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Alison Hicks

Alison Hicks is Associate Professor of 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.

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Claims for Disciplinarity: If Information Literacy Is a Discipline, What Is It a Discipline Of?

by Alison Hicks, Annemaree Lloyd June 2, 2026 0

What is information literacy a discipline of? This short paper outlines why we, as information literacy scholars and ex-teaching librarians, reluctantly reject both... Read more.

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Information Avoidance: Out of the Shadow of Information Seeking

by Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Alison Hicks, Pam McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, Ian Ruthven, Gunilla Widén December 4, 2024 0

Up till now our understanding of information avoidance has remained fragmentary. Researchers have been unable to give a single coherent definition of what IA actually... Read more.

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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.