People
- Faculty
- Research Staff
- Senior Fellows
- Visitors
- DPhil Students
- MSc Students
- Alumni
- Research Associates
- Administration
- Advisory Board
Faculty
Directorate
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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.
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Professor Victoria Nash
Deputy Director, Associate Professor, and Senior Policy Fellow
Victoria Nash is the OII's Deputy Director and Senior Policy Fellow. Her research focuses on the opportunities and risks experienced by children using digital technologies; she also leads OII engagement on Internet regulation and digital policy issues.
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Professor Andrew Przybylski
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research
Professor Przybylski is an experimental psychologist and Director of Research at the OII. His work is mainly concerned with applying psychological models of motivation and health to study how people interact with virtual environments.
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Professor Greg Taylor
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Director of Graduate Studies
Greg Taylor's research focuses on the economics of competition policy and regulation for digital and technology markets.
Statutory Professors
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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. She is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College.
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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.
Titular Professors
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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.
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Professor Mark Graham
Professor of Internet Geography
Mark Graham is an economic geographer with an interest in how digital technologies and digitally-mediated practices effect economic and social inequalities. His research focuses on economic development, labour, power, participation, and representation.
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Professor Ralph Schroeder
Programme Director of the MSc in Social Science of the Internet
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.
Senior Research Fellows
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Dr Jonathan Bright
Senior Research Fellow
Jonathan Bright is a political scientist specialising in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.
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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.
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Dr Scott A. Hale
Senior Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science
Dr Scott A. Hale is a Senior Research Fellow, Social Data Science MSc Programme Co-Director, and Turing Fellow. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on bilingualism, UX, mobilization, and mobility.
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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.
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Dr Peaks Krafft
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Krafft is an information scientist who studies beliefs, ideology, and institutions in the information society, and works and organizes in the area of public interest computing.
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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.
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Professor Gina Neff
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
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.
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Professor Balazs Vedres
Senior Research Fellow
Professor Vedres is a sociologist and network scientist, investigating the network sources of creative success, and diversity and discrimination on online collaborative platforms.
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Professor Sandra Wachter
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow
Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Law and Ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
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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.
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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, collective behaviour and online dating.
Research Fellows
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 socioecology and network formation.
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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.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
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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 works with Prof. Mayer-Schönberger to understand the determinants of cybersecurity.
Research Staff
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Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar
Researcher
Amir’s research focus is on the political economy of globalisation in the Global South, mainly in India and Africa, with a particular interest on the growth of knowledge economy and its impacts on the economy and society in Africa.
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Adam Badger
Researcher
Adam Badger is a researcher for the Fairwork Project. His research focuses on the lived experience of work for those in the gig- or platform-economy, and manifestations of algorithmic management in everyday working life.
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Chico Camargo
Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science
Dr Chico Camargo is an interdisciplinary researcher who develops and applies computational tools to study complex systems, collective human behaviour, public opinion dynamics and culture change.
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Dr Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Gretta Corporaal is a Sociologist of Work and Organizations at the Oxford Internet Institute, specializing in online labor platforms and the future of work and organizations in the digital economy.
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Dr Huw C. Davies
Researcher
Huw's interests and projects can be broadly described as digital sociology - the study of how society shapes technology and vice versa.
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Dr Martin Dittus
Data Scientist
Digital geographer and data scientist. Mass-participation platforms, large-scale data analysis and visualisation, information geographies, social implications of emerging technologies.
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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.
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Dr Kelle Howson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Kelle Howson is a postdoctoral researcher on the Fairwork project. Kelle is a development geographer interested in how ethical certification is reshaping governance and power relations in global networks.
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Srujana Katta
Research Assistant - MSc Alumni
Srujana holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, and has worked as a Development professional in Liberia and Ghana. She is interested in researching the ethics and governance of ICT4D.
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Johann Laux
Postdoctoral Researcher
Johann Laux works at the intersection of law and the social sciences. His current research is interested in the governance of emerging technologies as well as the design of institutions.
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Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mimie is a postdoctoral researcher on the Computational Propaganda project. Her research interests include social influence, causal inference, computational social science, and data science, particularly using real-world data of online interactions.
