DrDanny Kingsley

Dr Danny Kingsley is an Australian-based thought leader in the international scholarly communication space. She is Director of Library Services (Information) at Deakin University and an Ambassador for the OAPEN Library of open access books. She has consulted for multiple Australian universities since returning from the UK in 2019. Between 2015-2019, Danny worked as the Deputy Director of Cambridge University Libraries (Scholarly Communication & Research Services) with responsibility for all aspects of scholarly communication at the University, including compliance with funder open access policies, research data management, intellectual property, copyright and other areas. The announcement of Cambridge's Position Statement on Open Research in February 2019 was the culmination of four years' of her work in this area. Danny was also instrumental in the formation of the Open Research Competencies Coalition (ORCC) looking at meeting the emerging skill need of this area.

Danny sits on multiple committees, including the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Data in Science and the Board of Directors of FORCE11. Danny is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University.

Before moving to the UK, she established the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (now Open Access Australasia). This followed on from working for four years as the Manager of Scholarly Communication at the Australian National University, a natural extension of her 2008 PhD into the range of ways different disciplines engage with open access. She worked as a science communicator for 15 years, including two years with ABC Science Online as a journalist for News in Science.