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Alison Hicks

Alison Hicks is Assistant Professor and Programme Director, Library and Information Studies at University College, London (UCL). Her research primarily focuses on how information literacy practices help people to cope with uncertainty, including risk and transition, within academic, health, everyday and work contexts. She is additionally interested in qualitative, visual and participatory information literacy research methods and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy. With a PhD from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås and an MSIS from the University of Texas, Austin, Alison worked as an academic librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Inter-American Development Bank for ten years prior to taking up her position at UCL.
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Collaborative Interpretation as Craft: Slow Theory Development in Library and Information Science

by Alison Hicks, Pam McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Ian Ruthven, Gunilla Widén April 1, 2024 0

Within Library and Information Science (LIS), theory development has typically prioritised the use of theory rather than its construction as well as the work of... Read more.