Re-imagining the classroom to encourage school students to learn about literature

Dr Geoff Walton is Senior Lecturer in Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University

The EU study involving 5 countries is published in the British Journal of Educational Research and is freely available until the 15th July.

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Dr Geoff Walton is Senior Lecturer in Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University (from August 1st 2016). He teaches on Units: Information Organisations & Their Management, Information Systems & Organisational Life, Information Organisation 7 Search and Evidence Bases,

He was previously at Northumbria University for 3 years where he secured British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust funding (with Ali Pickard). Geoff worked on a number of research projects including the EU AMORES project (Discovering a love for literature through digital collaboration and creativity). Dr Walton was Principal Supervisor for research projects on information literacy in Vietnam and qualitative big data. 

Before Northumbria University Geoff had a dual role at Staffordshire University of Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies and Academic Skills Tutor Librarian (Information Services). As Senior Researcher Dr Walton secured over €300,000 in EU funding and £20,000 AHRC funding.

He has been a Chartered Information Professional/Librarian for over 20 years. He was SLA Europe Information Professional 2010. My paper for the Journal of Documentation won an Emerald Literati Highly Commended Award in 2012. 

Geoff is am particularly interested in the cognitive, metacognitive and affective processes involved in becoming information literate. He has research interests in a number of areas such as digital personae, digital literacy, discourses in information literacy, social enterprise and webometrics/analytics.