Dr Andrew Cox
BA (Open), MA (TVU), MSc (UWA), MA (Open), MEd (含羞草传媒), PhD (Loughborough)
Information School
Senior Lecturer
+44 114 222 6347
Full contact details
Information School
Room C228
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
含羞草传媒
S10 2AH
- Profile
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After graduating from Aberystwyth with an MSc in Library Studies, I spent a number of years working in development projects around the use of ICT in library contexts, funded by EC, JISC and others.
I completed my PhD at Loughborough in 2006.
Much of my research relates to the information professions and their response to contemporary trends such as artificial intelligence, datafication and managerialism.
University responsibilities
- Programme Coordinator, MSc Information Management
- Module Coordinator:
- Archives and Records Management
- In the past I have been the School鈥檚 Director of Learning and Teaching, Postgraduate Research Director and Director of Research
- Research interests
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My main research area has been the response of information professions to contemporary societal challenges such as new technologies, increasing managerialism, datafication, changing conceptualisations of learning and a perceived crisis of well-being. Building on work over a decade on the role of information professionals in data stewardship, in the last two years I have developed a particular focus on artificial intelligence.
In addition, I have an interest in communities of practice as a theoretical construct and increasingly the application of practice theory (Schatzki, Nicolini) to information science, to theorise how people seek and create information and unravelling the complex process of technology adoption and use.
Most of my research uses qualitative methods, including using visual methods.
Research projects
Place-making for sustainable development: Learning from Xochimilco
TuOS GCRF QR funding Principal Investigator 拢6,800 1 January 2019 6 months The purpose of the project is to explore how to capture and share narratives of placemaking for their role in sustainable development, from a case study of Xochimilco, Mexico.
TUoS Teaching fellows fund: Remapping learning landscapes on campus
TUoS Senate teaching fellows fund Principal Investigator 拢6,969 1 January 2018 18 months A project to explore and expand the ways that students and staff use different spaces as an essential part of their learning.
SCONUL Transformation Group: Mapping the Future of Academic Libraries
The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) Co-Investigator 拢9,600 1 April 2017 6 months A study of the future academic library for the next 10 to 15 years, in the context of the decline in importance of the printed book and its repercussions for use of library space, development of services, and deployment of staff.
Faculty of Social Science student use of library and informal learning space
TUoS Faculty of Social Science Principal Investigator 拢1,950 January 2016 3 months In preparation for the proposed new building for the Faculty of Social Sciences, the study seeks to investigate how students currently use library and informal learning spaces, especially the Diamond since this has been little studied.
Competencies for bibliometrics
Lis-bibliometrics group Principal Investigator 拢1,400 March 2016 12 months Development of a set of bibliometric competencies for librarians.
Wicked Ways with Research Data Management
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Principal Investigator 拢8,565 1 April 2014 12 months Many issues in UK universities have all the hallmarks of being wicked problems: complex, hard to solve issues that stakeholders perceive in very different ways. Leadership has to be different in such contexts. A new wicked problem for universities that has emerged in the last few years is what to do about improving research data management (RDM). The aim of the Wicked Ways project is to bring together a network of those involved in tackling the wicked RDM problem in different institutions and through an iterative, reflective and participative process construct an open educational resource about leadership in wicked problem contexts. This resource will be freely available to the wider UK HEI community and help promote the understanding of the wicked problem concept. The process will also itself help to create a supportive community of practice for participants. The collaborators in creating the learning resource are drawn from the various stakeholders in RDM: researchers, research administrators, IT professionals, librarians and record managers and facilitated by the 含羞草传媒 Information School. They will be drawn largely but not exclusively from the White Rose Consortium partners, the Universities of Leeds, 含羞草传媒 and York. As people currently engaged in addressing this wicked problem space, they will have immediate experiences to reflect on and opportunities to try out ideas in practice.
Digital Society Network
University of 含羞草传媒 Steering Group Member 拢24,000 1 February 2014 18 months The Digital Society Network (DSN) draws together an interdisciplinary team of researchers engaged with research at the cutting-edge of society-technology interactions. Underpinning the network is a concern not only with how societies and individuals use digital technologies, but also the social implications and outcomes of an increasingly digitised world on numerous scales. In this way, digital society is understood as being the social aspect of the digital - a concern with who uses and does not use digital technology, for what purposes digital technologies are being used, how effective technologies and platforms are, and the implications and outcomes of these practices.
