Faculty
The OII employs academic research and teaching staff with expertise spanning a wide range of interrelated social, economic, political, legal, industrial, technical and ethical issues of the Internet.
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Directorate
Director, Professor of Society and the Internet
Helen Margetts is the Director of the OII. She has interests in e-government, government information systems, large-scale IT contracts, public management reform, tools of government for public policy, and online political participation.
Email: director@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287207
Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Director of Advancement of the OII, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
Email: viktor.ms@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287232
Director of Graduate Studies, Policy and Research Fellow
Victoria Nash focuses on linking OII research to policy and practitioner communities.
Email: victoria.nash@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287231
Director of Research, MSc Programme Director, Senior Research Fellow
Ralph Schroeder has interests in virtual environments, social aspects of e-Science, sociology of science and technology, and has written extensively about virtual reality technology. His current research is mainly related to e-science.
Email: ralph.schroeder@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287224
Research staff
BT Research Fellow
Abdullahi Arabo works on security issues in ubiquitous environments, particularly concerning mobile devices, component composition and future home networks. He is also interested in identity management, context-awareness, and privacy and authentication.
Email: abdullahi.arabo@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.
Email: grant.blank@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 612336
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.
Tel: +44 (0)1865 287213
Research Fellow
Monica studies the cognitive skills needed to manage, process, and filter online resources. She explores the tensions between what appears to be easy information access on the Internet and the complexity of skills necessary to use this information.
Email: monica.bulger@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287229
Research Fellow
Cristobal Cobo works on the K-Network project, focused on creating a knowledge sharing and dissemination network to promote the exchange of good practices and implementation strategies for building a 21st Century Knowledge and Information Society.
Email: cristobal.cobo@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287049
Professor of Internet Studies
William Dutton is Professor of Internet Studies at the OII. He is currently working on the potential for the emergence of a Fifth Estate enabled by the Internet, Collaborative Network Organizations, and the politics of next generation research.
Email: william.dutton@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287228
Research Fellow
Rebecca Eynon has interests in technology-enhanced learning in Higher Education, ICTs to support informal adult learning, young people's use of technology for learning, and online research methods.
Email: rebecca.eynon@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287206
Richard Farmbrough
Research Assistant
Richard Farmbrough is a Research Assistant on an OII project that is mapping and measuring local knowledge production and representation in the Middle East and North Africa.
Research Assistant
Dr Anne Geniets is a research assistant at the OII and a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
Research Fellow
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon is a sociologist interested in the internet, social networks, and political engagement. Her research uses large-scale data to analyse the structure and content of political discussions, and how interactions evolve over time.
Email: sandra.gonzalezbailon@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287233
Senior Fellow
Andrew Graham is the former Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was the driving force in establishing the OII, and its Acting Director until July 2002. From 2001 to 2011 he was the founding Chairman of the OII's Advisory Board.
Research Fellow
Mark Graham's research focuses on Internet and information geographies, and the overlaps between ICTs and economic development.
Email: mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287203
Research Assistant
Scott A. Hale is an OII DPhil student and Research Assistant. His research examines how social media platform design affects information sharing across language divides, and the effects of information sharing across languages on platforms and users.
Email: scott.hale@oii.ox.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Bernie Hogan has interests in social networks, human-computer interaction, methodology (eg reliable capture of online networks, and networks in interviews), social informatics, quantitative analysis, everyday life, and social accessibility.
Email: bernie.hogan@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287198
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Laura's research focuses on the construction and evolution of markets and value chains in Africa and on how technology feeds into wider communicative and cognitive infrastructures within economies.
Email: laura.mann@oii.ox.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Eric Meyer has interests in e-Social Science, social informatics, information science, technologies in regular use, regular behaviour of scientists as they use technology, social aspects of science and technology, and digital photography.
Email: eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287218
Fresnel Research Fellow
Piers O'Hanlon's expertise is in the area of networked systems, media transport, and security. His current research is in the area of security and privacy in federated sensor networks, under the FRESNEL project.
Research Officer
Anne-Marie Oostveen has interests in social informatics, privacy aspects in relation to ICT, online activism, user participation as a practical form for (computer) system design, social aspects of e-government, e-democracy and electronic voting.
Email: anne-marie.oostveen@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287208
Research Assistant
Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova is a Research Assistant on the OII project "Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: A critical synthesis of research".
Research Fellow
Greg's research focuses on the microeconomics of marketplaces that exist on, or are mediated by the Internet.
Email: greg.taylor@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287201
Research Officer
Ning Wang works as a Research Officer on the OII project "Leaders and Followers in Online Activism". His work involves in the collection and analysis of a big dataset tracking patterns of communication in online social networks.
Email: ning.wang@oii.ox.ac.uk
Fresnel Research Fellow
Joss Wright's research interests lie in cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymous communications. His current research focuses on data and context privacy in wireless sensor networks.
Email: joss.wright@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287229
Last updated on: 16 May 2012
