Gillian Bolsover was a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute who researched the effects of commercialisation, globalisation and new media and communication technologies on politics and civil society. She completed a DPhil at the OII in January 2017, researching how the effects of the commercialisation of online spaces affect their ability to provide a venue for political speech in different political systems through a comparison of the US and China. Between January 2017 and January 2018, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the computational propaganda project, investigating bots, algorithms, misinformation and other forms of automated online political opinion manipulation.
Political science; political and social theory; political economy; civil society and citizenship; critical methodologies; digital social research; computational social science; mixed-methods research; communications; sociology and culture; language and linguistics; identity and psychology; privacy, surveillance and censorship.
This Oxford-based Centre aims become a leading global resource for understanding how to deliver effective cyber security; OII Fellows Bill Dutton and Ian Brown lead its work on security cultures and regulation.
This research aims to identify patterns and trends in individual attitudes and behaviours related to online trust, privacy, security and freedom.
14 December 2017
14 December 2017
14 December 2017
14 December 2017
Director, Associate Professor, Senior Policy Fellow
Victoria Nash is the OII's Director and a 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.
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.
