BA Hons, MA, MSc, PhD Simon is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School (Staffing and Development) in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. He is a Co-Investigator on the ARC Discovery project 'The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia’, and the ARC Linkage project 'Designing for Communities with Communities: Co-designing Public Libraries'. Simon received his PhD from the University of Sheffield’s Information School in 2015, having previously completed an MSc in Electronic and Digital Library Management. He also holds a BA in English Literature from Durham University (1999) and an MA in American Literature from the University of Sheffield (2006). Before joining CSU in 2019 Simon was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield’s Information School, and prior to that he held various project and operations management roles in the telecoms and vocational training industries. Simon was awarded the CSU Executive Dean’s Award for Teaching in 2022 for “Maximising student engagement and learning in a postgraduate Information Studies research methods subject through structured video content creation and enhanced teacher presence.” His teaching is primarily in the areas of research methods (INF567, ETL567, INF321) and data management (INF461, INF463 and INF449). Simon was Course Director for the Graduate Certificate in Data Management, Graduate Certificate of Audiovisual Archiving, and Graduate Certificate of Information Studies from 2022-2024. Simon’s research focuses on equality of access to information. There are two main strands to his work. The first focuses on scholarly communication, and particularly open access (OA) – the principle that research outputs should be freely available to anyone who wants to read them. His work in on this has included the publication of a book on the theory and practice of OA. The second strand of research relates to the role and function of public libraries, and Simon is a Co-Investigator on the ARC Discovery project 'The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia’, and the ARC Linkage project 'Designing for Communities with Communities: Co-designing Public Libraries'.
Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Simon Wakeling
Associate Head (Staffing and Development) / Senior Lecturer in Information Studies
Wagga Wagga
Building 5 Room 212