Apply now for our 2 CILIP Conference Bursaries. 

The CILIP Conference 2024 (10-11 July, Birmingham National Exhibition Centre) will be one of the largest and most eagerly anticipated events in the library and information sector. More details will follow shortly.

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

• Intellectual freedom, censorship and information rights
• Developing future literacy as a leader
• The sector’s response to the UN Sustainability Goals
• Crisis and strategic communications
• Building future resilience in the face of continuing resource and budget pressures.

As well as informing delegates of the sector’s latest developments, CILIP Conference will help delegates to move the needle on pressing issues within their organisation and aim to support a generation of emerging and aspiring leaders as they progress through the sector.

Two UKeiG representatives will be at the conference, so remember to come and say hello, find out about our event schedule and see you can get involved with our projects

Are you an aspiring information professional struggling under the weight of the cost-of-living crisis but keen to pursue professional development activities?

UKeiG is delighted to announce that we are sponsoring two full bursary places (including travel and one night’s hotel accommodation) at CILIP’s 2024 Conference - the UK’s leading event for the library, information and knowledge community - in Birmingham on the 10th and 11th of July. 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.

The CILIP Conference 2024 programme is designed to upskill, connect and develop established, emerging and aspiring leaders. UKeiG hopes that attendance will encourage an aspiring or emerging leader in the profession, empowering them to take their next career steps. We are particularly interested in hearing from people who have never been to the CILIP Conference before, and who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to go.

Bursary Criteria

These two bursaries will be offered to CILIP members and who fall into at least one of the following 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 will be published in UKeiG’s open access journal eLucidate and shared with the CILIP team to publish in print and/or online. The deadline for receipt of reports is 12^th August 2024. You will also be expected to actively document your time at the conference on social media to support colleagues who are unable to attend.