Personal statement

Based in the Library at our Newton Park campus, Claire is one of two Research Support Librarians working to support staff and PGRs with their research, including managing, storing and sharing their research data.  

Claire also supports practice researchers with showcasing their research via our research repositories, including submission of this research to the REF.  She is the organiser of the annual 'Capturing Creativity' conference seminar series which promotes best practice nationally around the recording and showcasing of practice research.

Academic qualifications

  • BA (Hons) English Literature, Masters in Research in English Literature
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Information and Library Studies, FHEA.

Professional memberships

  • FHEA
  • CILIP.

Areas of expertise

  • Help with accessing research resources
  • Advising on publishing and open access
  • Answering copyright queries in relation to publications
  • Advising on compliance with funder and REF mandates
  • Assistance with adding audio-visual content relating to practice research outputs to the University's research repositories
  • Advising on managing, storing and sharing research data via the University's research repository, BathSPAdata
  • Supporting staff to create practice research portfolios that can be used to support teaching, to showcase research and to submit practice research projects to the REF.