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Dr Richard Cook

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

I have 20 years' experience in education and technology. I have worked in various roles, including at a London start-up, as a web developer, and as an IT ‘consultant’ in Cheltenham. I have held academic positions at the University of Sheffield, Bath Spa University, and Swansea University.

Biography

My research interests are sociological and involve ‘things’ people socially interact with and where this occurs. I have expertise in qualitative research design and ‘creative methods’. I tend to research subcultures. More recently I have been researching around machine cultures, human hacking, knowledge poisoning, secrecy and epistemic trust. I co-founded Eth.Lab.

My PhD in 2017 focused on artificially intelligent voice assistants embedded in school classrooms.

Qualifications

PhD, PGCAP, MEd, PGCE Computing, BSc Computing & Multimedia

Membership of professional bodies

  • BERA
  • FHEA

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Computing, Data Science, Research Methods, Cyber Security, Education.

I am keen to supervise PhD students whose thesis connects with my own research interests (above) or sits within areas I teach.

Publications

More publications from Dr Richard Cook can be found in the Research Repository.