I have 20 years experience as an academic librarian. My research and practice focuses upon inequalities in information production and availability: whose voices are privileged in publication structures, where marginalisation occurs, barriers to access, and how to make collections of resources more representative of society. These are components of critical information literacy.
After studying Politics and then Information Studies, and working in librarianship for over a decade, I completed a Professional Doctorate in Information Science. My thesis documented the development of a community of practice in critical information literacy, using action research, positioning myself as an active participant in this. It is central to my work that people from across society are represented and engaged in the research I carry out and the collections I maintain, that I acknowledge my own experiences and biases in doing this, and seek to reflect and act accordingly.