Fiona Bradley

Fiona Bradley is Director, Research and Infrastructure at UNSW Library. Fiona leads the design and delivery of scholarly communications and open access, repositories and reporting, and the institutional infrastructure that underpins these services including UNSWorks and Research Outputs System (ROS). She leads the Library's physical and digital spaces, systems and services, including user experience and enhancements, and the Library's corporate services supporting governance, performance, budget, staffing and development and service management.

Prior to joining UNSW in 2018, she was Deputy Executive Director at Research Libraries UK, providing policy and guidance for research-intensive libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland on issues including research data and infrastructure, open access, and copyright reform, and compliance with company business requirements. Previously, she held senior management roles at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the peak global organisation representing libraries. In these roles she designed and delivered capacity building programmes in 80+ countries, undertook major grant development, impact evaluation, publishing initiatives and advocacy for access to information in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) in collaboration with library organisations and NGOs worldwide.

Internationally she is Chair of the IFLA Open Science & Scholarship Advisory Committee, and participates in the International Open Science Monitoring Initiative, and is a member of the IFLA AI Special Interest Group. Nationally, she is a member of the National Open Science Taskforce, and the Open Access Australasia Executive Committee. She is a member of the Libri and Open Science journal editorial committees. Her presentations and papers are all available open access.

Fiona's qualifications include a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Western Australia, a Master of Information Management and Master of Arts (Research) both from Curtin University. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Western Australia to be completed in 2025.