Jen Bonnet, MSI, MA

Bio: Jen Bonnet is the librarian for the School of Nursing, as well as the departments of Anthropology, Communication & Journalism, and Native American Programs. In collaboration with faculty, staff, and students, she engages in a wide range of outreach, instruction, consultation, and research. She provides various types of scholarly communication support to the UMaine community, including help with where to publish and present, authors’ rights, open access publishing, online scholarly identities (like ORCID and Google Scholar profiles), and defining research impact. Jen has training in evidence synthesis support, and is currently engaged in knowledge synthesis projects in the School of Nursing.

3 most recent pubs and/or honors: Bonnet, J.L., Herakova, L., & Karim, T. (2023). Queering/Querying Educational Spaces: The LGBTQIA2+ Learning and Affirming Challenge. Feminist Pedagogy 3(4), 1-9; Rosenbaum, J.E., Bonnet, J.L., Berry, R.A. (2022). Rethinking the future of news literacy education: Results from a mixed methods study. Media Education Research Journal 11(2), 1-22; Bonnet, J.L., Karunakar, A., & Woods, M. (October 2021).  Why not Libraries? Programming for Racial Justice. Invited keynote presentation at the annual South Carolina Library Association conference.

Current service/community outreach/other: Member, President’s Council on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Member, Office of Major Scholarships Advisory Council; Member, Professional Employees Advisory Council; Member, Orono Public Library Board of Trustees; Member, Omo Valley Research Project Board of Directors

Clinical specialty/research focus: Member of the HRSA grant-funded WellNurse research team; training and experience in evidence synthesis.