Students
We admit students to our Doctoral Programme (DPhil) and Masters Programme (MSc). Our Doctoral and Masters students are listed below.
Please check our teaching pages if you would like to apply to be a student at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Doctoral Students
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.
DPhil student
Ramtin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, researching collective action and political participation at the OII.
Email: ramtin.amin@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Maja Andjelkovic is an OII DPhil student. She has interests in the role of Internet applications in accountability and transparency in governance, and the potential of the mobile web to support innovation in emerging markets.
DPhil student
Florian Bersier is an OII DPhil student. He has interests in online reputation, online trust and - more generally - information economics and behavioural economics.
Email: florian.bersier@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Student
Amanda Clarke is an OII DPhil student. Her DPhil research examines the role of online policy consultations in the decision-making processes of government bureaucracies and legislatures in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Email: amanda.clarke@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Alissa Cooper is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research is about how country-specific regulatory factors and industry paradigms impact Internet engineering.
Email: alissa.cooper@oii.ox.ac.uk
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.
Email: mahmood.enayat@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Tobias Escher has interests in citizen-government relationships online (eParticipation, eGovernment), in political representation as well as e-Social Science methods. He has a background in Communication Studies, Computer Science and Politics.
Email: tobias.escher@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil Student
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
DPhil student
Michael Hills is an OII DPhil student in Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences and a member of Balliol College.
Email: michael.hills@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Isis Hjorth is an OII DPhil student. She has interests in the interplays between creativity, digital remixes and identity.
Email: isis.hjorth@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Darja Leskovec is a DPhil student studying the dynamics of information exchange in virtual communities.
DPhil student
Han-Teng Liao is a student of various disciplines whose research aims to reconsider the role of keywords (sociolinguistics) and hyperlinks (webometrics) in shaping groups (governance) as bearers of ideas (political communications).
Email: han-teng.liao@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
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 student
Tom Nicholls is a DPhil student studying the impact of technology on citizen/government relationships, the Internet's implications for public management and models of electronic public service delivery.
Email: tom.nicholls@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Roy Nyberg is an OII DPhil student. He has interests in the area of organizational theory and technological innovation.
Email: roy.nyberg@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Chrysanthi Papoutsi has a background in Management Science and Information Systems. Her current work focuses on information privacy perceptions and practices of health and IT professionals in HIV clinics.
DPhil Student
Jon Penney is an OII DPhil student. His research interests include public law, intellectual property, and technology law, both separately and where these areas intersect.
Email: jon.penney@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Lucy Power is examining the shifting boundaries of the modern life-science laboratory. Her thesis will focus on determining the impact of online tools on the research practices of life scientists.
Email: lucy.power@oii.ox.ac.uk
DPhil student
Bianca Reisdorf holds a Diploma in Sociology (2008) from Bielefeld University, Germany. She has interests in media sociology (particularly new media) and social stratification, and has worked for public relations agencies and the German print media.
Email: bianca.reisdorf@oii.ox.ac.uk
Marcelo Thompson Mello Guimaraes
DPhil student
Marcelo Thompson is a DPhil Candidate at the OII. He is also Research / Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law.
DPhil student
Daniel Villar Onrubia is an OII DPhil student researching open educational initiatives and practices in the Higher Education sector.
DPhil student
James Williams is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research examines the evolution, applications, and effects of advertising.
Email: james.williams@oii.ox.ac.uk
Masters Students
Andre Avorio
MSc student
Andre Avorio is an MSc student studying issues of openness in the context of platform-mediated markets, and the potential impacts of closed systems on innovation.
Laird Barret
MSc student
Laird Barrett is an MSc student studying publishing, the Internet and Society.
Aditya Basu
MSc student
Aditya Basu is an MSc student undertaking a comparative study of face-to-face and computer-mediated communication.
Janine Braithwaite
MSc student
Janine Braithwaite is an MSc student studying Internet censorship in UK cyberspace.
Wensie Calliet
MSc student
Wensie Calliet is an MSc student studying whether the Internet be leveraged to increase the rate of students continuing on to higher education.
Alison Cies
MSc student
Alison Cies is an MSc student studying the digital divide as it applies to gender in developing countries.
Quirijn Den Rooijen
MSc student
Quirijn Den Rooijen is an MSc student who is modelling user decision making in Social Networks.
Elizabeth Dubois
MSc student
Elizabeth Dubois is an MSc student studying citizen-politician communication.
Alexander Furnas
MSc student
Alexander Furnas is an MSc student studying deliberative decision-making in consensus-seeking peer production.
Devin Gaffney
MSc student
Devin Gaffney is an MSc student studying the taxonomy of phenomena occurring in the social Internet.
Graham Gannon
MSc student
Graham Gannon is an MSc student studying value perceptions in digital environments.
Rasmus Hagen
MSc student
Rasmus Hagen is an MSc student studying memory and hypertextual search.
Anna Hopper
MSc student
Anna Hopper is an MSc student studying governmental use of the Internet for interaction with citizens.
Jing Jing
MSc student
Jing Jing is an MSc student studying the battle between offline and online shopping.
Hilary Johnson
MSc student
Hilary Johnson is an MSc student working on a comparative analysis of the American and European legal and business climate to highlight limitations in European e-commerce.
Marina Laube
MSc student
Marina Laube is an MSc student studying the implications of the mobile web for online advertising.
Daniel Laverick
MSc student
Daniel Laverick is an MSc student studying the Internet in the context of the historical geography of capitalism.
Amy Longdon
MSc student
Amy Longdon is an MSc student studying the relationship between Social Network Sites and television.
Momin Malik
MSc student
Momin Malik is an MSc student studying tacit knowledge and online learning.
Amy McLeod
MSc student
Amy McLeod is an MSc student studying the effects of social media interaction on learning.
Yonatan Moskowitz
MSc student
Yonatan Moskowitz is an MSc student studying personal cyber-negligence.
Molly Norris
MSc student
Molly Norris is an MSc student who is mapping border conflicts through online community activity.
Radu Rovin
MSc student
Radu Rovin is an OII MSc student studying the creation and harnessing of human and social capital through Internet games.
Manuel Schäffer
MSc student
Manuel Schäffer is an MSc student studying privacy in a networked public.
Cohen Simpson
MSc student
Cohen Simpson is an MSc student studying online Social Networks and information exchange.
Amanda Summers-Plotno
MSc student
Amanda Summers-Plotno is an MSc student studying politicians and the social media divide.
Katherine Tolentino
MSc student
Katherine Tolentino is an MSc student studying users' attitudes toward Facebook.
Russell Verbeeten
MSc student
Russell Verbeeten is an MSc student studying the effects of mobile ICTs on consumption, social interaction, and the composition of public spaces.
Joseph Weir
MSc student
Joseph Weir is an MSc student studying transformations in the online presence of governments in sub-Saharan Africa.
Last updated on: 14 July 2011
