Nick Ballou
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nick Ballou is a postdoc researching how video games affect mental health both for better and for worse, and how to make psychological research on games more trustworthy.
Research Staff
Kayla Blomquist
DPhil Student
Kayla Blomquist is a DPhil researcher at the OII focused on international AI governance approaches. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Oxford China Policy Lab and previously served as a US Diplomat to the People's Republic of China (2018-2021)
Chris Cai
Research Assistant
Chris Cai is a Research Assistant working on Professor Helen Margetts’ project entitled 'Conversations Between Governments and Citizens in a Digital Society'.
Jedrzej Duszynski
Research Assistant
Jedrzej is an MSc student working at the intersection of technology, productivity, and sustainability.
Dr Alex Edmonds
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alex develops approaches to statistics and machine learning which provide formal privacy guarantees to individuals, using techniques such as local differential privacy.
Ayca Deniz Ergin
MSc Student
Ayca Deniz Ergin is an MSc student in Social Science of the Internet, a research assistant at OII's Fairwork project, and a former Microsoft PMM with 6 years experience in the AI space.
Dr Tamas Foldes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bridging psychology and neuroimaging of memory with a flair for open science. Expertise in R, Python and fMRI analysis.
Dr Vahid Ghafouri
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vahid is an NLP Researcher attempting to track immigration-related narratives using enhanced sentence transformers and LLMs.
Dr Laura Hakimi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher on the ESRC-funded project “Towards equity focused approaches to EdTEch: a socio-technical perspective.” Her research interests lie at the intersection of learning, technology, ethics and inequality.
Ashly Jiju
Former Research Assistant
Ashly is a Research Assistant with a background in AI, data governance, and geopolitics, bringing global experience in research and strategy for ethical technology and digital inclusion.
Shilpa Mariam Joseph
Former Research Assistant
Shilpa Mariam Joseph is a Research Assistant at the Fairwork Project. She holds an MSc from LSE and previously worked at the Internet Freedom Foundation on advocacy and fundraising.
Angelo Leone
Research Assistant
Angelo research interests lie in AI, economics, and public policy. He currently conducts research on the labour market value of AI skills and micro-credentials.
Dr Karen Mansfield
Postdoctoral Researcher
Karen is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the research programme on 'Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age' with Prof. Andrew Przybylski.
Dr Sabrina Norwood
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sabrina studies the relationship between online environments and well-being. Her research includes creating and testing digital behavioural interventions to enhance user autonomy and digital literacy.
Shreyansh Padarha
Research Assistant
Shreyansh completed his MSc in Social Data Science and now works as a Research Assistant at the OII with a focus in evaluating safety and performative boundaries of AI models.
Julia Sepúlveda Coelho
Research Assistant
Julia is a Research Assistant for the Digital Good Network, where she is researching the digital good people want when using generative AI on private messaging apps.
Nishat Tahira
Research Assistant
Nishat is a Research Assistant with the Digital Well-Being Group, where she researches the impact of reducing gaming on physical activity, sleep quality, and overall well-being in young adults.
Antonia Toffert
Research Assistant
Antonia recently completed the MSc. Global Governance & Diplomacy at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development and is now an OII Research Assistant on Professor Taddeo’s 'Ethics of AI for Defense' project.
Dr Jonas C. L. Valente
Research Associate, Cloudwork Postdoctoral Researcher
Jonas C. L Valente is a Brazilian researcher with a sociology Ph.D., with a thesis about digital platforms. He worked as a professor in Brazilian universities and is the author and editor of books about digital platforms and work.