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Sean McNamara


Director, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS)

Sean McNamara is Director of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland, leading a team that provides advocacy, support and training for people working in various library and information sectors, including many in the health sector. Sean previously worked in public libraries managing an adult learning team and is passionate about the difference that library and information professionals can make to society.

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Lucy Aphramor

Radical Dietitian and EDI Consultant

Lucy Aphramor is a fat- and trans-affirming UK dietitian and EDI consultant whose work engages people in rethinking public health nutrition messages to co-create new, inclusive frameworks that support personal healing as entangled with social change and earthcare. These expanded frameworks recognise the significant metabolic impact that oppression has in so-called diet-related diseases, such as links between racism and hypertension, and are responsive to trauma, poverty, and the need for an anti-colonial approach. Lucy has worked across the NHS, third sector, academia, and independently, building knowledge from clinical and community dietetic posts, disability advocacy, work with LGBTQ+ groups, and others, plus personal experience of food and body struggles. They are co-founder of the World Critical Dietetics movement with a PhD in Critical Dietetics, and have served on expert groups including the European Federation of the Association of Dietitians Public Health Nutrition Committee and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), They worked as a Size Awareness Consultant for the Welsh Assembly Government and hold the British Dietetic Association Roll of Honour Award. Lucy acknowledges a foundational flaw in their practice prior to the Black Lives Matter uprisings was the failure to understand coloniality as an ongoing project. They are committed to repairing this, including by acknowledging their intellectual indebtedness to Black and Fat scholarship. Lucy’s passion for, and commitment to, liberatory pedagogy, health justice, and many ways of knowing are reflected in their practice and embodied in their social action theatre as The Naked Dietitian.

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Professor Steven Buchanan

Professor, University Of Stirling

Professor of Human Information Behaviour within the School of Communication, University of Stirling. Steven’s information behaviour research examines how and why people interact with information (or not), and effective channels and sources of information, and influencing factors. He explores complex access and internalised behavioural factors, the former influenced by media and information literacy issues, the latter by economic, social, and cultural structures and norms. His work provides insights into what information to provide, to whom, and how. His research has been variously funded by ESRC, AHRC, ACE, SLIC, and RSE. Much recent work has examined people’s information behaviours within marginalised and/or disadvantaged circumstances including several studies in the health context. In partnership with the University of Glasgow he is currently principal investigator on an ACE funded review of the role of public libraries in addressing mis/disinformation in UK communities, and co-investigator on an RSE funded review of intellectual freedom and censorship in public services. The practical impact of his work is attested to via input to various Government, NHS, and third sector reviews of public communication and information services past and present. For example, his work defining the information intermediary functions of healthcare professionals has formed a key action (professional skills development) in the Scottish Government’s Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland.

Invited Speakers

ICML 2026 is pleased to welcome an outstanding group of confirmed speakers from around the world. These leaders in medical librarianship and health information will share insights, innovations, and global perspectives shaping the field today.

Stay tuned as more speakers are announced shortly. Please note, programme and speakers are subject to change.

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