Dr Katherine Howard is Intersect Australia's Digital Research Analyst (DRA) for UniSA. She supports UniSA researchers by providing expertise in various digital tools and technologies, facilitating access to NCI's HPC (Gadi), and coordinating Intersect's training program for UniSA staff and students. Katherine's background is in Information Science and she has extensive national and international experience as a researcher and academic.
Katherine's most recent position was as a Research Fellow with the ARC-funded LISRA project, aimed at enabling and encouraging research in Australia's library and information profession. Prior to this, she held an Early Career Development Fellowship at RMIT, and has held academic... Read more
About me
Dr Katherine Howard is Intersect Australia's Digital Research Analyst (DRA) for UniSA. She supports UniSA researchers by providing expertise in various digital tools and technologies, facilitating access to NCI's HPC (Gadi), and coordinating Intersect's training program for UniSA staff and students. Katherine's background is in Information Science and she has extensive national and international experience as a researcher and academic.
Katherine's most recent position was as a Research Fellow with the ARC-funded LISRA project, aimed at enabling and encouraging research in Australia's library and information profession. Prior to this, she held an Early Career Development Fellowship at RMIT, and has held academic positions at QUT and UniSA, and has undertaken sessional work with Curtin University and Charles Sturt University.
Dr Howard has received many scholarships and research awards. She was awarded a two-year scholarship to undertake the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Digital Library Learning, studying with world-renowned scholars in Norway, Estonia and Italy. Katherine was the first person outside of North America to win a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and her PhD, completed at QUT) was nominated for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.
Katherine's research focuses on new and emerging roles for information professionals, particularly around data science, research data management, and in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector. She also has a keen interest in the Digital Humanities.
About me
ASIST (Association for Information Science and Technology)
ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association
ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education)
Given, L. M., Partridge, H., & Howard, K. (2022). Supporting collaborative research in information science: The RADAR program as a model for academic-practitioner team engagement. Library & Information Science Research, 44(2), 101152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101152
Howard, K. J. (2018). Emergence of a new method: The Grounded Delphi method. Library and Information Research, 42(126), 5-31. https://lirgjournal.org.uk/index.php/lir/article/view/746
Howard, K., Partridge, H., Hughes, H., & Oliver, G. (2016). Passion trumps pay: a study of the future skills requirements of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Australia. Information Research: An International... Read more
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included.
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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2023 |
Open access
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11
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Current funded research: Australian Library Design Trend Report
In collaboration with Profs Lisa Given (RMIT), Helen Partridge (Deakin) and Dr Kirsten Day (University of Melbourne), this project will explore recent trends in Australian library design in the global design context, drawing from the ALIA Library Design Awards archives. The report will highlight the ways in which UN Sustainable Development Goals are shaping library and architectural practices, through examples of sustainable, user-focused designs.
Research
Given, L. M., Partridge, H., & Howard, K. (2022). Supporting collaborative research in information science: The RADAR program as a model for academic-practitioner team engagement. Library & Information Science Research, 44(2), 101152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101152
Howard, K. J. (2018). Emergence of a new method: The Grounded Delphi method. Library and Information Research, 42(126), 5-31. https://lirgjournal.org.uk/index.php/lir/article/view/746
Howard, K., Partridge, H., Hughes, H., & Oliver, G. (2016). Passion trumps pay: a study of the future skills requirements of information professionals in galleries, libraries, archives and museums in Australia. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 21(2), n2. http://informationr.net/ir/21-2/paper714.html#.YoHzxS8RpR4
Davis, W., & Howard, K. (2013). Cultural policy and Australia's national cultural heritage: issues and challenges in the GLAM landscape. The Australian Library Journal, 62(1), 15-26. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00049670.2013.774684
Boudry, C., Alvarez-Muñoz, P., Arencibia-Jorge, R., Ayena, D., Brouwer, N. J., Chaudhuri, Z., ... & Mouriaux, F. (2019). Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: the example of ophthalmology. PeerJ, 7, e7850. https://peerj.com/articles/7850/?fbclid=IwAR1ql1xpknZNKpzXtl39u6ah51-mpLLinkyb5rDj-5UkeqHbQYd_VqfO8iI
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Laval University | CANADA |
Psl Research University | FRANCE |