We’re delighted to announce that Graham Jensen (PhD, Dalhousie U) will join the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership for 2021 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship, and that Caroline Winter (PhD, UVic) will continue her work with the INKE Partnership, now as a part-time Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship.
Welcome Graham!
Graham joins the INKE Partnership with a detailed and impressive track record in open, digital scholarship and a history of working with academic commons and platforms. With the INKE Partnership, Graham will focus on the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons — building on a strong foundation of his own related work, as well as INKE development carried out with Compute Canada, CANARIE, CRKN, CARL, and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has previously held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Victoria, and was also a Digital Scholarship Fellow with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL). Graham also leads the Canadian Modernist Magazines Project (CMMP); in partnership with institutions in Canada and the United States, the CMMP is digitizing and critically analyzing a selection of canonical and non-canonical Canadian modernist “little magazines,” ultimately serving as a public-facing virtual research platform for those interested in reading, analyzing, or teaching Canadian modernist literature. Learn more about Graham and his engaging work here.
The Canadian HSS Commons is an in-development, national-scale, bilingual network for researchers to share, access, re-purpose, and develop scholarly projects, publications, educational resources, data, and tools. Graham will take a research, development, and strategic lead on this project, and will also serve as its ambassador.
Hello again Caroline!
Caroline has been connected to the INKE Partnership for some time now, primarily through her role as the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab’s (ETCL) Open Scholarship Facilitator and her work on the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory (OSPO), where she built on the OSPO foundation laid by Kimberly Silk (coming from CRKN) and Sarah Milligan (coming from the Institute for Historical Research, London). Caroline is a newly-minted PhD from UVic — with a focus on the economic contexts of Romantic Gothic literature — and is currently working on an MLIS at the University of Alberta’s School of Library and Information Studies. Read more about Caroline and her research interests and professional experience here.
Caroline started in the ETCL as an Open Knowledge Practicum (OKP) fellow in the fall of 2017, working on a digital edition of Mary Shelley’s Gothic Tales in the Keepsake. In part due to this positive experience, she joined the ETCL several months later as its Open Scholarship Facilitator, where she also helped to coordinate the Open Knowledge Program.
With the INKE Partnership, Caroline will devote more of her focus to the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, which collects research, tracks findings and national and international policy changes, and facilitates understanding of open social scholarship across Canada and internationally. The Open Scholarship Policy Observatory serves as an aid to influence and implement policy around knowledge mobilization. In both French and English the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory reflects findings back to other partners and stakeholders, along with local institutions, associations, consortia, and government bodies, in order to assist these groups with developing timely and responsive policies. Caroline will continue to contribute to this project by researching and sharing relevant open scholarship policies and liaising with the larger INKE Partnership on areas of community interest.
About INKE
The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership is a North American-based research network with the goal of fostering open social scholarship: academic practice that enables the creation, dissemination, and engagement of open research by specialists and non-specialists in accessible and significant ways. The INKE Partnership is a Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI; c-ski.ca) research partnership.