Information worlds and multi-literacies - report from ECIL 2018
1 November 2018
The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) 2018 was held in September 2018 in the amazing location of Oulu, Finland. Read more…
Hi. I’m Emma Coonan, a former academic librarian now turned research fellow. I work in Cambridge at the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education, carrying out applied collaborative pedagogic research – which means I get to meet and work with some amazing and inspiring members of ARU’s teaching staff.
I’m endlessly fascinated by learning and human curiosity. In particular I’m interested in how people encounter and use information, not just in studying but in everyday life
In my spare time I’m the editor of an academic journal (Journal of Information Literacy) and enjoy walking, running, sewing, and feeding the wild hedgehogs in my garden.
Emma's first blog will follow soon.
1 November 2018
The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) 2018 was held in September 2018 in the amazing location of Oulu, Finland. Read more…
10 August 2018
In May 2018 I attended a workshop at the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) on writing bids for research funding. Read more…
8 August 2018
I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the view that 'learning should be everyone’s business in universities' (Hilsdon, 2011). However, having worked as an academic librarian for the last decade, the gap between ‘academic’ and ‘academic support’ has sometimes felt very wide. Read more…