Dr Yvonne M. Eadon (they/she) is a Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Eadon is the co-director of FringeLab, a University of Glasgow Arts Lab devoted to teasing out the contours of fringes, edges, borders, and margins—bringing together researchers whose work looks at the fringes of society, culture, technology, and history. They are also an associate editor at the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL).

Dr Eadon’s interdisciplinary research focuses on knowledge production within fringe conspiratorial research cultures, and draws from information studies, mis- and disinformation studies, conspiracy theory scholarship, and feminist science and technology studies (STS). Their work has been published in a variety of interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals, including Social Media + Society, Convergence, Knowledge Organization, and Information & Culture. Dr Eadon has presented their work at many conferences and associations including the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), the American Sociological Association (ASA), and the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S).

Dr Eadon was formerly an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC - Chapel Hill. Dr Eadon obtained their MLIS and PhD in Information Studies from UCLA and worked as a Senior Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2).