About

I am a Research Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University (UK), and a member of the Post-Publishing research theme. My research interests are, amongst others, knowledge equity and diversity in academia; the psychosocial and emotional dimensions of scholarly research, communication, and publishing; editing and/as facilitation; collaborative, experimental, and interventionist practices in the humanities; genealogies of open access publishing; processual approaches to openness and accessibility; and radical open access publishing. I did a PhD titled Reading Differently: Expanding Open Access Definitions Towards Greater Knowledge Equity at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures and studied art history, business administration, and modern history at the University of Zurich (CH). 

I am also a researcher on the Open Book Futures (OBF) and the Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS) research projects; a co-convener of the Radical Open Access Collective; a co-editor of the Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers experimental book series with Open Humanities Press; and a co-editor of the experimental continent. journal. I also consult and support early career researchers in exploring more collaborative, horizontal, and open approaches towards publishing their monographs. Previously, I was a Research Associate at WP6: Experimental Publishing, Re-use, and Impact of the Coventry University based COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) research project and a member of Jisc's Open Research Advisory Board.

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My previous work as a writer;  managing editor; a writing tutor and thesis supervisor at the MA Studio for Immediate Spaces, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam where I developed critical publishing as a learning environment for students to discuss societally relevant questions – such as who participates in knowledge creation on whose terms, and who owns knowledge – and to acquire various communication, publishing, and technological skills through collaborative work on publications; a visiting professor at diverse universities; curator; and researcher evolved at the intersections of experimental publishing, art, design, architecture, and the humanities. I am a founding member of DA Institut, as well as a member and former co-director of Depot Basel. 

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Contact

rebekka.kiesewetter(at)gmail.com
ae2434(at)coventry.ac.uk

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Mastodon
@Rebekka_Kie@hccommons.social

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