Dr Danny Kingsley, an expert in developing strategy and policy in the higher education and research sector, will make a keynote presentation and lead a workshop on aspects of advocacy and professional development to promote open access processes in research and scholarly communication in the higher education sector. Her influence extends to all levels of the scholarly communication landscape, from the individual researcher, to editors and publishers of journals and monographs, funding bodies, research institutions and government.

She is currently Associate Librarian, Content and Digital Library Strategy at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science. From 2015-2019, Danny was Deputy Director of Cambridge University Libraries (Scholarly Communication & Research Services). She established the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group and worked at the Australian National University as Manager of Scholarly Communication after completing her 2008 PhD there on open access.