People

The OII employs academic research and teaching staff with expertise spanning a wide range of interrelated social, economic, political, legal, industrial, technical and ethical issues of the Internet. Press members wishing for comments on stories can contact the OII Press Officer at: press@oii.ox.ac.uk, telephone: +44 (0)1865 287237.

Faculty
Visitors
Students
Alumni
Research Associates
Administration
Advisory board

Directorate

Professor Philip Howard

Director, Professor of Internet Studies

Philip N. Howard is the Director of the OII. He is a professor of sociology, information and international affairs. He is the author, most recently, of Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up.

Email: philip.howard@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Victoria Nash

Deputy Director, Policy and Research Fellow

Victoria Nash is the OII's Deputy Director and Policy and Research Fellow. She focuses on linking OII research to policy and practitioner communities.

Email: victoria.nash@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287231
Professor Andrew Przybylski

Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research

Andrew Przybylski is the Director of Research at the OII. He applies psychological models and motivational theory to study how people interact with virtual environments including video games and social media.

Email: andy.przybylski@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287230
Professor Greg Taylor

Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Director of Graduate Studies

Greg's research focuses on the microeconomics of marketplaces that exist on, or are mediated by the Internet.

Email: greg.taylor@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287201

Faculty

Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar

Researcher

Amir’s research focus is on the political economy of neoliberal globalisation in the Global South, mainly in India and Africa, with a particular interest on the growth of knowledge economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and its developmental impacts.

Email: mohammad.anwar@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Grant Blank

Survey Research Fellow

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 teaches on the OII social statistics courses.

Email: grant.blank@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 612336
Dr Fabian Braesemann

Data Scientist

Dr Fabian Braesemann is Data Scientist at the OII working on the Geonet and Big Data and Human Development projects. His research interest is on the application of data mining techniques on data sources like Web of Science, Twitter or Wikipedia.

Email: fabian.braesemann@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Bright

Senior Research Fellow

Jonathan Bright is a political scientist specialising in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.

Email: jonathan.bright@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287233
Chico Camargo

Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science

Chico Camargo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science. He uses tools from mathematical modelling and network science to answer questions in the social sciences, focusing on public opinion dynamics, information dynamics, and human mobility.

Email: chico.camargo@oii.ox.ac.uk
Jamie Cameron

Research Assistant

Jamie Cameron uses 3D imaging to support museum learning through the online education platform 'Cabinet'.

Email: jamie.cameron@oii.ox.ac.uk
Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal

Researcher

Gretta is an organization scientist who studies the platform economy and the transformation of work and organizations.

Email: gretta.corporaal@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287210
Dr Huw C. Davies

Researcher

Huw’s research combines social theory with mixed, digital and ethnographic, methods to help critically re-evaluate how we approach young people’s digital literacies.

Email: huw.davies@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Martin Dittus

Data Scientist

Researcher and data scientist in social computing. Mass-participation platforms, large-scale data analysis and visualisation, community engagement and crowdsourcing, social implications of emerging technologies.

Email: martin.dittus@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Kathryn Eccles

Research Fellow

Kathryn Eccles has research interests in the impact of new technologies on Humanities scholarship, and the re-organisation of cultural heritage and higher education in the digital world.

Email: kathryn.eccles@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 612338
Professor Rebecca Eynon

Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor

Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.

Email: rebecca.eynon@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287206
Professor Luciano Floridi

Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab

Luciano Floridi‘s research areas are the philosophy of Information, information and computer ethics, and the philosophy of technology.

Email: luciano.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287202
Dr Nicolas Friederici

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nicolas studies digital entrepreneurship and collaborative innovation in challenging environments, such as low-income and post-conflict countries in Africa.

Email: nicolas.friederici@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 6 16996
Dr Bharath Ganesh

Researcher

Bharath is a political geographer focusing on data science and local government and the ethics and politics of researching violent online extremism.

Email: bharath.ganesh@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 612342
Dr Andrew Graham

Senior Fellow, Founder

Andrew Graham is the former Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was the driving force in establishing the OII, and its Acting Director until July 2002. From 2001 to 2011 he was the founding Chairman of the OII's Advisory Board.
Professor Mark Graham

Professor of Internet Geography

Mark Graham is a geographer that focuses on economic development, labour, power, participation, and representation.

Email: mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287203
Dr Scott A. Hale

Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science

Dr Scott A. Hale is a Senior Data Scientist & Research Fellow, Social Data Science Programme Director, and Turing Fellow. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on bilingualism, UX, mobilization, and mobility.

Email: scott.hale@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Bernie Hogan

Senior Research Fellow

Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.

Email: bernie.hogan@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287198
Dr Otto Kässi

Researcher

Otto Kässi is a labour economist with a background in econometrics. His research concentrates on empirical study of online labour markets.

Email: otto.kassi@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 280793
Dr Thomas C. King

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Thomas C. King is a postdoctoral researcher in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

Email: thomasc.king@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 287015
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta

Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow

Vili Lehdonvirta is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is an economic sociologist who examines how digital technologies are shaping the organization of economic activities in society.

Email: vili.lehdonvirta@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 745 6420012
Mimie (Dimitra) Liotsiou

Researcher

Mimie is a researcher on the Computational Propaganda project at the OII. Her research interests include online social influence, causal inference, computational social science, and data science, particularly using real-world data of online interactions.

Email: mimie.liotsiou@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Helen Margetts

Professor of Society and the Internet

Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, a political scientist specialising in digital government and politics. She was Director of the OII from 2011-18.

Email: helen.margetts@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287207
Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.

Email: viktor.ms@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287232
Dr Graham McNeill

Researcher

Graham's research focuses on network science and visualization. He is particularly interested in geospatial and temporal networks.

Email: graham.mcneill@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287303
Professor Eric T. Meyer

Senior Fellow

Eric T. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices.

Email: eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287218
Dr Brent Mittelstadt

Research Fellow & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Brent Mittelstadt is a philosopher specialising in data ethics in relation to algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, Big Data, and medical expert systems.

Email: brent.mittelstadt@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287221
Dr Vidya Narayanan

Researcher

Vidya recently joined the Oxford Internet Institute, as a post doctoral researcher in the Computational Propaganda Project.

Email: vidya.narayanan@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Gina Neff

Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Programme Director of the DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences

Professor Neff is a sociologist who studies innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work. She has studied digital change in the media, health care, and construction industries.

Email: gina.neff@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 612778
Dr Myrto Pantazi

Postdoctoral Researcher

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.

Email: myrto.pantazi@oii.ox.ac.uk
Laura Pinkerton

Research Assistant

Laura Pinkerton is a social theorist. She uses qualitative methods to explore digital learning practices and computing education policy.

Email: laura.pinkerton@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Ralph Schroeder

Senior Research Fellow, Director of MSc Programmes

Ralph Schroeder has interests in virtual environments, social aspects of e-Science, sociology of science and tech, and has written extensively about virtual reality technology. His current research is related to digital media and right-wing populism.

Email: ralph.schroeder@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287224
Dr Cohen R. Simpson

Research Fellow & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Cohen is a sociologist specialising in the quantitative study of human social networks. He has a particular interest in culture and the determinants of network formation.

Email: cohen.simpson@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo

Research Fellow

Mariarosaria Taddeo's main research areas are information and computer ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology, ethics of cyber conflicts and cybersecurity, and applied ethics.

Email: mariarosaria.taddeo@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287049
Dr Andrew Turner

Postdoctoral Researcher

Andrew Turner’s research area is the philosophy and sociology of health data.

Email: andrew.turner@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Bertrand Venard

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Bertrand Venard is a Professor, Anti-Fraud and Cybersecurity Chair Holder at Audencia Business School (France) & Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Oxford University. He will work with Prof. Mayer-Schönberger to understand the determinants of cybersecurity

Email: bertrand.venard@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Sandra Wachter

Research Fellow

Dr. Sandra Wachter is a lawyer and Research Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Email: sandra.wachter@oii.ox.ac.uk
Michel Wahome

Researcher

Michel Wahome researches the co-evolution of digital technologies, practices, markets and institutions in the Global South.

Email: michel.wahome@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 1865 612326
Dr Ning Wang

Research Associate, Researcher

Ning Wang holds a joint position between the OII and Oxford's Mathematical Institute. His work involves in the collection and analysis of a big dataset tracking patterns of communication in online social networks.

Email: ning.wang@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Matt Willis

Researcher

Matt Willis is a researcher studying automation and computerisation in the NHS system with Prof. Meyer. Matt’s research interests include sociotechnical systems in healthcare settings and patient oriented infrastructures.

Email: matthew.willis@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Alex J Wood

Researcher

Alex J. Wood is a sociologist of work and employment, focusing on the changing nature of employment relations and labour markets. He is currently researching worker voice, organisation and action in the online gig economy.

Email: alex.wood@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287014
Dr Jamie Woodcock

Researcher

Jamie Woodcock is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently involved in the Fairwork Foundation, a project about online labour platforms.

Email: jamie.woodcock@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Joss Wright

Senior Research Fellow

Joss Wright's research interests lie in cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymous communications. His current research focuses on analysing Internet censorship, and data anonymization.

Email: joss.wright@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Taha Yasseri

Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science

Taha Yasseri has interests in analysis of large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, government-society interactions, mass collaboration, information and opinion dynamics.

Email: taha.yasseri@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287229
Ben Zevenbergen

DPhil Student, Research Assistant

Ben is an OII DPhil student and Research Assistant working on the EU Internet Science project.

Email: bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 612339

Current visitors

Pablo Aragón Asenjo

Visiting Scholar

Pablo Aragón is a PhD candidate at the Artificial Intelligence group in Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Digital Humanities Unit in Eurecat. His latest research focuses on the study of the effects of digital platforms in citizen participatory processes.
pablo.aragon@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Victoria Baines

Visiting Associate

Victoria Baines is a graduate of Trinity College and a former law enforcement intelligence analyst. After a decade in government investigating and analysing cybercrime and child exploitation, she now works in the tech industry.
victoria.baines@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Jean-Michel Dalle

Visiting Fellow

Jean-Michel Dalle is a Professor at University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) and the Managing Director of Agoranov, a science-based incubator in Paris.
Dr Caterina Froio

Visiting VOX-POL Research Fellow

Caterina Froio joined the OII in 2016 as a Visiting Vox-Pol Reseach Fellow. Before that, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow within the COST-Action funded Project “Structure and Organization of Government” and an Instructor at Sciences Po, France.
caterina.froio@oii.ox.ac.uk
Clive Gringras

Visiting Associate

Clive Gringras, Partner at global law firm, CMS, heads its TMT sector, advising tech clients. Clive co-wrote the game, Elite, for the Archimedes and is author of Gringras: The Laws of the Internet. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Law.
clive@gringras.com
Tim Hwang

Visiting Industry Associate

Tim Hwang is a researcher and lawyer working at the intersection of technology, public policy, and economics. His current work focuses on the social impact of developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
tim.hwang@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Dongyoung Sohn

Visiting Fellow

Dongyoung Sohn is a professor of communication at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. His research centers on the issue of network embeddedness – how individuals make sense of and interact with their local social networks.
dongyoung.sohn@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ralph Straumann

Visitor

Ralph Straumann has earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Zurich with foci in geographic information science and cartography. He specialises in research about geographies of the Internet and user-generated content.
Professor Richard Susskind OBE

Advisory Board Member, Visiting Professor

A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.
Johannes Wachs

Visiting Scholar

Johannes Wachs is a PhD candidate at Central European University. He researches corruption in public procurement markets using networks and computational methods.
johanneswachs@gmail.com
Professor Judy Wajcman

