Sharon Redmayne, BA, LLM, MSocInd(Adv)

Location: BRISTOL

Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member

Contact Info

Phone: 0117 904 8191
Mobile: 07852146672
Email: [email protected]

General Experience

I qualified as an indexer in 2009, and am now an Advanced Professional Member of the Society of Indexers. Over the years I have indexed over 300 books, catalogues and journals.
I have a legal background, and have also worked in legal, social and health policy research, working at the Law Commission, and then at Bath University’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy. Prior to that I was in human resource management.

Subjects

Natural History

I have indexed Westonbirt Arboreteum’s quarterly magazine for nine years (2008-2016).
Indexes include: Wildlife Criminology, Angus Nurse and Tanya Wyatt (Bristol University Press)
Future Sea, Deborah Rowan Wright (University of Chicago Press)

Healthcare Management

I have worked as a researcher on several health policy projects, and written and co-authored several reports and a book.
Indexes include:

Organizational Capacity Building in Health Systems, Niyi Awofeso (Routledge)
Governance, Commissioning and Public Health, Linda Marks (Policy Press)
Healthcare in Transition, Alan Cribb (Policy Press)
The Future for Health Promotion, Colin Palfrey (Policy Press)

Human Resources

I have a postgraduate qualification in personnel management, and have worked in human resources.
Indexes include:

Human Resource Management in Context, David Farnham (CIPD)
Resourcing and Talent Management, Stephen Taylor (CIPD)
Introduction to Organizational Behaviour, Michael Butler & Edward Rose (CIPD)
The Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice, Monica Hanaway (Routledge)
Where’s the ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management?, Michael Gold & Chris Smith, (Bristol University Press)

Cookery Books

Indexes include:

Le Petit Paris, Nathalie Benezet (Hardie Grant)
Paris Pastry Club, Fanny Zanotti (Hardie Grant)

-Government and Politics

Indexes include:

State-Centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea, Hyuk-Rae Kim (Routledge)
The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security, Efraim Inbar (ed), (Routledge)
Politics and Governance in Indonesia, Muradi (Routledge)
Reconstructing Afghanistan, William Maley and Susanne Schmeidl (Routledge)
Militant Democracy, Svetlana Tyulkina (Routledge)
Turkish AK Party and Its Leader, Unit Cizare & Burhanettin Duran (eds) (Routledge)
A Companion to State Power, Liberties and Rights, Sharon Morley, Jo Turner, Karen Corteen, Paul Taylor (Policy Press)
Syrian Foreign Policy, Francesco Belcastro (Routledge)
US Foreign Policy, Richard Johnson (Bristol University Press)
The Rules of Democracy, Marcial Bragadini Boo (Policy Press)

Social Policy

I have worked as a researcher on several social policy projects in a previous job.
I have indexed many social policy books, recent examples include:

Welfare, Populism, and Welfare Chauvinism, Ben Greve (Policy Press)
Critical Practice with Children and Young People, Martin Robb et al (eds) (Policy Press)
Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare, Martin Powell (ed) (Policy Press)
Poverty Propaganda, Tracy Shildrick (Policy Press)
The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook, Rachel Hubbard and Kevin Stone (Policy Press)
The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook, Kate Spreadbury and Rachel Hubbard (Policy Press)
Austerity, Women, and the Role of the State, Vicki Dabrowski (Bristol University Press)
The Short Guide to Community Development, Alison Gilchrist & Marilyn Taylor (Policy Press)

-History and The Past

Recent indexes include:

The Knights Templar, (Amber Books)
Greek Myths, Martin J. Doughty (Amber Books)
Plantagenets, Ben Hubbard (Amber Books)
Women, Peace and Welfare, Ann Oakley (Policy Press)
Russian Liberals and the Revolution of 1905, Peter Enticott (Routledge)
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the birth of England, Michael Livingston (Osprey)
Cuzco 1536-37, Si Sheppard (Osprey)

Military History

I have indexed many military history books from a wide range of historical periods, including books about specific wars, weapons and soldiers. Examples are:

The Aleutians 1942-43, Brian Lane Herder (Osprey)
Charlie Company’s Journey Home, Andrew Wiest (Osprey)
German Weapons of WWII, Stephen Hart (Amber Books)
The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136, Lindsay Powell (Osprey)
British Destroyers 1939-45, Angus Kostam (Osprey)
Armies of the Italian-Turkish War, Gabriele Eposito (Osprey)
Tanks of the Easter Offensive 1972, William E. Hiestand (Osprey)

Law (All Areas)

I have a BA in Law, and a Masters in Law, and have worked previously at the Law Commission.
Indexes include:

