Alison Head is the Lead Researcher for Project Information Literacy (PIL), an ongoing national research study based in the University of Washington's Information School. Since 2008, she and Co-Director Mike Eisenberg have studied over 11,000 students on 41 U.S. campuses (including Harvard College) to investigate how college students conduct research and find information for their coursework and for dealing with the demands of their everyday lives.
She is a Research Scientist in University of Washington's Information School. During 2011-2012, she is a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab. She earned her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Library and Information Science and was a Visiting Scholar, studying Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. She taught as the Roy Disney Visiting Professor in New Media at Saint Mary's College for 10 years.
Last updated September 05, 2011