Visiting Professor

Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Past visitors

Hal Abelson

Former Visiting Fellow

Hal Abelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Abelson has a broad interest in information technology and policy, and a longstanding interest in using computation as a conceptual framework in teaching.
Dr Robert Ackland

Former Visiting Fellow

Robert Ackland is a Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). He has interests in the development of new methods (and associated e-Research tools) for quantitative analysis of social and economic phenomena on the Internet.
Richard Allan

Former Visiting Fellow

Richard Allan is a member of the Information Select Committee and the Liaison Committee of the House of Commons. He speaks and writes on a range of technology related subjects, including the development of e-democracy and e-government.
Dr Miriyam Aouragh

Former Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow

Miriyam Aouragh has interests in mobility, interactivity, empowerment, grassroots activism and the construction of (imagined) online communities. She is studying the implications of new generation/Internet 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activists.
miriyam.aouragh@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ann-Sofie Axelsson

Former Visiting Fellow

Ann-Sofie Axelsson is a lecturer and researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. At the OII she undertook research on ethical, legal and institutional dynamics of e-science in Sweden.
Dr Maria Bakardjieva

Former Visiting Fellow

Maria Bakardjieva is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. At the OII she conducted an ethnographic study of the Internet as a communication medium, focusing on intensive field work in Bulgaria.
Diego Beas

Former Visiting Fellow

In the last few years, my research has focused on the way information technologies affect governance and the political process.
Professor Christine Borgman

Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

Christine Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). her sabbatical research project at the OII addressed e-Science, Digital Libraries, and Knowledge Communities.
Dr Reneta Bozhankova

Former Visiting Scholar

Reneta Bozhankova is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the University of Sofia St Kliment Ohridski. Currently she is participating in projects investigating e-publishing and e-learning in Slavic Studies.
David A. Bray

Former Visiting Associate

David Bray studied as a PhD candidate researching Information Systems at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta. His interests include knowledge ecosystems, augmented group cognition, and emerging virtual institutions.
Dr Yana Breindl

Former Wiener-Anspach Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow

Yana Breindl researches digital rights campaigning at the European level, particularly targeting internet and copyright regulations.
Dr Dennis Broeders

Former Visiting Fellow

Dennis Broeders is a senior research fellow at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Mark Bunting

Visiting Associate

Expert on digital transformation of public service media. Held senior strategy/policy roles at the BBC and Ofcom. Previous career in research including online community insight, public consultation, and qualitative and quantitative social research.
Diane Cabell

Former Visiting Industry Associate

Diane Cabell is counsel for Creative Commons and iCommons. She is a former Clinical Instructor and Assistant Director of the Berkman Center at Harvard and founder of its Clinical Program in Cyberlaw.
Bob Carlson

Former Visiting Associate

Bob Carlson was HSBC Group Head of IT Operations and Telecommunications. He has pioneered global resourcing contracts with many IT and Telecommunications hardware, software, and services providers, as well as global virtual teaming concepts.
Federica Casarosa

Former Academic Visitor

Federica Casarosa is a doctoral student at the European University Institute in Florence. At the OII she undertook research on the regulation of online auctions, taking into account the role of self-regulation and public governance.
Professor Manuel Castells

Former Distinguished Visiting Professor

Manuel Castells is Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He also a University Professor and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the USC Annenberg School of Communication
Professor Andrew Chadwick

Former Visiting Fellow

Andrew Chadwick (BSocSc Birmingham, MSc London School of Economics, PhD LSE) is Professor of Political Communication in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University.
Professor Kriengsak Chareonwongsak

Former Visiting Fellow

Kriengsak Chareonwongsak is President of the Institute of Future Studies for Development in Thailand. His interests include macro economics, public policy, economics of Internet, and governance reform.
Dr Jaz Hee-jeong Choi

Former Visiting Fellow

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Urban Informatics Research Lab, Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Dr Regina Connolly

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Regina Connolly is a Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems at DCU Business School, where she has responsibility for postgraduate courses in Information Systems.
J. Ignacio Criado

Former Visiting Fellow

J. Ignacio Criado is Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration, Autonomous University of Madrid. His interests cover public sector reform and modernization, quality and knowledge management in public organizations, and information society policies.
Dr Jeremy Crump

Former Visiting Associate

Jeremy Crump is Director of Strategy at the National Policing Improvement Agency, an agency of the Home Office. This role includes direction of the NPIA's research programme and its science and innovation strategy.
jcrump01@gmail.com
tel: +44 (0)7730 015847
Dr Paolo D’Iorio

Former Visiting Fellow

Paolo D'Iorio has a tenured position at the CNRS / ENS, Paris. His interests include collaborative networked research, digital libraries and archives, Open Source in the humanities, and the semantic web.
Peter Davies

Former Visiting Fellow

Peter Davies is a barrister who has held senior legal positions in a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Apple Computers. He has acted as a consultant to the OECD on technology law.
Dr Alistair Duff

Former Visiting Fellow

Alistair Duff is a Reader in the Centre for Social Informatics and the School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University. At the OII he undertook research on information policy and the social distribution of information and news.
Professor Soumitra Dutta

Former Visiting Fellow

Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Founder and Director of elab@INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France.
Lucy Firth

Former Visiting Fellow

Lucy Firth is a teacher and researcher at the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. At the OII she worked on the socio-psycho impact of the Internet, and the Internet's potential in supporting clinicians in humanitarian disasters.
Dr Marcus Foth

Former Visiting Fellow

Marcus Foth is a Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research pioneers new development approaches towards interactive social networking systems informed by community, social, and urban studies.
Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze

Former Visitor

Georg holds the chair of Cultural Geography at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and is member of the Erlangen Centre Digital Social Sciences and Humanities. His interests include Critical Cartography and Geoweb-Studies.
georg.glasze@oii.ox.ac.uk
Edgar Gómez Cruz

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Edgar Gómez is a doctoral student at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His background is in Communication Studies and Sociology.
Professor Olena Goroshko

Former Visiting Fellow

Olena Goroshko is at the National Technical University, Ukraine. Her interests include psycho- and sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, gender studies, forensic linguistics and distance education.
Richard Grant

Former Visiting Fellow

Richard Grant is a career foreign service officer in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His research at the OII concentrated on the effects of modern information technologies on the practice of diplomacy.
Dr Francesco Grillo

Former Visiting Associate

Francesco holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Boston University. He is managing director of Vision & Value and advisor on innovation policies for the European Commission. He regularly writes for Italian and International newspapers.
Dr Louise Guthrie

Former Visiting Fellow

Louise Guthrie's recent research in Natural Language Processing has focused on text classification, semantic analysis of text, document reliability and security, and technology to discover hidden meanings in text.
Dr Paul Henman

Former Visiting Fellow

Paul Henman is senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the nexus between information technologies, public administration and government policy processes.
Dr Maria Jose Hernández Serrano

Former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Maria Jose Hernández Serrano is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Theory and History of Education (Faculty of Education) in the University of Salamanca.
Professor Thomas Hillman

Visiting Fellow

Thomas Hillman is Associate Professor of information technology and learning at the University of Gothenburg. His research investigates the constantly changing relationship between technological development and transformations in the ways we learn.
thomas.hillman@gu.se
Professor Pekka Himanen

Former Visiting Professor

Pekka Himanen is a Professor at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, a Visiting Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a principal scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
Professor Dr Thomas Hoeren

Former Visiting Fellow

Thomas Hoeren is based at the Institute on Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) at Westfaelisch Universitaet. At the OII he focused on Internet governance and notions of 'informational justice' related to access to cyberinfrastructures.
Professor Jens Hoff

Former Visiting Fellow

Jens Hoff is a professor in comparative politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on the importance of ICT for political institutions and processes, political culture and identity.
Alison Holt FIITP, M.Inst.D, CITP

Former Academic Visitor

Alison Holt is an internationally acclaimed expert in the Governance of Information Technology and Data, and a business owner. She is a member of the World Class New Zealand Network and committed to mentoring young technology companies and promoting the economic growth of New Zealand.
alison.holt@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas W. Jankowski

Former Visiting Fellow

Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Nijmegen. He has studied community media and other small-scale forms of communication, including use of the Internet in election campaigns.
Dr Jakob Linaa Jensen

Former Visiting Fellow

Jakob Jensen has research interests focused on social and democratic uses of the Internet. He is part of a big Danish national research project on the new borderlines and interfaces of the public sphere.
jakob.jensen@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 287229
Dr Jianbin Jin

Former Visiting Fellow

Jianbin Jin is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. He has interests in the adoption, use and social effects of new media, communication theory and research methods.
Professor Aharon Kellerman

Former Visiting Fellow

Aharon Kellerman is Vice President of the University of Haifa. At the OII he studied the geography of the website production and consumption. His interests include economic and urban geography, timespace studies and social theory and geography.
Dr Linda Jean Kenix

Former Visiting Fellow

Linda Jean Kenix is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Her research interests have focused on the representation of marginal groups in mass media, giving specific attention to the agenda-setting role of media in society.
Dr Tanai Khiaonarong

Former Visiting Fellow

Tanai is a Senior Financial Sector Expert in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund.
Professor Young Mie Kim

Former Visiting Fellow

Young Mie Kim's research centres around new media and democracy; at the OII she will be examining collective action in the new media environment.
Christopher Kuner

Former Visiting Fellow

Christopher Kuner is a partner in the Brussels office of the international law firm Hunton & Williams. He has interests in data protection law, privacy law, private international law, European law, legal aspects of the Internet and electronic commerce.
Professor John Laprise

Former Visiting Fellow

John Laprise is an Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar and serves as a Consulting Scholar to ictQatar.
Dr Sonia Liff

Former Visiting Fellow

Sonia Liff is a Reader in Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. She has research interests in gender and employment; technical change and occupational and skill needs; equality and diversity policies and practices.
Professor Miriam Lips

Former Visiting Fellow

Miriam Lips is Professor of E-Government at Victoria University of Wellington. Her interests include identity management, citizen-centric government, e-participation, government 2.0, e-records management, personalisation, and digital citizenship.
Christoph Lutz

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Christoph Lutz is a doctoral student at the Institute for Media and Communications Management of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His background is in Sociology and he is investigating the social impact of new communication technologies, especially social media.
Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado is researching the structure of mobilization online networks against antipiracy law: supranational and national activism in the European Union (the case of Spain).
Dr Chris Mann

Former Visiting Fellow

Chris Mann is a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Her pioneering work on methodological and ethical issues in doing Internet-research underpinned her research at the OII.
Dr Alessandro Mantelero

Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

Alessandro Mantelero is aggregate professor of Private Law at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society. His research is focused on data protection, Big Data and privacy.
Dr Ursula Martin

Former Visiting Fellow

Ursula Martin holds appointments at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge. She worked at the OII to explore strategies for the ACM to promote diversity and the status of women in the computing professions.
Dr Gustavo Mesch

Former Visiting Fellow

Gustavo Mesch is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is studying patterns of Internet use and the role of the Internet in adolescents' social relationships and the nature of social networks online and offline in Israel through time.
Desiree Miloshevic

Former Visiting Associate, Former Visiting Associate

Desiree Miloshevic is International Affairs and Policy Adviser at Afilias. She has participated actively in the areas of DNS policy and Internet governance, including work as an expert technical and policy consultant for new top-level domains.
Dr Gianluca Miscione

Former Visiting Fellow

I have a long lasting interest in organizational aspects of information technologies in use in the most diverse contexts. I have conducted and contributed to research in Europe, Latin America, India, East Africa, and on the Internet in the empirical domains of health, planning and currencies.
gianluca.miscione@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ted Nelson

