MILA Trustees
As of January 2026, MILA’s trustees are:
Dr Elinor Carmi – Elinor Carmi is Senior Lecturer in Data Politics and Social Justice at City St George’s, University of London. She is a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist who has been working on data politics, data literacies, data feminism, data justice and internet governance. She has successfully won grants from UKRI, ESRC, and Nuffield Foundation together with colleagues from academia and NGOs. Her work contributes to emerging debates in academia, policy, health organizations and digital activism. In February 2020, she was invited to give evidence on digital literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. Her insights were included in the final report, Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust. In 2020 she was invited by the World Health Organization as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. Between 2021-2023 she won a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee, and from May 2024 she has been an Expert Member of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office Technology Advisory Panel. She has been invited to be an expert advisor for several digital rights NGOs such as Amnesty International Tech, UNESCO, Demos, 5 Rights, Royal Society and the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman. [2 years from 01/05/2024]
Stéphane Goldstein (Secretary to the Board of Trustees) – From 2015 to early 2026, Stéphane Goldstein was the Executive Director of InformAll which, through research, analysis and facilitation, promotes the relevance, importance and benefits of information literacy in the library world and beyond. He is the author of reports, articles and other material on the relevance and applicability of IL to a range of settings, particularly in the context of the workplace. He is a strong advocate for IL, and as such, brokers relationships between information professionals and other stakeholders, and facilitates joint projects. He helped to set up MILA in 2021 and takes a leading role in driving it and coordinating its activities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). His prior roles included ten years spent at the Research Information Network (RIN), where he led on information literacy activities; there, he was also responsible for project management and policy formulation in the broad area of information as a input and output of the research process. He previously worked in a range of science and research policy roles at the Medical Research Council and Research Councils UK. [3 years from 04/12/2023]
Bryden Joy – Bryden Joy is the Senior Lead Practitioner for Personal Development for Ormiston Academies Trust. He supports the delivery of Citizenship and PSHE in 45 academies within the trust, including primary schools, secondary schools, alternative provision units and a special school. He has over 15 years of experience in teaching Citizenship at Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, including delivering GCSE. In his role at Ormiston Academies Trust, he has written and resourced a full KS3, KS4 and KS5 curriculum to meet the National Curriculum for Citizenship and statutory RSHE requirements and is developing curriculum content to support OAT academies delivering GCSE Citizenship Studies. He has been a Teacher Ambassador for ACT since 2018, and has been a member of the ACT Council since 2019. His work on media and information literacy has been published in the ‘Teaching Citizenship’ journal, and co-developed an online training course to support teachers in understanding how to deliver media and information literacy content in the classroom. He is a member of the Expert Working Group for the National Institute of Teaching’s Centre for Digital Information Literacy in Schools (CDILS), working to equip educators with the knowledge and tools to teach and lead effectively in an age of misinformation. [2 years from 06/01/2026]
Kirsty Lingstadt – Kirsty Lingstadt is Director of Library, Archives and Learning Services at the University of York. She has over 20 years experience in Museums, Archives and Libraries. Prior to York, she was Head of Digital Library & Deputy Director of Library and University Collections at the University of Edinburgh. Before that, she had a range of management roles in the cultural heritage sector, including Historic Environment Scotland and various local authorities. Highlights of her career include developing a makerspace at the University of Edinburgh, co-curating Treasured Places RCAHMS Centenary exhibition, adding crowd-sourcing of content to www.canmore.org.uk, and setting up and developing digital preservation services at both HES and University of Edinburgh. She is currently Co-chair of the RLUK Digital Scholarship Network and a Board member of the National Library of Scotland. [3 years from 01/05/2024]
Prof Julian McDougall (Chair of the Board of Trustees) – Julian McDougall is Professor in Media and Education; Principal Fellow of Advance HE and Programme Leader for the Professional Doctorate (EdD) in Creative and Media Education at Bournemouth University. He is Research Cluster Lead for Media and Information Literacy for Healthy Eco-Systems in the Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research. Between 2013 and 2023 he was Director of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and convened the annual Global Media Education Summit. He is co-editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education and Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education. In the fields of education, media literacy, media, communications and cultural studies, he is author / editor of a wide range of books, articles, chapters and research reports and has provided numerous research projects for research councils, media industry, charities and non-profit organisations. [3 years from 04/12/2023]