RDMRose
Joint Information Systems Committee Investigator 拢60,000 1 July 2012 12 months A JISC funded project to produce taught and continuing professional development (CPD) learning materials in Research Data Management (RDM) tailored for Information professionals. RDMRose developed and adapted learning materials about RDM to meet the specific needs of liaison librarians in university libraries, both for practitioners CPD and for embedding into the postgraduate taught (PGT) curriculum. Its deliverables included OER materials suitable for learning in multiple modes, including face to face and self-directed learning. RDMRose brought together the UK鈥檚 leading iSchool with a practitioner community based on the White Rose University Consortium?s libraries at the Universities of Leeds, 含羞草传媒 and York. Development of content and teaching was iterative, based on a highly participative curriculum development process and with a strong strand of student evaluation of learning materials and activities.
MAIK
Higher Education Academy Principal Investigator 拢2,858 2 January 2008 5 months
- Publications
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Books
- Exploring Research Data Management. London: Facet Publishing.
Journal articles
- . Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 836-840.
- . Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6).
- . Higher Education Research and Development, 42(3), 559-573.
- . Journal of Documentation, 79(1).
- . Higher Education Research & Development, 42(1), 33-47.
- . New Review of Academic Librarianship, 29(1), 33-50.
- . Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
- . Journal of Documentation.
- . Knowledge and Process Management, 29(3), 296-306.
- . IFLA Journal.
- . Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 71(3), 201-214.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(3), 367-380.
- . Library Management, 43(1/2), 108-127.
- . Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(5), 586-604.
- . Journal of Documentation, 78(4), 745-760.
- . Journal of Education and Work, 35(4), 422-440.
- . Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 30(2), 149-167.
- . Libri, 71(2), 203-218.
- . International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2021.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(4), 493-506.
- . Quantitative Science Studies, 2(2), 698-732.
- . International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 18.
- . Libri, 71(2), 93-107.
- . New Review of Academic Librarianship, 27(4), 402-422.
- . International Journal of Digital Curation, 15(1), 1-18.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 26(4), 2976-2991.
- . Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(6).
- . Storytelling, Self, Society, 16(2), 280-299.
- Information School academics and the value of their personal digital archives. Information Research, 25(3).
- . Journal of Documentation, 76(5), 981-997.
- . The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(4).
- . Journal of Documentation, 76(4), 849-868.
- . New Review of Academic Librarianship, 27(2), 149-164.
- . Journal of Documentation, 75(6), 1432-1462.
- . Health, 23(6), 621-638.
- . Library Hi Tech, 37(3), 418-435.
- . International Journal of Digital Curation, 14(1), 126-135.
- . Journal of Librarianship & Information Science, 51(3), 746-762.
- . Visual Studies, 34(1), 67-78.
- . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(8).
- . portal: Libraries and the Academy, 19(3), 485-509.
- . Library Management, 40(5), 313-326.
- . Library and Information Science Research, 41(1), 58-66.
- . New Review of Academic Librarianship.
- . Journal of Documentation, 74(5), 951-965.
- Academic librarianship as a data profession: The familiar and unfamiliar in the data role spectrum. eLucidate, 15(1-2), 7-10.
- . Higher Education, 75, 1077-1090.
- . Online Information Review, 42(3), 304-323.
- . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 70(2), 142-157.
- . Photographies, 11(1), 113-129.
- . Library Trends, 66(3), 223-238.
- . Library Trends, 66(3), 219-222.
- . Archives and Records, 39(2), 158-173.
- . Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 22(3).
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2182-2200.
- . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(2), 184-200.
- Visual methods and quality in information behaviour research: the cases of photovoice and mental mapping. Information Research, 22(2).
- . Visual Studies, 32(2), 97-110.
- . Journal of Documentation, 73(3), 396-406.
- . Journal of Documentation, 3(2), 284-304.
- . Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53(1), 1-4.
- Information activity in serious leisure. Information Research, 21(4).
- . Library and Information Science Research, 38(4), 319-326.
- . Telematics and Informatics, 33(4), 1048-1056.
- . Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administracion, 29(3), 347-365.
- . Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 48(1), 3-17.
- . New Review of Academic Librarianship, 22(4), 370-390.
- . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 68(2), 155-173.
- . Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
- . British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(6), 1168-1182.
- . Library Review, 64(4-5), 356-371.
- . International Journal of Digital Curation, 10(1), 210-229.
- . Program, 49(1), 23-45.
- . Studies in Higher Education.
- . PLoS One, 9(12).
- Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research. Information Research, 19(4).
- . Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 46(4), 299-316.
- . Journal of eScience Librarianship, 3(1).
- . Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40(3-4), 211-219.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(7), 1511-1514.
- . New Library World, 115(1-2), 34-50.
- . International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, 6(1), 24-36.
- . Journal of Documentation, 70(5), 878-901.
- . Education for Information, 30(1-2), 41-61.
- . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(8), 1526-1542.
- Realising our role in Research Data Management. CILIP Update, March 2013, 36-38.
- . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8016 LNCS(PART 1), 169-176.
- . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8029 LNCS, 174-181.
- . Library Trends, 61(3), 569-586.
- . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 61-72.
- . International Journal of Higher Education, 1(2).
- . Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 49(1), 1-4.
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- . Teaching in Higher Education, 17(6), 697-709.
- . Performance Measurement and Metrics, 13(3), 183-196.
- . Journal of Information Science, 38(2), 176-188.
- Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management. Ariadne(70).
- . Environment, Space, Place, 4(1), 135-159.
- . Journal of Documentation, 68(2), 185-205.
- . Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 63(2-3), 188-203.
- Introducing elevator speeches into the curriculum. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 52(2), 133-141.
- . Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 63(2-3), 204-220.
- Students' Experience of University Space: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 23(2), 197-207.
- . International Journal of Web Based Communities, 7(3), 376-391.
- . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(3), 493-506.
- . Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 35(7), 831-846.
- . Program, 43(4), 349-374.
- . New Technology, Work and Employment, 24(1), 89-106.
- . Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 60(5), 493-516.
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- . Journal of Information Science, 34(3), 327-345.
- Flickr: A first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure. Information Research, 13(1).
- Inquiry-based learning in the first-year Information Management curriculum. ITALICS [Online].
- . Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 5(1), 3-12.
- . Campus-Wide Information Systems, 24(5), 308-330.
- . Program: electronic library and information systems, 41(2), 148-169.
- . Journal of Information Science, 31, 527-540.
- Using a virtual community to support healthcare. Quality in Primary Care, 11(2), 143-145.
- . Aslib Proceedings, 55(3), 155-165.
- Creating professional communities of practice for librarians. Electronic Library, 21(2), 94-98.
- . VINE, 33(1), 37-41.
- . Aslib Proceedings, 55(4), 243-252.
- Algorithmic literacy, AI literacy and responsible generative AI literacy. Journal of Web Librarianship.
- . New Review of Academic Librarianship, 1-22.
- . BMC Geriatrics, 24(1).
- . Journal of Information Literacy.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
- . Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 482.
Chapters
- , Knowledge Studies in Higher Education (pp. 203-216). Springer International Publishing
- Research In Bowman JH (Ed.), British librarianship and information work 2016-2020 (pp. 242-255). London: Lulu Press.
- , IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (pp. 50-64). Springer International Publishing
- , Information and Communication Technologies for Development (pp. 41-53). Springer International Publishing
- , Professional Development and Workplace Learning (pp. 1420-1433). IGI Global
- , Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services (pp. 251-278). IGI Global
- , The Essentials of Knowledge Management (pp. 249-268). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Cyber Behavior (pp. 39-56). IGI Global
- Exploring the selection of teachnology for enabling communities In Coakes E (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management Idea Group Inc
Book reviews
- . Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 71(3), 300-302.
- How to Conduct a Practice-Based Study: Problems and Methods. JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 65(7), 1511-1514.
Conference proceedings papers
- Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Student Academic Writing in Higher Education: The Use of Wordtune by Chinese international students. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp 2726-2735)
- . Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, Vol. 13971(1) (pp 79-87). Virtual conference, 13 March 2023 - 13 March 2023.
- The revolution will (not?) be archived: Web archiving needs of activist collections in the North of England. Proceedings 20th Annual Community Informaatics Research Network Conference (CIRN 2022): 20 years of CIRN: Examining the Past, Present, and Future of Communities and Technology (pp 29-45). Prato, Italy, 9 November 2022 - 9 November 2022.
