Presentation delivered during the New Professionals Conference 2011 by Joseph Norwood and Ka-Ming Pang

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 need totake the opportunity to engage and be more active.

3. Advocacy and engagementat the University of BrightonMA 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! Image sourced from Flickr Commons: Adactio

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.”

15. Two thirds of students are active. They were involved in:

16. Conclusions and Action Points

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

19. Relate sessions to relevant events.

21. Stronger networks = Stronger voice

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

23. Images Slide two: The Last Judgement: Hieronymus Bosch Slide Four: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5189335153/ Slide five: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/3326203787/ Slide nine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galt-museum/4112917355/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Slide ten: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/2856121959/ Slide thirteen: image created by anonymous member of internet group – “Anonymous” Slide fifteen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/5190623320/ Slide nineteen: Chinese propaganda poster Hand drawn images by Jo and Ka-Ming