R2R is delighted to announce that Dr Heather Staines has joined the Advisory Board for the 2021 Researcher to Reader Conference.

Heather is Head of Partnerships for Knowledge Futures Group, building open source infrastructure for publishers and libraries. Her previous roles include positions at Hypothesis, Proquest, SIPX, Springer SBM, and Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers. She is a frequent speaker and participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, the STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, the NISO Transfer Standing Committee and the NASIG Digital Preservation Task Force. She has a PhD in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

We welcome Heather to the R2R 2021 Board, where she will be a significant asset to the strategy, programme and visibility of the Conference.

Mark Carden
28 May 2020