Academic CV

Key skills and responsibilities

Writing, editing and publishing

• Extensive technical and medical writing experience
  • Translating specialist jargon into a format suitable to generalist professional or government readership.
  • Technical writer for 10 major academic and Australian Government reports, including preparing the Monash University submission to the Senate Select Committee Inquiry into Animal Welfare, 1986.
• High attention to detail to ensure the highest standards of editing and proof reading
  • Final editorial control of all papers in AVJ for over 14 years
  • Substantive editing for approximately 1400 accepted papers 
  • Peer reviewing all scientific papers
  • Worked on the figures and tables of the submissions to improve their clarity and value
• Experienced online content creator and writer.

Professional skills

• Managing the ManuscriptCentral peer review system of approximately 7000 academic reviewers
• People management of editorial teams for two journals
• Liaising with authors
• Public presentations
• Risk management, budgeting and preparing and presenting Board reports

Academic teaching and research

• My biomedical research covered different systems, species and disease processes, but was all based on cell biology, immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy
• Published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals
• Approximately 100 editorial articles published in the Australian Veterinary Journal since 2009.
• Presented numerous and diverse academic presentations and seminars
• Presented invited editing workshops for the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists, the Australasian Medical Writers Association and for the International Small Animal Conference in Semarang, Indonesia.
• Responsible for  the first education summit for the Australian Veterinary Association
• Teaching medical, veterinary and science undergraduate students, and problem-based learning sessions for the University of Sydney postgraduate medical program
• Supervised veterinary PhD and BMedSci students.

Photography

I have been taking photographs and writing stories for as long as I can remember.

With my unique experience of more than 35 years as a veterinary scientist, I have an understanding of animal behaviour that enables me to capture images in a way that others cannot. Through the lens of fine art photography and photo-essays, I document the bonds between animals, humans and their environment. My aim is to use my unique perspective to raise awareness of animal emotions and welfare.

My photography has taken me around the world. and I love to explore new places where people live and work with animals. I feel most alive when I am in the wilderness with just my camera and the animals. Some highlights have included walking trips in Africa, fishing for piranhas in the Amazon, watching chuck-wagon racing at the Calgary stampede and learning about cattle management in the Northern Territory of Australia. While kayaking down the Zambesi River, dodging hippos, elephants and crocodiles, I remember looking at the banks in the distance and thinking, “If I die now it will have been worth it.”

My portfolio also includes an extensive travel series, and many of the places I have photographed no longer exist as they were.

I showcase my photo-essays on my website (annejackson.com.au), where you can purchase my fine art photography prints, photobooks, acrylic blocks and downloadable images. I am currently working on a photobook, Following the Water, showing the interaction of animals and the desert environment between the water holes in Namibia.

When I have a spare moment, I enjoy planning my next international photography trip, learning cabinet making and singing to my grandson. I also have an avid interest in family history. You can find my geobiographical work at fenvillages.com.

• Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
• Fine art printing
• Woodwork and picture framing
• Blogging.

Achievements

• Passionate advocate for the quality and integrity of the Australian Veterinary Journal for 14 years
• Mentor for authors publishing in the Journals
• Editor of the Supplement on Equine Influenza in Australia in 2007: The Definitive Story, which was the account of the extraordinary work done by veterinarians and scientists to eradicate thevirus from horses in Australia
• Digitised the peer reviewsystem of the Australian Veterinary Journal from its original printed paper and post to the Manuscript Central digital system
• Negotiated exclusive contracts with the world’s biggest commercial publisher
• Managed the digital transformation of the Australian Veterinary Journal from a print only to digital format, with all papers back to the first issue in 1925, completely online in 2008.
• Organised a highly successful team of writers and editors who all shared the values of truth, excellence and care in their work, and who I still count as friends
• My animal portraits featured as the front covers of over 130 of the Australian Veterinary Journal between 2005 and 2019
• Past President of the Australasian Medical Writers Association for 5 years
• Monash University’s Animal Welfare Officer, responsible for ensuring the highest possible standards in 26 animal houses and animal research centres, and using the position to make dramatic improvements in animal welfare across the University
• Active member of University and NHMRC animal experimentation ethics committees since 1994.
• Author, editor and publisher of a local history book, Three Holes: Portrait of a Fen Village

Positions and key responsibilities

Australian Veterinary Association

• Scientific Editor and Editor in Chief of the Australian Veterinary Journal (AVJ)
• National Education Manager
• Scientific Publications Manager; 2005–2019
• Editor in chief of Australian Veterinary Practitioner
• Freelance writing research and publishing, 1996 to present.

Academic teaching and research

Veterinary Officer

• Consultant Level 3, Animal Health Branch, Bureau of Resource Sciences, Department of Primary Industry and Energy, Canberra, 1991–93.

Executive Officer, Ethics in Animal Experimentation

• Reporting to the Vice Chancellor, Monash University, Melbourne (1985–87): regular inspection of 26 animal houses, responsible for ensuring the university’s adherence to NHMRC Code of Practice.

Veterinary practice employment and locums tenens 1978-1984

Committee experience

Awards

• Belle Bruce Reid Medal, awarded to 100 notable women veterinarians by the University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, 2006.
• Department of Primary Industry and Energy Secretary’s Achievement Award in 1992 as part of a team responsible for developing computerised information management system, followed by focused training of government departments
• ANZAAS Bicentenary gold medal for presentation on Pain and Stress in Animal Experimentation at the Bicentennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988.

Memberships

• Member and Past President of the Australasian Medical Writers Association
• Member of Australian Veterinary Association Conservation Biology and Animal Welfare Groups
• Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Publications

For full publication list, please see www.annejackson.com.au/my-publications and Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5329-1292 for details. The list includes technical reports, peer-reviewed scientific publications, editorials and news articles.