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 the present economic climate. Our prospective clients are 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.

Senior Editors

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 and lectures on estuarine science, in sustainability, and of the relationships between business and finance and engineering.

Anna Collar read Classics and Philosophy at the University of Manchester before moving to the University of Cambridge to study for her MPhil in Classical Archaeology. Her PhD in Ancient History was part of an AHRC project on Pagan Monotheism at the University of Exeter. During her doctorate she was a British Council fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Her interests are specifically in religion in the Roman Empire, and more broadly in social networks and the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. She has worked for the Herculaneum Society at the University of Oxford and been the Research Scholar at the British Institute at Ankara. In addition to library-based research, she has worked as a professional archaeologist in Crete, Turkey and the UK. She has taught undergraduate students at the University of Exeter and led MA and PhD students on archaeological tours in Turkey. She speaks German and Turkish and has authored research papers and encyclopaedia articles. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and is revising her PhD for publication as a monograph with Cambridge University Press.

Freya Martin studied ancient history at King’s College, London going on to complete a PhD in the same field. During six years at university she was awarded a total of six prizes at department, college and university level including two essay prizes, one of which was published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. She spent a couple of years in university administration at Birkbeck College, London and the University of Warwick before moving in 1999 to Japan for three years where she commenced her proofreading and editing career. As well as working on academic papers across a range of disciplines, she undertakes an eclectic mix of freelance work on general interest books and magazines covering topics as diverse as Sarawakian crafts and sports cars. She is also a published author on garden plants. Freya specializes in proofreading and editing the work of non-native English writers and currently resides in Malaysia.

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: