a role that required a wide breadth of understanding from Reindeer Herding and Economics in the Arctic, to Space Physics, Geology, and Biodiversity in the Antarctic. She currently lives in New Zealand and works as a consultant in scientific communication.

Martin Burke has over 20 years experience of research and development in the field of polymer science. He has an honours degree in polymer science and technology and received a Ph.D. from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1992.
Martin's Ph.D. research included the study of the crystallisation, morphology and mechanical behaviour of thermoplastics. His subsequent career includes research and development for the UK Ministry of Defence and other clients, such as EPSRC and the EU. Most of his research has concerned teh addition of functional properties to plastic or rubber materials. He has extensive experience of formulating castable polyurethanes and other rubbers to modify their acoustic properties. He has performed studies of the erosion resistance of rubbers, the use of nano clay fillers to improve barrier resistance, and the use of fillers to improve the fire resistance of rubbers. He has performed literature surveys and experimental studies on the ageing and failure mechanisms of such components as seals and hoses. His work has been presented at conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Martin is a member of the Rubber in Engineering Committee of the Institute of Materials, Mining and Manufacture, in which capacity he has gained experience organising conferences and reviewing manuscripts for publication.

We also have a large team of editors who can handle manuscripts in particular disciplines, to whom we send work as the situation demands.

Clients

We are pleased to include researchers from the following institutions among our past and present clients: