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Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students. (2025)
Journal Article
VIRGO, I. 2025. Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students. Information research [online], 30(CoLIS): proceedings of the 12th International conference on conceptions of library and information science (CoLIS 2025), 2-5 June 2025, Glasgow, UK, pages 567-573. Available from: https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS51925

This paper outlines two tentative themes identified in the initial findings of a project focusing on the information behaviour of a particular group of incarcerated university students. These students are released on licence to attend lectures and st... Read More about Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students..

Using progress logs to research the information behaviour of higher education students in prison. (2024)
Journal Article
VIRGO, I. 2024. Using progress logs to research the information behaviour of higher education students in prison. Information research (online), 29(2): Proceedings of the 15th ISIC (Information seeking in context) Information behaviour conference 2024, 26-29 August 2024, Aalborg, Denmark, pages 602-610. Available from: https://doi.org/10.47989/ir292850

This short paper introduces 'progress logs', an adaptation of the solicited diary method, and details their planned use in a forthcoming study on the information behaviour of students in transition from prison to higher education. Progress logs are d... Read More about Using progress logs to research the information behaviour of higher education students in prison..