Jan Worrall
Location: HAVANT
Membership Grade: Fellow
Contact Info
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General Experience
I have been a Fellow of the Society since 2006 and have produced indexes for many well-known publishing houses with favourable comments often received from editors and authors.
Subject background: I studied education, psychology and sociology at graduate level as part of a joint honours degree and have personal interests in music, art history and social history. I have indexed a variety of books in these areas.
I also welcome texts aimed at the general reader in the areas of psychology, self-help and well-being, parenting and childcare, social history history of art publications, and books on music.
I am a tutor for the SI training course, and from 2013-2021 was responsible for the maintenance and delivery of the course, overseeing a new edition and the introduction of new content.
Subjects
I have indexed a number of texts aimed at the general reader. In 2018 I was involved as an indexer in the creation of the online Chronicle250 review of the history of the RA Summer Exhibitions produced by the Paul Mellon centre for the Royal Academy.
Lifelong interest and participation in classical singing. Books indexed on music education, music therapy, electronic music, music hall and jazz.
I have enjoyed indexing local history accounts and for many years managed library local history collections. Recent texts include a history of Ventnor IOW, and the history of Hughes Hall, Cambridge.
I am particularly interested in social history, and have indexed GCSE texts on a variety of historical periods.
Recent books include:
FREEMAN, M. Ice Blocks from Norway
Psychology studied as part of a degree. Many psychology texts indexed. Popular level psychology texts welcomed.
Several books on counselling and related topics indexed
Several texts indexed in this area
Degree in Education and a particular interest in Early Years education.
I created the index for several editions of the UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report (now the Global Education Monitoring Report) which is circulated to governments throughout the world.
Related qualifications
Other skills
Embedded Indexing
I am familiar with several types of embedded indexing and have produced indexes using MS Word with Word Embed/DEXembed. Linked indexes in Word using IndexLinker.
I have created an online workshop on eBook indexing.
Training In Indexing
I have been involved in training indexers since 2004.
Recent indexes include
Crawford, Lotte, Tirzah Garwood (Modern Women Artists Series), Eiderdown Press, 2023
Clients Include
Hodder Education
Eiderdown Books
Paul Mellon Centre
Individual authors
Special Publication Type
I have indexed a number of children’s non-fiction books and particularly enjoy the challenge of making information accessible to children.
Tools
SKY INDEX
MACREX
WordEmbed, DEXembed, IndexLinker
