I study how scholarship is produced, published and accessed, and how generative AI is changing the university. Click any paper to see what it asks, how, and what it found.
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How scholarly knowledge is produced, published and accessed: scholarly communication, publishing policy, webometrics and the shadow libraries people turn to when access is blocked.
How generative AI is reshaping universities, publishers and libraries: institutional policy, AI-powered library services, and AI's effect on how students learn and perform.
How people seek, share and use information in everyday academic life.
How the information people consume shapes beliefs, morality and trust.
Low-cost, automated library systems that widen access in resource-constrained settings.
Best Paper · IIKM 2025A policy review of how academic publishers and universities are responding to generative AI. It asks whether institutions should keep GenAI out of scholarship altogether or find suitable ways to incorporate it, and it won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (IIKM) in 2025.
A research project on how AI tools affect the academic performance of university students.
Mapping the pedagogical designs and roles of generative AI in L2 speaking learning, guided by the task-based language teaching framework.
A systematic review of research on artificial intelligence across higher education.
A framework that lets school and college libraries in Bangladesh and other low-resource settings build digital services at zero cost, using free tools and minimal technical skill.
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A policy review of how academic publishers and universities are responding to generative AI, set around the question in the title: should institutions keep GenAI out of scholarship, or find a suitable way to incorporate it?
Policy review of academic publishers' and universities' published positions on generative AI.
Presented at the conference; full findings are in the paper.
Evaluates how well an AI-powered chatbot advances user support in academic libraries, asking whether conversational AI can extend the reach of reference and help services.
Effectiveness evaluation of an AI-powered library chatbot.
Presented at the conference; full findings are in the paper.
Examines how University of Dhaka students perceived the forced shift to electronic learning during COVID-19, and which technological, pedagogical, institutional and individual factors shaped their acceptance of it.
Cross-sectional online survey of 412 University of Dhaka students; closed questions analysed in SPSS, open questions coded thematically.
Studies the culture of knowledge and information sharing among students living in 16 dormitories of a large public university in Bangladesh, and how it varies by gender, discipline and degree level.
Structured questionnaire; 337 usable responses from 16 dormitories; descriptive statistics, t-tests and ANOVA in SPSS.
Uses webometrics to map worldwide usage and growth of Library Genesis and Sci-Hub, the shadow libraries that researchers turn to when scholarly publications are priced out of reach.
Webometric analysis using LibGen and Sci-Hub databases, SimilarWeb web analytics and Sci-Hub download logs, with quantitative and qualitative analysis (data to 2022).
Conference presentation of the LibGen and Sci-Hub webometric study, highlighting what shadow-library usage reveals about pricing, access barriers and traditional publishing models.
Webometric analysis (LibGen and Sci-Hub databases, SimilarWeb, Sci-Hub download data).
Explores how religious information shapes the personal morality and political beliefs of Bangladeshi citizens, in a country where religion plays a central role in society and politics.
Online survey of 210 respondents (convenience sampling), five-point Likert scale, Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis tests.
Investigates how university students perceive and practise the ethical use of academic library resources and services.
Currently under peer review.
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An ongoing framework that lets school and college libraries build digital services with free tools and minimal technical skill.
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, Emerald Publishing.
Follow new work and citations as they appear. Interests: Information Behavior, Science of Science, Fake News, Artificial Intelligence, Education.
I welcome conversations about research collaboration, scholarly communication, AI in higher education and library digitization.