Pavla Martinková

Librarian, Central Library of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Motto: Helping to make science more open and service more user-friendly.

Pavla is part of a team providing open science support at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. Her focus is on research data management. She’s an active member of the Czech Data Steward community and Open Science Working Group of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities.

She started as a service desk librarian, specialising in user research and service design; she also teaches a few information literacy lessons and is interested in participatory teaching techniques.

She’s also currently a data stewardess and an open science manager for a linguistic research project. In her spare time, she’s pursuing a doctoral degree in information science at Charles University. Her research focuses on information behaviour of humanities bachelor students.