Sharon Laverick, BA, MCILIP

My experience at HMRC and HM Treasury gave me a good grounding in finance and accounts, but my knowledge of stockmarkets, investments and banking developed whilst at the investment company Fidelity, and then with the nationwide property company Chesterton. I also gained a good understanding of business theory and analysis.

Books indexed include:

Venturing in International Firms by Christopher Williams (Sunrise Setting)

How to Coach your Team by Pam Jones and Angela Jowitt (Pearson Education)

Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge between Performance and Progress edited by Subramanian Rangan (Oxford University Press)

Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History by Youssef Cassis, Richard S. Grossman and Catherine R. Schenk (Editors) (Oxford University Press)

Smart Portfolios by Robert Carver (Harriman House)

The Stockpicker: a financial history from the sharp end by Paul Mumford (Harriman House)

Financing Water Security and Green Growth by Robert C. Brears (Oxford University Press)

My History degree focused on areas such as social and economic history, landscape and local history and some of the major changes in Britain and Europe wrought by extensive religious and political changes, and I have maintained an ongoing interest in these areas as well as undertaking research into family history.

Books indexed include:

Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages by Brian Fitzgerald (Oxford University Press)

Champion: the Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape by Dave Chaffey and P.R.Smith (Routledge)

The Minoans: Lost Civilisations by Ellen Adams (Reaktion Books)

Remembering the Irish Revolution Dissent, Culture, and Nationalism in the Irish Free State by Frances Flanagan (Oxford University Press)

A History of the World’s Religions by David S. Noss and Blake R. Grangaard (Routledge)

After the Berlin Wall: A History of the EBRD, Volume 1 by Andrew Kilpatrick (Central European University Press)

As a subject librarian for Architecture at De Montfort University, I learned much about architectural practices, techniques, movements and individual buildings.

Books indexed include:

Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich 1950-2000 by Ana Sutherland (Studio Blackburn)

The Making of our Urban Landscape by Geoffrey Tyack (Oxford University Press)

I have indexed and written abstracts for articles appearing in many art journals, and have an interest generally in the history of art.

Books indexed include:

Arts & Crafts Stained Glass by Peter Cormack (Yale University Press)

The Art of the Erotic by Rowan Pelling (Phaidon Press)

Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s (Phaidon Press)

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures mid-1977-1980 (Volume 6) by the Andy Warhol Foundation (Phaidon Press)

My interest in economics stems from my time working in HM Treasury, and has been enhanced by the various roles I have had since which touch on this area in a number of different ways.

Books indexed include:

Building State Capability by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock (Oxfprd University Press)

Microeconomics in Words by Gregory Besharov (Oxford University Press)

Economics for Business by Andrew Gillespie (Oxford University Press)

The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence by Ernest Aryeetey and Ravi Kanbur (Oxford University Press)

The Chinese Macroeconomy and Financial System: a US Perspective by Ronald M. Schramm (Routledge)

I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority whilst employed at De Montfort University, drawing on my extensive learning and teaching experience there.

Books indexed include:

Your Education Research Project Handbook
by Dr Anthony Coles and Dr James McGrath (Longman)

How to Pay for College: A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child’s Education by Ann Garcia (Harriman House)

The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning by Ana Lorena Fábrega (Harriman House)

From my studies and subsequent employment in government and corporate libraries I have developed a keen awareness of national and international politics and economics.

Books indexed include:

The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within by Erica Frantz and Andrea Kendall-Taylor (Oxford University Press)

The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change, Revised and Updated Edition (Russian Strategy and Power) by Andrew Monaghan (Manchester University Press)

Rethinking American Women’s Activism (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century) by Annelise Orleck (Routledge)

Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain by James Curran and Jean Seaton (Routledge)

As a subject librarian for Fashion at De Montfort University I really loved learning about the world of fashion styling, management and buying as well as the specialisms of footwear and contour fashion.

I am passionate about our historical and environmental heritage and really value studies and research in these areas.

I have always maintained a keen interest in the heritage, culture and environment of the many places I have visited in Europe and other parts of the world, making the most of opportunities to learn about the localities.