Cailean is a DPhil candidate in Social Data Science, whose research interests concern the political economy of open source software (OSS) and the digital commons at large. In his DPhil, Cailean is working on topics such as funding models, maintenance labour, and inter-company collaboration in the domain of OSS. Alongside his DPhil, Cailean is a researcher at the Linux Foundation and co-leads the OII’s Social Network Analysis Reading Group. Prior to the DPhil, Cailean worked in AI policy at the UK Government and studied at the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, and UC Santa Barbara. Cailean’s research is funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
Open source software; digital commons; political economy; computational social science; social network analysis; machine learning; technology policy
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Xiaowen Dong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, where he is an academic member of both the Machine Learning Research Group and the Oxford-Man Institute.
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 The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction.
