Cathryn Pritchard, ​BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), MSocInd(Adv)

I have indexed many books on Architecture, Building and Construction, including sustainable design, inclusive design, building materials, urban design and architecture education.

Recent indexes include:

Cross Laminated Timber, Nic Crawley (RIBA Publishing, 2021)
Essential Urban Design, Rob Cowan (RIBA Publishing, 2021)
Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students, Sofie Pelsmakers, Elizabeth Donovan, Aidan Hoggard and Urszula Kozminska (RIBA Publishing, 2022)
Aluminium: A Studio Design Guide, Michael Stacey (RIBA Publishing, 2023)
Thrive: A field guide for women in architecture, Sumita Singha (RIBA Publishing, 2023)
Materials: An Environmental Primer, Hattie Hartman and Joe Jack Williams, (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
Chudley and Greeno’s Building Construction Handbook, Karl Kovac, Roger Greeno and Roy Chudley (Routledge, 2024)
Regenerative by Design: Creating living buildings and cities, David Cheshire (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
The Inclusive Housing Design Guide, Habinteg Housing Association (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture, Tania Sengupta and Stuart Kingman (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in architecture, Hannah Durham and Grace Choi (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
Sustainable Interior Design, Chloe Bullock (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
All to Play For: How to design child-friendly housing, Dinah Bornat (RIBA Publishing, 2025)

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I have indexed many books in Education including Early Years, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Higher Education, Study Skills, Teaching and Leadership

Recent indexes include:

Lessons from Lockdown, Tony Breslin (Routledge, 2021)
Science Teaching in Secondary Schools , Leigh Hoath and Matthew Livesey (SAGE, 2022)
From Surviving to Thriving: A student’s guide to feeling and doing well at university, Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Paige Williams (SAGE, 2022)
Understanding Music Education, Mary Stakelum (SAGE, 2022)
The Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies, Carolyn Silberfeld (SAGE, 2022)
Punk Leadership: Leading schools differently, Keziah Featherstone (Corwin, 2024)
Madness and Distress in Music Education, Juliet Hess (Routledge, 2024)
Empowering Digital Education with ChatGPT, Mohamed Lahby (CRC Press, 2024)
The Early Years Foundation Stage: Theory and Practice, Ioanna Palaiologou (SAGE, 2024)
Greater Expectations: Enabling Achievement for Disadvantaged Students, Ian Warwick and Alex Crossman (Corwin, 2024)
How to Plan Primary Lessons: Essential Practice and Theory for New Teachers, Lorna Shires (SAGE, 2024)

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I have had a lifetime interest in natural history and conservation, so particularly welcome commissions in these areas.

Recent indexes include:

Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds, Benedict Macdonald (Pelagic Publishing, 2019)
Heathlands (British Wildlife Collection), Clive Chatters (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2021)
Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-change Britain, Sophie Pavelle (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2022)
Hedges (British Wildlife Collection), Robert Wolton (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2023)
Britain’s Living Seas, Hannah Rudd (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2023)
One Garden Against the World, Kate Bradbury (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2024)
Urban Plants (British Wildlife Collection), Trevor Dines (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2025)

Please also see under Ornithology, Entomology and Botany below, or visit my website for further examples.

Recent indexes include:

Behind the Binoculars: Interviews with acclaimed birdwatchers, Mark Avery & Keith Betton (Pelagic Publishing, 2015)
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds, Benedict Macdonald (Pelagic Publishing, 2019)
Vagrancy in Birds, Alexander Lees and James Gilroy (Helm, 2021)
The Tawny Owl, Jeff Martin ((T & AD Poyser, 2022)
The Osprey, Tim Mackrill (T & AD Poyser, 2023)
Owls of Europe, Wolfgang Scherzinger and Theodor Mebs (Helm, 2024)
The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit, Richard K. Broughton (T & AD Poyser, 2024)
The Great Auk, Tim Birkhead (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2025)

Recent indexes include:

Leaf Beetles (Naturalists Handbooks), Dave Hubble (Pelagic Publishing, 2017)
Butterflies (British Wildlife Collection), Martin Warren (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2021)
His Imperial Majesty: A Natural History of the Purple Emperor, Matthew Oates (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2021)
Ants (British Wildlife Collection), Richard Jones (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2022)

Recent indexes include:

Woodland Flowers (British Wildlife Collection), Keith Kirby (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2020)
Urban Plants (British Wildlife Collection), Trevor Dines (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2025)

Recent indexes include:

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology (Second Edition), Ian Douglas, et al., eds. (Routledge, 2020)
An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis, Martin Wegmann, Jakob Schwalb-Willmann & Stefan Dech (Pelagic Publishing, 2020)
Urban Evolutionary Biology, Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South & Anne Charmantier (OUP, 2020)
Ecology of Coastal Marine Sediments, Simon F. Thrush, Judi E. Hewitt, Conrad A. Pilditch & Alf Norkko (OUP, 2021)

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I have a degree in Geosciences which covered geology, geophysics, earth systems science, evolution, oceanography and geohazards.

