On the 4th of June 2024, the UCL Department of Information Studies organised its first Research Open Day at the Institute of Education. The event started with a keynote speech from Prof. Elizabeth Shepherd. The programme included 19 research talks and 6 poster presentations from researchers and doctoral students of the department, organised into six thematic sessions: “Understanding human and machine cognition”, “Knowledge Organisation and Digitisation”, “Impacts of Technology”, “Diversity and Inclusion in Information Studies”, “Digital approaches to Cultural Heritage” and “Data-empowered Societies”. The video of the keynote speech and the presentation slides are available on the event page.