Cluster Munitions and International Law, Alexander Breitegger (Routledge)
Privatising Probation, John Deering and Martina Feilzer (Policy Press)
The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court, Serena Sharma (Routledge)
The Short Guide to Criminal Justice, Lisa O’Malley and Sharon Grace (Policy Press)
The Essential Guide to Planning Law, Adam Sheppard et al (Policy Press)
Enemies of the People: How judges shape society,Joshua Rozenberg (Bristol University Press)
Law Through the Life Course, Jonathan Herring (Bristol University Press)
Pandemic Legalities, Dave Cowan and Ann Mumford (eds) (Bristol University Press)
Policing the Pandemic, Lambros Fatsis & Melayna Lamb (Policy Press)

Cricket

I have a personal interest in playing and watching sport – particularly cricket, having played it and been an occasional volunteer scorer.

Social Sciences (All Areas)

As well as social policy and healthcare management mentioned above, I have also indexed books in other areas of the social sciences, including:

Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls, Yiming Wang (Routledge)
Media and Governance, Thomas Schillemans & Jon Pierre (eds) (Policy Press)
Evidence Based Policing, Renee Mitchell and Laura Huey (eds) (Policy press)
Brain Development and School, Pat Guy (Routledge)
Human Rights and Equality in Education, Sandra Fredman et al (eds) (Policy Press)
Radical Empathy, Terri E. Givens (Policy Press)

Current Affairs

Recent indexes include:

Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty, Jo Boyden et al (Policy Press)
Everyday Europe: Social Transnationalism in an Unsettled Continent, Ettore Recchi et al (eds) (Policy Press)
Protest Camps in an International Context, Gavin Brown et al (eds) (Policy Press)
Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites, Samer Bagaeen and Celia Clark (eds) (Routledge)
People Powered Money: Community Currencies in Action (New Economics Foundation)
Terrorism Online, Lee Jarvis et al (eds) (Routledge)
Anarchist Cybernetics, Thomas Swann (Bristol University Press)
Contemporary Iran, Farhang Morady (Bristol University Press)
Urgent Business, Ian Thomson & Dominic Banks (Bristol University Press)
US Foreign Policy, Richard Johnson (Bristol University Press)

Pets

Indexes include:

Dog About Town, Louise Glazebrook (Hardie Grant)
The Pawfect Guide to Thinking Like a Dog (Amber Books)
The Purrfect Guide to Thinking Like a Cat (Amber Books)

Ecology

I have indexed a number of books concerning environmental and ecological issues.

Cities Demanding the Earth, Peter J. Taylor, Geoff O’Brien, Phil O’Keefe (Bristol University Press)
Wildlife Criminology, Angus Nurse and Tanya Wyatt (Bristol University Press)
Future Sea, Deborah Rowan Wright (University of Chicago Press)

Social Work

I have indexed many books about social work and social services. Most recent include:

Change and Continuity in Children’s Services, Roy Parker (Policy Press)
Social Work with People with Learning Difficulties, Susan Hunter and Denis Rowley (Policy Press)
Direct Payments and Personal Budgets, Jon Glasby & Rosemary Littlechild (Policy Press)
Global Social Work in a Political Context, Iain Ferguson, Vasilios Ioakimidis, Michael Lavalette (Policy Press)
Critical Practice with Children and Young People, Martin Robb, Rachel Thomson, Heather Montgomery (eds), (Policy Press)
Social Work and Society, Kate Parkinson and Ian Cummins (eds), (Policy Press)
The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook, Kate Spreadbury and Rachel Hubbard (Policy Press)

Warfare/Defence

Along with military history (see above), I have indexed a number of titles concerning general military/warfare and defence issues, both contemporary and historical.

Cluster Munitions and International Law, Alexander Breitegger (Routledge)
Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, Christos Frentzos and Antonio S. Thompson (eds), (Routledge)
EU Global Strategy and Human Security, Mary Kaldor, Iavor Rangelov, Sabine Selchow (eds), (Routledge)
The Illustrated Art of War, Sun Tzu (Amber Books)
Reshaping the Chinese Military, Richard A. Bitzinger and James Char (eds), (Routledge)
Military Strategies of Middle Powers, Hakan Edstrom and Jacob Westberg (Routledge)
Vicarious Warfare, Thomas Waldman (Bristol University Press)
Terrorism Online, Lee Jarvis, Stuart MacDonald, Thomas M. Chen (eds), (Routledge)

Housing

I have indexed a range of books covering various aspects of land use, housing and planning. (And see also urban development)

