Kate McIntosh, MA
Location: Birchington
Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member
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General Experience
I am a qualified law librarian and after 8 years working in law firms in London and Edinburgh, I began freelance indexing, abstracting, editing and proofreading for companies and individuals in 2009.
I index academic and general interest books and journals in a wide range of subjects, including: UK, EU and international law; history; government and politics; and social sciences. I have also indexed books on religious history; arts and crafts; photography; travel; cinema and film; and ethics.
I have extensive experience creating traditional and embedded indexes using Index Manager.
I am available all year and am used to working with publishing houses and agencies as well as directly with authors. If I have availability I am happy to take on projects at short notice. I speak and read French and Italian fluently.
“A well-crafted index can unlock many important aspects of a book. Kate McIntosh is a pleasure to work with: she is talented, prompt, professional, and collaborative. She was also willing to accommodate different formatting needs. The index she created for my book is thorough, precise, and polished.” – Dr Stephanie O’Rourke, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews
“It has been a real pleasure working together with Kate who has provided indexes of very high quality for both of my recent monographs.” – Professor Christian Olaf Christiansen, Professor in Intellectual History, Aarhus University, Denmark
Subjects
I index books and journals on a variety of topics, including: charities law, company law, competition law, contract law, criminal law, employment law, environmental law, equality law, equity, EU law, family law, housing law, human rights law, immigration law, international law, land law, landlord and tenant, law and ethics, legal history, personal injury, planning law, popular law, private international law, public international law, shipping law, tort law, transport law and trusts.
Indexes include:
The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law, 2025
A Practitioner’s Guide to the Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent, 2025
Copyright and Anonymity in the Creative User-Generated World, 2025
Private International Law in Russia, 2024
Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2: Constitutional Amendments, 2024
Jackson and Powell on Professional Negligence, since 2016
Colinvaux’s Law of Insurance, since 2017
Mental Health Act Manual, since 2013
I have experience indexing books in many fields of social policy, including: rights and obligations, retirement and pensions, employment, housing, LGBT studies, and social work.
Indexes include:
Neurodivergence within the Police Force, 2025
Victim Engagement in Transitional Justice, 2025
Designing Global Economic Equality, 2025
Sustaining Access to Justice: New Avenues for Costs and Funding, 2025
The Case for Climate Assemblies: Bringing Public Wisdom into the Climate Crisis, 2024
Difference and Sameness in Schools, 2024
We Are All Migrants, 2022
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy, 2022
Protecting Life by Investigating Death: Human Rights Obligations to Investigate the Deaths of Migrants and Refugees, 2022
I have indexed a number of books on economics, economic policy, finance and monetary policy. Books include:
Transnational Mortgage Law: Reconstructing the Global Framework for Housing Finance, 2025
Reforming Public Procurement Law: Liber Amicorum in honour of Sue Arrowsmith, 2024
Financial Market Infrastructure and Economic Integration, 2023
Procurement by International Organizations: a global administrative law perspective, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting, 2017
I index history books and have experience indexing books about a variety of periods and aspects of life.
Indexes include:
Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War, 2025
End of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved African people, 2025
General Luigi Cadorna, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army between 1914 and 1917, 2025
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands, 2025
Tokugawa Japan’s and Pacific Ocean trade in the early seventeenth century, 2025
When Men Fought Propaganda Wars: Ideology and Utopia in Early Comparative Communications, 2024
Indexes include:
Picturing the Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780-1850, 2025
Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy, 2025
Art, Science, the Body and Romanticism, 2020
Indexes include:
The NPPF Handbook: NPPF and Policies for Development Management, 2025
Procurement by International Organizations: a global administrative law perspective, 2018
Ethical Business Practice and Regulation: A Behavioural and Values-Based Approach to Compliance and Enforcement, 2017
Time on Our Side: Why we all need a shorter working week, 2013
Indexes include:
Collaboration through Craft, 2013
Indexes include:
Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy, 2025
The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film, 2015
Related qualifications
Other skills
Embedded Indexing
I have extensive experience creating embedded indexes with Index Manager.
Taxonomic Indexing
I have clients for whom I index using an in-house taxonomy.
Proofreading
I have over 15 years experience proofreading (law, social policy, popular law, legal history, art and design, and child health).
Abstracting
I have experience abstracting in the fields of law and social policy (including local government, housing, public health).
Recent indexes include
Joshua Paul Batts, Tokugawa Japan’s and Pacific Ocean trade in the early seventeenth century, CUP, 2025
Lys Kulamadayil, The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law, Hart Publishing, 2024
Professor John Uff, Construction Law (14th ed), Sweet and Maxwell, 2025
Dr Stephanie O'Rourke, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and its colonial networks 1780 to 1850, University of Chicago Press, 2025
Dr Selena Daly, Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War, CUP, 2025
Dr Marco Mondini, The Generalissimo: Luigi Cadorna and the Italian Army, 1850–1928, CUP, 2025
Brian Conway; Lene Kühle; Francesco Alicino; Gabriel Bîrsan (eds), Religion, Law, and COVID-19 in Europe: A Comparative Analysis, Helsinki University Press, 2024
Professor Naila Kabeer, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, Ubiquity Press, 2024
Clients Include
Clients include: Hart Publishing; Sweet and Maxwell; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing; Ubiquity; Intersentia; Palgrave Macmillan; Avizandum; Edward Elgar Publishing; Taylor and Francis. I also regularly work directly with authors.
Special Publication Type
Including:
Construction Law Journal, Sweet and Maxwell
Entertainment Law Review, Sweet and Maxwell
European Competition Law Review, Sweet and Maxwell
European Intellectual Property Review, Sweet and Maxwell
Housing Law Reports, Sweet and Maxwell
International Litigation Procedure, Sweet and Maxwell
Journal of Housing Law, Sweet and Maxwell
Property, Planning and Compensation Reports (Sweet and Maxwell)
Tools
PC
INDEX MANAGER
Microsoft Word and Excel
