Penelope Kent, BA (Hons)
Location: Kent
Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
I have indexed professionally since 2001, producing hundreds of indexes in a wide range of subjects, mainly in the arts and social sciences.
Prior to indexing I qualified with the Institute of Personnel Management and worked in human resources and administration.
Subjects
I have always been very interested in politics and I have an honours degree in Politics and Modern History. Indexes include Cities Against Democratic Backsliding (Lackowska, Long, Aksztejn and Tosics, 2026), The Far-Right in Ireland (Ahmed, 2025), Capitalism Reloaded (Bloom, 2025), The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism (Chiodelli and Moroni, 2025), Party Politics in America 19e (Hershey and Burden, 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), Working with Design Clients (Meharry and Dee, 2024), Illustration and Heritage (Taylor, 2024), Gateways to Drawing 2e (Garner, 2023), Illustrated Men (O’Neal, 2023), Information Design Unbound (Pontis and Babwahsingh, 2023), Imprimerie Catholique 1848-2000 (Smitshuijzen-AbiFarès and Kortbawis, 2023).
Indexes include The New Dress Detective (Mida, 2026), The Colour of Clothes (Blackman, 2025), Global Fashion Business (Jin, 2024), Fashion, Disability, and Co-design (Jun, 2024), Retail Buying From Basics to Fashion 7e (Clodfelter, 2022).
Indexes include Demystifying Adaptive Teaching (Pearce, 2026), Principles of Dynamic Pedagogy (Armour-Thomas and Gordon, 2025), Creativity for Teachers (Badger and Firth, 2025), Teaching Writing to English Language Learners in the Elementary Classroom (eds. Bhowmik and Kim, 2025), A High School English Teacher’s Guide to Writing Literary Analysis (Conter, Ehrenworth and Gould, 2025), Teaching Climate Change (Owen and Taylor, 2025), Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times 3e (Shapiro, Gross and Shapiro, 2025), Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools (eds. Theoharis and Scanlan, 2025).
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).
Indexes include Healthy Ageing (eds Phillips and Douglas, 2026), Welcoming Cities (Broadhead, 2025), Care Poverty and Unmet Needs (eds. Kröger, Brimblecombe, Rodrigues and Rummery, 2025) Navigating Societal Change Through Design (Striegler and Hjort, 2025).
I have a lot of experience in sewing and dressmaking, including making curtains, blinds and soft furnishings, and I would like to index books in this subject area.
I worked in human resources prior to indexing.
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
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.
I have indexed many titles for Hungry Tomato.
Turner Fine Foods and Brakes catalogues.
Tools
SKY INDEX
