Tag: alumni
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Alumni Story: Tim – Co-Director, Practical Participation
9 October 2019
Authors: Niamh Walsh
Tim Davies was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2009-2010. Prior to this he had been working in youth policy supporting youth and ...
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Alumni story: Amanda – User Researcher, Facebook
9 October 2019
Authors: Niamh Walsh
Amanda Summers-Plotno was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2011-2012. Since graduating she has worked at Deloitte Digital and Facebook. What first ...
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Alumni Story: Tulsi – MBA student
9 October 2019
Authors: Niamh Walsh
Tulsi Parida was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2017 – 2018. She was a 1+1 MBA Pershing Square Scholar at Oxford and ...
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Alumni Story: Ryan – Group head of data and analytics at Chalhoub Group
8 October 2019
Authors: Niamh Walsh
Ryan den Rooijen was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2011-2012. Prior to this he worked in digital marketing consulting. He has since ...
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Alumni Story: Marc-Aurele – Business Development at MuleSoft
8 October 2019
Authors: Niamh Walsh
Marc-Aurele Ferracci was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2016 -2017. He joined Salesforce after the OII and now works for MuleSoft in ...
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Alumni Story: Therese-Heather – Director of Analytics and Media Strategy for Zeta Global
8 October 2019
Authors: Niamh Walsh
Therese Heather F. Belen was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2009-2010. She has worked in marketing technology for the last 10 years ...
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Megan: Digital citizenship at the Canadian Digital Services
7 November 2018
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Megan Beretta was a student in the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2017-18. Before joining the OII, she completed a Bachelor of Social Science in Political Science ...
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Lofred: Preparing for AI at the French Digital Council
7 November 2018
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Lofred Madzou was a student in the MSc Social Science of the Internet in 2015-16. Before coming to the OII, he completed his MSc at the University of Montreal ...
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Charlotte: Advising on tech policy at the UK Department for International Development
21 March 2017
Authors: Karen Mead
Charlotte Smart was a member of our 2014-15 MSc group. She studied geography as an undergraduate at Oxford, where she looked at the impact of technology adoption amongst the Maasai in Kenya. ...
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Judith: Working with data at Facebook
8 November 2016
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Judith Dada was a member of our 2015-16 MSc group. She’s currently working at Facebook as a Client Solutions Manager in the Global Marketing Solutions team, responsible for consulting a range ...
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David: Becoming a data scientist in the academic world
14 April 2016
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
David Watson was a member of our 2014 MSc group, joining us from Dartmouth College (after a few years spent in publishing). He’s currently a Data Scientist at Queen Mary ...
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Mor: Working in research at the Open Knowledge Foundation
9 December 2015
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Mor Rubinstein was part of our 2013 MSc group, arriving from a Politics and Jewish History degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After the 2011 wave of social ...
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Zarino: Strengthening civil society with mySociety
2 December 2015
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Zarino Zappia was a member of our 2011 MSc group, arriving from a BA Media & Communications course at Goldsmiths, University of London. A web designer and developer with ...
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Amaru: Founding Bolivia’s foremost English-language publication
21 April 2015
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Amaru Villanueva Rance was a member of our first intake of MSc students, arriving in 2009 from an undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at St Anne’s ...
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Laird: Moving from print to digital at Taylor & Francis Publishing
18 April 2015
Authors: Tim Davies
Before arriving at the OII to study for his MSc in 2011, Laird Barrett, an English Literature graduate from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, worked in the sales side ...
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Devin on working for start-ups and the overwhelming importance of the AoIR list
18 April 2015
Authors: Tim Davies
Devin Gaffney joined the OII in October 2011, having worked for a start-up company, ‘Social Flow’. He took programming classes to earn money whilst studying for his undergraduate degree, ...
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Manuel on working at Google, and maybe returning to politics once ‘digital thinking’ has permeated political institutions
17 April 2015
Authors: Tim Davies
Manuel Schaeffer arrived at the OII in 2011, after completing his BA in Communication Science degree at the University of Munich in Germany. He first became aware of the ...
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Joe Weir on working for an award-winning finance start-up, and seeing first-hand how every aspect of the business functions
16 April 2015
Authors: Tim Davies
Joe Weir came to the OII fresh from finishing a BA in History at Oxford. He spent the summer in between working as a User-Experience Consultant, as well as consulting for ...
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Thain Simon on working in analytics, and using technology and data to solve important problems
16 April 2015
Authors: Tim Davies
Thain came to the OII after a year working at Yahoo in California. After finishing his undergraduate degree at Santa Clara University, where he studied Finance, he began at Yahoo as a Financial ...
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Jing on innovation diffusion and the future of the Internet
12 April 2015
Authors: Tim Davies
Jing (Nikki) Jing arrived in 2011 from the University of Edinburgh and the South China University of Technology, studying BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Business Studies and BSc Information Engineering ...
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