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Dr Grant Blank

Research Associate

Grant Blank's work focuses on the social and cultural implications of the Internet and new media, quantitative and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He taught on the OII social statistics courses.

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Fyonna Boateng

Research Associate

Fyonna Boateng is a Psychology undergraduate at the University of Reading. With Dr. Netta Weinstein, she is investigating public opinions of AI and its potential biases.

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Dr Jonathan Bright

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.

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Dr Siân Brooke

Former Research Associate

Siân Brooke's research interests are largely within sociology and gender. Siân’s doctoral research focused on the construction of gendered identity on the pseudonymous web, and she is collaborating with Kathryn Eccles on feminist data science.

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Dr Monica Bulger

Research Associate

Dr. Monica Bulger recently completed a Research Fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute and is currently a consultant on child protection and digital media literacy for multi-national organisations including UNICEF and the BBC.

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Dr Chico Camargo

Research Associate

Dr Chico Camargo is an interdisciplinary researcher who develops and applies computational tools to study complex systems, collective human behaviour, public opinion dynamics and culture change.

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Dr Chris King Chi Chan

Former Research Associate

Chris Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Mark Graham on the Fairwork project.

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Dr Matthew Cole

Former Research Associate

Matthew Cole was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Fairwork, investigating global platforms. His research interests include the political economy of technology and platforms, particularly the transformation of work.

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Dr Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Gretta Corporaal is a Sociologist of Work and Organizations, previously based at the Oxford Internet Institute, specializing in online labor platforms and the future of work and organizations in the digital economy.

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Dr Mona Elswah

Research Associate

Mona Elswah is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), where she examines digital repression, collective actions, and disinformation in the Arab world

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Dr Patrick Feuerstein

Former Research Associate

Patrick Feuerstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Fairwork Secretariat at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), working with Mark Graham.

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Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka

Research Associate

Aliaksandr is a political communication researcher and was Director of Research at the Programme on Democracy and Technology at the Oxford Internet Institute.

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Dr Isis Hjorth

Research Associate

Isis is a cultural sociologist focusing on emerging practices related to networked technologies. She is currently researching microwork and virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia with multiple colleagues at the OII.

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Dr Kelle Howson

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Kelle Howson is a Research Associate on the Fairwork project. Kelle is a development geographer interested in how ethical certification is reshaping governance and power relations in global networks.

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Dr Niklas Johannes

Former Research Associate

Niklas Johannes is a behavioural scientist. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age programme, where he studied effects of technology on well-being and performance.

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Dr Otto Kässi

Former Researcher

Otto Kässi is a labour economist with a background in econometrics. His research concentrates on empirical study of online labour markets, as part of the iLabour project with Vili Lehdonvirta.

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Dr Aleksi Knuutila

Former Research Associate

Aleksi Knuutila is an anthropologist and data scientist. He was working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computational Propaganda programme, where he used computational and qualitative methods to study political communications and communities.

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Tobias Kuttler

Former Research Associate

Tobias Kuttler is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fairwork Secretariat based at the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB), working with Dr Mark Graham.

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Dr Kristoffer Magnusson

Former Research Associate

Kristoffer is a clinical psychologist at the Stockholm Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. His work is mainly concerned with studying various aspects of gaming and gambling disorder, in collaboration with Andrew Przybylski.

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Dr Silvia Milano

Former Research Associate

Silvia is a philosopher interested mainly in epistemology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence, working with Dr Brent Mittelstadt.

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Tom Nicholls

Research Associate

Tom Nicholls is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute studying the analysis of news texts using computational methods and the development of new methods for studying political behaviour online.

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Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Former Research Associate

Along with Philip Howard, Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media.

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Dr Myrto Pantazi

Former Research Associate

Myrto is a social psychologist with a background in psycholinguistics. She uses experimental methods to study social cognition. She is particularly interested in how people process and validate information as well as in their (conspiracy) beliefs.

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Professor Chris Russell

Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy., Research Associate

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.

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Dr Lulu P. Shi

Research Associate

Lulu Shi is a sociologist working on projects investigating the intersection between society and technology. Her research interests include digital sociology, sociology of education, work and employment.

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Dr Arthur Thomas

Research Associate

Arthur Thomas is founder and CEO of Proteus Associates, a consultancy specialising in applying information technology to life sciences. Working with Ralph Schroeder, his current research explores predictive computational models of biological systems.

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Dr Paul Timmers

Research Associate

Paul Timmers is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the European University Cyprus. As a Research Associate at the OII, he is working with Mariarosaria Taddeo on the impact of AI on the sovereignty and autonomy of state actors.

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Bertram Vidgen

Former Research Associate

Bertram Vidgen's research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts. An alumnus of the OII DPhil programme, he is engaged in ongoing collaborative research as a member of the Public Policy Programme at the Turing Institute.

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Dr Matti Vuorre

Research Associate

Matti Vuorre is an experimental psychologist. He applies his expertise in cognitive psychology and Bayesian modelling as a postdoctoral researcher in the Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age.

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Professor Netta Weinstein

Research Associate

Netta Weinstein is a professor of clinical and social psychology at the University of Reading. She studies human motivation, behaviour and well-being in collaboration with Professors Wachter and Mittelstadt.

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Dr Alex J Wood

Former Researcher

Dr Wood is a sociologist of work and employment, focusing on the changing nature of employment relations and labour markets. As part of the iLabour project, he is currently researching worker voice, organisation and action in the online gig economy.

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Dr Pu Yan

Research Associate

Dr Pu Yan is a researcher at Oxford Internet Institute. She is currently working on the project "What Do 'the People' Want?", which explores the use of digital media and the rise of populism in six countries using computational social science methods

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Dr Stefan Zohren

Former Research Associate

Stefan's research is focused on applied machine learning in finance. He collaborates with the OII on research and financial news networks and teaches the Machine Learning and Applied Machine Learning papers to MSc Social Data Science students.

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