Wednesday 22 October 2025

4:30-5:30pm 

Dr. Alison Hicks (UCL) will be presenting her resesarch on How is Risk Informed: Risk, Information Literacy and the Challenge to Professional Narratives. Please join us.

In the Humanities Research Hub, on the ground floor of 1 University Gardens

Risk-Informed information practice (RIIP) refers to how people use information to perceive, understand and manage danger. Emerging from the premise that risk research has not paid enough attention to information literacy and that information research has not sufficiently engaged with core social processes, risk-informed information practice provides a rich definition and conceptual framework for considering the relationship between risk and information. This presentation will provide an overview of RIIP before entering into conversation with Rebecca Noone (Lecturer in Information Studies, School of Humanities) about how this concept, and others, challenge our professional narratives. All welcome, especially PGR and PGT students.

Dr. Alison Hicks (she/hers) is a qualitative information literacy researcher who studies how we become informed in academic, health, workplace and everyday contexts. Alison is particularly interested in risk-informed information practice, which refers to how information literacy shapes the conceptualisation, construction, and experience of risk, most recently in relation to questions of censorship and book-banning. Alison's extensive research has been published in monograph and article form; she has also keynoted and offered invited presentations at a range of UK and European conferences and institutions. She is an Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCL.

PGR and PGT students are encouraged to join

First published: 20 October 2025

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