Alison Head

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Research Scientist

Education

Alison Head is an information scientist and social sciences researcher. She is best known for Project Information Literacy, a large-scale academic study she founded and directs. The study investigates how today's college students find and use information for course work and in their everyday lives. Library Journal named PIL one of the "Big Four" research studies about library users today in 2013. Alison is a Research Scientist at the University of Washington's Information School and a Faculty Associate at the Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet. Alison's research about the information-seeking behavior of today's college students has been covered by Atlantic Magazine, the Huffington Po...