Former Visiting Fellow

Ted Nelson occupies a unique place in the computer field, a 'systems humanist' designer whose vision of a Utopian world of intellect focused around the computer screen foresaw (from the 1960s) the kind of cyberworld that has been opened by the Internet.
Professor Gregory O’Hare

Former Visiting Fellow

Gregory O'Hare is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science & Informatics at University College Dublin. His research interests include distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), and mobile and ubiquitous computing.
Osaro Odemwingie

Former CSPP Visitor

Osaro Odemwingie is a human rights and development worker. At the OII he undertook research on the impact of ICTs on advocacy for transparency and accountability in governance, focusing on the Campaign For Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria.
Dr Sora Park

Former Visiting Fellow

Sora Park is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on the digital media users and digital inclusion policy. At OII she is undertaking research on the relationship between online and offline realities.
Dr Han Woo Park

Former Visiting Fellow

Han Woo Park conducts research on various computer-mediated communication issues, focusing on the use of new communication technologies in extending social networks and the role of communication in scientific, technical, and innovative activities.
Professor Helen Partridge

Former Visiting Fellow

Professor Helen Partridge is based in the Faculty of Science and Technology at QUT, Brisbane, Australia. At the OII she will undertake a study exploring people's information practices within a web 2.0 world.
Dr Jenny Pickerill

Former Visiting Fellow

Jenny Pickerill is a lecturer in Human Geography at Leicester University. She has a particular interest in Internet activism, and is currently exploring anti-war activism in Britain, and anti-capitalist activism and everyday life.
Ms Sarah Porter

Former Visitor

Sarah is best known for leading Jisc’s innovation work for over ten years, championing the use of digital technologies to enhance learning, teaching, research.
Dr Cornelius Puschmann

Former Visiting Fellow

Cornelius Puschmann is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin’s School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) and a research associate at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).
Professor Charles D. Raab

Former Visiting Fellow

Charles Raab is Professor of Government at the University of Edinburgh. He has interests in data protection, public access to information, e-government, data-sharing, police cooperation, e-democracy, surveillance, as well as regulatory policy.
Danica M. Radovanovic

Former PhD Chevening Scholar

Summary to be supplied
Dr Babak Rahimi

Former Visiting Fellow

Babak Rahimi's current research is on the implications of ICTs for Shi'i Islam in Iran and Iraq, especially how the Internet contributes to Shi'i politics online.
Terje Rasmussen

Former Visiting Fellow

Terje Rasmussen is Professor of Media Studies and Digital Media at the University of Oslo. His interests include social and technical changes of the Internet, Internet governance, the Internet in everyday life, ethics of the media, and social theory.
Professor Gene Rochlin

Former Visiting Fellow

Gene Rochlin is Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley. During his time at the OII, he worked on issues of security, dependency, and embedding of IT and other electronic networks.
Luis Fernando Rodríguez Garcia

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Fernando Rodríguez is a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid.
Professor Inma Rodríguez-Ardura

Former Visiting Fellow

Inma Rodríguez-Ardura is researching the Internet's impact on pricing strategies and price competition, attitudinal outcomes in consumer adoption of e-commerce-based recommendation systems, and the role and influence of motivations in online consumption.
Professor Seamus Ross

Former Visiting Fellow

Seamus Ross is Dean of the Faculty of Information (commonly known as the iSchool) at the University of Toronto. He is interested in approaches to ensuring the long term accessibility of the materials created or represented in digital form.
Mary Rundle

Former Visiting Fellow

Mary Rundle is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. Her interests include how new tools for digital identity management can strengthen user control and contribute to a person's autonomy.
Dr Christian Sandvig

Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

Christian Sandvig is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He researches the tensions between social, technical, and legal mechanisms of control in the development of communication technologies.
Lisa Sargood

Former Visiting Associate

Lisa Sargood is a digital professional who has driven BBC Vision's factual multiplatform strategy with projects such as Springwatch, Virtual Revolution, Wildlife Finder, LabUK and Wonders of the Universe.
Jesper Schlaeger

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Jesper Schlaeger is a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. His academic work focuses on Internet-mediated changes of power relations within the Chinese political system.
Wendy Seltzer

Former Visiting Fellow

Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. She founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, and speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online.
Dr Huipeng Shi

Former HCN Visiting Fellow

Dr Huipeng Shi works as the Associate Chief Physician in Department of Orthopaedics at the Shanghai 6th Hospital, Jiao Tong University. He attained an MBA from Hong Kong University and has eight patents for trauma-related products in the P.R.China.
Professor Ignace Snellen

Former Visiting Fellow

Ignace Snellen is an Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. he has specialised in the impact of ICTs on the internal and external relations of public administrations.
Professor Mingqiu Song

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Mingqiu Song is an Associate Professor of the School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, China. Her previous research focused on the network information security.
Prof. Dr. Sarah Spiekermann

Former Visiting Fellow

Sarah chairs the Institute for Management Information Systems at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). She has published over 70 articles on social and ethical implications of computer systems and has given over 80 presentations of her work and thinking throughout the world.
Tom Steinberg

Visiting Policy Fellow

Tom is now a strategy consultant, the senior contributing editor to Civicist (a publication on civic technology), an Ashoka fellow, and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Dr Jo Tacchi

Former Visiting Fellow

Jo Tacchi is a Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She has conducted research on radio and the Internet in the UK, Australia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and South Africa.
Professor John Taylor

Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

John Taylor is Professor of Government and Information Management at Caledonian Business School, Glasgow. Recent work focuses on emergent new public policy initiatives in the UK and Europe aimed at the formation of new governance structures.
Dhanaraj Thakur

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Summary to be supplied
Hannibal Travis

Former Visiting Fellow

Hannibal Travis is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University. His research interests include net neutrality regulation, copyright and patent reform, and the legal implications of digital media.
Professor Joseph Turow

Former Astor Visiting Lecturer

Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School For Communication.
Assistant Professor Akin Unver

Robert Bosch Foundation Visiting Fellow

Akin Unver is an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. At OII, he will be working on how democratic and non-democratic regimes engage in cyber surveillance and which tools their citizens employ to bypass them.
akin.unver@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Harry Valetk

Former Visiting Associate

Harry A. Valetk is a new media attorney devoted to data privacy, consumer protection, and the complex interaction between the law, technology, and society at large.
Thierry Vedel

Former Visiting Fellow

Thierry Vedel is a researcher with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), Paris. His research interests cover media policies and regulation, political communication, Internet and politics.
Roberto Verzola

Former CSPP Visitor

Roberto Verzola undertook research at the OII on how technologies and other modern developments have been used in various countries to enhance (or subvert) electoral processes, and applied the lessons learned to the case of the Philippines.
Tony Wales

Former Visiting Associate

Tony Wales was appointed as General Counsel of AOL International in June 2007, responsible for the company's worldwide legal affairs outside the United States. During this time he has been instrumental in the launch of new businesses in 31 territories.
Dr Junchao Wang

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Junchao Wang is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Criticism with Tsinghua University, China. He is a media critic with ten years' experience in media criticism teaching and practice.
Professor David Waterman

Former Visiting Fellow

David Waterman is Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. His research and teaching interests center on the economics of media, and more generally on the economics of information.
Professor Frank Webster

Former Visiting Fellow

Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at City University, University of London. He has written extensively on information developments and information society issues, and undertaken research at the OII in the area of democratisation and new media.
Dr Deborah Wheeler

Former Visiting Fellow

Deborah Wheeler teaches at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Washington, Seattle. She focuses on the development and impact of the Internet in the Islamic World.
Paul F. Wouters

Former NCeSS Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Wouters is scientific director of the Erasmus Studio, and holds a professorship at the EUR Faculty of Social Sciences. He is interested in the design and analysis of new scholarly practices in the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Matthew Zook

Former Visiting Fellow

Professor Matthew Zook is a Professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky (USA) and have just completed a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tartu (Estonia).

Doctoral students

Mahsa Alimardani

DPhil Student

Mahsa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research focuses on new communication technologies in Iranian politics.
mahsa.alimardani@oii.ox.ac.uk
Katharina Anders

DPhil Student

Katarina Anders is a DPhil student at the OII.
Samantha Bradshaw

DPhil student

Samantha is an OII DPhil student interested in computational propaganda, social media and democracy, human rights, and Internet policy
samantha.bradshaw@oii.ox.ac.uk
Sian Brooke

DPhil student

Sian Brooke is a DPhil student at the OII.
sian.brooke@oii.ox.ac.uk
Corinne Cath

DPhil student

Corinne Cath is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and the management of the Internet’s infrastructure.
ccath@turing.ac.uk
Margie Cheesman

DPhil Student

Margie is a DPhil student at the OII.
Mona Elswah

DPhil Student

Mona Elswah is a DPhil student at the OII.
Graham Fairclough

DPhil Student

Graham possesses a MSc in Knowledge Management Systems from Cranfield University and a MA in Defence Studies from Kings College, London.
graham.fairclough@oii.ox.ac.uk
Thomas Flavel

DPhil student

Thomas is an OII DPhil student focused on self-presentation on the Chinese internet.
thomas.flavel@oii.ox.ac.uk
Patrick Gildersleve

DPhil student

Patrick is an OII DPhil student interested in complex networks, wikis, computational social science, social network analysis, data de-anonymization, machine learning.
patrick.gildersleve@oii.ox.ac.uk
Amelia Hassoun

DPhil Student

Amelia Hassoun's research analyses the design, development, and usage of sensor technologies embedded in Singapore’s urban landscape as part of its Smart Nation project, as well as the social life of the data they produce.
Julia Lefkowitz

DPhil student

Julia is an OII DPhil student interested in tabloidization, online journalism, journalism and democracy, public sphere, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis,
julia.lefkowitz@oii.ox.ac.uk
Yin Yin Lu

DPhil student

Yin is fascinated by the intersection between language and technology. She researches persuasion in the context of new media, focusing specifically on the rhetoric and resonance of Brexit tweets.
yin.lu@oii.ox.ac.uk
Nahema Marchal

DPhil Student

Nahema is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the relationship between political polarisation and social media “echo chambers.”
Allison Mishkin

DPhil Student and MSc Alumna

Allison is a DPhil student focused on technology and child development. Her research interests include STEM education, the influence of home, school, and social environments unto technology outcomes, women in STEM, and how to maximize positive outcomes.
allison.mishkin@oii.ox.ac.uk
Laura Molloy

DPhil student

Laura is interested in the digital curation and information / digital literacy practices within specific research areas and professions. At the OII, she is focusing on digital curation and digital literacy skills in UK visual art professional practice.
laura.molloy@oii.ox.ac.uk
Paige Mustain

DPhil student

Paige is an OII DPhil candidate whose research bridges the political economy of communication and cultural studies focusing specifically on technology-driven education models serving low-income youth.
paige.mustain@oii.ox.ac.uk
Lisa-Maria Neudert

Part time DPhil student

Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching technical, regulatory and civil society countermeausres to online propaganda and media manipulation.
Carl Öhman

DPhil Student

Carl Öhman is an OII DPhil Student.
Sanna Ojanperä

DPhil Student

Sanna is a DPhil Student at the OII and also a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute, where she leads the Data and Inequality interest group together with her supervisor Mark Graham.
sanna.ojanpera@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 612344
Dana Polatin-Reuben

DPhil student

Dana is a doctoral student at Oxford’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.
Godofredo Ramizo Jr

