Alison Head
Executive Director
PIL Collaborations
- Founder and Director
- Principal investigator on PIL’s latest research study/report( July 2024): “How information worlds shape our response to climate change”
- Principal investigator on series of 14 groundbreaking research studies conducted between 2008-2024 with a collective sample of 25,000 undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities as well as members of the general public living in the U.S.
- 2023 Inside Higher Ed opinion essay, “Getting a grip on ChatGPT,” co-author with Barbara Fister
- 2024 EduSurge essay, “To address climate anxiety, consider how students get their news on the issue”
- 2024 ACRL News, “How college students respond to climate change in troubled times: Four takeaways from Project Information Literacy’s latest study”
Research Interests
Information literacy, digital literacy, news literacy, reading, algorithms, lifelong learning, hope
Affiliations
- Australia PIL InfoLit Tour: Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Brisbane, October–November 2024, Fulbright World Learning Program, Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2023-2026
- Misinformation & Media Literacy Study, International Advisory Board, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, 2023-2026
- Visiting Research Scholar and Fellow appointments: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2019–2020; University of Pittsburgh, 2018–2019; Purdue University, 2017–2018; University of Nebraska, 2016–2017; Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, 2011–2013); Stanford University, 1996–1997
- metaLAB (at) Harvard, Senior Researcher, 2015–2020
- Education: University of California at Berkeley, PhD; University of California at Berkeley, MLIS; Boston University, MS Journalism; University of California at Berkeley, BA Rhetoric