Former Visiting Doctoral Student
Emma van Inwegen is a PhD student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Recognised Student at the OII. Her research is primarily focused on online gig work and using online labor markets as a platform for policy evaluation.
Visiting Doctoral Student
Robin is a PhD student at CORE, UCLouvain studying phenomena in the digital economy. His dissertation uses behavioural concepts to study online rating systems.
Visiting Doctoral Student
Paula Pedigoni Ponce is a Recognised Student at the OII. Her research is focused on the regulation of health personal data in Brazil.
DPhil Student
Hubert is a DPhil student at the OII, interested in computational propaganda and social movements online.
DPhil Student
Hannah Bailey studied for an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Research interests include China-US relations and China’s use of online censorship, with a focus on automated content analysis.
DPhil Student
Andrew holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yale University and an MSc in Social Data Science from the OII. He is a Clarendon Scholar and was previously a Thouron Prize winner at the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College).
DPhil Student
Basak is a doctoral student at the OII.
DPhil Student
Yixin is a DPhil student in Social Data Science. Her research focuses on examining online communication on social media sites, and designing social systems to better support it.
DPhil Student
Calvin is a DPhil student. His research interests centre around computational communication, particularly the diffusion of conspiracy theories on social media in different cultural contexts.
DPhil Student
Lisa is a DPhil student at the OII.
DPhil Student
Michael is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute.
DPhil Student
Djavan is a part-time DPhil student conducting research at the intersection of agriculture and climatic change. He is currently a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
DPhil Student
Giuliano Formisano is a PhD Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as an ESRC Scholar.
DPhil Student
Anna George is a Social Data Science doctoral student who uses computational approaches to study online political behaviour. Her research focuses on the message diffusion of alternative communities such as hate groups and political extremists.
DPhil Student
Thomas holds a joint honours degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and VU University, where he combined Cognitive Neuroscience with digital media studies. He has experience in clinical research and the telecom industry.
DPhil Student
Lujain is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Her research interests are broadly in automated decision-making & human-in-the-loop systems, fairness, accountability, and transparency in ML, and global AI governance.
DPhil Student
Prathm Juneja is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science, and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Data Science.
DPhil Student
Hannah is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Her research focuses on data-centric techniques in AI development for the detection of online harms.
DPhil Student
Felix is a DPhil student at the OII with an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, and has over 2 years of work experience as analytics consultant at McKinsey & Company.
DPhil Student
Linda is a DPhil student at the OII interested in social network, agent-based model and contentious politics.
DPhil Student
Mar Carpanelli is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science and a Data Scientist & Economist at LinkedIn.
DPhil Student
Cailean is a DPhil candidate in Social Data Science, whose research interests concern the political economy of open source software and the digital commons at large.
DPhil Student
Alexandra is a DPhil candidate at the OII and a researcher on the Programme on Democracy and Technology studying the gendered dimensions of political communication during times of conflict.
DPhil Student
Jessica is a DPhil student in Social Data Science, researching representational biases in language models. She holds an MSc in Computer Science and works as a Lead Data Scientist at Springer Nature.
DPhil Student
Paul is a DPhil student in Social Data Science. His research is concerned with improving natural language processing methods for hate speech detection and other applications.
DPhil Student
Mary Sanford is a DPhil Student on our Social Data Science Programme.
DPhil Student
Marcel is a doctoral candidate in Social Data Science and Researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project. His research is at the intersection of political science, statistics and computer science, with a focus on elections and disinformation.
DPhil Student
Matthew is a part-time DPhil student in Social Data Science, researching how people form habits with online media. He works as a staff data scientist at Spotify.
DPhil Student
Dylan Thurgood is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Data Science. His research focuses on opinion formation and collective intelligence.
DPhil Student
Manuel is a DPhil student in Social Data Science. He is broadly interested in using Natural Language Processing to extract policy-relevant information from social media data.
DPhil Student
Tarah Wheeler is an information security executive, social scientist in the area of international conflict, author, and poker player. She is CEO of information security company Red Queen Dynamics.
DPhil Student
Kate is a Wellcome Trust scholar and doctoral researcher at the OII's Programme on Democracy & Technology (DemTech). Her research project deploys mixed methods to explore the influence of misinformation on vaccine hesitancy in the UK.
DPhil Student
Abid A. Adonis is a DPhil student at OII, interested in Digital Sovereignty, the Politics of Cyberspace, and the intersection between International Relations and technology.
DPhil Student
Julian is interested in the future of work, particularly skill development and matching on online labour markets. Next to his DPhil, he is a research assistant for the CrowdLearn research project.
DPhil Student
Mahsa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research focuses on political communication and information controls in Iran.
DPhil Student
Nicole/Yung is a DPhil at the OII. Her research is interested in technology infrastructures and vertical/aerial surveillance.
DPhil Student
Liam is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute whose research focuses on communities of practice, from hobby and amateur groups to professional networks, which often use digital technologies to organise their knowledge-making activities.
DPhil Student
Cassidy is a DPhil student and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Her research focuses on the efficacy of cognitive interventions for combating misinformation and restoring online trust.
DPhil Student
Chris was a DPhil student at the OII and a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute.
DPhil Student
Tomas’ doctoral project investigates the social histories and future imaginaries of the Internet on Haida Gwaii.
DPhil Student
Rutendo Chabikwa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research applies a gender lens to understanding the effects of digital media on political participation in postcolonial contexts.
DPhil Student
Brianna Cho is a part-time DPhil Information, Communication and the Social Sciences student.
DPhil Student
Clementine is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on AI and gender.
