Part of the Graduate School of Education
Saguna Shankar (she/her)
Assistant Professor
INFORMATION SCIENCE
Specialty/Research Focus
Care for Community Data; Information Practice; Information Policy; Interdependence
Professional Summary:
For more about my research and teaching, please visit my website.
Education and Training:
- PhD, University of British Columbia, Library, Archival and Information Studies (2023)
- MLIS, University of British Columbia, Library and Information Studies (2016)
- BA, University of London, English (2013)
Recent Publications:
Journal Article:
- Tulloch, B. J., Kaczmarek, M., Shankar, S., & Nathan, L. P. (2024). When words are key: negotiating meaning in information research. Journal of Documentation, 80(7), 187-205.
Recent Presentations:
Conferences:
- Shankar, S. (2023, November 8–11). “Useless housewife data”: Claims of usefulness and uselessness in community-grounded environmental justice initiatives [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.;
- Shankar, S. (2023, November 8–11). What’s the use of data? Epistemic authority and environmental injustice at Love Canal [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.;
- Sinnamon, L., Nathan, L., Shankar, S., Hansen, M., and Marshall, D. (2023, June 6–9). Deliberating climate action @ the library: Supporting sense making & meaning making in the midst of uncertainty and difference [Panel presentation]. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association Canadienne des Sciences de l’Information. https://cais2023.ca/talk/panel2/Panel2.pdf;