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Celebrate UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy week with the Information school

Sheila Webber and Dr Pam McKinney

Unesco’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week is an annual event to celebrate and promote Media and Information Literacy worldwide. This year the week of international (virtual!) events is taking place 24th-31st October, with the theme “Resisting Disinfodemic: Media and Information Literacy for everyone and, by everyone”. The Information School has co-organised two key contributions to the week: an expert panel on 28th October, chaired by Sheila Webber, and on 29th October a programme of exciting insights from Media and Information Literacy research. Both these free events are held in collaboration with FOIL: the Forum on Information Literacy.

Sheila Webber and Pam McKinney are members of this new national network of information literacy researchers in the UK, FOIL, who aim to discuss and challenge ideas, and engage in critical reflection and enquiry about the practices of information literacy.  Together with the other members of the network:  Annemaree Lloyd, Alison Hicks and Charlie Inskip from University College London, Bill Johnston from University of Strathclyde, Drew Whitworth from Manchester Institute of Education and Geoff Walton from Manchester Metropolitan University, we are taking part in a free online webinar Wednesday 28th October, 11am-12 noon GMT.  

In this free webinar, the panellists will address the questions: (1) What has been the UK narrative about Information Literacy? and (2) What will be the UK narrative about Information Literacy? We will draw on our varied experiences, inside and outside the UK, to reflect on how Information Literacy has (and hasn't) developed, and where it should go in the future. We anticipate this event will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students, and all are welcome to this thought provoking event.  Please register your interest here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/124218423649/

The Forum on Information Literacy is committed to sharing Information Literacy research and providing opportunities for new researchers to participate. Our second event for Global Media and Information Literacy week, on 29th October 11am-12 noon GMT, is an opportunity for recently graduated masters students to share their dissertation research entitled “Masters’ Class: Emerging Voices in Media & Information Literacy Research” hosted by Dr Drew Whitworth. Each presenter is a practising information Literacy educator, and represent emerging voices in research and practice of Information Literacy. The presenters are:

  • Tsveta Rafaylova (RSM UK, dissertation submitted to University College London): The place and role of workplace information literacy in a corporate environment: exploring the information literacy capabilities of knowledge workers in a professional services firm
  • William Shire (Magdalene College, Oxford and the University of Sheffield): The use of Web 2.0 tools to teach information literacy in the UK university library context
  • Dona Fernandes (Hamid Bin Khalifa University, and the University of Manchester): Approaches to Integrating Media Literacy in the K-12 Curriculum: The Case of Qatar

William Shire is a graduate from the MA Library Services and Information Management programme and was awarded the Henry Heaney Memorial Prize for the best dissertation in the field of academic librarianship. William, with the support of supervisor Pam McKinney, has had a journal paper based on his dissertation accepted for publication in the Journal of Information Literacy, expected publication in early 2021.

All are welcome to come along, please register your interest here.



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