Two of my fab PhD colleagues, Marina Milosheva and Drew Feeney, will shortly head off to Krakow, to present their work at the 2023 European Conference on Information Literacy.

Marina will present the Information Literacy Impact Framework project, which she worked on in 2022 with Peter Cruickshank (PI) and me (Co-I). The work aimed to understand how projects designed to raise information literacy skills and abilities can have lasting impact on attendees and others. The overall lesson from this project is that there is a dearth of impact assessment in information literacy work. However, it was possible to find key components of impactful IL projects. See the final project report.

Drew will attend the doctoral forum, presenting an overview of his PhD studies. The presentation title is New Clicks: developing user-led digital literacies in older adults within Scottish public libraries. His work seeks to empower user-led approaches to developing competent and sustainable digital literacy skillsets in older adults. His work will utilise participatory methodologies, ongoing peer-support and longitudinal assessment of outcomes.

For more details of both presentations, check out this post on the Social Informatics Research Group blog.