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 potential of entrepreneurship and technology to contribute to economic, environmental and social sustainability.
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
Gillian Bolsover is a DPhil student. For her doctoral research, she intends to compare online social and political speech in England and China, investigating the sociocultural reasons for differences between Internet usage in the two countries.
DPhil Student
Amanda Clarke is an OII DPhil student. Her DPhil research examines the tension between emerging models of online government-citizen engagement and the tenets and practices of public sector bureaucracies.
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
Elizabeth Dubois is an OII DPhil student. Her research focuses on the role of personal influence in political communication networks.
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
Bruce Etling's research is focused on the impact of the Internet on politics, political participation, and collective action.
DPhil Student
Heather Ford is a DPhil student who studies how Wikipedians write history as it happens. Her research covers online collaboration, conflict, historiography, alternative media, the Arab Spring and intellectual property rights.
DPhil student
Darja Groselj is a DPhil student studying the dynamics of information exchange in virtual communities.
DPhil Student
Khairunnisa is interested in the digital representation of places and how these affect sense of place and place-making activities, the production, management and consumption of user-generated content, crowdsourcing and online mapping.
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
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
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. He studies the ethical design of persuasive technology.
Email: james.williams@oii.ox.ac.uk
Masters Students
Andrea Alarcon
MSc Student
Andrea Alarcon is an OII MSc student.
Alexander Bassmanow
MSc Student
Alexander Bassmanow is an OII MSc student with a background in Computer Science and Business Administration. He is interested in the Information Economy and differences in Information Systems Research between Germany and Anglo-American countries.
Jeremy Bowles
MSc Student
Jeremy Bowles is an OII MSc student. His research interest lies in the influence of internet technologies on the success of public policy proposals and how this contributes to, and interacts with, international norms of policymaking.
Wensie Caillet
MSc Student
Wensie Caillet is an OII MSc student. She has a keen interest in education, knowledge sharing, and ICTs and their impact in developing areas, most notably rural China.
Josh Cowls
MSc Student
Josh Cowls is an OII MSc student interested in the role that online social networks play in political discourse and the functioning of democracies.
Katherine Dransfield
MSc Student
Katherine Dransfield is an OII MSc student. She is interested in how online secondary source material impacts student research attitudes and habits.
Stefanie Duguay
MSc Student
Stefanie Duguay is an OII MSc student interested in social networking sites and social capital, lapsed social media users, and online identity formation.
Joao Fiadeiro
MSc Student
Joao Fiadeiro is an OII MSc student.
Marianna Griva
MSc Student
Marianna Griva is an OII MSc student.
Ayman Idrissi
MSc Student
Ayman El Idrissi is an OII MSc student interested in how the development of online technologies challenge traditional business models in the private sector and what the government's role ought to be in facilitating or restraining these developments.
Frederike Kaltheuner
MSc Student
Frederike Kaltheuner is an OII MSc student with a background in philosophy and politics. Her main interests are privacy, surveillance and transparency.
Sylwia Kowalczuk
MSc Student
Sylwia Kowalczuk is an OII MSc student.
Isabella Litke
MSc Student
Isabella Litke is an OII MSc student studying the impact of information privacy policy and norms on political, cultural, and intellectual participation in democratic societies.
Ross Petchler
MSc Student
Ross Petchler is an OII MSc student studying the potential of real-time computing with online data streams to transform statistical forecasting and, in particular, computational epidemiology.
Vyacheslav Polonski
MSc Student
Vyacheslav 'Slava' Polonski is an OII MSc student. He is interested in content distribution and content curation mechanisms in social networks, as well as the the dark side of the Internet and society.
Julia Rone
MSc Student
Julia Rone is an OII MSc student. Her research focuses on file sharing and the free culture movement in the economic and political context of Eastern Europe.
Michael Rosenbloom
MSc Student
Michael Rosenbloom is an OII MSc student. He is interested in the intersections between the internet, lawmaking, and political movements.
Anna Samoilenko
MSc Student
Anna Samoilenko is an OII MSc student. She is interested in digital publishing.
Thain Simon
MSc Student
Thain Simon is an OII MSc student. His research examines the role of the internet in information production, distribution, and discovery, particularly in the areas of content personalization, serendipity, and digital journalism.
Daniel Toth
MSc Student
Daniel Toth is an OII MSc student studying the Pirate Party and discourses on digital rights.
Sara Marie Watson
MSc Student
Sara Marie Watson is an OII MSc student. She examines society's understanding and conceptualization of personal data online.
Adam Webb
MSc Student
Adam Webb is an OII MSc student. His research looks at the political economy of new media, and net-centric models of control.
Richard Wilkinson
MSc Student
Richard Wilkinson is an OII MSc student. He is interested in the role that mobile technology such as iPads can play in a publicly funded school voucher program, and works on Khan Academy, YouTube and micro-testing.
Fan Yang
MSc Student
Fan Yang is an OII MSc student interested in the Internet and social movement, currently focusing on social media empowerment.
Jing Zeng
MSc Student
Jing Zeng is an OII MSc student. She is interested in web-based activism and online governance.
Qichen Zhang
MSc Student
Qichen Zhang is an OII MSc student researching politics, legitimacy, and social capital in the blogosphere. She previously investigated online censorship for the Berkman Center's OpenNet Initiative.
Last updated on: 14 July 2011