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Dr Graham McNeill
Researcher
Graham's research focuses on network science and visualization. He is particularly interested in geospatial and temporal networks.
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Dr Silvia Milano
Postdoctoral Researcher
Silvia is a philosopher interested mainly in epistemology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
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Dr Vidya Narayanan
Researcher
Vidya is as a post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Propaganda Project.
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Lisa-Maria Neudert
Research Assistant & DPhil Student
Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching technical, regulatory and civil society countermeausres to online propaganda and media manipulation.
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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.
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Anne Ploin
Research Assistant & DPhil Student
Anne's research focuses on AI as a knowledge project, with special interest in the sciences of intelligence, theological approaches to AI, and feminist-critical theory.
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Dr Fabian Stephany
Researcher
Fabian is a Researcher in Computational Social Science at the Oxford Internet Institute
Senior Fellows
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Professor William H. Dutton
Advisory Board Member, Senior Fellow
Bill Dutton was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.
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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.
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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.
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Professor Jonathan Zittrain
Senior Fellow
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.
Visitors
Current visitors
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Jim Bligh
Visiting Policy Fellow
Jim Bligh is Director of Corporate Affairs for the UK and Ireland at Tata Consultancy Services, where he is responsible for public affairs and policy; stakeholder, academic, industry analyst and government relations.
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Lisa Felton
Visiting Policy Fellow
Lisa is the Head of Data, Services and Consumer Regulation at Vodafone Group, with expertise in consumer, digital and telecoms regulation.
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Dr Andreas Hackl
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Andreas is a Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His Visiting Fellowship at the OII is part of a two-year research project on refugee livelihoods and digital labour.
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Dr Jun Liu
Visiting Fellow
Jun Liu’s research integrates insights from communication and political sociology to critically scrutinize the mechanism of contention and governance in the digital age.
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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.
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Professor Richard Susskind OBE
Advisory Board Chair
A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is a Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Professor Judy Wajcman
Visiting Professor
Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Conrad Young
Visiting Policy Fellow
Conrad Young is the Chief Digital Officer at Deloitte, where he is responsible for leading the digital transformation of the business.
Doctoral Students
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Mahsa Alimardani
DPhil Student
Mahsa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research focuses on new communication technologies in Iranian politics.
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Hubert Au
DPhil Student
Hubert is a DPhil student at the OII, interested in computational propaganda and social movements online.
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Nicole (Yung) Au
DPhil Student
Nicole is a DPhil Student who is interested in areas with steep technological growth but lower state involvement - where governance may occur in unexpected places and in forms that are not immediately recognisable.
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Chris Blex
DPhil Student
Chris is a DPhil student at the OII and a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute.
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Samantha Bradshaw
DPhil student
Samantha is an OII DPhil student interested in computational propaganda, social media and democracy, human rights, and Internet policy
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Corinne Cath-Speth
DPhil student
Corinne Cath-Speth 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.
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Josh Cowls
Research Associate and DPhil Student
Josh Cowls is a doctoral student on the Information, Communication and the Social Sciences programme, a member of the Digital Ethics Lab, and a Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute.
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Blake DiCosola
DPhil Student
Blake is a graduate of the OII and researches digital interventions that encourage consumers to make healthier decisions in online shopping contexts.
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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.
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Fabian Ferrari
DPhil Student
Fabian is a DPhil student at the OII, interested in the invisible labour in the shadows of AI.
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Thomas Flavel
DPhil student
Thomas is an OII DPhil student focused on self-presentation on the Chinese internet.
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Jaimie Freeman
DPhil Student
Jaimie's research interests are largely centred on the implications of and patterns in young people’s engagement with the Internet, with a particular focus on self-tracking practices and the interactions between online and offline social behaviours.
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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.
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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.
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Julia Lefkowitz
DPhil student
Julia is an OII DPhil student interested in tabloidization, online journalism, journalism and democracy, public sphere, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis,
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Cindy Ma
DPhil Student
Cindy is an OII DPhil student interested in race, stereotypes, and humour in online subcultures.
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Nahema Marchal
DPhil Student
Nahema is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project.
