Dr. Núria Bautista Puig will be joining the School of Information Management in January 2023 as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dr. Bautista Puig received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and her background is in geography (B.Sc), Geographical Information Systems and Remote sensing (M.Sc). She received the Campus Sustainability Research Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Her areas of expertise include information science, organizational sustainability, and scientometrics.

During her Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr. Bautista Puig will be conducting research aimed at understanding the practices and outcomes of citizen science globally. She will also develop a Living Lab initiative to explore how such initiatives can enhanced the participation of community stakeholders in all stages of the research process, including the identification of locally relevant research problems, the research design, the dissemination of the findings, and their translation into practice.

“Philippe Mongeon was awarded a connection grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The project is a partnership with Dr. Jean-Sébastien Sauvé (Co-PI) from the University of Montreal, the Canadian Association for Research Libraries (CARL) and the Maritime Institute for Science, Technology, and Society (MISTS). It aims to foster greater collaboration between practitioners and academic researchers in Canada by creating an exhaustive database of these groups’ scholarship, by developing a visual interface to explore that literature and identify new research and collaboration opportunities, and hosting an online conference on collaboration between practitioners and academics in Library and Information Science.”