Shortlist: Ross Todd Award 2023-2024 (to be awarded in 2025)

JIL are happy to announce the shortlist for the 2023-2024 Ross Todd Award for Outstanding Research.

Congratulations to all of the nominees, and we hope you enjoy reading their articles!

About the award:

The Ross Todd Award for Outstanding Research is a biennial award designed to recognise research that has been published in the Journal of Information Literacy. Dr Ross Todd, who passed away in 2022, was a founding member of the Journal of Information Literacy and served on its Editorial Board for over fifteen years. He was also one of the leading researchers in information literacy, being particularly interested in research with schools and young people.

There are two Ross Todd awards; one for Best Research Paper and one for Best Project Report. These awards are informed by a public vote, with the final decision being made by a panel from the Journal of Information Literacy Editorial Board. The award results are announced at LILAC and awardees receive a certificate outlining their achievement.

Research Articles

• What role can affect and emotion play in academic and research information literacy practices? by Alex Hewitt (Vol.17, No.1). [Critical IL Special Issue]
  • https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/view/19 
• Information as a relation: Defining Indigenous information literacy by Sandra Littletree, Nicola Andrews, Jessie Loyer (Vol.17, No.2)
  • https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/view/8 
• Critical workplace information literacy Laying the groundwork for a new construct by Dijana Šobota (Vol.17, No.1). [Critical IL Special Issue]
  • https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/view/23 
• Information literacy in the age of internet conspiracism by Matthew Hannah (Vol.17, No.1). [Critical IL Special Issue]
  • https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/view/21 

Project Reports

• The early development of information literacy instruction for young people as revealed by six volumes by Andrew Shenton (Vol.18, No.2)
  • https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/view/689/611 
• Developing Black feminist researcher identities A youth-engaged Wikipedia case study in information activism by Elise Silva, Khirsten Scott (Vol.17, No.1). [Critical IL Special Issue]
  • https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/article/view/24/31

Previous winners:

2021-2022

Best Research Paper: Frances Marsh

Unsettling information literacy: Exploring critical approaches with academic researchers for decolonising the university (Vol.16, No.1)

Best Project Report: Sarah Wolfenden

Using coaching techniques to teach information literacy to first year English undergraduates (Special Issue 2022)