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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.
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Lisa-Maria Neudert
Research Assistant & DPhil Student
Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching technical, regulatory and civil society countermeausres to online propaganda and media manipulation.
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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.
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Samantha Pay
DPhil Student
Samantha Jane Pay is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute and a specialist in violence against women and girl’s policy and practice. Her research focuses on the concept of an ‘algorithmic female’ and the ethics of personalisation culture.
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Anne Ploin
Research Assistant & DPhil Student
Anne's research focuses on AI as a knowledge project, with special interest in the sciences of intelligence, theological approaches to AI, and feminist-critical theory.
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Marie-Therese Png
DPhil Student
Marie-Therese Png is a doctoral student at OII and research intern at DeepMind Ethics and Society. Her research focuses are Globally Beneficial AI, Intercultural AI Ethics, and Global Justice.
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Nayana Prakash
DPhil Student
Having previously studied English Literature at an undergraduate and master's level, Nayana is interested in online forms of 'storytelling', specifically in the context of postcolonial countries, namely South Asia.
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Godofredo Ramizo Jr
DPhil student
Godo is an OII DPhil Student interested in platform economies, on-demand ride-hailing platforms in Southeast Asia, governance reform, and the developmental impact of technology.
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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.
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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.
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Kate Sim
DPhil student
Kate Sim is a Dphil Student at the OII researching the datafication and automation of sexual harassment reporting systems in US higher education.
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Felix Simon
DPhil Student
Felix is a OII DPhil Student and a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. As a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar he is researching AI in journalism and the news industry.
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Charlie Smith
DPhil Student
Charles is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of federated digital identity systems.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Masters Students
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Zohaib Ahmed
MSc Student
Zo is an MSc. Social Data Science student with an interest in AI-driven political influence and political life on social media platforms. He previously worked as a Data Specialist at Twitter, and in the AI Policy team at Google.
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Zeeshan Ali
MSc Student
Zeeshan is interested in how online platforms can propagate Islamophobia and foster far-right extremism.
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Hannah Andrews
MSc Student
Hannah's research interest is the impact of internet communication technologies on collective cultural expression and creative practice. She also works as a Creative Producer with the Google Arts & Culture Lab. She holds a BA in English Literature.
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Hannah Bailey
MSc Student
Hannah Bailey is studying for an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Research interests include China-US relations and China’s use of online censorship, with a focus on automated content analysis.
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Elizabeth Baylis
MSc Student
Elizabeth is interested in how the internet effects the governance of violence and influences contemporary national security policy. She holds a BA from the University of Cambridge, and has worked previously as a Senior Policy Adviser.
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Julian Beimes
MSc Student
After completing his first Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis on public administration and a parallel bachelor program in Economics and Political Science at the University of Potsdam (Germany), he is now studying Social Data Science.
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Hannah Bennett
MSc Student
Hannah holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York. She has a particular interest in cyber war and how technology has changed the nature of warfare.
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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.
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Austin Botelho
MSc Student
Austin comes to the Oxford Internet Institute having received a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and Economics from Lafayette College. He seeks to build upon prior research to investigate trends in automation and inequality.
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Morgan Briggs
MSc Student
Morgan is a full-time MSc student at the OII. She graduated from Wake Forest University and holds a BSB in Business Data Science and Religious Studies.
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Craig Campbell
MSc Student
Craig has spent his career at the intersection of architecture, digital culture, and public policy. He holds a BA summa cum laude in Mathematics & Architectural Studies from Amherst College.
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Ualan Campbell-Smith
MSc Student
Ualan holds a BA in Politics from Durham University. His research interests include Information Warfare, the cyber sovereignty movement, and nationalism online.
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Salman Chaudhry
MSc Student
Salman is a part-time MSc student at the OII. Salman’s background is in the mobile hardware and software space focusing on loyalty and engagement strategies. Salman holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.
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Zack Coleman
MSc Student
Zack previously worked as a policy consultant in the domain name space. Zack holds a BA Liberal Arts (Politics) from the University of Exeter.
