Simon Rogerson

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Simon Rogerson’s early career was in industry as a technical software developer and manager. In 1983, he moved into academia but maintained his industrial links through consultancy and work with professional bodies including IMIS, BCS and ACM.

He became Europe’s first Professor in Computer Ethics in 1998 and in 2010 became lifetime Professor Emeritus. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Computing & Social Responsibility (CCSR) at De Montfort University, UK, launched in 1995 at the first ETHICOMP conference which he conceived and co-directed until 2013. He was the founder and editor until December 2021 of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.

His most important research focused on providing rigorously grounded practical tools and guidance to computing practitioners. He has been instrumental in stimulating international awareness and action regarding the ethical and social impacts of digital technology. For his leadership and research achievements in the computer and information ethics interdisciplinary field he was awarded the fifth IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award in 2000 and the ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award in 2005.

He is the author of the World's first Ethical Digital Technology trilogy comprising The Evolving Landscape of Ethical Digital Technology (2021), Ethical Digital Technology in Practice (2022) and Imagine! Ethical Digital Technology for Everyone (2023). The trilogy, published by Taylor and Francis, explores the landscape of digital technology from a social-impact perspective. The contrasting approaches in the three books allow access to this landscape by everyone; academics, practitioners and the public at large, regardless of age.

Experience

  • 2010–present
    Professor Emeritus in Computer Ethics, De Montfort University
  • 1995–2010
    Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility , De Montfort University
  • 1998–2010
    Professor, De Montfort University
  • 1988–1998
    Principal Lecturer, De Montfort University (formerly Leicester Polytechnic)
  • 1983–1988
    Senior lecturer, Leicester Polytechnic
  • 1972–1983
    Programmer to Computer Services Manager, Thorn Lighting & Thorn EMI

Education

  • 1972 
    Dundee University, Computational Science

Publications

  • 2023
    Imagine! Ethical Digital Technology for Everyone, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
  • 2022
    Ethical Digital Technology in Practice, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
  • 2021
    For the record: The evolution of acceptable digital technology, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
  • 2021
    Rebooting ethics education in the digital age, Academia Letters
  • 2021
    The Evolving Landscape of Ethical Digital Technology, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
  • 2020
    Poetical potentials: the value of poems in social impact education, ACM Inroads
  • 2019
    Information Systems Ethics – challenges and opportunities, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
  • 2018
    Ethics omission increases gases emission: A look in the rearview mirror at Volkswagen software engineering, Communications of the ACM
  • 2017
    Ensalada Mixta: Observations and Inspirations,
  • 2017
    The Data Shadow, ACM SIGCAS Computers & Society
  • 2015
    Future Vision, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
  • 2014
    Preparing IT professionals of the future, Mondo Digitale
  • 2013
    The integrity of creating, communicating and consuming information online in the context of Higher Education Institutions, Trust in Universities. Wenner-Gren International Series, Volume 86
  • 2011
    Ethical Assessment of New Technologies: A Meta-Methodology, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
  • 2010
    A review of information ethics, Journal of Information and Management, Japan Society for Information and Management
  • 2007
    Information and integrity in the information age, Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics
  • 2005
    Responsible Risk Assessment with Software Development: Creating the Software Development Impact Statement, Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • 2004
    Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Blackwell Publishing
  • 2004
    Are They Really Listening? An investigation into published online privacy policies, Information Technology and People
  • 2004
    The Virtual World: a tension between global reach and local sensitivity, International Journal of Information Ethics
  • 2003
    Internet Voting – Well at least it’s ‘Modern’, Representation
  • 2002
    The ethical attitudes of information systems professionals: outcomes of an initial survey, Telematics and Informatics
  • 2001
    A moral approach to electronic patient records, Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine
  • 2000
    Social Responsibility in the Information Age, De Montfort University
  • 2000
    An ethical review of information systems development: the Australian Computer Society’s code of ethics and SSADM, Information Technology and People
  • 1999
    Software Engineering Code of Ethics is Approved, Communications of the ACM
  • 1998
    Ethical aspects of information technology: issues for senior executives, Institute of Business Ethics
  • 1998
    Management communication: a technological revolution?, Management Decision
  • 1996
    Successful group work, Kogan Page
  • 1996
    Strategic Management Support Systems, Pitman Publishing
  • 1994
    Strategic Information Systems Planning; its adoption and use, Information Management and Computer Security
  • 1989
    Project Skills Handbook, Chartwell-Bratt
  • 1986
    A Casebook for Systems Development, Edward Arnold

Grants and Contracts

  • 2009
    • PHM-Ethics - Personalized health monitoring - Interdisciplinary research to analyse the relationship between ethics, law and psychosocial as well as medical sciences
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    EU FP7-SCIENCE IN-SOCIETY
  • 2009
    • ETICA - Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications
    Role:
    Researcher
    Funding Source:
    EU FP7-SCIENCE IN-SOCIETY
  • 2004
    • Ethics perception longitudinal survey of IT professionals
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    IMIS
  • 2003
    • Evaluation of ICT and Social Inclusion programmes
    Role:
    Lead researcher
    Funding Source:
    Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK Government
  • 2001
    • The Implementation of Electronic Voting
    Role:
    Lead researcher
    Funding Source:
    UK Government (LGR 65/12/72)
  • 1999
    • Advances in Social Responsibility in the Information Age
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Economic and Social Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (Royal Society of Arts)
  • The British Computer Society
  • Association for Computing Machinery

Contact Simon for

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  • Consulting / Advising
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