DPhil student

Godo is an OII DPhil Student interested in mobile applications, governance failure, on-demand ride apps, impact of mobile apps on governance, governance reform, political economy, developmental impact of technology.
godofredojr.ramizo@oii.ox.ac.uk
Odysseas Sclavounis

DPhil student

Odysseas Sclavounis is a DPhil student at the OII and also at the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on the governance of public blockchains, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum.
odysseas.sclavounis@oii.ox.ac.uk
Joe Shaw

DPhil student

Joe Shaw is an OII DPhil student. His research is concerned with the geography of information, property market technologies (PropTech) and critical urbanism.
joe.shaw@oii.ox.ac.uk
Kate Sim

DPhil student

Kate is an OII DPhil student interested in anti-rape technologies.
kate.sim@oii.ox.ac.uk
Sarah Stewart

DPhil Student

Sarah Stewart is a DPhil student at the OII.
Theodora Sutton

DPhil student

Theodora is an OII DPhil student. Her research in digital anthropology examines digital detoxing and the widespread cultural narrative that sees digital sociality as inherently ‘lesser’ or less ‘natural’ than previous forms of communication.
theodora.sutton@oii.ox.ac.uk
Bertram Vidgen

DPhil student

Bertram Vidgen is an OII DPhil student. His research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts.
bertie.vidgen@oii.ox.ac.uk
Thomas Vogl

DPhil student

Thomas Vogl is an OII DPhil student interested in public administration, organizational studies, and digital change. His thesis will explore public sector organizational memory in the digital age.
thomas.vogl@oii.ox.ac.uk
Gregory Walton

DPhil student

Gregory is a DPhil candidate at Oxford's Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.
David Watson

DPhil Student

David Watson is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, where his research focuses on the epistemological foundations of machine learning.
Wybo Wiersma

DPhil student

Wybo Wiersma is an OII DPhil student.
wybo.wiersma@oii.ox.ac.uk
Pu Yan

DPhil student

Pu Yan is an OII DPhil student. She focuses on the influence of the emerging ICTs on everyday life in rural and industrial China, as well as in other developing countries.
pu.yan@oii.ox.ac.uk
Ben Zevenbergen

DPhil Student, Research Assistant

Ben is an OII DPhil student and Research Assistant working on the EU Internet Science project.
bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 612339

Masters students

Publio Adrianza Cerqueira

MSc student

Born in Caracas, Publio graduated from Stanford University with a B.S.H. in Science, Technology and Society. Publio is interested in the implementation, operation, and impact of the online gig economy.
Sabrina Ahmad

MSc student

Sabrina Ahmad holds a B.A. in Communications and Sociology from the University of Ottawa. Fluent in English, French and Bengali, she has worked in e-communications for the Government of Canada and in marketing and research roles across Europe.
Carolina Albassini

MSc student

Carolina graduated as a European Ethnologist from the Ludwig-Maximilians University, in Munich, Germany. She founded her own company in 2016. Her interests are social media and it’s effects on users and consumption trends.
Ville Aula

MSc student

Ville is interested in digital tools and new forms of expertise in policy-making. He hold a BSc and a MSc in Political Science from the University of Helsinki, and worked as a government management consultant prior to joining OII.
Kaveh Azarhoosh

MSc student (Part Time)

Kaveh is a part time MSc student at the OII.
Maud Barret

MSc student

Italian and French student of politics and philosophy (Sciences Po, Universite Paris Sarbonne), insists on reconciling political theory and philosophy of technique with praxis.
Tereza Bartonickova

Part Time MSc student

Tereza holds a Bc. in marketing and PR and gained diverse experience before joining the OII. She focuses on changes in public opinion forming and how the internet transforms our thinking and therefore our society, nations and culture.
Megan Beretta

MSc student

Megan holds a BSocSc in Political Science and Communication from the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the intersection of the internet, civic engagement, social media, and politics.
Simon Bone

Part Time MSc student

Simon is a graduate in Computer Science from Cambridge University and has a masters from the Harvard Kennedy School where he was editor of the newspaper. He is now a partner in a Venture Capital firm.
Michaela Brady

MSc student

Michaela is interested in mitigating cyber-aggression and improving online therapy. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has a background in psychology, social media analysis, and writing.
Saba Rebecca Brause

MSc student

Saba Rebecca Brause is interested in online privacy and data protection. She earned her BA in Social Sciences and her MA in Communication from from Sciences Po Paris, graduating cum laude.
Bethan Charnley

MSc student

Bethan is an MSc student at the OII. She previously worked as a management consultant, specialising in digital disruption. Bethan holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.
Juan Costa

MSc student (Part Time)

Juan Costa holds a bachelors degree from Leiden Unviersity, the Netherlands. He also completed an internship for Lenovo in Shanghai, summer school at Hong Kong University, and a volunteering project in Taiwan, teaching English to kindergarten children.
Scarlet Dawson Duckworth

MSc student

Scarlet is interested in the role that online spheres play in shaping identity, particularly personal and national identities. She holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
Rachel Dinh

MSc student

Rachel Dinh is from Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She previously worked at the World Economic Forum and ITIF. Her main research interest is electronic privacy.
Marianna Drake

MSc student

Marianna is a part-time graduate student at the OII. Her research focuses on data ethics and the legal, social and economic implications of artificial intelligence.
Monika Glowacki

MSc student

Monika studies the duality of internet technologies as tools for social control and mobilization. She holds an honors BA in Social Studies and Latin American Studies from Harvard, and has worked at an urban innovation research center.
Aaron Gluck-Thaler

MSc student

Aaron Gluck Thaler is a Rhodes Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research focuses on cybersecurity, social movements, and surveillance. Aaron received his B.Eng. from McGill University.
Magdalena Góralska

MSc student (Part Time)

Magdalena (Mania) is a Polish cultural anthropologist, research assistant at the Koźmiński University in Warsaw, a MSc student at the OII. Her research interests include anthropology of the Internet, STS, expert knowledge production and online activism.
Olivia Hawkins

Part Time MSc student

Olivia is a part time MSc student at the OII.
Matthew Honeyman

MSc student

Matthew has research interests in the relationship between health, technology and public services. He is on a sabbatical from the policy team at The King's Fund, a UK-based health and social care think tank. He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford.
Beatriz Kira

MSc student

Beatriz is a MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute and a PhD Student at the University of São Paulo. She is interested in issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy and regulation.
Katsushige Kitazawa

MSc student

I worked for the Japanese government and hold a MSc in Meteorology and BS in Physics. My interest is the use of big data and artificial intelligence for Disaster Risk Reduction and Weather business.
Adam Knight

MSc student (Part Time)

Adam is a part time MSc student at the OII.
Olga Kokoulina

MSc student (Part Time)

Olga’s interests focus on the interface between Law and Technology. She is presently completing her PhD at the Law Faculty, Copenhagen University on the subject of standards and patents. She has an LL.M. in European Business Law and a Bachelor in Law.
Kyle Kroeger

MSc student

Kyle Kroeger is a full-time MSc Student at the OII interested in the ability of the private sector and entrepreneurs to deliver social innovation. He holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kelley Kugler

MSc student

Kelley is interested in how thoughtfully designed technology might reduce the global toll of anxiety and foster mental wellness. Her background spans Neuroscience, Fine Art, and Innovation Strategy.
Jack La Violette

MSc student

With a background in linguistics, Jack is interested in the social semiotics of the internet. His research addresses metapragmatics and discourse studies on platforms like Reddit and Instagram.
Caio MacHado

Part Time MSc student

Caio obtained his law degree from the University of São Paulo and his masters in technology law from the Sorbonne Law School. He is mainly interested in the regulation of distributed ledger technologies and their applications.
Jasmine Madavi

MSc student

Jasmine is a MSc student from San Francisco, California. Before joining the OII, she completed a BA in Sociology, with a concentration in Science and Medicine. She has worked in tech for 5 years, writing user-facing content for Google.
Christopher McIntyre

MSc student

Chris wants to use internet-related technologies to improve public services. He is a 2017 Rhodes Scholar, previously worked at BCG, and co-founded Policy, an online electoral engagement tool.
Jazza McMillan-Clenaghan

MSc student (Part Time)

Jazza McMillan-Clenaghan is a part time MSc student at the OII.
Greyson Nevins-Archer

MSc student

Greyson is an aspiring Internet nerd that has contributed research and code to a range of companies and non-profits. He hopes to explore the Internet in relation to the United States and transnational laws that apply to it.
Natalie Nzeyimana

MSc student - Part Time

Natalie Nzeyimana is interested in understanding whether we can create culturally relative artificial intelligence. Before joining the OII, she worked at ARM and Nuanced. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Manchester.
Cailean Osborne

MSc student

Cailean is interested in Internet Policy and Social Computation. Cailean is a member of the Connected Past network at Oxford and holds an MA in History from the University of Edinburgh.
Tulsi Parida

MSc student

Tulsi is an OII MSc student and Pershing Square Scholar. She is interested in learning about how internet technology can improve educational outcomes in the Global South.
Samantha Pay

Part Time MSc student

Sam is a Multidisciplinary Therapist and MSc student. Her research focus/interests are VAWG presentations in mass & digital media, lived experience of survivors, and virtual environments for therapy.
Matthew Pierri

MSc student

Matt is a 26-year-old Australian with backgrounds in journalism and in law. He is interested in exploring how advocacy and social change interact with online platforms, and issues around the governance and regulation of data and AI.
Jan Philipp Rau

MSc student

Jan is interested in questions about the digital transformation of politics and society, e.g. echo chambers in social media or the crisis of democracy. He has a background in Political Science, Sociology and Social Psychology.
Jannie Reher

MSc student

Jannie Reher is interested in the internet’s influence on education, in particular Massive Open Online Courses. After graduating with bachelor degrees in business and economics from the University of St. Gallen, she worked in consulting.
Mary Sanford

MSc student

Mary Peyton is a MSc student with the OII. Her primary research interests lie in the study of terrorist orgniazaitons on social media and counterterrorism security policies. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rebecca Schwartz

MSc student

Becca is interested in the intersection between Internet technologies, policy, and gender issues. She holds a B.S. from Cornell University in Communication, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Ben Scott

MSc student

Ben is interested in political decision making and how it might be influenced by direct and indirect online political engagement. Ben has worked as a data analyst in the public sector for over ten years and holds a BA in Social Science.
Steffen Sieler

MSc student

Steffen studied Economics, Politics and Sociology and has developed a research focus on cryptoeconomics. He worked with distributed ledger technology at a bank and a startup and founded Blockchain Policy Initiative.
Erin Simpson

MSc student

Erin Simpson researches threats and possibilities for civic life online. Erin served as the Founding Director of Programs for nonprofit Civic Hall Labs. She is a Marshall Scholar, Truman Scholar, and holds a Public Policy BA from the University of Chicago
Julia Slupska

MSc student

Julia is a full time MSc student focusing on how governments cooperate and compete in cyberspace. Julia graduated from the LSE, where she also worked on a research project on regional organisations.
Andrew Strait

MSc student

Andrew is a former legal specialist at Google who helped draft Google’s policies relating to counter-terrorism, data protection, and defamation laws. He successfully passed the Turing test last Fall.
Anna Tankel

MSc student (Part Time)

Anna Tankel, an MSc student at the OII, is interested in Data Ethics, Digital Humanities, and the impact of the Internet on language. In her spare time, she enjoys editing Wikipedia, and the odd digital detox.
Alice Thwaite

MSc student

Alice studied History and Philosophy of Science and has worked in tech and media. Recently she founded the Echo Chamber Club – a project to help her peers access contrary opinions & different voices.
Adam Turowski

MSc student (Part Time)

Adam is a part time MSc student at the OII.
Alexandra Tyurgashova

MSc student

Alexandra is a OII MSc student. Her research interests include methodology for predicting social protests online, the Dark Web and its implications for terrorism development.
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

MSc student

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan is interested in computational propaganda, online extremism, and their intersection. He holds a BA in English from Oxford and an MS from Columbia Journalism School.
Siqi Wang

MSc student

Siqi Wang focuses on the effect of social media on empowering low-skilled migrants. She helped food delivery workers in China form mutual-help groups online. Siqi holds a BA in International Development Studies from McGill University.
Amber Westerholm-Smyth

MSc student (Part Time)

Amber Westerholm-Smyth graduated in 2012 from Hertford College, University of Oxford where she studied Geography. Her research interests include privacy and information sharing, information control, and nudge theory.
Claire Woodcock

MSc student

Claire is a part time MSc student at the OII.
Mark Zaleski

MSc student (Part Time)

Mark Zaleski is a Partner with BCG Digital Ventures. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Oxford. From 2000, Mark was CEO for QXL ricardo plc (QXL.L), a leader of online consumer trading platforms.

