Joanna Penning, BSc, PGCE, MSocInd(Adv)

Books have been indexed in Irish studies, Scottish studies, Middle Eastern/Islamic studies, and other cultural subjects.

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, Kirby), and 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. A recent example of an indexing project was 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); Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics, 1914-2014 (Malgrati).

I have a keen interest in food-related issues, cooking, and kitchen gardening.
A recent commission was 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.
A recent commission was 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. Also, I have explored this subject throughout my own children’s early life and teens.
Recently indexed and proofread 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths (Smith).

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 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, 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

Earlier career as an NHS community speech and language therapist. Books for general readers on most areas of health would be of interest.
Recent example was an index for the Healthcare Infection Society.

Many book indexes completed. Examples include:
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 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).

I am quite knowledgeable about art history, and always keen to learn more.
Recently indexed: 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 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).

A lifelong interest of mine. 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.

Indexes include: Students with Disabilities and their Transition to Work (Mutanga); Disability, Globalization and Human Rights (Katsui, Chalklen), Occupational Therapy in Australia (Brown et al, eds).

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, Chalklen).

Indexes include: 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). Popular psychology texts and related subjects intended for the general reader would be particularly welcome.

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. Titles for adults have included: Tornadoes and Waterspouts in Ireland, Ancient and Modern (Tyrrell); Churches in the Irish Landscape, AD400-1100 (O Carragain)