Dr Adam Badger
Former Research Associate
Adam Badger was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching working practice in the global gig economy as part of the Fairwork project.
Research Associates
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.
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.
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.
Dr Monica Bulger
Former Research Fellow
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Mona Elswah
Former 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
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.
Dr Rafael Grohmann
Research Associate
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on digital labour, AI and work, workers' organizing, platform cooperativism and digital solidarity economy.
Zoe Jay Hawkins
Research Associate
Zoe is Co-Founder & Deputy Executive Director of the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi), Australia’s new independent non-partisan think tank dedicated to technology policy.
Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Aliaksandr is a political communication researcher and was Director of Research at the Programme on Democracy and Technology at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Dr Isis Hjorth
Former Researcher
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Anjali Krishan
Research Associate
Anjali Krishan was a postdoctoral researcher at Fairwork.
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.
Dr Kristoffer Magnusson
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.
Dr Silvia Milano
Former Research Associate
Silvia is a philosopher interested mainly in epistemology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence, working with Dr Brent Mittelstadt.
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.
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.
Dorian Quelle
Research Associate
Dorian Quelle is a PhD Candidate in Quantitative Network Science (UZH). He works as a Data Scientist, focusing on countering foreign state propaganda.
Godofredo Ramizo Jr
Former Research Associate
Godo was an OII DPhil Student interested in platform economies, on-demand ride-hailing platforms in Southeast Asia, governance reform, and the developmental impact of technology.
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.
Dr Felix M. Simon
Research Associate
Felix is a Research Fellow in AI and News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and a former DPhil student at the OII. A former Leverhulme and Dieter Schwarz Scholar, he researches AI in journalism and the news.
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.
Dr Paul Timmers
Former 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.
Dr Anna Tovmasyan
Research Associate
Dr Anna Tovmasyan is currently working to systematically examine the factors that shape trustworthiness in healthcare technology, as well as value-based decision-making regarding transparency in communication about potential bias in AI applications.
Dr Funda Ustek Spilda
Research Associate
Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda was a postdoctoral researcher and project manager on the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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.
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.
Robbie Warin
Former Research Associate
Robbie Warin was a Research Assistant at Fairwork.
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.
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.
Dr Pu Yan
Research Associate
Dr. Pu Yan is an Assistant Professor at Peking University, specializing in computational social science, digital media platforms, and the societal impacts of algorithms.
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.