Press Releases

27 April 2010

The OII is part of the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet), which combines some of the world's leading academic researchers in Web Science with new academic programmes that will enhance the growing influence of Web Science.

30 March 2010

The Editorial Board of the OII-PSO journal 'Policy and Internet' is pleased to announce a call for a Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the journal, to be published in 2011.

30 March 2010

The OII-PSO journal 'Policy and Internet' invites paper submissions reporting world class research and scholarship on any aspect of the relationship between the Internet and public policy.

23 March 2010

An OII-LSE team is asked by the National Audit Office (NAO) to design a methodology for costing the impact of digital exclusion, working out the financial benefits of Internet access for key excluded groups.

1 March 2010

Report available for OII Discussion Forum 'Child Protection and Freedom of Speech Online', aimed at finding common ground between advocates of both sides.

24 February 2010

The Humanities Information Practices project examines information behaviours in the humanities. Through case studies, observations and interviews, it aims to understand how humanities scholars appropriate both analogue and digital resources in their work.

2 February 2010

Christine Madsen, librarian and OII DPhil candidate, is awarded the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her proposal 'Library Futures: Building a New Knowledge Architecture in Academic Libraries.'

22 June 2009

One of the main challenges in creating a Digital Britain will be to change the perceptions of the third of the British population who choose not to use the internet, according to the latest in a series of Oxford University Surveys (OxIS)

22 June 2009

Oxford Internet Survey into how British people are using the Internet in 2009 suggests that the proportion of people reading online newspapers has doubled since 2007: 58% of Internet users said they read a newspaper or news online, compared to 30% in 2007

22 June 2009

In the wake of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report, an Oxford survey shows that one of the main challenges will be to change the perceptions of the third of the British population who choose not to use the Internet

9 June 2009

Professor Richard Susskind, a pioneer in the field of information technology and law, is appointed as Visiting Professor in Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute

19 May 2009

Cisco Systems is formally recognised by the University of Oxford for its early support of the OII, including funding of the Cisco Chair of eDemocracy, established in order to further independent research into representative institutions in the digital age

7 May 2009

The Department for Work and Pensions has made progress in reducing the number of leaflets that it produces for its customers and in making application forms simpler and shorter, a National Audit Office report has today found

7 May 2009

The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published a report on information exchange in benefits delivery, produced by a joint OII-LSE research team led by Professors Helen Margetts (OII) and Patrick Dunleavy (LSE)

11 February 2009

The Bodleian Library together with Balliol College establishes a new joint scholarship for graduate students. The first scholar to be awarded the scholarship is OII DPhil student Christine Madsen

5 February 2009

Professor William Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at Oxford University, is appointed as Chair of Ofcom's Advisory Committee for England and Member of the Advisory Committee for the South East region

24 November 2008

The World Internet Project marks the first time that a worldwide partnership of research institutions has compiled survey data on the behaviour and views of Internet users and non-users

3 November 2008

A new report released by the OII and Communities and Local Government (CLG) indicates that technological forms of exclusion are a reality for significant segments of the UK population, and that they can reinforce and deepen existing disadvantages

27 October 2008

Malte Ziewitz is awarded the PGP Corporation scholarship for the academic year 2008-09. Malte's research investigates the role of Internet-based reputation and rating systems in the governance of human behaviour

17 October 2008

OII Fellows Rebecca Eynon and Victoria Nash are awarded prizes at University of Oxford Teaching Awards ceremony. The scheme is run by the Oxford University Learning Institute and aims to recognise excellence in college and university teaching