First News, the UK’s leading children’s newspaper, partnered with MILA to produce two clear, practical frameworks (primary and secondary) for teaching media and information literacy in schools. Some of the outputs from this project, which concluded in September 2025, are freely available here.
Research and resources produced by MILA or undertaken in collaboration with MILA
During the first half of 2025, MILA worked with Parent Zone to provide evaluation expertise and guidance for a collaborative media literacy intervention developed by YouTube and the Poynter Institute in partnership with Parent Zone. Further details here.
Building on the literature review below, MILA commissioned research to produce a comprehensive review of recent research about information literacy and society. The report from the project, published in November 2023, is here.
May 2023 saw the successful completion of Evaluating Media Literacy with a Theory of Change. This project, funded by the UK government and led by the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University, was undertaken in association with MILA. It enabled the elaboration of a robust evaluation framework for measuring the impact of media literacy interventions. Further details here.
MILA collaborated on a review of literature on information literacy impact. The report from this was published in September 2022 and is available here.