Alumni

Dr Nesrine Abdel-Sattar

DPhil Alumna

Nesrine Abdel-Sattar is an OII DPhil alumna. She has interests in online news, news convergence, media effects, and reception of online news.
Eve Ahearn

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Public People: Release and Protection of Government Open Data in the US and the UK Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2015
Fatema Akbar

MSc Alumna

Thesis: User engagement and progression in open online 'micro lessons': An analysis of learners’ log data Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2015
Andrea Alarcon

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Multilingual Twitter users: audience design, context collapse and bridging between language spheres Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2013
Santiago Amador

MSc Alumnus

Santiago is an MSc Alumnus interested on Digital Inequality and Internet Policy. Before Coming to the OII Santiago was the Internet Policy Director of the Ministry of ICT of Colombia. Thesis: Informal Learning Based on Online Tutorials
Rami Amin

DPhil Alumnus

Rami Amin is an OII DPhil alumnus who focused on the use of experimental methods to explore political science research questions and themes. His thesis investigated the impact of visibility and transparency on democratic participation and civic behavior.
Dr Maja Andjelkovic

DPhil Alumna

Maja Andjelkovic is an OII DPhil alumna. She has interests in the potential of entrepreneurship and technology to contribute to economic, environmental and social sustainability.
Alexander Andresian

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Feeling ‘Snowed In’ After Snowden The Potential Chilling Effects of Government Surveillance Schemes on the Online Behaviour of British Muslims Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2015
Andre Avorio

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Technology Appropriation: A Study of the 'Open Educational Resources' Movement in Brazil Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2012
Deniz Duru Aydin

MSc Alumna

Deniz Duru Aydin is an OII MSc student, interested in analyzing internet censorship as well as user behaviour to circumvent such controls. Before coming to the OII, she completed her B.A. at New York University and worked for the global NGO Access Now.
Laird Barret

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Institutional, Cultural and Design Factors Influencing Coursework-related iPad Use by Medical Students Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer Completed: 2012
Ilinca Barsan

MSc Alumna

Ilinca Barsan is an OII MSc student.
Alexander Bassmanow

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The relationship between Online Friendship Count and Dyadic Personality Assessment Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2013
Aditya Basu

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: How Alters Affect Impression Management on Online Social Networks: Are Your Facebook Friends the Problem? Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2012
Caroline Baylon

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Cybercrime Pandemic in Eastern Europe-Identifying the Root Causes Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2011
Wes Beaver

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Social Media’s Dialogic Effect and Non-Profit Organizations Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014
Therese-Heather Belen

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Managing Information-sharing Behaviours in Public-by-default Online Social Networks Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010
Shannon Bell

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Your post changed my opinion…said no one ever?: A qualitative study of Californian Facebook users and the impact of political posts Supervisor: Professor Helen Margetts Completed: 2015
Andrew Berkley

MSc Alumnus

Andrew Berkley is an OII MSc student.
Dr Florian Bersier

DPhil Alumnus

Florian Bersier was a DPhil candidate at the OII, working in the interplay between economics and complex systems. His thesis focused on the design of online reputation systems.
Shira Naomi Bick

MSc Alumna

Naomi is interested in online publishing and currently works as a Research Assistant at the Reuters Institute of Journalism. Prior to joining the OII, she won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for her work as a producer with PBS: FRONTLINE/World.
Eve Binder

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Can Gaming Inspire Giving? A Controlled Experiment on the Effectiveness of Gamification as a Fundraising Tool Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2015
Andreas Birkbak

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Crystallizations in the Blizzard: When improvised colloboration freezes into Facebook groups Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2011
Gillian Bolsover

Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

Gillian Bolsover researches politics, citizenship and civil society in the modern world, focusing on the changes associated with new media technologies and on producing research that takes into account China and other non-Western populations.
gillian.bolsover@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: 01865 (2) 87239
Jeremy Bowles

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Political Economy of Conflict, Cooperation and Consensus in IP Address Governance Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2013
Janine Braithwaite

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The UK Internet Filtering Regime: Trends in Enforcement and Attitude Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2012
Sven Braun

MSc Alumnus

Sven Braun is an OII MSc student.
Andrew Bulovsky

MSc Alumnus

Selected as a Marshall Scholar, Andrew holds a BA in Political Science & Communication (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, 2014) and an MSc in Comparative Politics (LSE, 2015). He's worked for two MPs in the British House of Commons and is interested in digital political communication.
William Bumpas

MSc Alumnus

William Bumpas is interested in the formation and manipulation of public opinion online. He previously worked in Shanghai for Kantar Media CIC, a social media analysis and consulting firm, and holds a BA in International Studies and Chinese.
Wensie Caillet

MSc Alumna

Wensie Caillet is an OII MSc student. She has a keen interest in education, knowledge sharing, and ICTs and their impact in developing areas, most notably rural China.
Corinne Cath

DPhil student

Corinne Cath is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and the management of the Internet’s infrastructure.
ccath@turing.ac.uk
Atilla Cevik

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Effects of Politics on Information-Selection Modes Online: A Typology of Exposure and Avoidance in High-Choice Media Enviromnents Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2015
Daniel Chase

MSc Alumnus

Daniel Chase is interested in cyber security, quantum computing, big data, and machine learning. He earned his B.A. in political science from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude.
Alison Cies

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Digital Dilemma: Gender, Empowerment, and the Global Divide in ICT Usage Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger Completed: 2012
Dr Amanda Clarke

DPhil Alumna

Amanda Clarke is an OII DPhil alumna. Her DPhil research examined the tension between emerging models of online government-citizen engagement and the tenets and practices of public sector bureaucracies.
Dr Alissa Cooper

DPhil Alumna

Alissa Cooper is a doctoral alumna of the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research is about how country-specific regulatory factors and industry paradigms impact Internet engineering.
Josh Cowls

Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

Josh is a research assistant based at the Alan Turing Institute, where he facilitates the work of the Institute’s Data Ethics Group. Josh’s research centres on the implications of big data, AI and automation on politics, business and society at large.
Josh.cowls@gmail.com
Quentin Cregan

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Where is the Internet? : Correlating domain name and IP allocations with geospatial and socio-economic data. Supervisor: Dr Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2010
Judith Dada

MSc Alumna

Judith Dada is an OII MSc student.
Florian Dahlhausen

MSc Alumnus

Florian Dahlhausen is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is particularly interested in applying computational social science methods to understand human dynamics and collective behaviour through online data.
George Dallas

MSc Alumnus

George Dallas is an OII MSc student and is interested in privacy and security on the internet.
Dr Ulrike Deetjen

Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

Ulrike Deetjen (née Rauer) is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute researching the influence of the Internet on healthcare provision and health outcomes.
ulrike.deetjen@oxfordalumni.org
Quirijn Den Rooijen

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: I Predict a Riot? Identifying Offline Spatiotemporally Bound Group Behaviour via Automated Speech Act Classification of Twitter Data Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2012
Alec Dent

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Does the quality of an item description on ebay influence price? Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2011
Clémentine Désigaud

MSc Alumna

Clémentine Désigaud is an OII MSc student. Prior to joining the OII, she worked on open data and open government policy for the French government. She holds a BA in Social Sciences and a MA in Marketing and Research from Sciences Po Paris (cum laude).
Eva Didier

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Grieving Online Together: a change in the mourning process and paradigm? Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2011
Katherine Dransfield

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Seeing War through Social Media: Updating Virilio Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2013
Katie Draper

MSc Alumna

Katie Draper is an OII MSc Student and Clarendon Scholar with a background in Archaeology and Anthropology (Oxford 2013). She is interested in analyzing online fan groups and the extent to which online Fan Activism translates to offline political action.
Yujie Duan

MSc Alumna

Yujie Duan holds a Bachelor’s degree in public health from Peking University. She is interested in how to use the internet to improve health system, health care and health behavior.
Dr Elizabeth Dubois

DPhil Alumna

Elizabeth Dubois is an OII DPhil alumna. Her research focuses on the role of personal influence in political communication networks.
Stefanie Duguay

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Facebook as a decontextulaized environment: Young People's experience of navigating LGBTQ identities on a social networking site Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2013
Lilas Duvernois-Guevara

MSc Alumna

Thesis: How do mobile location-based games shape movement patterns in an urban environment? Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2014
Dr Tobias Escher

DPhil Alumnus

Tobias Escher has interests in citizen-government relationships online (eParticipation, eGovernment), in political representation as well as e-Social Science methods. He has a background in Communication Studies, Computer Science and Politics.
Bruce Eric Etling

DPhil Alumnus

Bruce Etling's research is focused on the impact of the Internet on politics, political participation, and collective action.
bruce.etling@oii.ox.ac.uk
Rebecca Fallon

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Guns and Roses: Online Imagery as Jihadi Particpation for Female ISIS Supporters Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2015
Asha Fereydouni

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Wearable health-tracking technologies: motivations of existing users and barriers to mass-adoption Supervisor: Dr William Dutton Completed: 2014
Marc-Aurèle Ferracci

MSc Alumni

At the OII, Marc-Aurèle will draw upon his exposure to economics, digital humanities, and cultural theory to develop critical sociological tools to address the challenge of inequality in the context of the digital.
Lindsay Ferris

MSc Alumna

Prior to the OII, Lindsay worked with several international and US-based organizations working to solve social problems through the use of technology and data. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia.
Joao Fiadeiro

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Wikipedia as a co-authorship commmunity: exploring the dynamics of colloboration and article quality Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2013
Ndakuna Fonso Amidou

MSc Alumnus

Ndakuna Fonso Amidou is an OII MSc student.
Susie Forbath

MSc Alumna

Susie is a master’s student interested in the interplay between design, policy, and users. Prior to studying at the OII, she worked as a user experience designer in the healthcare industry and earned a B.A. from Cornell University.
Dr Heather Ford

DPhil Alumna

Heather Ford is a DPhil alumna who studies how Wikipedians write history as it happens. Her research covers online collaboration, conflict, historiography, alternative media, the Arab Spring and intellectual property rights.
Dr Nicolas Friederici

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nicolas studies digital entrepreneurship and collaborative innovation in challenging environments, such as low-income and post-conflict countries in Africa.
nicolas.friederici@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 6 16996
Alexander Furnas

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: You Are Who You Follow?: Semantic Simlarity of Political Partisan's Ego-Networks on Twitter Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2012
Devin Gaffney

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Determining the Importance of Geography On Twitter Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2012
Danit Gal

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Encrypted Jihad: Assessment, Implications and Associated Risks”. Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2015
Graham Gannon

