1. Can we play?
Building opportunities for student
activism and
engagement 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 need to
take the opportunity
to engage and be
more active.

3. Advocacy and engagement
at the University of Brighton
MA Information Studies.

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 is hard,
but ooh look, written comments!

9. RESULTS!

10. We are not clones!
Via Flickr Commons: Adactio

11. Reasons for joining CILIP:
•Cheap for students.
•Good for
employability.
•Keeps students up
to date with library
related information.

12. Reasons for not joining CILIP:
• Expensive for
students.
• Doesn't benefit
them as students.
• Perceived lack of
political activity.

13. “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.”

14. Two thirds of students are active.
They were involved in:
•Read ins.
•Letter writing.
•Protests.
•Leafleting.
•Passing on information
using social media.

15. Conclusions and Action Points

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

17. CILIP needs to reach out to students:
•Connect earlier with
students.
•Relate sessions to
relevant events.
•Promote their
advocacy work better.

18. Political activity needs to be fed
back into the class

19. Stronger networks = Stronger voice

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