Penelope Kent, BA (Hons)
Location: Kent
Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
I began indexing in 2001 and since then I have produced hundreds of back-of-the-book indexes for both an academic and general readership and including school books and textbooks.
I index a wide range of subjects in the arts and social sciences, and have a particular interest in politics and in art and design.
Prior to indexing, I qualified with the Institute of Personnel Management and spent fifteen years working in human resources and administration.
Subjects
Recent indexes include The Far-Right in Ireland (Ahmed, 2025),Party Politics in America 19e (Hershey and Burden, 2025),Capitalism Reloaded (Bloom, 2025), The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism (Chiodelli and Moroni, 2025), Politics and Policy Making in the UK (Cairney and Kippin, 2023), The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract (Devellennes, 2022)
Indexes include The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography (eds. Luna, Ross, Sherin, Singh and Walker, 2025), Political Illustration (Moore and Hauser, 2025), Thinking Through Graphic Design History (Toppins, 2025), Gateways to Drawing 2e (Garner, 2023), Illustration and Heritage (Taylor, 2024), Working with Design Clients (Meharry and Dee, 2024), Imprimerie Catholique 1848-2000 (Smitshuijzen-AbiFarès and Kortbawis, 2023), Illustrated Men (O’Neal, 2023), Information Design Unbound (Pontis and Babwahsingh, 2023).
Indexes include Teaching Writing to English Language Learners in the Elementary Classroom (eds. Bhowmik and Kim, 2025), Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools (eds. Theoharis and Scanlan, 2025), Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times, 3e (Shapiro, Gross and Shapiro, 2025), Key Texts on Interdisciplinary Higher Education (ed. van der Tuin, 2025), Principles of Dynamnic Pedagogy (Armour-Thomas and Gordon, 2025), Creativity for Teachers (Badger and Firth, 2025), Teaching Climate Change (Owen and Taylor, 2025) Becoming Readers and Writers (Wagner, Frankel and Leighton, 2023), Rethinking Teacher Professional Development (Freeman, 2024), Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia (Duarte, Loslebe and Fjørtof, 2023).
Indexes include Time for Architecture (Adam, 2021), Architecture and Affect (Chee, 2024), Urban Architectures in Interwar Yugoslavia (Conley, 2020), Architecture and Identity 3e (Abel), Adaptable Architecture (Schmidt and Austin) and Residential Architecture as Infrastructure (ed. Kendall).
Indexes include Geographical Thought 2e (Nayak and Jeffrey, 2025), Disasters and Changes in Society and Politics (ed. Forino, 2024), Geography Through Enquiry 2e (Roberts, 2023), African Cities and Collaborative Futures (eds. Keith and Aruska de Souza Santos, 2021).
Recent indexes include Welcoming Cities (Broadhead, 2025), Navigating Societal Change Through Design (Striegler and Hjort, 2025),Care Poverty and Unmet Needs (eds. Kröger, Brimblecombe, Rodrigues and Rummery, 2025).
Indexes include Living on the Edge (Keller, Oterholm, Paulsen and van Breda, 2023), A History of the Personal Social Services in England (Jones, 2020), In Whose Interest? (Jones, 2018), Mental Health Social Work Reimagined (Cummins, 2019), Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People (Mallon, 2017)
Indexes include The Colour of Clothes (Blackman, 2025), Fashion, Disability, and Co-design (Jun, 2024), Global Fashion Business (Jin, 2024), Retail Buying From Basics to Fashion 7e (Clodfelter, 2022).
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Related qualifications
Clients Include
Axelos
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Bristol University Press
Geographical Association
Hodder Education
Policy Press
Routledge
Thames & Hudson
Whiting & Birch
Special Publication Type
Turner Fine Foods catalogue and the 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions of Brakes catering catalogue.
Various children’s books including over 50 titles for Hungry Tomato.
GCSE, AS, A Level, and IB Diploma textbooks published by Hodder Education, Oxford University Press, Macmillan and Pearson in many subjects including history, politics, religious studies, business, psychology and design and technology.
Undergraduate textbooks: subjects including politics, sociology, psychology and geography for Routledge.
BTEC and NVQ textbooks: subjects including business, sport, construction, hairdressing and painting and decorating for Oxford University Press, City & Guilds and Pearson.
Business training titles for Axelos.
Tools
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