Sarah Hutton, MLIS

Sarah Hutton (she/her/ella) is an experienced researcher, educator, academic and data analyst with a specialisation in open education, publishing and governance research. She is a seasoned educator in experiential learning methods, making and makerspaces, and teacher training; she also has experience in competency standards development and credentialing in maker literacies and makerspace training programmes. Sarah is certified in LGBTQIA+ Foundations and Allyship, and is an expert in the application of Universal Design for Learning Principles (UDL) to education and communications content development.

As a librarian and qualitative researcher in open knowledge production and an instructor in setting-up and teaching in maker spaces, Sarah has experience with shared governance models in consortia, open publishing and data standards, and human-centered design and research. She works primarily with the IoPA as their Research and Community Engagement Lead, and also fills a research appointment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education and lectures at UMass on the topics of Public Interest Technology, Public Policy, and Research Methods.