Are you an aspiring or emerging leader in the library, information and knowledge profession keen to develop your career and empower yourself to take your next step into leadership?

Have you never attended a CILIP Conference before and couldn’t ordinarily afford to go?

The UKeiG Management Committee is delighted to announce that it is sponsoring two full bursary places (including travel and one night’s hotel accommodation) at CILIP Conference 2025,  the UK’s leading event for the library, information and knowledge community.

This generous bursary offer will provide CILIP members - unwaged, studying, new to the profession or without the financial means to attend - with an exciting career development and networking opportunity.

About CILIP Conference 2025

2 - 3 July
Hilton Birmingham Metropole

Taking place over two days in Birmingham, the event brings together established, emerging and aspiring leaders to discuss and explore ‘top of mind’ challenges and opportunities in the sector, including:

• AI Innovation
• AI & Copyright
• Crisis Management
• Data literacy and consent
• KM & IM: Grenfell - Lessons Learned
• Advocating for the Sector

Bursary Criteria

 Bursaries are offered to CILIP members who fall into at least one of the below categories:

• Students
• Those new to the profession (having joined the profession in the last 5 years)
• With earnings below £23,000 per annum
• or who are unwaged.

Successful bursary recipients are expected to produce a written report of their experiences of and learning outcomes from the event. It may be published in UKeiG’s open access journal eLucidate and will be shared with the CILIP team to publish in print and/or online. You will also be expected to actively document your time at the conference on social media to support colleagues who are unable to attend.

To Apply

Please email:

Richard Bridgen – Hon. Secretary UKeiG secretary.ukeig@cilip.org.uk

copied to:

Gary Horrocks - UKeiG Business Coordinator info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk

and

Elizabeth Roberts – Hon. Treasurer UKeiG treasurer.ukeig@cilip.org.uk with a succinct statement of no more than half a side of A4 outlining your interest in attending Conference 2025 and how this bursary place will support your professional development.

Please also confirm the following information:

• First name
• Surname
• Email
• Phone
• CILIP membership number
• Role/job title or unwaged/student status.

clarifying that you fulfil the bursary criteria and are currently without the financial means to attend Conference 2025.

To help with your application, UKeiG showcases and celebrates digital knowledge and expertise, ensuring that members from all sectors are savvy with R&D and innovations across the information industry. Core topics in our portfolio include artificial intelligence, digital literacy, effective information retrieval and search technologies, enterprise search, social media, data visualisation and management, research support, scholarly communication and open access publishing.

CILIP members can join UKeiG for free via the CILIP website, and you are encouraged to do so before you submit your application.

Applications must be received by 6pm on Friday 30th May 2025