As Acting Client Services Coordinator, Stephen is a member of Academic Library Services and coordinates the day-to-day operations at the Magill and Mawson Lakes campuses, providing leadership and support for local service provision, including the Ask the Library service. 
Stephen completed a Master of Information Management at UniSA in 2021 and was awarded the Australian Library and Information Association and UniSA STEM Prize for the highest achieving graduate in the Master's program. An article based on his research report in partial fulfillment of the Master of Information Management was published in Humanities Research 2024 vol. xx, no. 1. Stephen is also a member of the Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
Also a trained art historian, writer, and researcher, Stephen's recent publications have appeared in Australian Historical Studies, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, Meanjin, and Portrait: Magazine of Australian & International Portraiture. In 2022, he was awarded the Wakefield Press South Australian History Essay Prize, an annual award for the best essay on a topic relating to the history of South Australia, for his essay 'Open Doors: The art of charity in the Promised Land'. 
Stephen has over twenty-five years experience in educational settings, retail and the not-for-profit sector, working in communications and marketing, project and program management, advocacy, training and community development. Stephen has lived and worked close to twenty years in Europe, predominantly in France and Germany.