Fiona Bradley

Fiona Bradley is Director, Research and Infrastructure. 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 and services, 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.

Fiona has also held roles in management, information services and repository services at the University of Technology Sydney Library, sessional tutor at Curtin University, and at the Special Broadcasting Service in a library career spanning over 20 years.

Internationally she is co-Lead of the IFLA Open Access Working Group, member of the Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression committee (IFLA FAIFE), the IFLA AI Special Interest Group, and Chair of the SCOSS Advisory Committee. Nationally, she is a member of the Open Access Australasia Executive Committee. Her presentations and papers are available via ORCID.

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.