Committee

Dr Suzana Sukovic

Director of Research and Publication, PLC Sydney; Industry Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS

LARK’s founder and Co-convenor

I have spent most of my life in education – as a librarian, educator, researcher, facilitator of digital innovation and, of course, learner. With a PhD in information studies and over 20 years of research experience (often squeezed in my information work), I am keen on boosting the status of research in the profession. I am a member of IFLA’s Library Theory and Research Standing Committee. My research interests focus on learning and knowledge creation, particularly on transliteracy and issues of boundary-crossing. I am currently conducting studies into AI in education, and adolescents’ wellbeing. 

Dr Mary Anne Kennan

LARK’s Co-convenor

Dr Mary Anne Kennan is a retired but strangely busy former researcher, educator, and librarian. In addition to her Committee membership, and now Co-Convenorship, of LARK, she is currently Editor of the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University. Much of her research has been in the area of the social studies of scholarly communications, e-research and data management, education for library and information work, and she continues to research more recently in the area of family and personal information. 

Lindsay Carapella

Coordinator, Service Quality and Development, Wollongong City Libraries

Nicole Faull-Brown

Research Liaison Librarian, University of Newcastle

Nicole has over 20 years of academic library experience, providing information literacy and research support to students and staff of the University community. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Library and Information Science) and a Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment. Nicole is a Research Liaison Librarian at the University of Newcastle where she provides a range of research support activities, such as developing search strategies for systematic reviews; using digital tools to generate bibliometric and research impact analysis reports; advising on strategies for scholarly publishing, including open access options, citation management software advice, data management, and creating researcher identifiers and profiles.

Dr Katherine Howard

eResearch Analyst, Intersect

Dr Katherine Howard is a eResearch Analyst at Intersect and  manager of the Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, Deakin University. She previously worked as a Research Fellow on the ARC-funded LISRA project. Dr Howard has received many scholarships and research awards, including: a two-year Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to study in Europe; a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (the first person outside of North America); and her PhD, completed at QUT, was nominated for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Dr Howard’s research focusses on new and emerging roles for information professionals, particularly around data science and research data management.

Mr Paul Jewell

Business Librarian, Western Sydney University Library

Paul’s driving passions are education and the power of information to deliver equitable opportunities for all our citizens. He graduated from University of North London (BSc) Honours in Information Studies and became a Chartered member of CILIP (UK). He has worked for the last 20+ years in a variety of Library Services – public, schools’ library service and secondary school library in the UK – and since returning to live in Australia in 2007 in an academic library at Western Sydney University. Paul is currently employed as the Business Librarian supporting the teaching and learning and research needs for the School of Business. He is passionate about all aspects of Information Literacy (IL) and how we can improve our students transitioning to the workplace and their lifelong learning with strong information and academic literacy skills. Paul led a research project on information literacy and employability, interviewing employers and graduates on workplace IL and the findings were published in Journal of Business Education in 2020. Recently Paul achieved Fellowship with the UK Higher Education Academy and became Fellow of the Badugulang Centre of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Western Sydney University. Paul also likes to dabble in critical librarianship, critical pedagogies, X and the beautiful game.

Dr Bhuva Narayan

Associate Professor, School of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Bhuva Narayan is the Director of the PhD programme at the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. Previously, she was the Programme Coordinator for the school’s Information and Knowledge Management courses for over five years. Dr. Narayan came to Library and Information Science via the book industry in India, and then the editing and publishing industry in the United States. She completed a Masters in Library and Information Science from the iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Diploma in Publishing Procedures from Harvard University, before moving to Australia where she earned a PhD in Information Studies. Dr. Narayan was the Chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) from 2017 to 2021. She is  an Associate Editor at the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA).  Bhuva’s research interests are across Library and Information Sciences, Digital Cultures, Social Informatics, Social Justice, ICT,  Design Thinking, Human Learning, and Adult Education, specifically Higher Education Learning and Teaching. Dr. Narayan’s detailed profile can be found at https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/bhuva.narayan .

Georgia Stewart

Library Assistant, Mid-Western Regional Council Library

I live in Mudgee, NSW in the central west of NSW. For the past 5 years, I have worked with the Mid-Western Regional Council Library as a Casual Library Assistant. My background is in Banking and Teaching with a special interest in researching Family and Local history, which led me to complete a Diploma in Family History through the University of Tasmania in 2023. I also hold a Master of Education: Teacher Librarianship, which sparked my interest in researching and how it plays a part in the Library and Information sector.