Claire Knowles

Claire joined the University of Leeds as a member of the Library Executive Team in September 2018.

Claire provides strategic leadership for the library’s research services, working in partnership with colleagues in faculties and professional services to embed change with research practice within these areas:

• open research
• repository services
• research data management
• bibliometrics
• open access funder compliance.

Working in partnership with the academic chairs of the Responsible Research Metrics and Open Research groups, Claire develops institutional statements and strategic plans and steers these through wider consultation and University governance.

Claire is leading the digital libraries infrastructure project for cultural collections, a major infrastructure investment project that includes cloud migration, digitisation, ingestion and digital preservation solutions for the University.

As the Product Owner of the Libraries’ IT systems and infrastructure, Claire prioritises developments and liaises with IT Services colleagues to develop business cases for transformational projects and system replacements. This has involved sponsoring projects implementing new library management, reading list, and enquiries systems.

Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Claire worked at the University of Edinburgh, Library and Collections Division. Externally, Claire is the co-convenor of the Research Libraries UK Digital Shift Working Group, Chair of the Open Repositories Conference, and Co-Chair of the International Image Interoperability Framework Outreach Group.

She is a member of: Graduate Board, Research Culture Group, Open Research Group, and Responsible Research Metrics Group.