Graham Stone (Project Manager, Computing and Library Services)
Email g.stone@hud.ac.uk
Having worked with e-resources for over 15 years, Graham is Library Electronic Resources Manager and is responsible for the management of the Library Electronic Resources Team and University Repository. He has participated in a number of JISC funded projects and is currently project manager for the Library Impact Data Project. Chair of the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) until April 2011 and a member of the UKSG Committee since 2001, Graham is UKSG Secretary and a member of the Serials, Journal of Electronic Resource Librarianship and University of Huddersfield University Press editorial boards. He is editor-in-chief of E-Resources Management Handbook, an OA e-book, and co-author of the University’s 25 Research Things web 2.0 course.
Sue White (Director of Computing and Library Services)
Steered the initial work at Huddersfield on library usage data and an advocate of collaborative working and data sharing between libraries; the latter exemplified by current participation in HEA Change Academy project on library shared services. Involved at strategic level in previous JISC projects INHALE, INFORMS, and Climbié Inquiry Date Corpus Online project. Sue is also Director of the University of Huddersfield Press.
Dr Ian Pitchford (Research and Enterprise Directorate)
Research Excellence Framework and PGR Manager at the University and has over seven years’ experience in the administration of research and postgraduate research matters and has worked at universities in the United Kingdom and United States. Dr Pitchford holds a PhD in evolutionary development psychopathology, a Master’s degree in psychiatry and Bachelor’s degrees in biomedical sciences and in combined sciences. He is a Chartered Biologist, a member of the Institute of Biology, and a member of the Association of Research
Managers and Administrators and is currently focusing upon the upcoming REF and attended the ARMA seminar on the ‘development of the REF data requirements’. Founder and editor for three years of Evolutionary Psychology, an open access, peer reviewed journal.
Dr Denise Robinson (School of Education and Professional Development)
Initiated and introduced courses that would be attractive to those students who previously had been excluded, directly or indirectly, from educational opportunities and in so doing, developed teaching approaches that were also appropriate. This work has resulted in a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award in 2009. Director of the Huddersfield University Distributed Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (HUDCETT). Denise has instigated and led on taster/introductory courses for ethnic minority groups to encourage more to enter teacher training; she has also supported similar initiatives on Access to Teacher Training for under-represented groups. Denise has steered and edited the development of ‘Teaching in Lifelong Learning’ to its launch in March, 2009.
Cherry Edmunds (Computing and Library Services)
Cherry Edmunds has been a member of the Repository team for almost three years. During this time she has also worked in the Journals team where she dealt with the administration of both print and electronic material, and was also involved with the set up of the University LOCKSS initiative. She has now been based in the Electronic Resources team for 18 months. She has experience of working with both staff and publishers in encouraging material to be added to the repository, and in ensuring the correct copyright procedures are being upheld. Cherry is currently gaining experience working with COUNTER statistics and the application of these in determining future procurement of electronic resources.