Professor of Social Data Science, Director
Scott A. Hale is OII Director and Professor of Social Data Science. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on increasing equitable access to quality information.
Deputy Director, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Kathryn Eccles has research interests in the impact of new technologies on Humanities scholarship, and the re-organisation of cultural heritage and higher education in the digital world.
Departmental Research Lecturer
Dr Fabian Braesemann is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the OII.
Professor of Education, the Internet and Society
Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work
Carl-Benedikt Frey is an economist and Associate Professor of AI & Work. He is also a Fellow of Mansfield College and Director of the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School.
Professor of Internet Geography
Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Associate Professor in AI and Society
Ekaterina Hertog is an Associate Professor of AI and Society at Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI. She studies how the rising digitalisation is reshaping private lives across the world.
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.
Professor of Internet Studies
Philip N. Howard is a professor of sociology, information, and international affairs. He is Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology, and is a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Wm. Matthew (Matt) Kennedy is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow researching AI evaluation and red-teaming methodologies, AI and knowledge production, and decolonial AI.
Departmental Research Lecturer
Johann Laux works at the intersection of law and the social sciences. His current research is interested in the governance of emerging technologies as well as the design of institutions.
Associate Professor
Adam Mahdi’s research focuses on AI evaluation, benchmarking, safety and human–AI interaction, particularly in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, science, law and policy. He leads the Reasoning with Machines Lab at the University of Oxford.
Professor of Society and the Internet
Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, a political scientist specialising in digital government and politics. She was Director of the OII from 2011-18. She is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College.
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
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.
Associate Professor of Social Data Science
Mohsen’s research lies at the intersection of computational/data science and cognitive psychology. He studies online harm, misinformation, and formation of social networks.
Senior Policy Fellow, Associate Professor
Associate Professor and Senior Policy Fellow. Her research focuses on the opportunities and risks experienced by children using digital technologies; she also leads OII engagement on Internet regulation and digital policy issues.
Associate Professor of Digital Culture
Robert Prey studies the relationship between technology, culture and capitalism. His current focus is the creative labour of musicians as they adapt to online platforms around the world.
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology
Professor Przybylski is a research psychologist who studies how online social media and video games platforms influence users' mental health. He is curious about how our minds navigate across online and offline environments.
Associate Professor
Luc leads the Synthetic Society Lab, a research group that produces independent evidence that regulators, litigators, journalists, and affected communities need to hold deployed AI systems to account.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy.
Chris Russell is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government and Policy. Dr Russell’s work lies at the intersection of computer vision and responsible AI.
Senior Research Fellow
Ralph Schroeder has interests in shared virtual environments and the sociology of science and technology. His current research is related to digital media and populism, climate change online, AI and social theory, and the internet in China and India.
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.
Departmental Research Lecturer
Fabian is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies
Mariarosaria Taddeo is Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies.
Professor of Digital Markets and Competition
Greg Taylor's research focuses on the economics of competition policy and regulation for digital and technology markets.
Departmental Research Lecturer
Ana Valdivia is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the sociotechnical aspects of AI. Her current research explores the environmental impacts of AI supply chains by combining computational and ethnographic methodologies.
Professor of Technology and Regulation
Professor Sandra Wachter is Professor of Technology and Regulation focusing on law and ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford
Associate Professor
Joss Wright's research interests lie in information controls, privacy-enhancing technologies, and cyber-enabled crime. His current research focuses on measuring internet censorship, and uncovering the online illegal wildlife trade.
Departmental Lecturer
Paul works at the intersection of NLP and the social sciences. His research focuses on the safety and societal impacts of large language models. He is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College.
Departmental Lecturer
Ewan Soubutts conducts mixed-methods research in human-centered computing and digital health to understand how people of different generations interact within society.