Board Director | LIS Leader | PhD Candidate
The best library and leadership spaces I’ve ever been in involved epistemic inclusion. That is, inclusion related to knowledge. Specifically, uplifting and legitimising diverse and marginalised ways of knowing. Libraries have always been about information and knowledge. But we haven’t historically gotten our own influence right. The history of libraries holds a civilising legacy, often…
I’m past the halfway mark of my PhD, and lately have been trying to pick up the pace alongside my other professional commitments. There’s been a variety of tools and approaches I’ve used (and at times rejected) across my PhD – everything from Power BI, Data Studio, RStudio, BigQuery, spreadsheets, handwritten notes, Scrivener, and Obsidian….
Australia has two critical ‘access’ conversations happening in spaces that rarely talk to each other, yet they’re sharing a problem. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) overhaul is dominating headlines. But the debate is almost entirely about who gets access, while the process of how we get there continues to be sidelined. Meanwhile, the Australian…
This blog post serves as an exploratory and developmental process for my PhD. Its focus is on the academic literature I engage with, presented in a blog format, against the backdrop of professional contexts. A blogging approach enables exploration of the ties between research and practice, supporting reflexivity. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0…
A few years ago, I sat in on a leadership webinar about influencing. I found myself counting up which of the recommendations I’d actually find off-putting, despite their being positioned as rapport-building. From my perspective, it lacked the social and cultural nuances of other rooms I sat in. I was there, in the room, in…