Kate McIntosh, MA

Location: Birchington, Kent

Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member

Contact Info

Mobile: 07869 401 955
Email: [email protected]

General Experience

I am a qualified law librarian and after 8 years working in law firms in London and Edinburgh, I began freelance indexing, abstracting, editing and proofreading for companies and individuals in 2009.

I index academic and general interest books and journals in a wide range of subjects, including: UK, EU and international law; history; government and politics; and social sciences.  I have also indexed books on religious history; arts and crafts; photography; travel; cinema and film; and ethics.

I have experience creating traditional and embedded indexes using Index Manager.

I am available all year and am used to working with publishing houses and agencies as well as directly with authors. If I have availability I am happy to take on projects at short notice.

Subjects

Law (All Areas)

I index books and journals on a variety of topics, including: charities law, company law, competition law, contract law, criminal law, employment law, environmental law, equality law, equity, EU law, family law, housing law, human rights law, immigration law, international law, land law, landlord and tenant, law and ethics, legal history, personal injury, planning law, popular law, private international law, public international law, shipping law, tort law, transport law and trusts.
Indexes include:
Private International Law in Russia, 2024
Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2: Constitutional Amendments, 2024
Jackson and Power on Professional Negligence, since 2016
Colinvaux’s Law of Insurance, since 2017
Mental Health Act Manual, since 2013
Contract before the Enlightenment, 2023
Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships, 2022

Company Law

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Criminal Law

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Employment Law

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Family Law

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International Law

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Legal History

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Popular Law (Works Intended For General Readers)

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European Law

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Eu Law

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Property Law

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Social Policy

I have experience indexing books in many fields of social policy, including: rights and obligations, retirement and pensions, employment, housing, LGBT studies, and social work.
Indexes include:
The Case for Climate Assemblies: Bringing Public Wisdom into the Climate Crisis, 2024
Difference and Sameness in Schools, 2024
We Are All Migrants, 2022
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy, 2022
Protecting Life by Investigating Death: Human Rights Obligations to Investigate the Deaths of Migrants and Refugees, 2022
Religion, Law and Democracy, 2020
Digital Family Justice, 2020
Justice and Profit in Health Care Law, 2019

Economics

I have indexed a number of books on economics, economic policy, finance and monetary policy. Books include:
Reforming Public Procurement Law: Liber Amicorum in honour of Sue Arrowsmith, 2024
 Financial Market Infrastructure and Economic Integration, 2023
Procurement by International Organizations: a global administrative law perspective, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting, 2017

History (All Areas)

I index history books and have experience indexing books about a variety of periods and aspects of life.
Indexes include:
Soldiers of an Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments and the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, 2024
When Men Fought Propaganda Wars: Ideology and Utopia in Early Comparative Communications, 2024
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin, 2024
The Material Culture of English Households: Consumption and Production in the Later Medieval and Tudor Countryside, 2023
Brexit and Acts of Union and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement, 2022
African Activists In A Decolonizing World: The Making Of A Global Anticolonial Culture, 2022
When Men Fell From the Sky: Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe, 2022
Law, Lordship and Tenure: The Fall of the Black Douglases, 2022
After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France, 2020
China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire, 2020
Convicts: A Global History, 2020

Modern History

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European History

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Social History

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Management

Indexes include:
Procurement by International Organizations: a global administrative law perspective, 2018
Ethical Business Practice and Regulation: A Behavioural and Values-Based Approach to Compliance and Enforcement, 2017
Time on Our Side: Why we all need a shorter working week, 2013

Handicrafts

Indexes include:
Collaboration through Craft, 2013

Cinema and Film

Indexes include:
The Death Penalty in American Cinema: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film, 2015

Related qualifications

MA Library and Information Management


Other skills

Embedded Indexing
I have experience creating embedded indexes with Index Manager.

Taxonomic Indexing
I have extensive experience indexing using in-house taxonomies.

Proofreading
Over 10 years experience proofreading (law, social policy, popular law, legal history, art and design, and child health).

Abstracting
10 years experience abstracting in the fields of law and social policy (including local government, housing, public health).

Recent indexes include

Asoskov, Private International Law in Russia, Hart Publishing, 2024
Scally, The Polar Star: James, First Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649), Ubiquity, 2024
Lambert, Soldiers of an Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments and the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, CUP, 2024
Nugent, Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective, CUP, 2024
Gless & Whalen-Bridge (eds), Human–Robot Interaction in Law and its Narratives: Legal Blame, Procedure, and Criminal Law, CUP, 2023
Ishikawa, Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan, CUP, 2023
Harrison, Radio and the Performance of Government Broadcasting by the Czechoslovaks in Exile in London, 1939–1945, Charles University Karolinum Press, 2023

Clients Include

Clients include: Hart Publishing; Sweet and Maxwell; Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing; Ubiquity; Cambridge University Press; Intersentia; Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Avizandum; Edward Elgar Publishing; Taylor and Francis. I also regularly work directly with authors.

Special Publication Type

Journals (Learned And Professional)

Including:
Construction Law Journal, Sweet and Maxwell
Entertainment Law Review, Sweet and Maxwell
European Competition Law Review, Sweet and Maxwell
European Intellectual Property Review, Sweet and Maxwell
Housing Law Reports, Sweet and Maxwell
International Litigation Procedure, Sweet and Maxwell
Journal of Housing Law, Sweet and Maxwell
Property, Planning and Compensation Reports (Sweet and Maxwell)

Tools

PC
INDEX MANAGER
Microsoft Word and Excel