Alison Head
Executive Director
PIL Collaborations
- Founder and Director
- Principal investigator on PIL’s current climate change study. Here’s a FAQ.
- Principal investigator on series of 12 groundbreaking research studies conducted between 2008-2020 with a collective sample of 21,000 undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities
- Editor, Provocation Series
- 2021 Provocation Series essay, “Reading in the Age of Distrust,” author
Research Interests
Information literacy, digital literacy, news literacy, reading, algorithms, lifelong learning
Affiliations
Fulbright Program, Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2023-2025
Misinformation & Media Literacy Study, International Advisory Board, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney
Education: University of California at Berkeley, PhD; University of California at Berkeley, MLIS; Boston University, MS Journalism; University of California at Berkeley, BA Rhetoric