Welcoming A New Chef in the Kitchen, Haseeb Irfanullah

I am very pleased to announce that Haseeb Irfanullah has graciously agreed to join The Scholarly Kitchen as a regular contributor. Haseeb describes himself as a “research enthusiast”, and has served in many different roles in his career, beginning with a PhD in aquatic ecology from the University of Liverpool. Since then, he has served as the editor for the Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy, and worked for a variety of international development organizations, academic institutions, and the government of Bangladesh. He’s also a visiting research fellow at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, serving in its Center Sustainable Development (CSD) in Dhaka. Haseeb has been involved in many of INASP’s efforts including BanglaJOL and AuthorAID and has designed and facilitated workshops and training sessions for young and mid-career researchers in Bangladesh.

As both the research community and the scholarly publishing community have become increasingly international, we’ve been working to bring in voices from regions beyond the US and the EU, and we’re very excited that Haseeb has agreed to bring in information and opinion from his area of the world. Please join me in welcoming Haseeb, his previous guest post can be found here, and his first post as a Chef is here.

David Crotty

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David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.