1. Can we play? Building Opportunities for Student Activism andEngagement and why it matters. Ka-Ming Pang and Jo Norwood MA Information Studies University of Brighton

2. We live in challenging times. LIS students have a vested interest in the profession. They needtake the opportunity to engage and be more active.

3. Advocacy and Engagement: University of Brighton MA Informations Studies: A case study.

4. Advocacy and Activism

5. Engagement

6. What has been done to engage the class

7. Class Survey on Activism and Engagement

8. Small data sample is not useful for formulating meaningful statistics.Writing questionnaires ishard, but ooh look, written comments!

9. RESULTS!

10. Via Flickr Commons: Adactio No correlation between tools used and age, gender or type of study.

12. Good for employability,

14. “CILIP is supposed to join information workers together to have a collective voice, but I haven’t seen evidence of that. I don’t see organised political activity during the current crisis in our industry, or anything of use.”

16. Letter writing

17. Protests

18. Leafleting

20. Building an effective communication strategy: Use as many tools as possible!

22. Relate sessions to relevant events

24. Stronger networks = Stronger Voice

25. Thanks for listening Ka-Ming Pang (@AgentK23) Jo Norwood (@DreamingEntity)