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Michael Collyer
MSc Student
Michael’s specialisations include privacy, entrepreneurship and the interplay between law and technology. He holds a BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics from the University of Amsterdam with minors in Privacy, Intelligence and Futurology.
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Christopher Crum
MSc Student
Chris is an American law student interested in how to bridge divergent conceptions of privacy across international regimes of data protection. He is interested in the connection between democracy, digital participation, and political discourse online.
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Jackie Cuyvers
MSc Student
Jackie is CEO of Convosphere, a Social Intelligence agency that provides insights in over 45 languages. She has over 15 years of working in social intelligence and digital marketing. She has an MBA in International Marketing and is based in London.
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Silas Elliott
MSc Student
Coming from a background in Biology, Silas hopes to use theories of social learning and cultural evolution to understand how Darwinian processes act within the virtual environments that exist online.
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Louis Elton
MSc Student
Louis graduated from Cambridge (Magdalene) with a Double First in Theology and Religious Studies. Particular focus using Facebook pages to understand violence and ethnoreligious social groups in Sri Lanka, Iraq, and Syria.
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Didac Fàbregas-Badosa
MSc Student
Didac studies the digitalization of Politics. He holds a BA and a MA in Political Science and has been working for the public sector the last years. From the Catalan Government to the EU Commission.
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Dana Frayne
MSc Student
Dana’s interests are inclusive design and assistive technology. She studied Psychology and Human Rights at Barnard College, and she previously worked at the White House, Facebook, and the ACLU.
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Ekin Genc
MSc Student
Ekin’s research interests lie at the intersection of moral philosophy (x-phi), public policy and political economy of online technologies. He holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from LSE and has worked in consulting and policy.
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Anna George
MSc Student
Anna is a Social Data Science MSc student interested in politics at the individual and group levels. She holds a MS in Industrial-Organizational/Social Psychology.
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Dragos Gorduza
MSc Student
Dragos was born in Romania and moved to France aged 5. He studied political sciences and economics at SciencesPo and data science at the LSE. He enjoys reading, chess and thought-provoking debates around a drink.
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Yael Gruzman
MSc Student
Yael Gruzman is an MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research interests include Internet censorship and the impact of environments on Internet use.
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Thomas Hakman
MSc Student
Thomas holds a joint honours degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and VU University, where he combined Cognitive Neuroscience with digital media studies. He also has experience in clinical research and the telecom industry.
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Sina Hartung
MSc Student
Sina graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-Univerisity Munich with a BSc in Economics. Prior to joining the OII, she gained experience in banking and technology.
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Amélie Henle
MSc Student
Amélie holds a BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) with a minor in Intelligence Studies from the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in the societal and political implications of people’s data sharing behaviour on social media.
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Benjamin Hewitt
MSc Student
Ben is an MSc student interested in data rights, disinformation and AI ethics. He received his BA in Political Science and Philosophy at Tufts University.
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Ben Jackman
MSc Student
Ben is a central banker, and studied undergraduate economics in Australia. He is interested in the application of new data techniques (such as natural language processing) to economic questions.
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Paula Johanna Kirchhof
MSc Student
Paula Johanna is an OII MSc student striving to reduce social inequality by employing online nudges, and is interested in behavioural/social/thick data sciences and their ethical boundaries. Paula Johanna previously worked as a behavioural economist.
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Susanne Klausing
MSc Student
Susanne holds a B.A. in business from the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and an honours degree in Technology Management from the CDTM. She gained experience in consulting, entrepreneurship and research before joining the OII.
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Jordan Lincenberg
MSc Student
Jordan is interested in the intersection of technology and culture. He has experience in politics, education, and business – most recently leading product development at an AI startup.
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Linda Ma
MSc Student
Linda is a qualitative specialist at the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government. She studied economic anthropology at the Australian National University, with interests in consumption and the sharing economy.
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Mischa Marcuta
MSc Student
Mischa received his undergraduate degree from University College London and works at Microsoft as an application development specialist. He is interested in fintech and behavioral economics, particularly how heuristic biases affect cryptocurrency trading.
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Darius Meadon
MSc Student
Darius studied social science at the University of Cape Town and LSE. He currently works for an AI Healthcare technology firm and is in interested in the ethics of applying AI to medical data.
