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); and International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature (Farrell and Davis, eds).

Personal interest. Indexes include: 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: International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature (Farrell and Davis, 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); Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Sheley); The Cambridge History of the American Essay (Wampole and Childs, eds); Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics, 1914-2014 (Malgrati).

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 previous professional experience of working with children of all ages as a speech and language therapist.
I have indexed educational books and books for parents of young children. Examples are 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths (Smith); and Teaching for Social Justice and Sustainable Development across the Primary Curriculum. Also, teaching handbooks, for example Primary Geography for the Geographical Association.

I have previous professional experience of working with children and adults as a speech and language therapist.
I welcome indexing commissions in: special educational needs, child language development, multilingualism, ESOL, and further/adult education.
Recent titles indexed include many DK Eyewitness books for children; also, Writing Creatively for Work and Study: Easy Techniques to Engage Your Readers (Kara); 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths (Smith); The Secondary Mod (Stroud); Students with Disabilities and their Transition to Work (Mutanga); and teaching handbooks, for example Primary Education for the Geographical Association

Books recently indexed include: Five Weeks to Gut Health: Easy and delicious recipes to reset, restore and replenish your microbiome (Christine Bailey); Healthcare Infection Society (Christine Fears).

Many book indexes completed. Examples include: Youth between Participation and Exclusion: Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (Frische);
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).

I have an interest in politics and current events. Recent titles indexed include Youth between Participation and Exclusion: Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (Frische); 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); Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics: The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) (Malgrati).

Personal interest. A’level in history. Recent examples of indexes 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).

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

Titles indexed include Cambridge History of the Papacy (3 vols), (Rollo-Koster et al, eds); Churches in the Irish Landscape AD 400-1100 (O Carragain);
The Ka’ba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House (O’Meara)
Indigenising Movements in Europe (Harvey).

Lifelong interest. A’level in history. Indexes for academic monographs and multi-authored books have been completed including: Framing America: A Social History of American Art (Pohl) ; The Hungarian Avant Garde and Socialism (Bloomsbury Academic); 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); Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Sheley); ‘The First National Museum’, Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Murphy). 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).

I have previous professional experience as a speech and language therapist, working with both adults and children with learning disabilities and other complex needs.
Indexes include: Occupational Therapy in Australia (Brown et al, eds); Students with Disabilities and their Transition to Work (Mutanga); Disability, Globalization and Human Rights (Katsui and Chalklen).

Indexes include: The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling, (3rd edition) (Di Malta et al, eds); Bearing Witness: Intersectional Approaches to Trauma Theology (O’Donnell and Cross, eds); Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle (McBride and Murphy); Identity in Adolescence (Ferrer-Wreder and Kroger).

Recent indexes: Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O’Neill’s Young Adult Fiction (Mooney); Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia (Jussawalla and Omran, eds); The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption (Putnam).

I have indexed many teachers’ handbooks for the Geographical Association; also, DK Eyewitness children’s books on geography and environmental science subjects. 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)

Titles about minority languages and literature have been indexed, including International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature (Farrell and Davis, eds); Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics, 1914-2014 (Malgrati); and The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century (Davis and Sorensen).