Welcome Iris Buunk, LIBER’s Newest Team Member!

Posted: 20-06-2020 Topics: Office News

LIBER is pleased to welcome Iris Buunk as the newest member of the team.

As a Community Engagement and Communications Officer, Iris will be responsible for stakeholder engagement activities related to European projects SSHOC, INOS and reCreating Europe, and will support the communications and outreach activities of LIBER.

Iris has extensive experience in knowledge sharing and information dissemination. Before joining LIBER she worked as a research assistant at the Haute Ecole de Gestion in Geneva, as a research librarian at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, at the University of Geneva, as a research assistant to support a European project (FP6) with the audio archives of the Swiss National Radio, and as project coordinator in Information Literacy at the rectorate of the University of Lausanne. She has also a solid experience in teaching within the fields of social media and Information Literacy.

Iris has long been an advocate of universal access to knowledge in every form. She considers this to be a major supporting factor for respect of human rights and safe democratic societies. This stance has been strengthened by her experience as a librarian and as a researcher. She is very much looking forward to contributing to LIBER’s community engagement and communications activities, and supporting its efforts towards a better research environment and world-class research.

Iris has Swiss & Dutch roots and holds a Master (MSc) in Information Sciences and is about to receive her PhD in Information Sciences that she has undertaken in the Center for Social Informatics within the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University.

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