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Alistair S. Duff, BA, MPhil, MSc, PG Cert HE, PhD is visiting affiliate professor of information policy, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, & emeritus professor at Edinburgh Napier University. He was a founding member, leader, sole professor, video presenter, content provider, qualified podcaster, grant writer, strategic advisor, prize winner and promised equity grantee at ProfessorMe Ltd. Tutoring at https://www.superprof.co.uk/ir/35121526-961dd1 YouTube @alduff1229 Lecturer in digital society, UoG, 2023-24, & visiting fellow 2023-25. Academic visitor, University of Edinburgh, 2021-23, & guest lecturer 2025. In 2021, he was a visiting prof at CNSC, IN3, Open University of Catalonia. Duff was from 2013-21 professor of information policy at ENU, where he taught on journalism, mass comms, publishing, information studies & social science programmes. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford (OII) and a summer-school lecturer at the University of Zurich, & has presented his work in Japan, the US & 12 European countries. Prior to lecturing & freelance journalism, he worked as a tutor, researcher and/or academic librarian. He has contributed to print & broadcast media, inc. Newsnight, Debate Night, The Atlantic.com, Radio Sputnik, The Independent, Ethical Census News, The Scotsman, The Sunday Express, The Ferret & The Conversation, as well as presenting opinion series on community radio. He has spoken in debates on various platforms, inc. the Oxford Union, Scotland Tonight & the Alba Party. Served as external examiner at Aberystwyth, Lincoln, Nottingham Trent & City universities. Experience as rep then branch secretary, EIS-ULA. From Nottingham, now living in Greater Glasgow (Cumbernauld). With a background in philosophy (KCL, Glasgow) and information (Strathclyde), he is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher, freelance journalist & keynote speaker on the social & political implications of information, technology & media. Author of Information Society Studies (Routledge, 2000) and A Normative Theory of the Information Society (Routledge, 2012), as well as articles in research journals such as Information Polity, European Journal of Social Theory, Information, Communication & Society, Journal of Information Science, JASIST, International Journal of Public Theology, Journalism Studies & Journal of Information Ethics. Editor, Research Handbook on Information Policy (Edward Elgar, 2021). Letters in The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Herald, Scotsman, etc. Also into theoretical physics. 🤔
1 March - 30 September 2021 visiting scholar at IN3, the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute, Open University of Catalonia, based in the Communication Networks and Social Change research group. I worked on a sociological project entitled 'Castells v. Bell: a Comparative Analysis of Two Grand Theorists of the Information Age'.