Research Associates
We maintain formal research links with academics who are engaged in significant collaborative activities with the Institute, whether in research, teaching or outreach activities or in its management.
Research Associates
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Dr. Monica Bulger recently completed a Research Fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute and is currently a consultant on child protection and digital media literacy for multi-national organisations including UNICEF and the BBC.
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Alexandre Caldas is Director of Innovation and New Technology at the Portuguese Industrial Association and Professor of Technology Policy at University Lusophone. He has interests in Internet indicators, and science, technology and innovation policy.
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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.
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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.
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Stefan Fafinski specialises in computer misuse, cybercrime and Internet law. His interests include mapping and measuring cybercrime, the criminogenic potential of Internet technologies, their social impact and policy implications for their regulation.
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Dr Anne Geniets is a research associate at the OII and at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
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Ellen Helsper is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the LSE. At the OII she was responsible for the design, analysis and coordination of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) and World Internet Project (WIP) Surveys.
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Marina Jirotka is a University Lecturer in Requirements, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.
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Dr Aleks Krotoski is a researcher and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity, focusing on the makeup of online relationships, online influence, and information diffusion through the social networks of the Web.
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Donna Kurtz is the Beazley Archivist, Professor of Classical Art, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. An art historian, she has interests in classical Greek archaeology and art, and Information Technology and the visual arts.
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Dr Patrick McSharry is Head of Catastrophe Risk Financing at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
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Christopher Millard has extensive experience of advising international businesses on information law. His current research focuses on international privacy regulation, information governance, and the impact of the Internet on privacy.
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Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and an assistant professor of communications at Roskilde University (RUC) in Denmark.
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John Palfrey is Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. His research and teaching is focused on the impact of the Internet on democracy.
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Alison Powell has interests in in community informatics, Internet policy, peer production, culture and technology, and wireless infrastructure. Her current research focuses on the social and political implications of networked communication.
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John Powell is an academic public health physician and health services researcher with a particular interest in ehealth and connected health.
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Robert Rogers is Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Recently, he has begun to investigate the neural mechanisms of the cognitive biases that promote problem gambling behaviour.
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Damian Tambini is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), and at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His research interests include media and telecommunications policy and democratic communication.
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Mike Thelwall is Professor of Information Science and leader of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. His interests include webometrics, cybermetrics, blogs, Web 2.0, and scientometrics.
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Arthur Thomas is the founder and continues as CEO of Proteus Associates, a consultancy specialising in applications of information technology to the life sciences. His recent work has focused on predictive computational models of biological systems.
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Anne Trefethen is a Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing.
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Nir Vulkan is a Reader in Business Economics at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His interests include economics of electronic commerce, economic design, automated trading, automated negotiations, and game theoretical analysis.
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Judy Wajcman joined the LSE as Head of the Sociology Department in January 2009. She was previously Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.
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Yorick Wilks has interests in artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief. His current research focuses on the possibility of software agents having identifiable personalities.
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Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His interests include digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role of private 'middle people' in Internet architecture.
Last updated on: 21 May 2013