DPhil Student
Josh Cowls is a doctoral student on the Information, Communication and the Social Sciences programme, and a Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute.
DPhil Student
As an M.Sc. by Research student, Chris studies expectations of privacy in digital spaces and how law in the U.S., EU, and U.K. should accommodate/conform/shape those expectations.
DPhil Student
Amanda is a doctoral student at the OII. Her research focuses on the relationship between interactive media and knowledge creation practices.
DPhil Student
Blake is a graduate of the OII and researches digital interventions that encourage consumers to make healthier decisions in online shopping contexts.
DPhil Student
Mona Elswah is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), where she examines digital repression, collective actions, and disinformation in the Arab world
DPhil Student
Jaimie's research interests are largely centred on the implications of and patterns in young people’s engagement with the Internet, with a particular focus on self-tracking practices and the interactions between online and offline social behaviours.
DPhil Student
Laura is a 1+3 DPhil student at the OII and an Experience Research Lead at Adobe. Her research at both institutions aims to unpack how technology-based design affordances influence artistic output and creativity.
DPhil Student
Mercedes Horner's doctoral research examines bias in the design process of EdTech algorithms and data capture in UK higher education.
DPhil Student
Josh is a member of the World Economic Forum's Partnership Against Cyber Crime. He is also the President of the Global Center for Cyber Security and serves as a frequent advisor to technology startups and cyber-focused investors.
DPhil Student
Srujana is a doctoral student at the OII and a member of the Fairwork Project. Her research focusses on digital labour, migration, and resistance.
DPhil Student
MSc Thesis: Political participation in non-political online communities: The role of sense of community in fostering political participation Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2014
DPhil Student
Claire Leibowicz is a DPhil candidate and the Head of AI and Media Integrity at the Partnership on AI. Her research is generously funded by the OII Shirley Scholarship.
DPhil Student
Victoria is a DPhil Student at the OII with interests in: Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Policy, Advanced Technology Ecosystems, Clusters, Regional Interdependence, Global Governance, Peace and Security.
DPhil Student
Diyi's research aims to understand how digital networks boost the power of online communities, influence the way that social actors exchange meaning with each other, and ultimately reshape people's social lives.
DPhil Student
Cindy is an OII DPhil student interested in race, stereotypes, and humour in online subcultures.
DPhil Student
Maggie’s doctoral research focuses on AI and creativity. She is incorporating visual art as a part of a practice-based methodological approach to understand how creatives find inspiration through algorithmic image search.
DPhil Student
Fattori McKenna's research focuses on how decentralised technologies, associated with the Web 3.0 ideology, shape labour and material conditions of participants within the emerging technoeconomic ecosystem.
DPhil Student
Jakob Mökander is a second-year DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, supervised by Professor Luciano Floridi. He is supported through a fully funded Studentship provided by AstraZeneca Inc.
DPhil Student
Jess Morley is a DPhil candidate researching the cultural, social, ethical, technical and regulatory factors influencing the development, deployment and use of digital, data and AI within healthcare settings.
DPhil Student
Amy is a DPhil candidate. She researches empathic communication with digital audiences.
DPhil Student
Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching platform governance and regulation in response to mis/disinformation.
DPhil Student
Sanna is a DPhil Student at the OII and also a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute, where she leads the Data and Inequality interest group together with her supervisor Mark Graham.
DPhil Student
Samantha Jane Pay is a specialist in violence against women and girl’s policy and practice. Her research focuses on the concept of an ‘algorithmic female’ and the ethics of personalisation culture.
DPhil Student
Alongside work on AI, Anne’s doctoral research is in the sociology of knowledge, focusing on the online work of independent commissions and their role in British politics.
DPhil Student
Marie-Therese Png is a doctoral student at OII and research intern at DeepMind Ethics and Society. Her research focuses are Globally Beneficial AI, Intercultural AI Ethics, and Global Justice.
DPhil Student
Nayana is a DPhil researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on purpose-built storytelling platforms in India and the changing nature of writing online. In her work, she blends ethnographic methodology with literary practice.
DPhil Student
Joanna’s research focuses on junctures between mobile Augmented Reality environments, critical heritage visualisations and post/decolonial historiography.
DPhil Student
Huw Roberts is a DPhil student at the OII. His research focuses on the development and export of Chinese AI governance initiatives.
DPhil Student
Lily is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on gender inequality and remote work.
DPhil Student
Nancy’s research is concerned with the role of museums in providing space for public engagement with debates and developments in AI and new technologies. Her research is generously funded by the OII Shirley Scholarship Award.
DPhil Student
Odysseas Sclavounis is a DPhil student at the OII and also at the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on the governance of public blockchains, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum.
DPhil Student
Felix is a OII DPhil Student, a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and a Fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center. As a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar he is researching AI in journalism and the news industry.
DPhil Student
Charles is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of federated digital identity systems.
DPhil Student
Sarah Stewart is a DPhil student at the OII.
DPhil Student
Andreas' doctoral research centres on human control of AI applications within national security and defence. His research is supported by the OII, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
DPhil Student
Thomas Vogl works at the intersection of public administration, organizational studies, and digital change. His thesis explores public sector organizational memory in the digital age.
DPhil Student
James is a DPhil student at the OII.
DPhil Student
Eugene is a creative executive in the media technology sector who is passionate about data rights and emergent governance systems in digital spaces.
Research Assistant, DPhil Student
Marta Ziosi’s research revolves around the use of data-driven risk-assessment tools in the Criminal Justice System. She focuses on alternative methods in machine learning to centre policies around prevention, rather than prediction, of crime.
