Joanna Penning, BSc, PGCE, MSocInd(Adv)

Books have been indexed in Irish studies, Scottish studies, Middle Eastern/Islamic studies, and other cultural subjects. Recent titles indexed include Global Culture after Gombrich: Art, Mind, World (MacKisack et al, eds); Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia (Kallander); International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature (Farrell and Davis, eds); Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics: The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) (Malgrati); Burn a Black Candle: An Italian American Grimoire (Norman).

Personal interest. Recent books indexed include Dracula’s Cinematic Psychohistory (Walden); Cinema and Machine Vision (Chavez Heras); A History of Danish Cinema (Thomson et al); Shoe Reels, The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film (Ezra and Wheatley); ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry (Block and Kirby); Music and Sound in Silent Film (Barton); Danish and German Silent Film (Sorensen and Tybjerg); Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film (Berghahn).

A lifelong interest. Recent examples of books indexed include A History of Australian Poetry (Mead and Vickery, eds); Writing Creatively for Work and Study: Easy Techniques to Engage Your Readers (Kara); The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century (Davis and Sorensen); The Cambridge History of the American Essay (Wampole and Childs, eds).

I have a keen interest in food-related issues, cooking, and kitchen gardening.
Books recently indexed include Five Weeks to Gut Health: Easy and delicious recipes to reset, restore and replenish your microbiome (Christine Bailey); No Dig Cookbook (Charles Dowding Ltd.). I have completed an online course on culinary indexing with the American Society of Indexing.

I have a keen interest in food-related issues, cooking, and kitchen gardening.
Books recently indexed include Five Weeks to Gut Health: Easy and delicious recipes to reset, restore and replenish your microbiome (Christine Bailey); No Dig Cookbook (Charles Dowding Ltd.). I have completed an online course on culinary indexing with the American Society of Indexing.

In my previous career as an NHS speech and language therapist, supporting children’s language and holistic development was key to the work.
Recently indexed and proofread 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths (Smith).

I have a post-graduate certificate in education (primary), and have considerable past experience working with younger children (and their carers and teachers) as an NHS speech and language therapist.
I have indexed books for teachers, books for parents of young children, and books for primary-school age children.

I have a post-graduate certificate in education (primary), and have considerable past experience working with children of all ages (and their carers and teachers) as an NHS speech and language therapist.
Recent titles indexed include Writing Creatively for Work and Study: Easy Techniques to Engage Your Readers (Kara); Dr Williamson, Dr Pearse and the Pioneer Health Centre: The Rise and Fall of the Peckham Experiment (De Syllas); and many DK Eyewitness books for children.

Books recently indexed include Five Weeks to Gut Health: Easy and delicious recipes to reset, restore and replenish your microbiome (Christine Bailey); Dr Williamson, Dr Pearse and the Pioneer Health Centre: The Rise and Fall of the Peckham Experiment (De Syllas); Healthcare Infection Society (Christine Fears).

Examples of books indexed recently include Youth between Participation and Exclusion: Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (Frische); Dr Williamson, Dr Pearse and the Pioneer Health Centre: The Rise and Fall of the Peckham Experiment (De Syllas); Identity in Adolescence (Ferrer-Wreder, Kroger); Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison, A Political History 1750-1850 (Butler); Reassembling Democracy, Ritual as Cultural Resource (Harvey et al); Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Sheley).

Recent titles indexed include Entanglements in World Politics (Katzenstein); Youth between Participation and Exclusion: Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (Frische); A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics (Deloffre and Quack, eds); State of Emergency: An Economic Analysis (Bjornskov and Voight); The Hungarian Avant Garde and Socialism (Bloomsbury Academic); New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (Topak et al); The Ideology of Political Reactionaries (Shorten); Ireland’s New Traditionalists, Fianna Fail Republicanism and Gender, 1926-38 (Shonk); Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope (Shaindlinger).

Recent titles indexed include Entanglements in World Politics (Katzenstein); A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics (Deloffre and Quack, eds); Youth between Participation and Exclusion: Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (Frische); State of Emergency: An Economic Analysis (Bjornskov and Voight);Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope (Shaindlinger); The Ideology of Political Reactionaries (Shorten); Ireland’s New Traditionalists, Fianna Fail Republicanism and Gender, 1926-38 (Shonk).

Personal interest. A’level in history. Recent examples of books indexed include Framing America: A Social History of American Art (Pohl); Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison, A Political History 1750-1850 (Butler); Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fail, Republicanism and Gender, 1926-38 (Shonk); ‘The First National Museum’, Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Murphy); Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Sheley).

Lifelong interest. Titles recently indexed include: Global Culture after Gombrich: Art, Mind, World (MacKisack et al, eds); The Hungarian Avant Garde and Socialism (Bloomsbury Academic); Framing America: A Social History of American Art (Pohl).

I have indexed a number of books containing natural history themes, and I would appreciate more work in this area.

Recent indexes: The Cambridge History of the American Essay (Wampole and Childs, eds); Framing America: A Social History of American Art (Pohl).

I would appreciate more indexing work on local history texts.

Lifelong interest. Many indexes for academic monographs and multi-authored books, and for books for the general reader have been created including Women, Wealth, and the State in Early Colonial India (Abbott); Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fail, Republicanism and Gender, 1926-38 (Shonk); Interwar East Central Europe, The Failure of Democracy-Building, the Fate of Minorities (Ramet); many school history books have been indexed for younger readers.

Titles indexed include Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness (Petty); Students with Disabilities and their Transition to Work (Mutanga); Disability, Globalization and Human Rights (Katsui, Chalklen), Occupational Therapy in Australia (Brown et al, eds).

Recent indexes include The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling, (3rd edition) (Di Malta et al, eds); The Divided Mind: Uncovering psychiatry’s dark past – and reimagining its future (Bullmore).

Recent indexes include Women, Wealth, and the State in Early Colonial India (Abbott); Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction (Mooney); Ireland’s New Traditionalists, Fianna Fail Republicanism and Gender, 1926-38 (Shonk).

I have indexed many teachers’ handbooks for the Geographical Association; also, many children’s books. Other titles indexed include: Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Jamieson); Tornadoes and Waterspouts in Ireland, Ancient and Modern (Tyrrell); Churches in the Irish Landscape, AD400-1100 (O Carragain).