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Friends like me: Personality and â€˜likeâ€™ behaviour on Facebook Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2012
Julian Gilson

MSc Alumnus

Julian is interested in computational social science and forecasting methods. In his research he is developing modelling techniques that produce more accurate and granular predictions of event outcomes.
julian.gilson@oii.ox.ac.uk
Chenzhuo Gong

MSc Alumnus

Chenzhuo Gong is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Chenzhuo holds a LL.B. in International Politics from Fudan University. His research interest lies in examining the booming influence of social media in public diplomacy.
Olivia Gonzalez

MSc Alumna

Olivia graduated from New York University in 2013 and received her law degree from Fordham Law School in 2016. She is primarily interested in cyber security law and policy.
Bryce Goodman

Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

Bryce Goodman works at the intersection of philosophy, technology and entrepreneurship. His research at the OII is focused on the economic, legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
bwgoodman@gmail.com
Robert Gorwa

MSc Alumnus

Robert studies the relationship between technology and various International Relations phenomena. He’s particularly interested in how the internet has affected the ways in which states interact with each other and with their own populations.
Will Granger

MSc Alumnus

Will Granger is an OII MSc student. He is interested in ethical questions posed by the spread of the Internet, such as the clash between the usefulness of Big Data and concerns over personal privacy.
Freya Griffiths

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Transgender disclosure strategies in online social spaces Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2014
Marianna Griva

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Flaming on YouTube: The Role of Anonymity, Social Norms and Gender Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2013
Dr Darja Groselj

DPhil Alumna

Darja Groselj is a DPhil alumna. Her thesis examined the dynamics of information exchange in virtual communities.
Wojciech Gryc

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Influence and Network Evolution in the Political Blogosphere Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2010
Tania Gupta

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Transnational Identity Formation and Inter-personal Communication amongst Immigrant Groups in the Gulf Arab States Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2014
Dr Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani

DPhil Alumna

Fadhila Mazanderani was a DPhil candidate at the OII where her work focused on the health information seeking practices of people living with HIV / Aids and the relationship between access to information, patient empowerment and expertise.
Rasmus Hagen

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Sitting on a Filter Bubble: An Examination of Fragmentation in Search Engine Results Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2012
Dr Scott A. Hale

Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science

Dr Scott A. Hale is a Senior Data Scientist & Research Fellow, Social Data Science Programme Director, and Turing Fellow. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on bilingualism, UX, mobilization, and mobility.
scott.hale@oii.ox.ac.uk
Frank Hangler

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Citizen Participation in Constructing the Smart City Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2014
Guangyue He

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Copyright Licensing and the Translation of Scholarly Texts: The Impact of Creative Commons Licensing on English-Chinese Translations Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2010
Love Hedman

MSc Alumnus

Love Hedman is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He has a background in Experimental Pscyhology and is interested in cognitive immersion into virtual environments, in particular online PC games.
Paul Hermann

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Twitter and Movie Sales Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2010
Dr Isis Hjorth

Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

Isis is a cultural sociologist focusing on emerging practices associated with networked technologies. She is currently researching microwork and virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
isis.hjorth@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 612775
Anna Hopper

MSc Alumna

Thesis: How Does Political Ideology Shape Attitudes Toward Internet Policy Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2012
Charles Howell

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Burden of Interconnectedness: A Network Approach to Cross Pressures and Political Particpation Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2015
Ayman Idrissi

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Purchasing phone plans: the behavioural effects of using price comparison sites Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2013
Jing Jing

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Diffusion Information and Behaviour on Social Network Site: A Study of Event Recommendation and Participation on douban.com Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2012
Hilary Johnson

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Consumer Empowerment: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Online Information Provision, Voice & Exit, and Consumer Power Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2012
Greg Johnson

MSc Alumnus

Greg Johnson is a master's student interested in strategies to convert lurkers on social media and community-oriented platforms into active participants. Before joining the OII, Greg managed e-government platforms at the university and city level.
gregory.johnson@oii.ox.ac.uk
Samuel Johnston

MSc Alumnus

Samuel Johnston is an OII MSc student.
Kabeleka Kabeleka

MSc Alumnus

Kabeleka Kabeleka recently completed a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University in 2016. In 2013, Kabeleka earned his BSC in Computer Science with Distinction in The Copperbelt University’s class of 2013.
Amba Kak

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Unbundling the internet: Locating the user's voice in the debate on zero-rating in India Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2015
Frederike Kaltheuner

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Web archiving the Eqyptian revolution:A qualitative study on the ephemerality and endurance of digital content Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2013
Ai Kang

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Collective Cyberbullying on Sina Weibo Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014
Salone Kapur

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Dictatorship Gone Digital: How Authoritarian Regimes are Consolidating their Power in the Internet Age Supervisor: Professor Helen Margetts Completed: 2011
Elizabeth Kaufer

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Do Looks Matter? The Effect of Survey Design on Data Quality in Academic Studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2015
Justin Kempley

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Patient trust and interaction with online self-diagnosis tools: a comparative study Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2014
Hae Na Kim

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Relationship betwenn Quality of Collaboration Knowledge and Authorship: A Comparative Case Study of Google Knol vs. Wikipedia Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2011
Sylwia Kowalczuk

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Civic Engagement in Poland: Case Study of the 'Zwolnic Kuzniara' e-tactic Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2013
Saumya Krishna

MSc Alumna

Saumya Krishna is an OII MSc student.
Gillian Langor

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Role of Online Particpation in Engineers Without Borders: Relating data-driven social roles to actual and perceived influence online Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2011
Francesco Lanzoni

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Context Collapse or Networked Audience? The interaction between self-presentation and social network structures among Facebook users". Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2015
Marina Laube

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Changing mobility through health information on the mobile Internet Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2012
Daniel Laverick

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: A Critical Review of Social Scientific Papers Regarding Twitter: Typologies Insights, and the Purposes of Social Scientific Research Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2012
Ginette Law

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Internet Accessibility and Use through Mobile Phone Initiatives for Rural and Low Income Populations in Africa Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2010
Su Min Lee

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Political participation in non-political online communities: The role of sense of community in fostering political participation Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2014
Sarah Lefkowith

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Credibility and Crisis in Semi-Anonymous Communities Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014
Claire Leibowicz

MSc Alumna

Claire Leibowicz is a Clarendon Scholar. She is interested in cybertrust, human-robot interaction, and how IoT will influence organizational behavior/general human cognition. Claire received her BA in Psychology and Computer Science from Harvard.
Chun (Raphael) Leung

MSc Alumnus

Chun (Raphael) Leung is an OII MSc student.
Zachary Levine

MSc Alumnus

Zachary Levine is an OII MSc student.
Rebecca Lewis

MSc Alumna
Dr Han-Teng Liao

DPhil Alumnus

Han-Teng Liao is a student of various disciplines whose research aims to reconsider the role of keywords (sociolinguistics) and hyperlinks (webometrics) in shaping groups (governance) as bearers of ideas (political communications).
Isabella Litke

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The rhetorical constructions of Citizenship Online: A case study of the Obama Administration's Open Government Intiative Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2013
Xinxin Long

MSc Alumna

Thesis: How Chinese foreign students at UK negotiate their transnational identities on different social networking websites Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2014
Amy Longdon

MSc Alumna

Thesis: #bbcqt: The Increasingly Social Methods of Online Communication and Interaction with Regards to the BBC's Question Time Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2012
Dr Max Loubser

DPhil Alumnus

Max Loubser is a DPhil student at the OII and Magdalen College. His thesis research is on governance in peer production projects with a focus on Wikipedia.
Liane Lovitt

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Student Data Provacy Protection in Educational Technology: Influence of Public Discourse on Policy Enactment and Implementation Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2015
Henning Lueke

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Viability of non-monetary incentive systmes viable for profit-seeking, non-chartiable crowdsourcing projects Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2011
Anna Lutz

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Story You Tell Yourself: Self-Presentation in Online Support Groups Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Eccles Completed: 2015
Leonard Mack

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Innovation in Open Data - A comparative analysis of what makes Open Data thrive Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2014
Dr Christine Madsen

DPhil Alumna

Christine Madsen is a librarian and academic whose research aims to re-centre libraries at the heart of all the disciplines, and re-focus the work of librarians on creating a space for the transformation of information into knowledge.
Lofred Madzou

MSc Alumnus

Lofred’s interests lie at the intersection of technology, philosophy and entrepreneurship. Before coming to the OII, he completed his MSc at the University of Montreal (Summa Cum Laude), worked at the European Commission and founded the Start-up Propind.
lofred.madzou@oii.ox.ac.uk
Momin Malik

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Networks of collaboration and field emergence in 'Internet Studies' Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer Completed: 2012
Ellie Marshall

MSc Alumna

Thesis: From Variable to Linkable: How digital traces identify in the disaibility community in Britain Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2015
Jessica Mason

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Mixed Methods Investigation of diability, demography, and Internet Use Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2015
Lily McElwee

MSc Alumna

Lily is interested in partisan uses for big data and social media, digital diplomacy, and high-tech cross-border investment. She holds a BA (hons) in Political Science and minor in Modern Languages (Chinese and German) from Stanford University.
Lauren McKarus

MSc Alumna

Lauren McKarus is an OII MSc student.
Amy McLeod

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Developing social media practices: How a community-based initative in Birmingham supports online particpation Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2012
Gemma McNeil-Walsh

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Out of Africa? Mapping online news coverage of the Ebola epidemic 2014-15 Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2015
Sophie Melville

MSc student

Sophie Melville is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is interested in the intersection between gender, identity and technology, and is currently undertaking the role of Research Assistant on the Semantic Map of Sexism: Topic Modelling of the Everyday Sexism Content project.
Ashwin Menon

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Aadhar: Illison or Panacea: A design analysis of the Unique ID system in India and its potential societal impact Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2015
Elisabeth Michaels

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Citations Among Newspapers and Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2010
Allison Mishkin

DPhil Student and MSc Alumna

Allison is a DPhil student focused on technology and child development. Her research interests include STEM education, the influence of home, school, and social environments unto technology outcomes, women in STEM, and how to maximize positive outcomes.
allison.mishkin@oii.ox.ac.uk
Yonatan Moskowitz

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: A Theoretical Model of Externalities in Anonymity Decisions Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2012
Bill Mulligan

MSc Alumnus

Bill holds a BS in Biochemistry (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016) where he researched developmental biology. He is interested how non textual communication shapes the scientific story.
Tim Muntinga

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Home Sapiens Inquisitio: Trust in the Search Engine or the Result Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2014
Olga Musayev

MSc Alumna

Olga Musayev is an OII MSc student and is interested in testing the limits of prediction and building anti-discrimination software.
Caitlin Myles

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The amplification of inequality and the case of crowd mapping sexual violence Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2014
Anisha Nadkarni

MSc Alumna

Anisha is a sociologist by background. She is interested in the cultural norms surrounding online sharing and social network use, as well as the role of personal communication technologies in changing practices of intimacy in modern couple relationships.
Poonnama Narkkitikul

MSc Alumna

Thesis: You Will When You Believe: How Perceptions of Website Content Pwnership Affect Responsiveness and Formality in the Thai Mobile-Telecommunications Industry Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2011
David Neale

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003: obscenity, 'basic standards' and freedom of expression online Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2011
Nicole Ng

MSc Alumna

Nicole was a government lobbyist and qualitative consumer researcher in South East Asia, with a History BA from Columbia U. She's interested in information diets of elites, the politics in code, and novel user behaviors in mobile-first regions.
xin.ng@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dang Nguyen

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Internet-based humour as civil resistance in authoritarian regimes Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2015
Wei-Feng Ni

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Role of Social Media in Covering Developing Countries: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in China Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010
Tom Nicholls

