Strengthening the Bond Between Academic Libraries and Faculty

Alison Hicks is Associate Professor of Library and Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies at University College, London (UCL), UK. Prior to returning to the UK, Alison worked as an academic librarian in the United States for over a decade. Alison received her PhD in Library and Information Science from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden. She also holds an MSIS from the University of Texas, Austin, USA, and an MA in French and Spanish from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Alison’s research primarily focuses on the information literacy practices that help people to cope with uncertainty, including risk and transition, within academic, health, everyday, and work contexts. She recently co-edited Information Literacy through Theory (Facet, 2023) and is currently working on her second monograph, Informational Risk. Her work has also been published in scholarly journals, such as Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, and Library & Information Science Research.