Raphaëlle Bats

BIOGRAFIA

Raphaëlle Bats is the co-head of the URFIST Bordeaux (Unité Régionale de Formation à l’Information Scientifique et Technique), University of Bordeaux, France. There, she is organizing training sessions and conferences about scholarly communication, data, open sciences, academic writing, open science, citizen science, etc. for PhD students, researchers and librarians.
She defended her PhD Thesis in October 2019: “From Participation to Collective Mobilization: public libraries looking for their democratic vocation” (dir. Denis Merklen and Etienne Tassin). She still running different research projects about participation, information and climate change. She joined the Citizen Science working of Liber in June 2021.
Raphaëlle Bats animated the French webinar #BiblioCovid19 « Libraries in time of crisis : the case of covid 19 » from March to December 2020. For this, she received the « Livre Hebdo's Library of The Year 2020 Award ».