Michelle Willmers

Curation & Dissemination Manager: Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D)

Michelle Willmers has a background in academic and scholarly publishing and works as a consultant and institutional project manager in scholarly communication. She has experience as an academic journal editor and publishing manager and has worked in the field of open access and open educational resources (OER) since 2008. Michelle was a senior team member in the Shuttleworth Foundation OER UCT initiative and was the programme manager of the IDRC Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP), a four-country research and publishing initiative aimed at increasing the visibility of African research. She is currently the project manager of the OpenUCT initiative.