- International students鈥 movement to the UK and their digital transition on social media. iConference 2022 Posters. Virtual conference, 28 February 2022 - 28 February 2022.
- . Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 57(1). Online conference, 25 October 2020 - 25 October 2020.
- . Sustainable Digital Communities(12051) (pp 198-208). Boras, Sweden, 23 March 2020 - 23 March 2020.
- An investigation of the physical and digital transitions of Saudi students coming to the UK. Proceedings of the Workshop on Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change (co-located with CSCW'20). Austin, TX, USA, 9 November 2019 - 9 November 2019.
- . iConference 2019 Proceedings. Washington DC, USA, 31 March 2019 - 31 March 2019.
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- . iConference 2017 Proceedings (pp 491-497)
- Integrating Qualitative Data Collection Methods to Examine Knowledge Management Across Disciplinary Boundaries. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES (ECRM2016) (pp 408-411)
- Knowledge management across boundaries in an interdisciplinary research project in Thailand. Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM, Vol. 2016-January (pp 1090-1098)
- An exploration of the value of collaborative management of palm-leaf manuscripts as Lanna cultural material in libraries and communities in Thailand.. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Library and Information Education and Practice Conference (pp 223-228)
- An exploration of the value of a collaborative model of collection management for Lanna cultural material in libraries in Northern Thailand. IConference 2015 Proceedings (pp 1-4)
- Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, Vol. 19(4)
- Social network dynamics in international students' learning. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning 2010 (pp 396-403). Aalborg, Denmark, 3 May 2010 - 4 May 2010.
- Enhancing international student engagement through making and sharing films. 11th Annual Conference of the Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences 24th 鈥 26th August 2010 Durham University (pp 203-207). Durham University, 24 August 2010 - 26 August 2010.
- Implementing a human resources competency-based model: An actor network-perspective. 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010, Vol. 3 (pp 1665-1672)
- . Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- . Information Research an international electronic journal, Vol. 29(2) (pp 635-651)
- Exploring the life of patient data in the UK healthcare sector. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020(2020: AoIR2020)
- . iConference 2016 Proceedings
Reports
- From adaptive practice to service redesign : drivers for the usage of SCONUL member libraries
- The impact of AI, machine learning, automation and robotics on the information professions: a report for CILIP
- Mapping the future of academic libraries: A report for SCONUL
Theses / Dissertations
- iRun: a situational, neo-assemblage perspective of information and records in running..
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Other
- . Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 71(3), 185-188.
Preprints
- , Center for Open Science.
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- Exploring Research Data Management. London: Facet Publishing.
- Research group
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I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- The development of the information profession/ professionalism
- Artificial intelligence and information professionals
- Self tracking
I was formerly head of the Digital Societies Research Group.
Current PhD Students
- Anas Alsuhaibani: Investigating the Role of Social Media in Supporting International Students Transition to Study in the UK
- Bethany Aylward: Web-archiving needs of archives in South Yorkshire
- Catherine Robinson: Subject v. functional: the relationship between changing organisational structures and the transformation of academic libraries and the profession of librarianship
- Lee Pretlove: The quantified runner: the long-term value and preservation of parkrunners' self-tracking fitness data from the perspectives of the parkrunner, self-tracking device manufacturers and archival institutions
- Laura Williams: Information and ultrarunners
Completed PhD Students
- Preeyanuch Voravickositt: Understanding the relationship between users' reading attitudes, behaviours and e-books collection management in Thai academic libraries.
- Melanie Benson: Information Use of Migrational Individuals and Public Library Space: An Ethnographic Study.
- Piyapat Jarusawat: Lanna Information Management.
- Nicolas Kylilis: Social participation in online and offline communities.
- Titima Thumbumrung: Knowledge sharing across boundaries in interdisciplinary scientific and technological research projects in Thailand.
- Mashael Al Omar: Scholars research related personal information management: An investigation of PAAET, Kuwait.
- Abadelkarim Agnawe: An investigation of the influence of cultural dimensions on the use of the Internet by Libyan academics.
- Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah: Factors influencing academics' use of microblogging in teaching and learning.
- Soureh Latif Shabgahi: The impact on information seeking and sharing behaviour of the adoption of social networking tools by SMEs.