DPhil Alumnus

Tom Nicholls is a DPhil student studying the impact of technology on citizen/government relationships, the Internet's implications for public management and models of electronic public service delivery.
tom.nicholls@oii.ox.ac.uk
Molly Norris

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the U.S. List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2012
Dr Roy Nyberg

DPhil Alumnus

Roy Nyberg is an OII DPhil student. He has interests in the area of organizational theory and technological innovation.
Juan Ortiz Frueler

MSc Alumnus

Before joining the OII, Juan was an activist, member of an Argentinian human rights NGO. With a degree in Law (Di Tella, 2010) and a Masters in Public Policy (Oxford, 2015), he is interested in the impact of the Internet on politics and inequality.
juan.ortiz@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi

DPhil Alumna

Chrysanthi Papoutsi has a background in Management Science and Information Systems. Her current work focuses on information privacy perceptions and practices of health and IT professionals in HIV clinics.
Adena Peckler

MSc Alumna

Adena received a dual BA at the George Washington University in both Asian Studies and International Affairs, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her interests are digital inequality and the provision of broadband to rural areas.
Jon Penney

Dhil Alumnus

Jon Penney is an OII DPhil alumnus. His research interests include public law, intellectual property, and technology law, both separately and where these areas intersect.
Edward Percarpio

MSc Alumnus

Before joining the OII, Edward worked in international trade consulting in Brussels and holds a BS in International History from Georgetown University. His current research focuses on harmonizing philosophies of privacy and architectures of surveillance.
Ross Petchler

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Cheap talk in online crowdsourcing contests Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2013
Umika Pidaparthy

MSc Alumna

Umika Pidaparthy is an MSc student. She has worked as an online producer for Al Jazeera English and CNN. She has a BA in Sociology and Journalism from Emory University and is interested in the interactions between traditional news media and social networks.
umika.pidaparthy@oii.ox.ac.uk
Olivia Pierce

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Mapping and understanding the geography of Flickr geotaggers Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2011
Rachel Pollack

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Opening the Black Box: In Search of Algorithmic Transparency Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2016
Vyacheslav W. Polonski

DPhil alumnus

Vyacheslav Polonski an OII DPhil alumnus, specialising in network science and the sociology of the Internet. His research focused on the structural aspects of collective behaviour in online communities.
vyacheslav.polonski@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Power

DPhil Alumna

Lucy Power examines the shifting boundaries of the modern life-science laboratory. Her thesis focused on determining the impact of online tools on the research practices of life scientists.
Daniel Elisha Rachovitsky

MSc Alumnus

Daniel Elisha Rachovitsky is an OII MSc student.
Amaru Villanueva Rance

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Gaze-Translucency in Computer-Mediated Interactions Subtitle: Ways of seeing, being seen, and being seen to be seeing online Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2010
Dr Bianca Reisdorf

DPhil Alumna

Bianca Reisdorf holds a Diploma in Sociology (2008) from Bielefeld University, Germany. She has interests in media sociology (particularly new media) and social stratification, and has worked for public relations agencies and the German print media.
Jessica Richman

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Donor Motivation and Recipient Selection in Online Philanthropy: The Case Study of Kiva.org Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010
Dr Wolf Richter

DPhil Alumnus

Wolf Richter is researching the potential role of Social Entrepreneurship in addressing the market failure in digital goods. His research benefits from his dual background in IP Law and Computer Sciences and his newly developed passion for China.
Felix Rieseberg

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Live and in Real-Time': How temporal sorting influences the perceptionof information relevance Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2011
Léonie Rivière

MSc Alumna

Léonie is a full time MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Prior to joining the OII, she was involved in different startups and completed a BA in Political Science and Communications at Ludwig-Maximilians-University.
Julia Rone

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Anonymous Bulgaria: Hacking Politics Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2013
Michael Rosenbloom

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The SOPA Protests: A case study on Internet Activism Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2013
Katherine Rother

MSc Alumna

Katherine graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Anthropology and French & Francophone Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research interests include digital communications, the intersections between life online and offline, and online identity.
Radu Rovin

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: What Makes an Online Game a Successful Learning Application? A Cross-Application Analysis Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2012
Mor Rubinstein

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Hackers, Advocates and Politicians: Civic Society Groups and their role in open Government Data Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2014
Natalie Saltiel

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Digital Witness and Trust in Interpersonal Relationships Supervisor: Dr Andy Przybylski Completed: 2015
Cory Salveson

MSc Alumnus

Cory holds a B.S. in Multidisciplinary Studies and has worked in IT for learning and knowledge management systems. He's interested in how themes of power, social mobility, and ethics interact with shifts in knowledge production and education online.
Anna Samoilenko

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2013
Manuel Schäffer

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Facebook's Timeline: managing the self in a new online exhibition space Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2012
Rebecca Schild

MSc Alumna

Thesis: (Re)viewing India's UID Inititative: Towards a Theory of e-Governance, Aesthetics and Change Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2013
Hendrik Schriefer

MSc Alumnus

Hendrik is an OII MSc student and an entrepreneur. He has co-founded tech startups and holds a BSc in psychology. He is interested in researching human emotions in a digital environment from an academic and a business perspective.
Odysseas Sclavounis

DPhil student

Odysseas Sclavounis is a DPhil student at the OII and also at the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on the governance of public blockchains, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum.
odysseas.sclavounis@oii.ox.ac.uk
Amrita Sengupta

MSc Alumna

Amrita Sengupta is an OII MSc student.
Dirgayuza Setiawan

MSc Alumnus

Yuza is a prolific author of 11 books on technology, and a book on political philosophy. He is at the OII to make the Internet safer and better for children in Indonesia, and around the world.
dirgayuza.setiawan@oii.ox.ac.uk
Weiwei Shen

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Collectivism, Individualism and Privacy Online: A Cross-national Study of Internet Users' Attitudes and Behaviours Supervisor: Professor William Dutton Completed: 2011
Kate Sim

DPhil student

Kate is an OII DPhil student interested in anti-rape technologies.
kate.sim@oii.ox.ac.uk
Thain Simon

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: MOOCs For a fee: using signature track to examine student engagement, persistence, and performace on Coursera Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2013
David Peter Simon

Research Assistant, MSc Alumnus

David Peter Simon is an ethnographer assisting the Microwork and Virtual Production Networks project funded by the IDRC and led by investigators Prof Mark Graham and Dr Vili Lehdonvirta.
david.simon@oii.ox.ac.uk
Felix Simon

MSc Alumnus

Felix holds a BA in Film- and Media Studies and worked as a journalist both in Germany and abroad. He is interested in digital journalism and digital culture. He is currently a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Dr Cohen R. Simpson

Research Fellow & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Cohen is a sociologist specialising in the quantitative study of human social networks. He has a particular interest in culture and the determinants of network formation.
cohen.simpson@oii.ox.ac.uk
Charlotte Smart

MSc Alumna

Thesis: How are discourses employed in talking about the role of new technological modalities in connectivity? Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2015
Anuj Srivas

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Rural Information Seeking Patterns: A Study of Farming and Fishing Communities in South India Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2015
Amanda Summers-Plotno

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Using Interviews to study social media adoption: The Case of US Congress and the Non-Use of Twitter Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger Completed: 2012
Evan Szablowski

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Connected Conflict: Crowdsourced Intelligence in Networked Warfare Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2014
John Ternovski

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Measuring Social Influence in an Activist Network through a large-scale field experiment Supervisor: Dr Andy Przybylski Completed: 2014
Dr Marcelo Thompson

DPhil Alumnus

Marcelo Thompson was a DPhil candidate at the OII, working in the interplay between technology law and political theory. His thesis situated the legal problem of technological neutrality within the neutrality-perfectionism debate in politics.
Katherine Tolentino

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The Management of Identity and Privacy in Sex Worker Blogs Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2012
Daniel Toth

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Verbal-Nonverbal Comment Dynamics on YouTube Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2013
Russell Verbeeten

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Growth and Behaviour in Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2012
Gili Vidan

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Strength in Numbers, Trust in Protocols: The Bitcoin Ethos and the Delegation of Governance to New Technocrats Supervisor: Professor Luciano Floridi Completed: 2014
Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia

DPhil Alumnus

Daniel Villar Onrubia is an OII DPhil student researching open educational initiatives and practices in the Higher Education sector.
Dr Sandra Wachter

Research Fellow

Dr. Sandra Wachter is a lawyer and Research Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at the Oxford Internet Institute.
sandra.wachter@oii.ox.ac.uk
Lauren Wagner

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Unpacking Perceived Social Support Online Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2011
Sara Marie Watson

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Living with Data: Personal Data Interests of the Quantified Self Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2013
Adam Webb

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Political Economy of Online Search Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2013
Joseph Weir

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Flattening the world': dialogue and rhetoric in the use of Twitter by Paul Kagame and the Rwandan government Supervisor: Dr Laura Elizabeth Mann Completed: 2012
Anika Weiss

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Factors influencing the parental restrictions on children's Intranet Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2011
Richard Wilkinson

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: The Digital Car: Consumer Provacy and Market Structure in the Age of Big Data Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2013
James Williams

DPhil Alumnus

James Williams is an OII DPhil alumnus. He studied the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design.
james.williams@oii.ox.ac.uk
Citt Williams

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Tracing the socio-technical histories of Northern Indigenous Australian relationships to environmental knowledge. Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2014
Lena Wong

MSc Alumna

Thesis: The 4 C's: How YouTube is Changing the Production of Culture through Cost, Choice, Colloboration and Cotent Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2011
Lucas Wright

MSc Alumnus

Lucas previously worked at the Dangerous Speech Project where he researched methods for responding to harmful speech online. He holds a BA in Political Science from American University.
Ivory Wu

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Self-Branding on Two-sided e-market: An Alalysis of Economic & Social Elements in Airbrb Property Profiles Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2015
Fan Yang

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Social Media Empowerment: A cast study of Foxconn Workers Using 'Weibo' Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2013
Ece Yurual

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Evaluating a Model of Multidimensional Trust Formation for Online Exchanges in Business-to-Consumer Commerce: The Case of Turkey Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2011
Aiste Zalepuga

MSc Alumna

Aiste is a MSc student interested in digital government, law and technology. She received her BA from Yale University.
Zarino Zappia

MSc Alumnus

Thesis: Partcipation, Power and Provenance: Mapping Information Flows in Opem Data Development Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2011
Jing Zeng

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Can micro-blog based discussion contribute to politic deliberation in China?: A case study of deputies' interaction with the public on microblogs during the 2013 National People's Congress. Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2013
Qichen Zhang

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Reblog: Conceptualizing hypermedia and emerging culture of sigital curation Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2013
Jennie Zhang

MSc Alumna

Thesis: Matchmaking in the Digital Age: A Quantitative Analysis of Communication Patterns Between Mobile Dating Users. Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2015
Jia Li Zhao

MSc Alumna

Jia Li Zhao is an OII MSc student.
Yan Zhou

MSc Alumna

Thesis: A cross-cultural comparison of online self-presentation Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2015

Research Associates

Gillian Bolsover

Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

Gillian Bolsover researches politics, citizenship and civil society in the modern world, focusing on the changes associated with new media technologies and on producing research that takes into account China and other non-Western populations.
gillian.bolsover@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: 01865 (2) 87239
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.
Professor Alexandre Caldas

Research Associate

Alexandre Caldas is Chief of Country Outreach, Technology and Innovation Branch at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a Director position in the United Nations Organization. He is a Professor of Science and Technology Policy.
Claudio Calvino

Research Associate

Claudio Calvino's main research interests cover political and cultural geography, GIS and more recently the harnessing of Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science.
Dr Cristobal Cobo

