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      • Sarah Polkinghorne, PhD

        Hello! I'm a Research Fellow in Social Change at RMIT University, Melbourne.

         

        This page is for current highlights.

        For my full CV, please reach out: sarah.polkinghorne@rmit.edu.au

      • Research

        A brief introduction

         

          In my research, I focus on:

          • Human information practices, including embodied practices, which help people become informed. I'm especially interested in practices that are unexamined or assumed to be mundane. My work illustrates how people's everyday information practices are complex, meaningful, and co-constitutive with identity.
          • Embodied practices stemming from misinformation, and the role of technology in miseducating people about their bodies.
          • Scholarly communications, particularly the transition to open access publishing.
          • Information-related discourses and their underlying power relations, norms, and ways of thinking.
          • Information literacy and related pedagogies.
        • Publications

          In progress & recent

           

            • Getting past 'approachability': What cultural humility brings to library and information education. With Lilliana Montoya. Forthcoming in Hopeful visions, practical actions: Cultural humility in library work, eds. Sarah Kostelecky, Lori Townsend, and David Hurley. ALA Editions.
            • Love is a lens: Locating love in library and information studies. With Mary Greenshields. Forthcoming in Library Trends special issue on "The Joy of Information," eds. Jenna Hartel and Hailey Sirackey. [pdf of open pre-publication version]
            • A devil in the details: Addressing authors' needs in transformative agreements. With Lisa M. Given. Common Place, special issue, The Global Transition to Open. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.255897ef
            • Holistic approaches to research: From rhetoric to paradigm. With Lisa M. Given. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24450
          • Presentations

            Upcoming

             

              • I have a body, therefore I think, therefore I am. (2023, March). For Nerd Nite, Melbourne, Australia. Also presented at Nerd Nite 66 in Edmonton, Canada.
            • Teaching

              Recent

               

                • Human Information Interaction, 2021, for the University of Alberta's School of Library and Information Studies. An exploration of how people experience information.
                • Information Resource Discovery, 2020, for the University of Ottawa's School of Information Studies. An introduction to information services, information practices and experiences, and search.
              • Practice

                As an academic librarian

                 

                  Note: I'm currently on leave from the University of Alberta.

                   

                  The core of my work as a librarian is leading monograph collections at the University of Alberta, including approval plans, demand-driven acquisition, publisher-direct frontlist negotiations, open access transitions, and assessment.

                • Service

                  Recent & ongoing commitments

                   

                    • Past President (2021-2022), Canadian Association for Information Science/L'association canadienne des sciences de l'information (CAIS/ACSI)
                    • Co-chair, 50th annual CAIS/ACSI conference
                    • Reviewing for Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Library Trends, Journal of Documentation, and others

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