Four members of faculty at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) have been awarded the title of Associate Professor by the University of Oxford, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research in the field of social sciences.
Congratulations to the following academics:
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Dr Jonathan Bright is a highly regarded political scientist who specialises in computational approaches to the social sciences and political participation.
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Dr Scott Hale is a much-cited data scientist whose work investigates the spread of information between the speakers of different languages online.
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is a widely respected philosopher working on the ethics of digital technologies in areas such as the ethics of AI and the ethical analysis of cybersecurity.
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Dr Balazs Vedres is a renowned sociologist and network scientist working to understand how teams and organisations rely on open networks and diversity in innovation.
Research Associate
In 2022 Jonathan Bright became the Head of AI for Public Services at the Turing Institute, having previously been a faculty member of the OII. A political scientist, he specialises in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Dr Scott A. Hale is an Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, and Turing Fellow. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on increasing equitable access to quality information.
Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies, DPhil Programme Director (ICSS)
Mariarosaria Taddeo is Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies and Programme Director of the DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences at the OII.
Former Senior Research Fellow
Dr Vedres is a sociologist and network scientist, investigating the network sources of creative success, and diversity and discrimination on online collaborative platforms.