Research Associate

Cristobal Cobo coordinates research on innovation, open knowledge initiatives and future of learning. Currently he works on Networks of Excellence on Internet Science and OportUnidad, both project founded by European Commission.
Professor Stephen Coleman

Research Associate

Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University. At the OII he worked on the adaptation of representative institutions in the digital age, and the development of spaces for public democratic deliberation.
Josh Cowls

Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

Josh is a research assistant based at the Alan Turing Institute, where he facilitates the work of the Institute’s Data Ethics Group. Josh’s research centres on the implications of big data, AI and automation on politics, business and society at large.
Josh.cowls@gmail.com
Dr Chris Davies

Research Associate

Chris Davies runs the MSc in e-Learning at the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests have included literacy development, writing in the workplace and educational uses of ICTs.
Dr Stefano De Sabbata

Research Associate

Stefano De Sabbata's research focuses on Internet and information geographies, as well as on geographic and mobile information retrieval.
s.desabbata@leicester.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 612332
Dr Ulrike Deetjen

Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

Ulrike Deetjen (née Rauer) is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute researching the influence of the Internet on healthcare provision and health outcomes.
ulrike.deetjen@oxfordalumni.org
Professor William H. Dutton

Advisory Board Member, Research Associate

Bill Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center. He was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.
Dr Christopher Foster

Research Associate

Chris Foster's research focus is on technologies and innovation in developing and emerging markets, with a particular interest on how ICTs can support development of low income groups.

tel: +44 (0)1865 612776
Dr Iginio Gagliardone

Research Associate

Iginio Gagliardone is Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.
Kurtis Garbutt

Research Associate

Kurtis Garbutt is a Research Engineer at University College London where his research focuses on the use of open source data, mapping and agent-based modelling to examine vulnerability and assist NGOs respond to hazards.
kurtis@kjgarbutt.com
Dr Anne Geniets

Research Associate

Dr Anne Geniets is a research associate at the OII and at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

Research Associate

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon is a sociologist interested in the internet, social networks, and political engagement. Her research uses large-scale data to analyse the structure and content of political discussions, and how interactions evolve over time.
sandra.gonzalezbailon@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 287233
Bryce Goodman

Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

Bryce Goodman works at the intersection of philosophy, technology and entrepreneurship. His research at the OII is focused on the economic, legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
bwgoodman@gmail.com
Dr Ellen J. Helsper

Research Associate

Ellen Helsper is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the LSE. At the OII she was responsible for the design, analysis and coordination of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) and World Internet Project (WIP) Surveys.
Dr Isis Hjorth

Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

Isis is a cultural sociologist focusing on emerging practices associated with networked technologies. She is currently researching microwork and virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
isis.hjorth@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 612775
Dr Marina Jirotka

Research Associate

Marina Jirotka is a University Lecturer in Requirements, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.
Dr Aleks Krotoski

Research Associate

Dr Aleks Krotoski is a researcher and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity, focusing on the makeup of online relationships, online influence, and information diffusion through the social networks of the Web.
Professor Donna Kurtz

Research Associate

Donna Kurtz is the Beazley Archivist, Professor of Classical Art, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. An art historian, she has interests in classical Greek archaeology and art, and Information Technology and the visual arts.
Dr Patrick McSharry

Research Associate

Dr Patrick McSharry is Head of Catastrophe Risk Financing at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
patrick.mcsharry@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
Professor Christopher Millard

Research Associate

Christopher Millard has extensive experience of advising international businesses on information law. His current research focuses on international privacy regulation, information governance, and the impact of the Internet on privacy.
christopher.millard@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr Turkay Salim Nefes

Research Associate

I am a sociologist working on online/offline diffusion and impacts of knowledge from different angles.
turkay.nefes@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Research Associate

Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and an assistant professor of communications at Roskilde University (RUC) in Denmark.
Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen

Research Associate

Anne-Marie Oostveen has interests in the social implications of new and emerging technologies, privacy aspects in relation to ICT, online activism, user participation as a practical form for (computer) system design, and HCI.
anne-marie.oostveen@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 287208
Professor John Palfrey

Research Associate

John Palfrey is Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. His research and teaching is focused on the impact of the Internet on democracy.
Professor John Powell

Research Associate

John Powell is an academic public health physician and health services researcher with a particular interest in ehealth and connected health.
Dr Alison Powell

Research Associate

Alison Powell has interests in in community informatics, Internet policy, peer production, culture and technology, and wireless infrastructure. Her current research focuses on the social and political implications of networked communication.
alison.powell@oii.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1865 287223
Professor Robert D. Rogers

Research Associate

Robert Rogers is Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Recently, he has begun to investigate the neural mechanisms of the cognitive biases that promote problem gambling behaviour.
Dr David Souter

Research Associate

David works as an expert adviser to United Nations and other organisations on the relationship between information technology, the Internet and public policy, particularly development, environment, governance and rights.
david.souter@runbox.com
Dr Damian Tambini

Research Associate

Damian Tambini is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), and at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His research interests include media and telecommunications policy and democratic communication.
Professor Mike Thelwall

Research Associate

Mike Thelwall is Professor of Information Science and leader of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. His interests include webometrics, cybermetrics, blogs, Web 2.0, and scientometrics.
Dr Arthur Thomas

Research Associate

Arthur Thomas is the founder and continues as CEO of Proteus Associates, a consultancy specialising in applications of information technology to the life sciences. His recent work has focused on predictive computational models of biological systems.
Professor Anne Trefethen

Research Associate

Anne Trefethen is a Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing.
Associate Professor Nir Vulkan

Research Associate

Nir Vulkan is a Reader in Business Economics at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His interests include economics of electronic commerce, economic design, automated trading, automated negotiations, and game theoretical analysis.
Dr Ning Wang

Research Associate, Researcher

Ning Wang holds a joint position between the OII and Oxford's Mathematical Institute. His work involves in the collection and analysis of a big dataset tracking patterns of communication in online social networks.
ning.wang@oii.ox.ac.uk
Professor Yorick Wilks

Research Associate

Yorick Wilks has interests in artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief. His current research focuses on the possibility of software agents having identifiable personalities.
Sam Woolley

Research Associate

Samuel Woolley is the Director of Research of the Computational Propaganda project. His work focuses on the intersection of political communication and automation—with a specific focus on political bots on social media platforms.
Professor Jonathan Zittrain

Research Associate

Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Head of Administration & Finance

Douglas Thornton

Head of Administration & Finance

Working closely with the Director and the Senior Executive Team, Douglas leads the Institute’s administration in implementing strategy, supporting teaching, research and policy engagement, and ensuring good governance and high-quality services.

Email: douglas.thornton@oii.ox.ac.uk

IT & Web Services

Adham Tamer

Director of IT & Web Services

Adham is responsible for the management, strategy and execution of IT infrastructure for the Institute. He develops and implements policies and goals and act as Chief Information Security Officer for the department.

Email: adham.tamer@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 612340
John Gilbert

Web Developer

John is responsible for the development and maintenance of the OII’s suite of websites, including user experience, user interfaces, and the OII’s visual identity.

Email: john.gilbert@oii.ox.ac.uk
Arthur Bullard

IT Officer

Arthur provides first line desktop support for users and is responsible for OII audio and video content production.

Email: help@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287217
Patrick Wenham

IT Officer

Patrick offers first line support and helps with ad-hoc projects within the IT department.

Email: patrick.wenham@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 287013

Research Facilitation

Tim Davies

Senior Research Facilitator

Tim oversees Research Facilitation in the department, and supports the growth and development of OII research activity and strategy.

Email: tim.davies@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 612334
David Sutcliffe

Senior Science Writer

David is the Managing Editor of the Policy and Internet Journal. He provides advice and editorial services to the OII faculty, and writes commissioned content for our publications.

Email: david.sutcliffe@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287212
Jess Antonio

Research Support Officer

Jess works with the Senior Research Facilitator as part of the Research Facilitation team.

Email: Jessica.antonio@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287015

External Relations

Gen Juillet

Media and Communications Manager

Gen manages the OII’s communications activities, including media relations. She is responsible for the OII’s external relations strategy, social media presence, content creation and publications. Gen is the first point of contact for all press enquiries.

Email: gen.juillet@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287237
Jordan Davies

Events Officer

Jordan plays a key role in our events programme. She manages the OII’s conferences, seminars, policy forums and other external and internal events.

Email: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287223
Solenn Robert

Events and Administrative Assistant

Solenn supports the organization and running of the Events at the OII.

Email: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 287218

Graduate Studies Support

Victoria McDermott

MSc Co-Ordinator

Victoria manages the administrative support for the OII’s MSc Programme, from recruitment and admissions, through to on-course student progression. She is also the Disability Co-Ordinator for the Department.

Email: teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287304
Laura Maynard

DPhil Co-Ordinator

Laura manages all on-course administration for the OII’s DPhil Programme.

Email: teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287222
Laura Gamble

MSc Co-Ordinator

Laura manages all on-course administration for the OII’s MSc Programmes.

Governance & Resources

Duncan Passey

Finance Officer

Duncan is responsible for the day to day financial management of the department.

Email: finance@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287216
Ornella Sciuto

Personnel Officer

Ornella administers staff recruitment and personnel records and provides support for OII’s visitors programme.

Email: recruit@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865287011
Marie Lemon

PA to Director, Professor Philip Howard, and Professor Helen Margetts

Marie is PA to Professor Philip Howard and Professor Helen Margetts, and is the first point of contact for all matters relating to the Director.

Email: marie.lemon@oii.ox.ac.uk
Pauline Kinniburgh

PA to Director (Maternity leave)

Pauline is PA to Professor Helen Margetts and is the first point of contact for all matters relating to the Director.

Email: director@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 87226
Karen Mead

Facilities Officer

Karen is the first point of contact for all enquirers at the OII. She is also responsible for office management at interim for all three sites.

Email: teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1865 287210

Advisory Board

Mitchell Baker

Advisory Board Member

Mitchell Baker co-founded the Mozilla Project and serves as Chairwoman of Mozilla.
David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET

Advisory Board Member

David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET is the Founding Director of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge and Chair of the CSaP Advisory Council.
Toby Coppel

Advisory Board Member

Toby is a Co-Founder and Partner at Mosaic Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in London. He has been in investing and operating roles in the internet sector since 1996.
Alexsis de Raadt St James

Advisory Board Member

Alexsis is a business executive and investment professional with diverse experience in corporate finance, private equity, venture capital and technology. She is the founder and managing partner of Merian Ventures, a US and UK venture capital firm.
Professor William H. Dutton

Advisory Board Member, Research Associate

Bill Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center. He was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.
Philip Evans

Advisory Board Member

Philip Evans serves as Senior Partner and Managing Director with The Boston Consulting Group, Boston. He founded BCG's media and Internet practices, and consults within the financial services, consumer goods, media, and information technology industries.
Dr James Manyika

Advisory Board Member

James Manyika is a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey & Company and one of the leaders of their Global High Tech Media and Telecom Practice based in Silicon Valley. He leads the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm's business and economics research arm.
Rosemary Martin

Advisory Board Member

Rosemary Martin is Vodafone Group General Counsel and Company Secretary.
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FREng CEng CPsychol

Advisory Board Member

Professor Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Southampton University and Past President of the British Computer Society
Professor Richard Susskind OBE

Advisory Board Member, Visiting Professor

A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.
Conrad Young

Advisory Board Member

Conrad Young is the Global Managing Director of Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting business. He led the tax software business in Deloitte and consults with large multi-national companies on the impact of technology and the internet on their tax compliance and reporting arrangements.