Wendy Baskett, MA, BD

Location: Watlington

Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member

Contact Info

Phone: 01491 614293
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.pinpointindexing.co.uk

General Experience

Professional indexer since 2009, indexing books in a variety of subjects across both science and humanities. Degrees in chemistry and theology. Twenty years’ experience in Church ministry, with particular emphasis on education and training, and ecumenism. Working knowledge of biblical Hebrew and Greek.

Other interests include classical music, food and cookery, family history.

Happy to create either traditional ‘stand alone’ indexes or embedded indexes in Microsoft Word.

Within the Society of Indexers I serve on the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) committee and am a tutor for some of the online tutorials on the training course.

Subjects

Chemistry

Oxford chemistry degree. Recent indexes include A Practical Guide to Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering (RSC Publishing), Contemporary Catalysis: Science, Technology and Applications (RSC Publishing) and Chemical Reaction Kinetics: Concepts, Methods and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell)

Sciences (All Areas)

Happy to consider general science, particularly physical sciences, and science and religion. Completed indexes include Traveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond (RSC Publishing), Engineering Principles in Biotechnology (Wiley-Blackwell), Forensic Science (4th edn, Pearson Education) and Principles of Neurotheology (Ashgate)

Theology

Manchester theology degree. United Reformed Church minister (was chair of URC’s Advisory Group on Faith and Order for several years). Indexes include Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy (Helsinki University Press), The Origin of Divine Christology (CUP) and Fathers in God? Resources for Reflection on Women in the Episcopate (Canterbury Press).

Christianity

Imagining Mission with John V Taylor (Hymns A&M)
The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus (CUP)
The Gospel and the Anglican Tradition (Gilead Books Publishing)

Religious Studies

Judging Religion (SilverWood)
Judaism and Islam One God One Music (Brill)

Biblical Greek

I am happy to index books that require knowledge of Biblical Greek. Examples of my work include Translating Resurrection (Brill), Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism (Mohr Siebeck) and The Greek Perfect Tense in the Gospel of Mark and the Epistle to the Romans (Peter Lang).

Biblical Hebrew

Similarly I have a good working knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and have indexed books such as Crossing Boundaries in Early Judaism and Christianity (Brill), Michael Klein on the Targums (Brill) and Judaism and Islam One God One Music (Brill).

Mental Health

Personal Development

I have indexed a number of books in the area of personal development/self-help, particularly in relation to business and leadership. Examples include The Leader’s Guide to Presenting and How to be Really Productive (both for Pearson).

Self-Help

If it is so Good to Talk, Why is it so Hard? (Matador)
Solving the Financial Success Puzzle (Silverwood)
The Home Movers Guide (Elite Publishing Academy)

Spirituality

Music

I have a lifelong interest in (mainly classical) music, being an experienced pianist, organist and singer, as well as studying music academically to A level. Indexes include The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers (CUP), The Gothic Imagination in the Music of Franz Schubert (Boydell), Brahms in Context (CUP), German Song Onstage (Indiana University Press) and The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony (CUP).

Cookery Books

Am interested in all aspects of food and cooking, including the science side (with my chemist’s hat on).


Other skills

Embedded Indexing
I can create embedded indexes in Microsoft Word, using WordEmbed or Index-Manager.
Examples produced for clients include Financial Literacy Education: Edu-Regulating our Saving and Spending Habits (Springer Nature), The Origin of Divine Christology (CUP) and Brahms in context (CUP).

Recent indexes include

Mark Porter, For the Warming of the Earth, SCM Press, 2024
Rebecca Ferguson & Denise Whitelock, Microcredentials for Excellence: A Practical Guide, Ubiquity Press, 2024
Jennifer Rushworth, The Song in the Novel, OUP, 2024
Robert Maynard & Richard Atkinson, Basic Mathematics for Students of Air Pollutants, RSC, 2024

Clients Include

Royal Society of Chemistry
Pearson Education
Ubiquity
SilverWood Books
Hymns A&M

Tools

CINDEX
INDEX MANAGER
WordEmbed