Claire Knowles (she/her)

Profile

Member of the Libraries’ Executive Team. Sponsor of the Knowledge for All: Digital Futures strategic programme, one of four thematic programmes. Strategic lead of the libraries’ research and digital services: open research, repository services, research data management, bibliometrics, open access funder compliance, library systems and infrastructure. Service owner of the libraries’ IT systems and infrastructure. Business lead of the Digital Library Infrastructure Project, to improve search, access, and use of the University’s rare and unique collections, to enhance learning, research, and collaboration. 

Co-chair, in partnership with academic chairs, of the on-going institutional Responsible Research Metrics and Open Research Groups; and the Rights Retention and Open Access Monographs Task and Finish Groups. Reporting into the Research Culture Group and Research and Innovation Board. Joint winner of inaugural Research Culture award: Responsible research and innovation (2022) 

Responsibilities

• Co-chair Open Research Group
• Co-chair Responsible Research Metrics Group
• Executive Sponsor White Rose Libraries Repositories Board

Professional memberships

• Co-convenor Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Digital Shift Working Group
• Co-chair International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Outreach Group
• Member Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Associate Directors Network
• Member N8 Libraries Associate Directors Network
• Member British Library EThOS Advisory Board
• Member University of Southampton Digital Humanities Advisory Board