Yvonne Dixon
Location: Oxford
Membership Grade: Fellow
Contact Info
General Experience
Indexer and proofreader since 1986 and Fellow of the Society of Indexers. My initial training was in-house with a publisher specializing in loose-leaf company law and tax guides. My personal interests include meditation and Qigong. I have also worked as an Adlerian counsellor, Quaker prison chaplain, and have a degree in French and German and teaching qualification.
Subjects
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Professional experience as secondary and adult education tutor (languages) and experience of indexing academic titles.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers. I have also worked as a prison chaplain and take an active interest in criminal justice matters.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained in initial in-house training and subsequent experience with academic and professional publishers.
Experience gained from degree subject and professional work as a secondary and adult education tutor.
Experience gained from degree subject and professional work as a secondary and adult education tutor.
Experience as a nursing assistant before training as a teacher.
Experience as a nursing assistant before training as a teacher.
Experience as a psychiatric nursing assistant before training as a teacher. Work as an Adlerian counsellor/psychotherapist and prison chaplain.
Experience of indexing a wide variety of academic texts, also personal experience working as a prison chaplain.
Particular interest in and experience of Sufism and Daoism.
Experience of indexing a wide variety of academic texts, also personal experience working as a prison chaplain.
Qigong practitioner for over 25 years. I also work as a volunteer for the Prison Phoenix Trust which promotes meditation and yoga in prisons.
Experience indexing for academic and professional publishers. Having worked as a prison chaplain, I take an active interest in criminal justice matters, and volunteer for the Prison Phoenix Trust which promotes meditation and yoga in prisons.
Practised Karate for over 20 years in the past (2nd Dan black belt) and Judo. Still practise Qigong, Chen-style Taijiquan and Chinese Wushu (Chun Yuen Quan).
Related qualifications
PGCE (Oxford)
Other skills
Proofreading
Professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders.
Recent indexes include
Benjamin Bateman, Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2022
Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing, Manchester University Press, 2022
Steven Lewis & Rebecca Spratt, Assembling Comparison: Understanding Education Policy Through Mobilities and Assemblage, University of Bristol Press, 2023
David Marshall, Effective Investigation of Child Homicide and Suspicious Deaths (2e), Oxford University Press, 2023
Clients Include
Oxford University Press
Manchester University Press
University of Bristol Press
UCL Press
Edward Elgar
