2025 Summer Conference

Stop! Collaborate & Listen: Partnerships in Libraries

For our 2025 Summer Conference we’ll be heading to The Hive in Worcester – a great example of partnership working itself.

The conference will follow our usual format across Thursday 12 and Friday 13 June, with the ticket price covering both days of the conference, the conference dinner, and bed & breakfast accommodation for Thursday evening / Friday morning.

If you want to book an extra night at the same accommodation, please contact us.

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Full programme now available

You can view our delegates page with timings for the events and information on the programme here

We have fantastic talks from a range of speakers:

Sarah Chaney, Royal College of Nursing: Funding our future: Developing creative partnerships for libraries.

Ruth Jenkins, University of Edinburgh: Capacity building & leveraging student expertise with Systematic Review Tutors. 

Isobel Eddyshaw, Academic Liaison Librarian, University of Exeter and Keith Nockels, Academic Librarian, University of Leicester. U.S Government health information censorship: what is happening, and what can we do?

Madalene George, University of Worcester: “I could be totally myself and I felt listened to and understood”: nurturing genuine partnership to promote belonging and agency amongst the Library Student Team and wider  student community at University of Worcester. 

Cheryl Francis, University of Sunderland: Stepping into a systematic review research team as a liaison librarian: bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Neena Shukla Morris, Brighton & Sussex Medical School: How to Win Students and Influence Academics: Methods for increasing library contact time within the curriculum.

Natasha Howard, North East London NHS Foundation Trust: Systemwide approach to health literacy in North East London.

Andy Searle, University of Worcester: Learning from the experiences of dyslexic students:  a more integrated approach to teaching academic literacy skills to first year undergraduate students.