Whose Land is our Land?, Peter Hetherington (Policy Press)
English Planning in Crisis, Hugh Ellis and Kate Henderson (Policy Press)
The Essential Guide to Planning Law, Adam Sheppard, Deborah Peel, Heather Richie, Sophie Berry (Policy Press)
How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside, Shaun Spiers (Policy Press)

Urban Development

I have indexed a number of books concerning urban studies, including:

English Planning in Crisis, Hugh Ellis and Kate Henderson (Policy Press)
Cities for a Small Continent, Anne Power (Policy Press)
Spatial Planning and Resilience Following Disasters, Stefan Grieving et al (eds), (Policy Press)
The City in China, Ray Forrest, Julie Ren, Bart Wissink (eds), Bristol University Press
Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls, Yiming Wang (Routledge)
Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes, Andrew Mackenzie (Routledge)
Cities Demanding the Earth, Peter J. Taylor, Geoff O’Brien & Phil O’Keefe (Bristol University Press)
Engaging Comparative Urbanism, Julie Ren (Bristol University Press)
The Forgotten City, Phil Allmendinger (Policy Press)

Gender Studies

Recent indexes in this area include:

Female Serial Killers in a Social Context, Elizabeth Yardley & David Wilson (Policy Press)
Women and Criminal Justice, Jill Annison, Jo Brayford & John Deering (eds), (Policy Press)
International Courts and the African Woman Judge, Josephine Dawuni & Akua Kuenyehia (eds), (Routledge)
Women, Peace and Welfare, Ann Oakley (Policy Press)
Fathers, Families and Relationships, Esther Dermott & Caroline Gatrell (eds) (Policy Press)
Women and Religion, Elisabetta Ruspini, Glenda Tibe Boniface, Consuelo Corradi (eds), (Policy Press)
Women’s Work, Zoe Young (Bristol University Press)
Femicide Across Europe, Shalva Weil, Consuelo Corradi, Marceline Naudi (eds), (Policy Press)
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere, Ann Brooks (Policy Press)
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, Vicki Dabrowski (Bristol University Press)
Masculinities, Gender and International Relations, Terrell Carver & Laura Lyddon (Bristol University Press)

Education (All Areas)

I have indexed several books covering a wide variety of educational issues, including:

Education, Equality and Human Rights, Mike Cole (ed), (Routledge)
Human Rights and Equality in Education, Sandra Freeman, Meghan Campbell, Helen Taylor (eds), (Policy Press)
Brain Development and School, Pat Guy (Routledge)
Who Are Universities For? Tom Sperlinger (Bristol University Press)
Generational Encounters with Higher Education, Jennie Bristow, Sarah Cant, Anwesa Chatterjee (Policy Press)
The Education Debate(4th ed), Stephen J. Ball (Policy Press)

Related qualifications

Qualified Proofreader


Other skills

Proofreading
I qualified as a proofreader with merit

Research
I worked as a researcher at the Law Commission, and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy at Bath University

Writing
As a researcher at Bath University, I wrote and co-wrote several published reports, monographs and a book on health and social policy.

Recent indexes include

Helen Kara, Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners, Policy Press, 2023
John Shi, The Junior Medical Officer’s Guide to the Hospital Universe: A Survival Guide, CRC Press, 2022
Timothy J.Orr, The Battle of Gettysburg, Osprey, 2024
Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum, Westonbirt Quarterly Magazine, 2008 - 2016
Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins, Kandida Purnell (eds), When This is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic, Policy Press, 2023
Alison L. Young, Unchecked Power? How Recent Constitutional Reforms are Threatening UK Democracy, Bristol University Press, 2023
Tim Lankester, Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment, Policy Press, 2024
Ryan Cunningham, Modern Chinese Military Aircraft, Amber Books, 2024

Clients Include

Bristol University Press/Policy Press, Osprey, Amber Books, Pearson, CRC Press

Special Publication Type

Catalogues

I have regularly indexed the book catalogues for both Amber Books and Egmont Books.

Children's Books And Materials

Indexes for children’s books include:
Monsters in the Night, Lisa Regan (Amber Books)
Fearsome Beasts (Amber Books)
Dinosaurs of the Jurassic World (Amber Books)

Newspapers And Magazines

I have indexed the quarterly magazine for Westonbirt Arboretum for nine years (2008-2016)

School Books

I have indexed various school textbooks:
New GCSE Science, Student Book: OCR Gateway (Collins)
New GCSE Science – Additional Science, Student Book: OCR Gateway (Collins)
GCSE Computer Science (Pearson)
The USA 1918-41 (Edexcel iGCSE textbook) (Pearson)
Germany: Development of a Dictatorship 1918-45 (Edexcel iGCSE textbook) (Pearson)

Tools

SKY INDEX