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…
Category: Research & Schol Comm
On multi-level governance models, structures, and open knowledge
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…
Open access politics of vulnerability, symbolic capital, and care
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…
Building and governing for access in disruption: Open publishing, disability culture, and library leadership
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…
Six things: PhD-ing
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…