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Megha Mishra
MSc Student
Megha is a graduate in journalism from the University of Delhi and holds an extensive experience at using digital media for social development. She is looking to build on her work involving online political campaigns, digital literacy and livelihoods.
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Jakob Mokander
MSc Student
Jakob is interested in ethical frameworks that encompass both biological and artificial agents. Holding an MSc in Engineering from Linköping University, Jakob worked for the Swedish government as a Trade and Invest Advisor in India.
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Jess Morley
MSc Student
Jess has a BA from Oxford and is a part-time OII student/Tech Adviser at the Dept of Health and Social Care. Her main interest is the impact of data-driven technology on the future of health and care.
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Raymond Newell
MSc Student
Raymond is interested in social media and its influence on elections. He holds a BA in PPE from the University of Buckingham and previously co-authored Theresa May's biography 'May at 10'.
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Asger Nim
MSc Student
He holds a bachelor's degree in Media Studies from Aarhus University and a master's degree in Social Science from Uppsala University.
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Olivia Ong
MSc Student
Olivia is interested in how data can improve public policy and improve social inequalities. She holds a BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford.
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Lisa Oswald
MSc Student
Lisa holds a MSc in psychology from the University of Kassel, Germany, with a focus on social psychology in the context of sustainability and climate change. She has worked at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR).
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Subin Park
MSc Student
Subin studied Business Administration at Seoul National University and graduated with distinction. She also had an exchange semester at Rotman Commerce Management of the University of Toronto and has extensive work experience at Samsung Electronics GmbH.
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Antonella Perini
MSc Student
Antonella holds a BA in International Relations from Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) and an MA in International Relations Europe-Latin America from Università di Bologna. She works at a civil society organization political innovation projects.
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Ben Porter
MSc Student
Ben is a recent graduate of Harvard College (Economics Concentration, Astrophysics Secondary). He is now studying for an MSc in Social Data Science.
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Katarina Rebello
MSc Student
Katarina is an MSc candidate at the OII. She was previously the Director of CODE in Washington DC, where she worked with US federal agencies and other governments around the world to use data and technological change for the public good.
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Katherine Reiss
MSc Student
Katherine is interested in exploring the personal and societal ramifications of the increasing digitization of peoples lives.
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Huw Roberts
MSc Student
Huw is interested in the ethics of algorithms, particularly in relation to the changing nature of employment. He holds a BA in Politics from Durham University, and has previously worked in the financial sector and for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Samuel Rowe
MSc Student
Samuel Rowe is interested in the unintended consequences of regulating the Internet. He is a Queen Mother Scholar of Middle Temple and works in policy for Yoti. He is still waiting for the results of his Voigt-Kampff test.
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Hamza Salem
MSc Student
Hamza holds a BA in politics and computer programming from NYU. His research interests include using data to understand and predict political behaviour, mass mobilization, and social movements.
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Nancy Salem
MSc Student
Nancy is interested in the intersections of digital technologies and economic and social inequalities with focus on the Global South. She holds a BA in History from the American University in Cairo and a MSc in Development Studies from SOAS.
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Marcel Schliebs
MSc Student
Marcel’s research is at the intersection of political science, statistics and computer science. He is interested in developing data-driven methodology for studying elections, including forecasting and monitoring democratic integrity in cyber space.
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Noah Schöppl
MSc Student
Noah gained experience in social entrepreneurship before joining the OII and holds a BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) from the University of Amsterdam.
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Hope Schroeder
MSc Student
Hope Schroeder is an MSc student interested in language data, social networks, XR, and more. She holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with Honors from Stanford University.
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Christian Schwieter
MSc Student
Christian holds a BA in World Politics from Leiden University and has worked at the Clingendael Institute, focusing on EU governance. He is interested in data visualisation and how social media structures political communication.
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Sivanne Shalev
MSc Student
Sivanne holds a BA in Political Science and Multidisciplinary studies in the Humanities from Tel Aviv Univeristy.
