Hello and thank you for your interest in my work.

I am a faculty member at a public, post-secondary institution that occupies unceded Musqueam territory (i.e., I am an uninvited guest on stolen land).

My research, teaching, and service are guided by aspirations of humility, reciprocity, and imagining otherwise (generatively explored by Octavia Butler, Daniel Heath Justice, adrienne maree brown, Ruha Benjamin, and so many other inspiring writers).

• Information & Climate Justice
• Indigenous-led information initiatives
• Information policy/ethics
• Multi-lifespan information systems

Favorite Journal Articles

• Tulloch, B. J., Kaczmarek, M., Shankar, S., & Nathan, L. P. (2024). When words are key: Negotiating meaning in information research. Journal of Documentation, 80(7), 187–205. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2023-0103
• Nathan, L.P. and Perreault, A. (2018). Unlearning in the Classroom: Nurturing Skills that Disrupt Pedagogical and Professional Norms. International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion. 2(1-2), 67-85.
• Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P. Nathan and Casey Stepaniuk (2017). Children in the cloud: Literacy groupware and the practice of reading. First Monday 22 (2)
• Friedman, B., Nathan and Yoo, D. (2017). Multi-lifespan Information System Design: Situating Principles, Policy and Practice. Interacting with Computers, 29(1), 80-96
• Lisa P. Nathan, Anja Thieme, Deborah Tatar and Stacy Branham (2016). Disruptions, Dilemmas and Paradoxes: Ethical Matter(s) in Design Research. Interacting with Computers 29 (1), 1–9
• Lisa P Nathan, Elizabeth Shaffer and Maggie Castor (2015). Stewarding Collections of Trauma: Plurality, Responsibility, and Questions of Action. Archivaria 80
• Nassim JafariNaimi, Lisa Nathan and Ian Hargraves (2015). Values as Hypotheses: Design, Inquiry, and the Service of Values. Design Issues 31 (4), 91–104
• Gollner, K., Webster, T., and Nathan, L.P. (2015). Neighborhood book exchanges: localizing information practice. Information Research, 20(9). http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-3/paper684.html#.VfgMExFVhBc

Favorite (only) Book

• Hazas, M. & Nathan, L.P. (eds.). (2018). Digital Technology and Sustainability: Engaging the Paradox. Routledge

Favorite Conference Papers

• dos Santos, R., Kaczmarek, M., Shankar, S., & Nathan, L. P. (2021). Who are we listening to? The inclusion of Other-than-human participants in design. Proceedings of LIMITS 2021.
• Kaczmarek, M., Shankar, S., dos Santos, R., Meyers, E. M., & Nathan, L. P. (2020, June). Pushing LIMITS: Envisioning beyond the artifact. Proceedings of LIMITS 2020. Computing within LIMITS, online.
• Meyers, E. M., Nathan, L. P., & Tulloch, B. (2019). Designing Picturebook Apps: Valuing Culture & Community. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies – Transforming Communities, 14–23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3328320.3328377
• Meyers, E.M. and Nathan, L.P. (2016). Impoverished Visions of Sustainability: Encouraging Disruption in Digital Learning Environments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘16). (222-232) Paper received honorable mention
• Halbert, H. and Nathan, L.P. (2015). Designing for Discomfort: Supporting Critical Reflection through Interactive Tools. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘15), (349-360).
• Nathan, L.P., Shaffer, E., Campbell, S., Castor, M. (2015). Collections Of Trauma: Identifying Generative Frictions. Proceedings of the iSchool Conference (iConference ‘15) (9 pages, acceptance rate 58%). Nathan contributed framing and 80% of the writing.
• Friedman, B., & Nathan, L. P. (2010). Multi-lifespan information system design: A research initiative for the hci community. 2243–2246. https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753665

Favorite Chapters

• Hazas, M. and Nathan, L.P. (2018). Introduction to Digital technology and sustainability: engaging the paradox. In M. Hazmas & L.P. Nathan (Eds.). Digital technology and sustainability: Engaging the paradox. (pp.3-13).
• Brown, Pam, Carpenter, J., Lawson, G., Lawson, K., Nathan, L.P. and Turin, M. (2017) Uplifting Voices: Indigenous Languages in Canada in the 21st Century. Reflections of Canada: Illuminating our biggest opportunities and challenges at 150 years. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Vancouver, Canada
• Janet Davis and Lisa P. Nathan (2015). Value Sensitive Design: Applications, Adaptations, and Critiques. Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design, 11–40

Other (Professional Magazines & Reports)

• Bendor, R., Nathan, L. P., Mauriello, M. L., & Bates, O. (2021, June 30). “Everything in the forest is the forest”: A decade of the sustainability in (inter)action forum. Interactions, 28(4), 65–67.
• Nathan, L. P., & Parvin, N. (2019). A story of paradise: Interactive, digitally enhanced, and radioactive. Interactions, 27(1), 74–76.
• Bates, O., Thomas, V., Remy, C., Friday, A., Nathan, L.P., Hazas, M., and Mann, S. (2018). Championing Environmental and Social Justice: Embracing, embedding, and promoting broader notions of sustainability in HCI. ACM interactions, 23(5)
• Carpenter, J., Guerin, A., Kaczmarek, M., Lawson, G., Lawson, K., Nathan, L. P., and Turin, M. (2016). Digital Access for Language and Culture in First Nations Communities (SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Final Report). http://heiltsuk.arts.ubc.ca/report
• Nathan, L.P. (2016). Teaching, Writing and Reflective Practice. Bulletin of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 43(3)
• Nathan, L.P. & Meyers, E.M. (2016). Enriching Visions of Sustainability. Through Informal Public Pedagogies. ACM interactions, 23(5)

Blogs

CTLT Indigenous Initiatives: Classroom Climate Series: Territory Acknowledgment (Sept. 2016).

Open UBC: Exploring tension and risk in open scholarship (Nov. 2017).

Designing for People: Why It’s Okay to Be Uncomfortable While Learning (Jan. 2019).

The Daily of UW: The need for humility in the fight against the climate crisis (Jan. 2020).

I had the honour of supervising:

Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer (Completion 2019)

Dr. Saguna Shankar (Completion 2023)

Dr. Michelle Kaczamarek (Completion 2023)

Dr. Rodrigo dos Santos (Completion 2026)

My intention as an educator is to support students in becoming reflective information professionals and community members. I strive to enhance students’ critical thinking skills, enrich their experiential knowledge, and develop their capacity to recognize the limits of their knowledge (cultural & intellectual humility).

The success of any course is tied to students’ capacity and interest to actively participate. Therefore, I work towards an environment (whether in-person or online) that guides and supports engaged inquiry. I encourage students to identify and address issues of marginalization and inequality in dominant information practices (i.e., how information is organized, shared, stored and managed), and most importantly, to imagine otherwise. Imagination is critical for moving from us from critiquing what is, to taking action towards making things better.