Our 2025 Conference was held in person in Liverpool, UK and welcomed 122 delegates from 17 countries. We thank AdvaNova, Alterline, Browns Books, EBSCO, Ex Ordo, Open Fifth, and Third Iron for making this event possible.
Proceedings & Presentations
The full conference proceedings can be viewed and downloaded below.
An overview of the 2025 conference programme is available in Ex Ordo.
Presentation slides and individual papers are also available via Ex Ordo. To access individual presentations and papers, please click on the ‘Presentations’ tab at the top of the page, select a presentation title, and scroll to the bottom of the page to find the powerpoint file (.pptx) and paper (.pdf).
2025 Keynote speakers
Liam Thorp
Biography: Liam is the multi award-winning political editor of the Liverpool Echo newspaper, one of Britain’s biggest regional news organisations. Having started his career as a trainee reporter in Greater Manchester, Liam moved to the ECHO in 2017 to become a political reporter. He then advanced to become political editor and is now one of the most recognised members of the regional press in the country.
He has won numerous awards in his career, including being named the Regional Press Specialist Journalist of the Year for a third time. He has also been nominated for the prestigious Orwell Prize and Private Eye Paul Foot awards for his investigative and campaigning journalism.
In his time at the ECHO, Liam led the coverage of the Covid-19 crisis and its impacts in Merseyside and has broken multiple national exclusive stories. He is passionate about reporting on issues of social justice such as homelessness and the effects of austerity policies on the most vulnerable.
Liam lives in south Liverpool with his wife, his toddler son and his Romanian rescue dog Billy.
Liam Thorp’s keynote: Using data and human stories to create journalism that can change perspectives and alter policy
Journalism is about stories and it is the stories of people that really matter. But combining these human stories with data and hard numbers can create the most compelling of narratives.
In the build up to the 2024 General Election, the Liverpool Echo’s political editor Liam Thorp worked with colleagues to produce a standout piece of investigative journalism that documented in excruciating detail the impact of 14 years of government austerity measures on the proud city of Liverpool.
In Liverpool: Austerity City, Liam and his team worked for months to crunch the crucial data that showed how cuts to local government, health services and housing provision had pushed a vibrant city and its people to the absolute brink – with countless harrowing case studies that brought those numbers powerfully into reality.
Speaking about this award-winning work, Liam will explain the journalistic processes that go into creating content like Austerity City and the huge impact this can have when it comes to shining a light on how politics and the decisions made in Westminster can affect real people living in real communities around the country.
Dr. Christothea Herodotou
Biography: Dr. Christothea Herodotou is a Professor of Learning Technologies and Social Justice at the Open University UK and Associate Director of the Institute of Educational Technology, Quality Enhancement and Innovation. She has expertise in the design and evaluation of learning technologies that promote education opportunity and social justice, including learning analytics dashboards, online citizen science websites, and mobile game applications.
She is the academic lead of nQuire — a community citizen science platform developed in partnership with the BBC, which supports the engagement of the public with scientific practices in ways that promote learning and awareness — and nQuire for students, a teaching and learning platform aiming to develop students’ research skills through design thinking projects.
She is also the academic co-lead of the Early Alert Indicators project, a university-wide initiative that uses predictive learning analytics to identify and support students who are struggling with their studies through early teacher interventions. She has recently won funding from Horizon Europe to devise sustainable models of formal education that are based on co-production, design thinking and digital technologies (See ExtenDT2).
In the past, she has held funding from major funding bodies including the National Science Foundation, ESRC and Wellcome to improve the design of online citizen science platforms and make science learning more accessible and productive to young people; UKRI and the Mental Health Foundation for developing community and citizen science capacity in large organisations and underserved communities; Nuffield foundation, British Academy and BERA for examining and improving the design of educational mobile applications for children. She has authored more than 120+ outputs, the majority of which are in peer-reviewed outlets and as a first author. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She received her Ph.D. degree in Digital Games and Psychology from the University College London (UCL): Institute of Education and her MSc in Education, Technology, and Society from the University of Bristol (with Distinction). She has received several awards over the years including ones from The Guardian and UNESCO.
Dr. Christothea Herodotou’s keynote: Community citizen Science
Community Citizen Science is the practice of public participation in scientific research. This keynote will provide an overview of the state of the art in community citizen science and showcase a series of inspiring case studies that illustrate the diverse ways in which citizen science projects can be designed and integrated into educational and community activities. It will also be an opportunity to discover how cutting-edge web-based tools are revolutionizing citizen science, making it more accessible and impactful than ever before.
Travel Awards
The LibPMC Conference Board offered travel awards to support diversity among conference attendees and to facilitate a richer conference experience for all. The award was available to students, new professionals, or those in underrepresented groups in libraries and the wider performance measurement community who would otherwise not have the opportunity to attend the conference.
We were pleased to welcome awardees from different countries and library sectors:
- Dr. Amy P. A. Asimah, University Librarian, Regional Maritime University (Accra, Ghana)
- Dr. Francesca Soldati, Open Research Officer – Research Metrics, University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland)
- Dr. Sandra Gisela Martín, Director of the Library System, Catholic University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Argentina)
- Andrew Bowditch, Performance Reporting and Data Manager, Libraries Unlimited (Exeter, England)
You can read their reflections about the Conference below.
Dr. Amy P. A. Asimah – From Metrics to Meaning: A Viewpoint Report on LibPMC 2025
Dr. Sandra Gisela Martín – Evaluation, quality, and networks of Latin American libraries: reflections and contributions from LibPMC 2025
Dr. Francesca Soldati – Reflections on LibPMC 2025