Dr Kate Davis is a leader, librarian, information researcher and former library and information educator with significant experience in online learning and teaching. In her current role as the Director, Strategy & Analytics for the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), she works with senior leaders and practitioners in academic libraries across Australia and New Zealand to implement programs of strategic initiatives and oversees the CAUL analytics service.
From 2010 to 2021, Kate was an academic, working primarily in the field of library and information studies, social technologies, and online learning. Her most recent academic appointments were at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), where she was a member of a digital life research and practice lab and, more recently, part of a digital learning innovation team in the University’s central teaching and learning unit. Kate continues to supervise PhD candidates at UniSQ as an adjunct senior research fellow.
Kate is an experienced administrator and project manager with a background in leading university- and sector-wide consultation processes, developing and implementing strategy, coordinating university policy and framework development, providing strategic leadership for large-scale national initiatives, and designing processes and workflows to support collaborative activities across and within institutions.
Kate is an interdisciplinary human experience researcher with interests in social media research, information research (particularly in the context of social media), and scholarship of teaching and learning. Her research is often positioned at the nexus of these three domains: her social media research, information research and teaching and learning research all focus on people’s experience of digital life, related to work, study and their everyday lives. Kate completed her PhD in 2015 at the Queensland University of Technology with a program of research that explored new mothers’ information experience in social media.