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Dr Konstantina Martzoukou

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December 20, 2024

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Dr Konstantina Martzoukou is an Associate Professor and Course Leader for the MSc Information and Library Studies at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on information and digital literacy, as well as information-seeking behaviour within different contexts. Konstantina is the creator of the award-winning cartoon digital skills initiative (RGU ‘Engaging the Public with Research’ recognition), ‘Maddie is Online’, funded by the Scottish Government, the Scottish Library and Information Council, and Responsible AI UK. The project has engaged hundreds of individuals across the education and library sectors – librarians, students, academics, teachers, school nurses, schoolchildren, and parents – through an innovative co-creation model that uses storytelling to design educational resources. It has been implemented in secondary schools across Scotland and internationally. Dr Martzoukou has experience of working with diverse learner groups and vulnerable communities, including Syrian New Scots (refugees in Scotland). She has served on various research and professional committees, such as the European Conference on Information Literacy, and has been a co-judge for the Information Literacy Award at the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC). Her academic contributions include serving as a PhD external examiner both nationally and internationally, and she is a frequent invited speaker at conferences and events. In 2019, she received the Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Reviewer, and she currently serves as Editor of the Journal of Web Librarianship (Taylor & Francis).

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