Kate grew up in Porirua, graduating from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English Literature.
She has worked at David Bateman Ltd in Auckland as Editorial and Production Assistant; the Waitangi Tribunal as an Editor of Tribunal reports; and Mallinson Rendel (an independent book publisher specialising in children’s books, including Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary series) as Editorial Manager.
After completing a Diploma in Multimedia at NatColl in Wellington, Kate worked as a Knowledge Management consultant for the Sysdoc group for over a decade. Her roles at Sysdoc included business analysis, review and quality assurance of consultants’ work before delivery to clients, process review and improvement, and a variety of writing work, including online content, business reports, and process and procedural writing.
Kate has worked as a contract editor from her home on the Kāpiti coast since 2014, for clients as varied as government organisations, ministries and state-owned enterprises, Master’s and PhD students, owner-operators, and small-to-medium enterprises.
Documents Kate has worked on include government ministry annual reports, briefings to incoming ministers, government discussion documents, government guidance documents, and website content. Some examples include:
- Waitangi Tribunal reports, including The Turangi Township Report 1995 and The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi
- the Waitangi Tribunal’s Rangahaua Whanui research series including Districts 1, 7, 8, 9, 11A–C, 12 and 13
- the Waitangi Tribunal’s Theme report series, including Themes A, G, I, K, L, N, P and S
- Fiordland Marine Guardians’ Annual Report 2015 and 2016 (editing)
- Green Ribbon 2016 winners’ overviews (writing)
- Beneath the Reflections: a users’ guide to the Fiordland (Te Moana o Atawhenua) marine area (editing)
- New Zealand’s phase down of hydrofluorocarbons to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and associated supporting measures: Consultation document (editing)
- Our future: Waikanae Beach community process and booklet (writing and editing, as a member of the community)
- Ford Sumner Lawyers website update, August 2019
- Changes in New Zealand air quality during the social restriction response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic – technical report (editing)
- Changes in New Zealand air quality during the social restriction response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic – summary (editing)
- Our plan for securing our future | Toitū Kāpiti – Long-term Plan 2021–41 (proofing)
- Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi climate change strategy (editing)
- Jobs for Nature Interim Evaluation 2023 (proofing)
- A guide to implementing clause 3.13 of the NPS-FM 2020 (editing)
- Aotearoa New Zealand’s new resource management system – developing the transitional National Planning Framework (editing)
- Kāpiti Coast District Council website (writing). Examples include:
- Estimates for Budget 2025 (proofreading)
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