Lex Academic

Mission Statement | April 2024   At Lex Academic, we are champions of what we call constructive peer review. Our Oxbridge-educated founders know how competitive life within academia can be, with gruelling rounds of peer review, anxiety-ridden conference presentations, and the myriad moral and intellectual agonies that go into new iterations of paper drafts. We are here to empower researchers of all stripes through the strains of #academicpublishing, leveraging the decades of experience that differentiate us from other editing outfits. Our clients not only include early career researchers across the UK and Europe, but tenured professors at Ivy League universities. We could all use a bit more confidence before submitting to a journal, pitching to a renowned university press, or applying for a top job. We relish sharing our hard-won knowledge with our clients, making a measurable difference to their #publishing, #funding, and #career outcomes. We also pride ourselves on offering invaluable support to #dyslexic PhD researchers through our Lex Academic Scholarships.   We support academics through these challenges with our keen-eyed, researcher-led editorial remedies and substantive suggestions. We want to make #academicpublishing at the highest level a softer but nonetheless ambitious enterprise, based on the strength of scholars as interdependent researchers engaged in constructive peer review rather than the image of the researcher as the lone wolf playing a zero-sum game. This approach is better for scholars in general and better for knowledge as a collective aim. Through this approach, we foster a collaborative attitude to furthering knowledge, encouraging a spirit of co-authorship, compassion, and mutuality over aggressive intellectual independence.   All of our rigorously tested, PhD-educated academic editors are assigned to papers, monographs, #indexing, and translations based on subject-matter expertise. Following their scrupulous work, which can extend from careful proofreading to transformative developmental editing, we leverage our in-house team’s extensive professional #proofreading and #editing experience to ensure edited manuscripts are not only maximally effective as research outputs, but finessed to a high level of editorial precision and perfectly formatted.   The papers we refine, develop, and edit are not only fit for purpose as discrete units of intellectual achievement, but routinely enable their authors to move forward more quickly and assuredly with their careers. In this regard, we believe our work helps to level the playing field for scholars who write in English as a second language. We seek to restore confidence to researchers who feel in any way disadvantaged in academia, from concerns about #linguisticbias and worries about juniority, to more general crises of confidence, which can discourage you from being appropriately ambitious not only in where you place your work but where you apply for #grants and jobs.

While our editorial prowess spans the humanities and social sciences, we have particular strengths in certain core fields. We therefore offer specialist proofreading and #editingservices in some very specific areas to reflect our unique knowledge base and unmatched experience with disciplinary norms. These include #anthropology, #philosophy, #classics, and #arthistory. https://lnkd.in/ezcymGND

Philosophical editing work remains our core expertise at Lex Academic, so it is deeply rewarding to extend our professional services to researchers in this area. We recently collaborated with an animal ethics researcher at Vetmeduni (Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien). We learn so much from our clients through our meticulous #proofreading, #indexing, and #editing work and love to hear the #impact our service has on the confidence of researchers writing #philosophy in English as a second language (#ESL). ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It is a privilege to be working with Professor Stella Villarmea on her philosophically groundbreaking work on #childbirth, which has been funded by the European Commission. We thank Professor Villarmea sincerely for the opportunity to showcase our peerless philosophical #editing and #proofreading work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"One of the reasons I’m out in the broader culture is to convince people that important, exciting, and useful things can be done in #philosophy and in the #humanities more broadly and that we’re worth their investments." Leading public philosopher and pioneering business thinker Tom Morris talks to Lex Academic https://lnkd.in/ePEBTiii

Alongside our prowess in the high humanities, we work with many leading social scientists. We are adept at editing highly technical quantitative research and relish the attention to detail required by scholars in disciplines that value clear communication and rigorous statistical analysis. Alongside our core language copy-editing work, we can check the accuracy of your equations and modelling, ensuring your papers are not only elegant but mathematically watertight. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

We're delighted to welcome Carys Robins as our new Editorial Project Manager at Lex Academic. Carys joins us from Aktuel Translations, Oxfordshire, where she was Senior Project Manager and Translator.  Welcome to the team, Carys! https://lnkd.in/eeCvUNPm

We recently enjoyed the privilege of working with Professor Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco on some chapters from her forthcoming monograph with Oxford University Press. Her positive feedback is testament to the quality of our work at Lex Academic. Serving scholars writing in English as a second language is our passion and forte. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Our Founding Director Constantine Sandis in conversation with leading public philosopher and pioneering business thinker Tom Morris. Constantine and Tom discuss the various ways in which one can have a successful life and career as a philosopher. https://lnkd.in/ez2F-KrR

In celebration of #WorldBookDay, we are offering our clients 20% off all monograph editing, translation, and indexing, as well as any book proposal bookings made today. To make use of this offer, please contact us quoting WBD20. #WorldBookDay2024