Danny Kingsley

Dr Danny Kingsley is an Australian-based thought leader in the international scholarly communication space. She is Community Manager (Southern Hemisphere) at the OAPEN Foundation and the Directory of Open Access Books. She has consulted for multiple Australian universities since returning from the UK. 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.

Her research as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science centres on scholarly communication with interests in the academic reward structure, scholarly infrastructure and open access advocacy. She sits on multiple committees, including the Australian Academies 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 has worked as a science communicator for 15 years, including two years with ABC Science Online as a journalist for News in Science.