Dr Konstantina Martzoukou

Moderator

Dr Konstantina Martzoukou is Associate Professor and Course Leader (MSc Information and Library Studies) at Robert Gordon University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests encompass information and digital literacy, information seeking behaviour, and online learning.

Currently, she is working on research projects focused on developing students' digital literacy within schools and Higher Education. Through the ongoing Digital Competencies project, she has studied HE students across various disciplines and levels. In parallel, Konstantina manages an online community of practice, OneHE Information, Digital and Media Literacy Mindsets, which empowers the HE community with digital skills through online collaboration and training.

As the creator of the cartoon digital skills project Maddie is Online (funded by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Library and Information Council), she has collaborated with secondary schools in Scotland and internationally. The project, featured on BBC's Sunday Morning Live, has engaged hundreds across the education sector—librarians, students, academics, teachers, school children, and parents—using a co-creation model that integrates storytelling into educational resource design.

Konstantina is also part of the Erasmus+ project BRIDGE: Information and Digital Literacy at School, which promotes critical thinking and equality values in primary education through children's literature and transmedia. The project involves a multidisciplinary team from six EU countries.

With experience working with diverse learners and vulnerable communities, including Syrian New Scots, she has served on various research committees such as the Editorial Advisory Committee of Library Management Journal, the European Conference on Information Literacy, and the Annual Meeting of ASIS&T.

She has acted as a PhD external examiner nationally and internationally, and has been invited to speak at numerous conferences, including as Keynote Speaker at the 2019 CILIP Public and Mobile Libraries Conference and the 2022 Panhellenic Academic Libraries Conference. She is also co-judge of the Information Literacy Award at the LILAC Conference.

Previously, she served as a member of the ESRC Grants Assessment Panel and as a Project Grants Reviewer for the Irish Research Council. In 2019, she received the Emerald Literati Award for ‘Outstanding Reviewer’.