People
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DPhil student
Nesrine Abdel-Sattar is an OII DPhil student. She has interests in online news, news convergence, media effects, and reception of online news.
Research Associate
Robert Ackland is a Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). He has interests in the development of new methods (and associated e-Research tools) for quantitative analysis of social and economic phenomena on the Internet.
Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow
Miriyam Aouragh has interests in mobility, interactivity, empowerment, grassroots activism and the construction of (imagined) online communities. She is studying the implications of new generation/Internet 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activists.
DPhil student
Florian Bersier is an OII DPhil student. He has interets in electronic reputation, electronic trust, authentication and identification issues and, more generally, information economics.
Email: florian.bersier@oii.ox.ac.uk
Survey Research Fellow
Grant Blank's work focuses on the social and cultural implications of the Internet and related new communications technology. In addition, he does research methods and statistics, and teaches on the OII social statistics courses.
Senior Research Fellow
Ian Brown's work focuses on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy, copyright and e-democracy. He also works in the more technical fields of information security, networking and healthcare informatics.

Arthur Bullard
ICT Media Specialist
Arthur provides first line desktop support for users and is responsible for OII audio and video content production.
Email: ict@oii.ox.ac.uk
Research Associate
Alexandre Caldas is Director of the Management Center for the Electronic Government Network in the Cabinet Office in Portugal. He has interests in e-science, networks, webmetrics, science communication, and history of science and technology.
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Manuel Castells is Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He also a University Professor and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the USC Annenberg School of Communication
Research Associate
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University. At the OII he worked on the adaptation of representative institutions in the digital age, and the development of spaces for public democratic deliberation.
Visiting Industry Associate
Toby Coppel has spent the last 13 years working in the Internet industry, from investing in startups in Silicon Valley from 1996 to 2001, to Chief Strategy Officer at Yahoo! from 2001 to 2007. He now heads Yahoo!'s European business.
Research Associate
Andrew Currah is a Lecturer in the School of Geography, University of Oxford. His current research examines the changing economic geographies of production and distribution in the media and entertainment industries in a digital and networked economy.
Visiting Fellow
Paolo D'Iorio has a tenured position at the CNRS / ENS, Paris. His interests include collaborative networked research, digital libraries and archives, Open Source in the humanities, and the semantic web.

Jennifer Darnley
Executive Assistant to Director
Jennifer is the Assistant to the Director and manages press enquiries and relations.
Email: press@oii.ox.ac.uk
Research Associate
Paul David's interests include the economics of past and current technological change, demographic history, institutional evolution, and economics of industrial organization with reference to the micro-level sources of long-term productivity growth.
Research Associate
Chris Davies runs the MSc in e-Learning at the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests have included literacy development, writing in the workplace and educational uses of ICTs.

Tim Davies
Administrative Assistant
Tim assists enquirers, and provides support for the OII's events, development and general administration, including day to day running of the library.
DPhil student
Jennifer A. De Beer has interests in online safety, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and anonymity online.
Research Associate
Corinna di Gennaro is a sociologist working on the social implications of Internet adoption and use for civic engagement and political participation.
Visiting Fellow
Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Founder and Director of INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France.
Director and Professor of Internet Studies
William Dutton is the Director of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is currently working on the potential for the emergence of a Fifth Estate enabled by the Internet, Collaborative Network Organizations (CNOs), and social aspects of e-Research.
Email: director@oii.ox.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Katherine Eccles has research interests in women, higher education and opportunity in the early twentieth century, and in literary representations of educated and professional women.
DPhil student
Mahmood Enayat is a DPhil student at the OII. His research focuses on contextual study of Internet filtering in Iran and exploring new methodologies to assess the effects of Internet filtering.
Last updated on: 3 February 2010
















