About me
Danny is a consultant and expert in developing strategy and policy in the higher education and research sector with extensive international experience, most recently in Europe and the UK. She has a particular focus on Open Research and research communication. 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. She has written extensively and presented all over the world in this area.
As of July 2022, Danny is Director of Libraries at the University of the Sunshine Coast, moving from her role as the Associate Librarian (Content & Digital Library Strategy), at Flinders University. Until May 2019 Danny worked as the Deputy Director of Cambridge University Libraries (Scholarly Communication & Research Services). Prior to this, Danny was the Executive Officer of the Australasian Open Access Support (now Strategy) Group which she established after four years as the Manager, Scholarly Communication and ePublishing at the Australian National University. She completed her PhD looking at the barriers to opening up access to science publications in 2008.