Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025

  • Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Who are our keynote speakers? Find out who is speaking at this year's conference and read their biographies and abstracts.

Jane Secker

Jane Secker

Biography

Jane Secker is Associate Professor in Educational Development at City St George’s, University of London where she leads the modules related to digital education and digital literacies and is joint Programme Director of the Masters in Academic Practice. She is the former Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, a co-founder of LILAC and now serving as Deputy Chair of the ILG. She is founder member and a trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) and created a framework for information literacy known as a New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL) in 2011 working with Emma Coonan. Her current research is exploring staff attitudes towards digital literacies and open educational practices, copyright anxiety in higher education and why staff engage in playful learning.

Jane was Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at LSE for over 15 years where she advised staff about copyright issues and the online environment. She is a member of the Universities UK Copyright Negotiation and Advisory Committee which negotiates with the Copyright Licensing Agency on the higher education licence. She is co-author of Copyright and E-learning: a guide for practitioners published by Facet in 2016. She has created a number of open educational games for teaching about copyright, collaborating with Chris Morrison for over 10 years. She also runs the podcast Copyright Waffle with Chris and has a PhD from Aberystwyth University. You might think Jane is a very serious person but in fact in her spare time she is a passionate gardener and is learning the guitar. She also enjoys playing with her cats and dressing up in historical costumes.


Stephen Thornton

Stephen ThorntonBiography

Dr Stephen Thornton is Reader in Politics at Cardiff University. Though he mainly teaches and researches on aspects of British political history and public policy, Stephen also has a long-standing interest in the information behaviours of Politics and International Relations students and, over two decades, has written many articles on the topic. His latest piece - co-written with Dr Doug Atkinson - is called ‘Everywhere and Nowhere: Information Literacy in the Political Science Classroom’ (in the US journal PS: Political Science and Politics). Stephen is also a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy).


Elinor Carmi

Biography

Elinor Carmi

Dr. Elinor Carmi is a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist who has been working on data politics, data literacies, data feminism, data justice and internet governance. In the past five years she has successfully won grants from UKRI, ESRC, and Nuffield Foundation together with colleagues from academia and NGOs. Dr. Carmi's work contributes to emerging debates in academia, policy, health organizations and digital activism. In February 2020, Elinor was invited to give evidence on digital literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. Her insights were included in the final report: “Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust”. In July 2020, Dr. Carmi was invited by the World Health Organization as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. Between 2021-2023 Elinor won a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK's Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee, and from May 2024 she has been selected to be an Expert Member of the UK Information Commissioner's Office Technology Advisory Panel. She has been invited to be an expert advisor for several organisations and digital rights NGOs such as: Amnesty International Tech, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), UNESCO, Connected by Data, Demos, 5 Rights, Royal Society, and the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman.

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Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025

Cardiff University, 14-16 April 2025