Sarah Gallagher

Experience

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  University of Otago

  Mar 1997 - Mar 2003

  Library Assistant

  Where I cut my library teeth - I began in circulation, then moved to the Sir Robert Sout Law Library for 3 years (reference and interloan), and then a final 2 years back in Central Library where I worked in reference and assisted the Web librarian. Key highlights from the latter role were building a web hosted database for database information (still in use 2021), building the first online replicas of Special Collections exhibitions (these were the first such online exhibitions in the Southern Hemisphere). Show less

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  Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland [RPII]

  Apr 2003 - Aug 2003

  Librarian

  Sole charge librarian for the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland.

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  Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales [ICAEW]

  Sept 2003 - Oct 2005

  Information Executive

  Part of a team providing web development support to the ICAEW library and marketing teams.

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  Christchurch City Council

  Jan 2006 - Mar 2006

  Web Content Developer

  Web development and site maintenance.

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  Boffa Miskell

  Apr 2006 - Jul 2011

  Information Manager

  Management of Library and Information Services.

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  Self employed

  Jul 2007 - now

  Freelance - information and social media design

  Information solutions and advice - including support for tenders; website auditing, updating and builds (wordpress / squarespace); social media advice; set up and integration; bibliometrics, altmetrics and academic research profile builds; training in using social media for scholarly communication; research.I have experience advising and developing digital / research profiles for academic staff and research units (Scholar, ORCiD, Academia, Researchgate) and calculating bibliometrics using a variety of tools to find evidence of research impact for various purposes including PBRF. Show less

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  University of Otago

  Jan 2011 - Sept 2018

  Building, managing and maintaining the Dunedin School of Medicine social media channels on Facebook and Twitter and producing a weekly newsletter.Writing, planning and scheduling content, regular analytics reporting.Training academics and postgraduate students how to use Twitter as a tool for scholarly communication to share their research and contribute to their own research impact story. Integrating knowledge of academic publishing and bibliometrics in social media education. Managing the pre print and publication process of reports published by the NZCYES as contracted by the Ministry of Health and DHBs. This involves the hard copy and electronic publishing, and the dissemination of our reports. I also looked after the website and social media presence on Twitter @NZCYES. Reports can be found at www.otago.ac.nz/NZCYESPublication | http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6931 Conducted content analysis of images and analysis of tweets to contribute to "Competing Futures: Community building and the Gigatown competition in the South Island." My role involved developing a means for providing quantitative analysis over 300 screenshots of websites. Sifter and Discovertext were used to analyse two samples of historical tweets with the hashtag #gigatowndun. Supporting the teaching, learning and research of staff and students at the University of Otago.

  • Social Media Advisor, Dunedin School of Medicine

    Jul 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Data and Quality Manager, NZCYES

    Dec 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Research Assistant, Media Film & Communication

    Mar 2017 - May 2017

  • Academic Liaison Librarian / Subject Librarian : Kaitiaki Pukapuka

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
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  Arts Festival Dunedin

  Sept 2016 - Oct 2016

  Social Media Advisor

  Advising, planning and implementing a social media campaign for Arts Festival Dunedin which involved working with the wider distributed team across a number of social media platforms Facebook, witter and Instagram) , using monitoring and scheduling tools.

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  Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

  Oct 2018 - now

  It’s a huge privilege to work in a role that is a service to New Zealanders and helps connect them to their heritage, and a role that combines my loves of place, buildings and research.This role involves growing and maintaining the Hertiage List / Rārangi Kōrero, working with people who are nominating places for the list, developing and maintaining relationships with owners and heritage advocates, and creating experiences for community engagement.

  • Area Manager

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Acting Area Manager

    Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Heritage Assessment Advisor

    Oct 2018 - Aug 2023