- Xuguang Li: A study of knowledge sharing and construction in virtual product user communities.
- Martin Simmons: Exploring the value of different aspects of culture: a mixed methods study focusing on the perspectives of the public and culture providers in Derbyshire.
- Nora Agustero: The Collaborative behaviour of academic libraries: The case of library consortia in the Philippines.
- Khalfan Al Hijji: Strategic Management and Planning Practices in Academic Libraries in Oman.
- Meshal Al-Fadhli: Technology Adoption in Academic Libraries in the State of Kuwait.
- Elizabeth Brewster: An investigation of experiences of reading for mental health and well-being and their relation to models of bibliotherapy.
- Inaam Idrees: Clique and Elite: Inter-Organisational Knowledge Sharing across Five Star Hotels in the Saudi Arabian Religious Tourism and Hospitality Industry - a Grounded Theory Study.
- Gibran Rivera Gonzalez: The use of Actor-Network Theory and a Practice-Based Approach to understand online community participation.
- Nashwaran Taha: Factors Shaping the Network Dynamic of International Students in UK Higher Education.
- Phoenix Andrews: The Role and Influence of Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) in UK Higher Education and Scholarly Communication
- Linhao Fang: Conception, Design and Development of a Self-Directed E-Learning Component of a Phonetics Blended-Learning Environment
- Daniel Grace: Creating the convivial library: exploring the effect of technology on the public libraries capacity to promote community resilience
- Itzelle Medina Perea: The socio-cultural life of personal health data flows in the UK healthcare sector
- Teaching activities
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My main areas of teaching are:
- Archives and records management
- Library applications of ICT
- Library space
- Virtual community, social networks and information.
I won a University of 含羞草传媒 senate award for teaching in 2009-10. I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Teaching projects
International internet use University of 含羞草传媒 internationalisation fund 拢1,500 2013 Project with Journalism undertaking case studies of the pattern of internet use in different countries. Course Videos and Employability University of 含羞草传媒 Faculty L&T enhancement fund 拢1,100 2013 Project with with Architecture and Landscape. Students created videos about the experience of learning at the Information School. RDMRose, Research Data Management JISC Principal Investigator 拢60,000 2012-2013 Creating an Open Educational Resource for information professionals supporting research data management. Hand it to you University of 含羞草传媒 Faculty L&T enhancement fund Principal Investigator 拢1,100 2012 Project with Law School to redesign the student handbook. Promoting intercultural encounters TUOS 鈥 Internationalisation fund Principal Investigator 拢1,000 2011 Project with Architecture investigating Chinese and UK students鈥 differing views on group work. Picturing University University of 含羞草传媒 widening participation fund 拢1,000 2011 A joint study with TILL and Oncology of how children from working class backgrounds in two 含羞草传媒 schools perceive university. Early career narratives of Information Management Graduates CILASS - SURE Principal Investigator 拢1,080 2010 A study of what IM graduates views of employability. Opened Up Learning: generating content and learning opportunities with communities beyond the classroom University of 含羞草传媒 鈥 Learning and teaching development grant Principal Investigator 拢7,740 2009 Using film making as an assessment task. Multimedia Assessment in Information / Knowledge management (鈥淢aik鈥) HEA-Information and Computer Science Principal Investigator 拢3,000 2008 Developing multimedia slideshows as an assessment task.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- I was on the national committee of a Chartered Institute Library Information Professionals (CILIP) special interest group, Multimedia and Information Technology (MmIT) for a number of years, being closely involved in organisation of its successful annual national conferences (in 含羞草传媒 in 2012 and 2013) and other events on specific topics such as content management and ebooks.
- I was formerly co-editor of . I am on the editorial board of Information Research.
- I have reviewed for journals such as Program, Information Research, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Library and Information Science, Higher Education and for academic conferences, including the Association of Internet Researchers, ASIS&T annual meeting, Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, Information Seeking in Context, and the iSchool iconference and COLIS.
- I am the external examiner for the library programme at Coleg Llandrillo and was formerly the external examiner for the LIS programme at UCL Qatar.
- I have been external examiner for PhDs at Loughborough, MMU, Lancaster, York, Wolverhampton and UCL in the UK, and Lund and Boras in Sweden.
- I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- I received CILIP Fellowship in 2013.