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 is a political scientist specialising in e-government and digital era governance and politics. From 2011 to 2014, Helen Margetts is an ESRC Professorial Fellow.
Email: director@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287207
Director of Research, 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
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
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
Associate Director (Cyber Security Centre), Senior Research Fellow (OII)
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
Cristobal Cobo coordinates research on innovation, open knowledge initiatives and future of learning. Currently he works on Networks of Excellence on Internet Science and OportUnidad, both project founded by European Commission.
Email: cristobal.cobo@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287049
Researcher
Stefano De Sabbata’s research focuses on Internet and information geographies, as well as on geographic and mobile information retrieval.
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
AHRC Research Fellow
Kathryn Eccles has research interests in the impact of new technologies on scholarly behaviour and research, particularly in the Humanities.
Email: kathryn.eccles@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 612338
Research Fellow
Rebecca Eynon has interests in the Sociology of education, technology enhanced learning, everyday life and learning, digital and social exclusion.
Email: rebecca.eynon@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287206
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 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
Research Fellow
Vili is an economic sociologist who studies the social and economic dimensions of new information technologies around the world. His particular areas of expertise are virtual goods, virtual currencies, and digital labour.
Postdoctoral Researcher
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 Tel: +44 (0)1865 612339
Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
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
Research Assistant
Joshua Melville is a DPhil student at the OII and Balliol College. His work is broadly focused on problems with the capture and representation of social relations, as well as the relationship between communications media and their patterns of use.
Email: joshua.melville@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Programme Director, 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
Researcher
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
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 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
Researcher
Linnet is currently working on a Sloan Foundation funded project on Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge.
Email: linnet.taylor@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 612330
Researcher
Ning Wang works as a Researcher 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 Tel: +44 (0)1865 612330
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
Big Data Research Officer
Taha Yasseri has interests in analysis of Big Data to understand human dynamics, government-society interactions, mass collaboration, and opinion dynamics.
Email: taha.yasseri@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 287229
Research Assistant
Bendert Zevenbergen joined the Oxford Internet Institute in 2012 to work on the EU Internet Science project.
Email: bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 612330
Last updated on: 17 May 2013
