Tag: SDP

20 November 2018

Bryan Dosono

  Spending two weeks in July at the Oxford Internet Institute‘s Summer Doctoral Programme (OII SDP) resulted in an unforgettable fortnight of scholarly exchanges and excursions around England. Among ...
Read More OII SDP: Cultivating Charismatic Cohorts

2 October 2018

Yonaira M. Rivera

For those of you who have been following my #phdjourney, you know I’ve been pretty vocal about the challenges it brings. It can be a pretty lonely and daunting process ...
Read More OII SDP 2018: An Invaluable Experience

7 September 2017

Nasreen Rajani

Oxford really is a magical place. While there, I sat in the corridors of Hogwarts halls, gazed at the door to Narnia, ate where JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis ...
Read More OII SDP 17 Was A BLAST!

3 November 2016

Shane Horgan

The Oxford Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Programme represents an experience incomparable to any other thus far in my PhD journey. In a somewhat futile attempt to summarise my experience ...
Read More “An experience incomparable to any other thus far in my PhD journey” — Shane Horgan remembers SDP2016

4 July 2016

Jenny Korn

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Congratulations! You got into OII, and you’re gonna make memories, for sure. One of those memories might involve ...
Read More Take a Chance In Presenting

4 December 2015

Luis Felipe Alvarez León

During the summer of 2015 I attended the OII Summer Doctoral Programme. I applied because I thought it would be a good way to start off my last year ...
Read More OII SDP 2015, or the place where I learned about the Internet through Wormhole Cats, Punting Mishaps, and Magic Mike XXL

17 November 2015

Frances Nichols Bachstein

Chimes softly ring through the stately vine covered walls of the ancient bastion of learning marking a lovely new day. The stone streets begin to fill with the first ...
Read More “It is difficult not to become enamored with the enchantment of the city” — Frances Bachstein remembers her time at SDP2015

23 January 2015

Stacy Blasiola

The time I had with my cohort at the OII SDP remains one of the most meaningful experiences I’ve had in my academic career. As an American, I’m struggling ...
Read More Is This Heaven? No, It’s OII SDP

6 January 2015

Megan Lindsay

Megan Lindsay is a fourth year doctoral student in the School of Social Work, Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the use of ICTs and the impact these ...
Read More Falling back in love with the halls of academia: top 10 moments from SDP 2014

18 November 2014

Caroline Jack

Caroline Jack is a graduate researcher and doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her dissertation (in progress) is a history of ...
Read More Through days and distances: could your dissertation use some space-time disruption?

21 October 2014

John Hartley

Prof. John Hartley, founding Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT. We are really delighted to announce the establishment of a new SDP scholarship fund for outstanding students at ...
Read More New SDP scholarship fund for outstanding students at the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT

17 February 2014

Victoria Nash

It’s one of the perks of convening the OII Summer Doctoral Programme that I get to keep in touch with the programme’s alumni as they complete their theses, apply ...
Read More Catching up with the SDP alumni

27 January 2014

Victoria Nash

In 2013 the OII’s Summer Doctoral Programme visited Toronto, kindly hosted by the University of Toronto’s iSchool. In this student-produced video, the SDP2013 students discuss the programme, why Internet ...
Read More ‘A network of really amazing people’ … students discuss their time at the SDP2013: Toronto

13 January 2014

Randy Lynn

Further transformations in higher education are coming — and Randy Lynn (SDP2013) hopes that the future looks a bit like the OII’s Summer Doctoral Programme: encouraging international and multidisciplinary ...
Read More When the revolution comes, the OII SDP will be a model for the new academic order

12 December 2013

David Sutcliffe

Robbie Fordyce is a doctoral candidate at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communication. His research is funded by scholarships under the Institute for a ...
Read More Australian Internet

12 December 2013

Ioana Literat

It’s always nice to hear from SDP alumni; to find out why they applied, what they got out of the programme, and what they are up to now. Ioana ...
Read More Mitigating doctoral students’ perceived isolation: the value of young scholar networks

16 February 2013

Bernie Hogan

OII Research Fellow Bernie Hogan is a regular fixture on the OII’s Summer Doctoral Programme, tutoring and leading seminars on social networking. Having obtained his PhD from the University ...
Read More The Summer Doctoral Program and Toronto: The Meeting Place is the Message

12 February 2013

Jaz Hee-jeo

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is the Deputy Director of the Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT. Her research interests are in playful technology, particularly the ways in which various forms of ...
Read More “A unique opportunity to meet, debate with, and get to know some of the best doctoral students around the world”: Jaz Choi on the Summer Doctoral Programme

4 February 2013

Ryan Biava

It’s always nice to hear from SDP alumni; to find out why they applied, what they got out of the programme, and what they are up to now. Ryan ...
Read More “The OII is a place that was conceived to bring together people who think broadly about the Internet and its impact on, well, just about everything” .. reflections on SDP2011

8 January 2013

Oxford Internet Institute

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is delighted to announce that its eleventh annual Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) will be held in collaboration with the iSchool at the University of Toronto from 8-19 July ...
Read More University of Toronto’s iSchool to Host 2013 Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Summer Doctoral Programme