
Towards equity focused approaches to EdTech: a socio-technical perspective
This project investigates the relationships between equity, digital technologies and teaching and learning.
The internet plays an important part in our daily lives, and our research addresses the psychological, social and educational implications of the internet across the full lifespan, with a particular focus on children and young people.
We employ theoretically diverse approaches and an array of methods (including experiments, interviews and national surveys) to investigate the benefits and risks associated with the internet in everyday life.
With technology now such an integral part of our daily lives and increasingly so for adolescents, it’s crucial we understand what’s driving these shifts in wellbeing and whether technology is a consistent underlying factor across all nations.
Professor Andrew Przybylski
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology
It is often claimed that the overall mental well-being of young people is undergoing a pronounced period of decline and some have implied that digital technologies might be driving this trend. This program of research aims to address both of these assumptions directly with empirical data drawn from more than two dozen countries over the past 30 years.
Of central interest are three research questions:
To answer these questions we need to draw translate and harmonise many datasets, integrate data on technology and mental health on an annualised basis for each country, and perform both time series and structural equation modelling to test overall, comparative, and technology-related trends.
This project investigates the relationships between equity, digital technologies and teaching and learning.
This project explores how human-AI relations can be conceptualized for lifelong, and the extent to which these relationships impact risks of automation in the workplace.
This project builds on fieldwork at Camp Grounded’s digital detox, where people were fighting a sense of disenchantment in modern life. Focusing on the way devices are interwoven throughout our lives, it rethinks the role of technology in society.
1 June 2023
A study led by researchers at the University of Oxford and Cardiff University has been used to define waves of Covid-19 that occurred during the pandemic.
21 April 2023
Professor Victoria Nash highlights the benefits and opportunities AI can bring to classrooms when introduced purposefully and carefully.
23 March 2023
Graduate Studies Manager, Chrissy Bunyan, has been named winner of the Role Model Award at the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor’s Professional Services Awards 2023.
Schools Week, 06 May 2023
Lack of a clear government strategy to ensure safe exploration of AI in education puts children at significant risk of harm, writes Victoria Nash.
Games Industry.biz, 03 April 2023
GamesAid co-chair George Osborn suggests how the business can respond to media reports like the latest 'gaming addiction' scare
BBC Radio 4, 21 February 2023
Ellie Gibson and Professor Andrew Przybylski talk about psychology and gaming.
Professor of Education, the Internet and Society
Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.
Rebecca Eynon is Professor of Education, the Internet and Society, with her post held jointly by the OII and Oxford’s Department of Education.
Her research explores the relationships between education, the Internet and inequalities, and has been published in top journals including Information, Communication & Society, Learning, Media and Technology, and British Journal of Educational Technology. She has also published two books on education and technology with Routledge. She was co-editor of Learning, Media and Technology from 2011-2021. She is currently on the editorial board for Learning, Media and Technology and Information and Learning Sciences.
Her work has been supported by a range of funders including the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission and Google. Projects she has worked on have investigated the ways in which creative human/AI collaboration might contribute to human flourishing, asked about the causes of lapsed internet use among young people, and developed new survey measures of peoples’ digital skills.
Rebecca teaches on the MSc Social Science of the Internet at the OII and on the MSc Education (Digital and Social Change) at the Department of Education. At both departments, she supervises DPhil students interested in digital education and social justice.
Director, Associate Professor, Senior Policy Fellow
Victoria Nash is the OII's Director and a 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.
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology
Professor Przybylski is a psychologist who studies how online social media and video games platforms influence users’ mental health. His research focuses on how data from these platforms can inform regulation, policymaking, and expert advice.
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.