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Frida Shui
MSc Student
Frida is interested in exploring technology inclusion and human capital in industrial economies in the Information Age. She holds a BA in International Development from King’s College London, with a research focus on industrial policy in emerging markets.
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William Silver
MSc Student
William holds a BA in Geography from Durham University. His research interests include the epistemological foundations of 'data-driven' social science, the potential of 'big data' quantitative research methods, and the ethics of algorithms.
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Alexandra Skidmore
MSc Student
Alex is interested in disinformation, regulation, and digital journalism. She holds a BA in history from Brown University.
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Justyna Slowik
MSc Student
Justyna holds MA from the University of St Andrews. She spent a year at the Renmin University exploring the concept of technology-enabled social credit score and China's rising semiconductor industry.
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James Stomber
MSc Student
James is a mixed-methods researcher deeply interested in the intersection of behavioral science, design, technology, and public policy. He focuses on AI ethics and design at the OII and holds a BA in Brain and Behavior from Brown University.
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Vincent Straub
MSc Student
Vincent is interested in understanding change in complex social systems, such as cities. He has an interdisciplinary background, holding a BA in International Development from King's College London.
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Andreas Tsamados
MSc Student
Andreas holds a BA from the department of War Studies at King’s College London. His research interests include influence operations, advanced persistent threats and pattern of life analysis.
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Karin Vajta Engström
MSc Student
Karin holds an MA with honours in Politics from the University of Edinburgh and is on leave from her role as Senior Associate at the sustainability department at the global communications agency Prime Weber Shandwick.
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Gill Whitehead
MSc Student
Gill has worked for Google as Senior Director of Client Solutions & Analytics, leading teams in data analysis, measurement, user experience, consumer segmentation and insights. Gill is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Camelot and Informa plc.
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Michael Wong
MSc Student
Michael is a Clarendon student who holds an Honours BSc in Astrophysics/Physics and Public Policy from the University of Toronto. He is interested in leveraging human social, virtual and physical spaces for the cause of sustainability.
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Annique Wong
MSc Student
Annique is an MSc student in the Social Science of the Internet. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Statistics and Data Science from Yale University.
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Joyce Zhang
MSc Student
Joyce is interested in the intersection of technology, governance and development in the Global South. Joyce worked in Cape Town at a blockchain for social impact startup and holds a BS in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University.
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Simon Junyi Zhang
MSc Student
Enthusiastic about the structural problems and interactions among technology, the minority and civil society, Simon has an interdisciplinary background that combines humanities and technology. He graduated from Nankai University.
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Julia Zhu
MSc Student
Julia is pursuing an MSc in Social Data Science at the OII. She holds a BA degree from Yale University, where she double-majored in Ethics, Politics and Economics, and Statistics and Data Science.
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Nathaniel Zinda
MSc Student
Nathaniel holds a BA in Economics from the City University of New York, with a minor in Information Technology and Social Responsibility. He is interested in the role of data as an economic resource and the ethical implications of its collection.
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Anne Zola
MSc Student
Anne holds a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University. She is interested in the effects of social media on well-being and the improvement of psychology through open science.
Alumni
Research Associates
Research Associates are honorary affiliates external to the OII, forming an extended and collaborative network of policy experts, scholarly researchers, and public intellectuals.
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Dr Fabian Braesemann
Research Associate
Dr Fabian Braesemann is a Research Associate at the OII. His research focuses on social data science.
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Dr Monica Bulger
Research Associate
Dr. Monica Bulger recently completed a Research Fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute and is currently a consultant on child protection and digital media literacy for multi-national organisations including UNICEF and the BBC.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Josh Cowls
Research Associate and DPhil Student
Josh Cowls is a doctoral student on the Information, Communication and the Social Sciences programme, a member of the Digital Ethics Lab, and a Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Marina Jirotka
Research Associate
Marina Jirotka is a University Lecturer in Requirements, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.
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Dr Otto Kässi
Research Associate
Otto Kässi is a labour economist with a background in econometrics. His research concentrates on empirical study of online labour markets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Turkay Salim Nefes
Research Associate
I am a sociologist working on online/offline diffusion and impacts of knowledge from different angles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bertram Vidgen
DPhil Alumnus and Research Associate
Bertram Vidgen is a former OII DPhil student and Research Associate. His research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts.