I have indexed many books in areas of the subject, including Geology and Palaeontology. Recent indexes include:

Forensic Soil Science and Geology (Geological Society, 2021)
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (Geological Society, 2022)
Mesozoic Biological Events and Ecosystems in East Asia (Geological Society, 2022)
A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 2 (Geological Society, 2023)
The Consummate Geoscientist (Geological Society, 2023)
Supercontinents, Orogenesis and Magmatism (Geological Society, 2024)
Geological Mapping of Our World and Others (Geological Society, 2024)
Meandering Streamflows (Geological Society, 2024)
Cretaceous Project 200 Volume 1: the Cretaceous World (Geological Society, 2025)

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Please see Earth Sciences section above.

I studied areas of environmental science as part of my Geosciences degree and have indexed many books on the environment.

Subject areas indexed include Environmental Science, Climate Change, Sustainability, Green Economy, Renewable Energies and Sustainable Building. Recent indexes include:

Global Environmental Politics, Jean-Frédéric Morin, Amandine Orsini & Sikina Jinnah (OUP, 2020)
The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change, Gwen Robbins Schug (Routledge, 2020)
Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, C. Parker Krieg & Reetta Toivanen (Helsinki University Press, 2021)
Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities, David C. Major & Sirkku Juhola (Helsinki University Press, 2021)
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis, Alice Bell (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021)
Designing for the Climate Emergency, Sofie Pelsmakers, Elizabeth Donovan, Aidan Hoggard and Urszula Kozminska (RIBA Publishing, 2022)

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I’ve indexed many books in Ecology, Natural History, Ornithology, Entomology and Botany. Please see these categories above for example indexes.

Other areas of particular interest are Evolution and Genetics. I studied evolution as part of my Geosciences degree. Recent indexes in these areas include:

Urban Evolutionary Biology, Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South & Anne Charmantier (OUP, 2020)
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution, Elsa Panciroli (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021)
The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution, J. Arvid Ågren (OUP, 2021)

I particularly welcome works in all areas of biology for a general readership.

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I have a degree in Geosciences which covered geology, geophysics, earth systems science, evolution, oceanography and geohazards.

I’ve indexed many books in Earth Sciences, Geology, Environmental Science, Biology, Ecology, Natural History, Entomology and Ornithology. Please see these categories above for example indexes.

I also index all areas of Popular Science, recent indexes include:

Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics, Nicholas Mee (OUP, 2020)
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, Emma Chapman (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020)
Models of the Mind, Grace Lindsay (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021)
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution, Elsa Panciroli (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021)
Colliding Worlds: How Cosmic Encounters Shaped Planets and Life, Simone Marchi (OUP, 2021)
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces, Laurie Winkless (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021)
Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science of Life, Jules Howard (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2022)
The Power of Nuclear, Marco Visscher (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2024)

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I have indexed many books on Psychology, Counselling, Therapy and Coaching.

Recent indexes include:

Coaching – What Really Works, Jenny Rogers (SAGE 2021)
Forensic Psychology: Fact and Fiction, Thomas Davis (Red Globe Press, 2021)
The Psychology of Covid-19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics, Joel Vos (SAGE, 2021)
Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation, Emily J. Salisbury and Patricia Van Voorhis (Routledge, 2022)
Managing Social Anxiety in Children and Young People, Sue Jennings (Routledge, 2022)
The Handbook of Grief Therapies, Edith Maria Steffen, Evgenia Milman and Robert A. Neimeyer (SAGE, 2022)
The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Terry Hanley and Laura Anne Winter (SAGE, 2023)
The Complete Handbook of Coaching, Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova and David A. Clutterbuck (SAGE, 2023)
Counselling Skills and Studies, Fiona Ballantine Dykes, Traci Postings and Barry Kopp (SAGE, 2024)
Relational Counselling and Psychotherapy, Linda Finlay (SAGE, 2024)
Good Practice in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, Windy Dryden (Routledge, 2024)
How to Think and Intervene Like an REBT Therapist, Windy Dryden (Routledge, 2024)

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Recent indexes include:

Ebola: Profile of a Killer Virus, Dorothy H. Crawford (OUP, 2016)
Viral Pandemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19, Rae-Ellen W. Kavey & Allison B. Kavey (Routledge, 2020)
Diabetes Management: A Manual for Patient-Centred Care, Janet Titchener (CRC Press, 2020)
The Psychology of Covid-19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics, Joel Vos (SAGE, 2021)
Fundamentals for Public Health Practice, Amanda Holland, Kate Phillips, Michelle Moseley and Lorraine Joomun (SAGE, 2022)
Advances in Mobile Health Technology, Sinjini Mitra (Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022)
Global Health Governance, Sophie Harman and Andreas Papamichail (Routledge, 2024)

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Recent indexes include:

Diabetes Management: A Manual for Patient-Centred Care, Janet Titchener (CRC Press, 2020)
Improving Quality in Healthcare, Murray Anderson-Wallace and Nick Downham (SAGE, 2024)
Global Health Governance, Sophie Harman and Andreas Papamichail (Routledge, 2024)

Recent indexes include:

Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn’t Have To, Margee Kerr & Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021)