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Building and governing for access in disruption: Open publishing, disability culture, and library leadership

Posted on December 30, 2025January 6, 2026 by Emilia C. Bell

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…

An Australian magpie standing on a wooden deck in a brick courtyard.

Six things: PhD-ing

Posted on February 2, 2025February 4, 2025 by Emilia C. Bell

Sundays are for PhD-ing. Or, at least, writing out my thoughts on PhD-ing. As I’ve started to reshuffle and rework some of my earlier PhD writing, I’ve finally related to the idea of “don’t ask how the PhD is going.” My brain is constantly swirling, rapidly sifting through everything – including what needs to be…

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