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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.
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Dr Ning Wang
Research Associate
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.
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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.
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Dr Matt Willis
Research Associate
Dr. Willis is investigating the potential needs and uses of automation technologies in NHS Primary Care, and how automation will shape the future design of work in healthcare.
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Dr Alex J Wood
Research Associate
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.
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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.
Administration
Head of Administration & Finance
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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.
IT & Web Services
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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: help@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1865 612330
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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: webhelp@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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 612330
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Patrick Wenham
IT Officer
Patrick offers first line support and helps with ad-hoc projects within the IT department.
Email: help@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 612330
Research Facilitation
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Katia Padvalkava
Head of Research Facilitation (secondment)
Katia oversees Research Facilitation in the department, and supports the growth and development of OII research activity. She co-ordinates preparation of research proposals, working with researchers from all career stages.
Email: katia.padvalkava@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 687236
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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
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John Francis
Research Support Officer
John works as part of the Research Facilitation team assisting on a range of research support and administrative tasks, as well as helping with research related compliance activities.
Email: john.francis@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 612341
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Lucy Hennings
Research Support Officer
Lucy works as part of the Research Facilitation team assisting on a range of research support and administrative tasks, as well as helping with research related compliance activities.
Email: lucy.hennings@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 287017
External Relations
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Mark Malbas
Head of Strategic Relations and Policy Engagement
Mark’s focus is on increasing the public profile of the Oxford Internet Institute and working with partners and potential partners on mutually beneficial projects.
Email: mark.malbas@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 287220
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Niamh Walsh
External Relations Manager
Niamh manages the OII’s external relations with policy makers, industry leaders and business. She is also the point of contact for alumni relations.
Email: niamh.walsh@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Sara Spinks
Media & Communications Manager
Sara manages all aspects of the OII's media and communications activities. She is first point of contact for all media enquiries.
Email: sara.spinks@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Isabelle Malcolm
Events Officer
Isabelle manages the OII’s lectures, conferences, seminars, policy forums and other external and internal events. She has a background in operational logistics and communications. All event queries should be made to her.
Email: isabelle.malcolm@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 287223
Graduate Studies Support
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Victoria McDermott
Graduate Studies Manager
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: admissions@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1865 287304
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Laura Maynard
DPhil Co-Ordinator
Laura manages all on-course administration for the OII’s DPhil Programme.
Email: admissions@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1865 287222
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Christine Bunyan
MSc Co-Ordinator
Chrissy manages all on-course administration for the OII’s MSc Programmes.
Email: christine.bunyan@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 287020
Governance & Resources
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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
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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
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Marie Lemon
PA to Professor Philip Howard, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute
Marie is PA to Professor Philip Howard, and is the first point of contact for all matters relating to the Director.
Email: exec.howard@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Danuta Farah
PA to Professor Luciano Floridi
Danuta is the first point of contact for all matters relating to Professor Floridi, and manages the Digital Ethics Lab.
Email: pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Karen Mead
Facilities Officer
Karen is the first point of contact for all matters relating to facilities and health and safety across the OII's three sites.
Email: facilities@oii.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1865 287215
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Maisy Gills
Apprentice Administrative Assistant
Maisy is the first point of contact for all enquiries at the OII. As an apprentice, she is also learning and providing support across all administrative functions of the department.
Email: enquiries@oii.ox.ac.uk
Advisory Board
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Sir Alex Allan KCB
Advisory Board Member
Sir Alex Allan served as the first UK Government e-Envoy, and is former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment, UK Cabinet Office.
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Mitchell Baker
Advisory Board Member
Mitchell Baker co-founded the Mozilla Project and serves as Chairwoman of Mozilla.
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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.
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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.
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Professor William H. Dutton
Advisory Board Member, Senior Fellow
Bill Dutton was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.
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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.
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Rosemary Martin
Advisory Board Member
Rosemary Martin is Vodafone Group General Counsel and Company Secretary.
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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
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Professor Richard Susskind OBE
Advisory Board Chair
A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is a Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.
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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.