Danny Kingsley – The Conversation

Profile Articles Activity Dr Danny Kingsley is an expert in strategy and policy in the higher education and research sector with extensive international experience. Her work involves aspects

of advocacy, professional development, research and communication through developing relationships with all levels of the scholarly communication landscape, from the individual researcher,

to editors and publishers of journals and monographs, funding bodies, research institutions and government. Her research as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public

Awareness of Science centres on scholarly communication with interests in the academic reward structure, scholarly infrastructure and open access advocacy. Danny is an Adjunct Senior

Lecturer at Charles Sturt University. She sits on multiple committees and has written extensively and presented all over the world in this area. Danny is Director of Library Services

(Information) at Deakin University and an Ambassador for the OAPEN Library of open access books. She has worked as a Scholarly Communication Consultant since her return to Australia in 2019,

most recently with the OAPEN library of open access books and Directory of Open Access Books Foundation. She has held contracts with Griffith University, the University of Melbourne, the

University of Queensland, QUT, University of the Sunshine Coast and Australian Academy of Sciences. She also worked as Associate Librarian, Content and Digital Library Strategy at Flinders

University between 2021-2022. Between 2015-2019, Danny worked as the Deputy Director of Cambridge University Libraries (Scholarly Communication & Research Services). Before moving to the

UK she established the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (now Open Access Australasia). This followed on from working for four years as the Manager of Scholarly Communication at the

Australian National University, a natural extension of her 2008 PhD into the range of ways different disciplines engage with open access. During her PhD she worked as an Associate Lecturer

(part-time) in science communication. She lectured in undergraduate and masters courses and for the Questacon Science Circus Graduate Diploma at CPAS from 2006-2013. Danny worked in the

media as a science communicator for a decade, before returning to study. She worked for two years with ABC Science Online as a journalist for News in Science, and as a co-producer of Health

Matters. She has experience in TV, radio and print. EXPERIENCE * 2019–present Director, Scholarly Communication Consulting * 2019–2020 Strategic Lead, Research Impact, Griffith University *

2015–2019 Deputy Director, Cambridge University Libraries * 2004–2015 Associate lecturer, Australian National University * 2013–2014 Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Strategy

Group * 2009–2012 Manager, Scholarly Communication & ePublishing, Australian National University EDUCATION RESEARCH AREAS * Creative Arts, Media And Communication Curriculum And Pedagogy

(130201) * Communication Studies (200101) * Communication Technology And Digital Media Studies (200102) * Organisational, Interpersonal And Intercultural Communication (200105) * Higher

Education (130103) * Research, Science And Technology Policy (160511)