Dr Andrew Cox

Dr Andrew Cox is a senior lecturer at the Information School, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. After graduating from Aberystwyth University with an MSc in Library Studies, he spent several years working in development projects around the use of ICT in library contexts, funded by EC, JISC and others, and completed his PhD at Loughborough University in 2006. His main research area has been around the response of the 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, he is currently developing a focus on the impact of automation notably through a report commissioned by CILIP. The impact of AI, machine learning, automation and robotics on the information professions https://www.cilip.org.uk/general/custom.asp?page=researchreport and work on the ethics of AI through “Ethics Scenarios Of Artificial Intelligence For Information And Knowledge Management And Library Professionals”