Speaker

Bhuva Narayan

Associate Professor Bhuva Narayan is the Director of Graduate Research  Degrees at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Previously, she was the Program Coordinator for the school’s Information and Knowledge Management Program for over six years. Dr. Narayan came to Library Science via the book industry in India, and then the editing and publishing industry in the US. She completed the Master of Library and Information Science from the iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Diploma in Publishing from Harvard University, before moving to Australia where she earned a PhD in Information Science. Dr. Narayan is a member (and ex-Chair) of the Research Advisory Committee for the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and an Associate Editor at the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA). Dr. Narayan’s researches and supervises PhD students in the area of Library and Information Science and also Digital Social Media.