Digital care tech’s double edge: Oxford research flags privacy risks and carer burnout
16 March 2026
Study finds digital care technologies could both support and strain unpaid carers, with benefits and risks to loved ones.
Latest news
Professor Rebecca Eynon elected to prestigious Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship
9 March 2026
Professor Rebecca Eynon, Professor of Education, the Internet and Society, is among the outstanding social scientists elected to the fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences today.
Who Trusts Telegram in Wartime Ukraine?
20 February 2026
A new article by OII DPhil candidate Lisa Chernenko, co-authored with OII Senior Fellow and Founding Director William H. Dutton, has just been published in the peer-reviewed, policy-oriented outlet Ukrainian Analytical Digest.
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Connected Life 2026: New Intelligence, Old Questions
09:15 - 18:00, Oxford Union
The Connected Life Summit is a one-day, student-led conference focused on what it means to live in an increasingly connected world.
Four graduate degrees
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Find out more about research by OII academics
Dr Janaki Srinivasan
Associate Professor Digital South Asian Studies
Janaki's research examines the politics of digital exclusion in India. She uses ethnographic and archival research to examine how gender, caste and class have shaped the use of information and information technologies in varied contexts.
Professor Brent Mittelstadt
Professor of Data Ethics and Policy
Professor Brent Mittelstadt is a data ethicist and philosopher specializing in AI ethics, professional ethics, and technology law and policy. He is the founder/coordinator of the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) programme.
Dr Bernie Hogan
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.
Latest projects
Stewardship of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The Synthetic Society Lab aims to improve how we research, access, and use sensitive human data. The fellowship will advance an evidence-based science of privacy engineering to make research using digital traces safe and reliable.
Worker Voice and AI Adoption
This project investigates how worker representation in German firms shapes AI use and adoption, asking whether employee voice at firms can steer AI toward complementing workers rather than automating them.
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship
The project will investigate the international relations and social dynamics of international AI competition, specifically the sociopolitical and bureaucratic drivers of US-China AI competition.
Latest report
By Andres Raieste, Andri Rebane, Madis Tapupere, Keegan McBride
In a world increasingly defined by crises—from pandemics and climate disasters to escalating wars—governments that fail to build digital resilience risk crumbling under pressure.
Press coverage
Slaves of Artificial Intelligence: The Hidden Work Powering ChatGPT and Other Models
Corriere della sera, 24 March 2026
"Feeding the Machine," the book that reveals who really fuels ChatGPT, is out: invisible, poorly paid, and unprotected workers. Author Mark Graham explains why big tech is doing everything it can to keep them in the shadows.
Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?
The Guardian, 21 March 2026
Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash. The OII's Professor Mark Graham comments.
What Kant and Spinoza can teach us about AI
Engelsberg Ideas, 18 March 2026
Two of Demis Hassabis’s favourite philosophers, Spinoza and Kant, help illuminate the conundrum: can AI turn chaotic data into intelligible, structured reality? OII doctoral researcher Lisa Klaassen explains more.
