LIS professional | Researcher | Board Director
2023 | 2024 In my past end-of-year reflections, I’ve touched on loss. No one close to me has died (or almost died) this year, but the feeling was there again. And it felt like something I’d lost previously. I’ve lost my words before. Because, at times, I chose not to compete. Which is amusing, because…
A few weeks ago, a colleague and I struck up a conversation about values in the context of leadership. It felt like a full-circle moment. A few years earlier, I’d shared with a colleague that I was worried about losing my sense of being values-based as I progressed in my career. 2 They came back…
One of my favourite leadership roles has been one with a remit that included (but wasn’t limited to) bringing my lived experience of disability and neurodivergence to the table. It wasn’t my only responsibility, and my expertise was recognised as going well beyond my lived experience, but its value and opportunity for impact were made…
I’ve always prided myself on taking strengths-based approaches (toward myself and others) and finding creative solutions that allow people to move forward. Strengths-based approaches focus on what a person can do, rather than what they cannot do, emphasising a shift away from deficit models. Yet, something I often hear in conversations with disabled and neurodivergent…
I’m approaching the second milestone for my PhD, and buried in interviews and bibliometric data. I thought it was a good point to pause and reflect. Navigating many different spaces, it’s often needing to mask/camouflage that creates the most work. Thankfully, my PhD has been a space where showing up as myself has been completely…