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  • Gillian qualified as a Librarian with a master’s in information and library management. She has experience in further and higher education. Gillian is committed to lifelong learning and has a post-graduate qualification in teaching in Higher Education, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Member of CILIP (the library and information association). Gillian has also been a committee member on several national CILIP special interest groups including Libraries for Nursing and the Library and Information Research Group.

    In her role as an Academic Librarian, Gillian supports students to develop their information literacy skills, through large group and one-to-one teaching. Gillian works with students from foundation level to post-doctoral research. Her work with students and staff in the health professional areas has informed her research interests.

  • Gillian is an Academic Librarian working with students and staff in the Public and Professional Healthcare programmes, including nursing and midwifery. Gillian’s focus is teaching and supporting students and staff to develop their information literacy practice, including supporting them to find, access and use the evidence-base to underpin their professional practice.

  • As an Academic Librarian Gillian is passionate about supporting people to gain confidence and skills in finding and using information. Her focus on information literacy practice has developed into research projects around the use of reading lists as a pedagogical tool. She has also looked at student engagement with information literacy online tutorials. Her most recent research has explored the experience of international postgraduate students coming to study at UON, using participatory photography.

  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Gillian Siddall’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.