Dr Luis Pereira – Luis Pereira is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Development in the Department of Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) at City St George’s, University of London, where he is the Joint Programme Director of the MA in Academic Practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in education as a lecturer, researcher, learning technologist and academic developer and has a strong background in media literacy and academic development. Luis completed his PhD in digital media education at the University of Minho (Portugal) in 2012. His research is the result of the intersection between digital media, learning and digital society. He has been part of different fora to discuss how to promote digital and critical skills. He is a Fellow of CODE – Centre for Online and Distance Education, a Training Officer of the CILIP Information Literacy Group. Luis is also a Senior Fellow of HEA/Advance HE. [3 years from 01/05/2024]
Vicki Shotbolt – Vicki Shotbolt is the founder and CEO of Parent Zone, an organisation that supports families to navigate technology safely and confidently. She set up Parent Zone in 2004 in response to growing concerns that digital was bringing new challenges to parenting. She is the co-chair of the UKCIS Digital Resilience Working Group, a member of the government’s Media Literacy Taskforce and Chair of Voicebox an international youth led organisation working in over 40 countries. [3 years from 04/12/2023]
Dr Jane Secker – Jane Secker is Associate Professor in Educational Development at City St George’s, University of London. She leads the modules related to digital education and digital literacies and is Programme Director of the Masters in Academic Practice. She is the former Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, now serving as Deputy Chair of the group. She is founder member and a trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) and created a framework for information literacy known as a New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL) in 2011. [3 years from 01/05/2024]
Tiffany Smyly – Tiffany Smyly is Chief Growth Officer at The Economist Educational Foundation, a global charity that supports schools to bring current affairs education into the classroom. She started out her career as a secondary English teacher and worked for the teacher training organisation Teach First before joining The Economist Educational Foundation. She has over a decade of experience in impact measurement, teacher training and developing educational programmes that develop media literacy through regular engagement with the news. More recently, she has focused on building educational partnerships across the UK and US, policy and advocacy and strategy development. She’s also presented on media literacy and current affairs at a variety of educational conferences and events including the Teach for America Atlanta summit (2024) and the Fighting Misinformation Online conference as part of Finnish Media Literacy week (2023). [3 years from 10/11/2025]
Frances Yeoman – Fran Yeoman is Associate Professor in Journalism & Media Literacy and Head of Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University. She has received grants and funding from both the British Academy and Ofcom for her research into news and media literacy, on which she has worked with stakeholders including Ofcom, DCMS and the News Literacy Network. She sits on the DSIT Media Literacy Taskforce Steering Board and Ofcom’s Evaluation Working Group. She also has a research interest in court reporting and its impact on prisoners’ families. Before joining LJMU, she spent over a decade on national newspapers, most recently as Assistant Editor of i. She previously worked for the Independent and The Times, as a news editor and reporter, and spent a year as a political reporter based at Westminster. She has reported from numerous countries including and co-authored a Rough Guide to South America. She holds a BA in Modern History and an M.St. in Historical Research from the University of Oxford. She continues to work as a journalist when time permits. [3 years from 01/05/2024]
International Advisor
Irene Andriopoulou is MILA’s non-trustee International Advisor. She has 20 years’ experience as a global media literacy expert, researcher, policy analyst and practitioner. She first engaged with media literacy through the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute (IOM) in Greece where as Head of the Media Literacy Department, she led national initiatives and public polices aligned with the EU. She was among the first members of the newly formed EU Media Literacy Expert Group (2006) and has been participating as national delegate / observer ever since (2024). She is ab appointed member of the EU Expert Group on Tackling Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy through Education and Training (2022, 2025), co-authoring the Guidelines for Educators. She has worked with UNESCO for over a decade, being the Greek editor of UNESCO ‘Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers’, drafting declarations, policy papers and publications. In 2019, she was elected as global co-Secretary General of the International Steering Committee for UNESCO Media & Information Literacy Alliance. Her relationship with the UK started as a Sussex MA student, continued with Ofcom in late 2000s and reinvented as member of Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media Research Working Group (2022-2024). In 2023, she received the First Prize of Global MIL Awards from the UNESCO MIL Alliance for her long-time work in the field.
Conflicts of interest
Trustees have a legal obligation to act in the best interests of MILA, and in accordance with MILA’s constitution, and to avoid situations where there may be a potential conflict of interest. Click on the link below for MILA’s conflict of interest policy.