-
Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Participants: Dr Joss Wright
This project will develop an international hub to track and analyse the global illegal wildlife trade, both online and offline, and develop strategies to reduce the threat of the trade through social policy interventions.
-
OxIS: Oxford Internet Surveys
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Bianca Reisdorf, Dr Grant Blank, Ulrike Deetjen
Research on access, use and attitudes to the Internet in Britain based on biennial surveys covering (for example) digital and social inclusion and exclusion, social networking, safety and privacy concerns, Internet regulation, and behaviour.
-
OXLab: Oxford eXperimental Laboratory
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Tobias Escher, Dr Nir Vulkan, Dr Scott A. Hale, Ingrid Boxall, Professor Peter John, Lucy Bartlett
Oxford eXperimental Laboratory is undertaking laboratory-based experiments (eg information-seeking tasks) on networked computers in two disciplines: Economics (interactive decision making) and Political Science (evaluating government information online).
-
PETRAS: Internet of Things (IoT) Research Hub
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Brent Mittelstadt, Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo
The PETRAS IoT Research Hub is a consortium of 9 UK universities working together to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.
-
Political Communication, AI and Data Diversity in the US
Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Professor Philip N. Howard, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Dr Vidya Narayanan
This project investigates contemporary trends in political communication, political polarization, artificial intelligence, and data diversity in the United States.
-
SciShops: Enhancing the Responsible and Sustainable Expansion of the Science Shops Ecosystem in Europe
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder
This project aims to expand and build upon the Science Shop ecosystem that currently exists in Europe and beyond.
-
Skills formation and skills matching in online platform work: Practices and policies for promoting crowdworkers’ continuous learning (CrowdLearn)
Participants: Professor Vili Lenhdonvirta, Professor Anoush Margaryan, Dr Huw C. Davies, Laura Pinkerton, Sian Brooke, Julian Albert
Despite the rapid growth of online platform labour, little is known about how crowdworkers acquire and develop their skills. This project seeks to address this important gap in our knowledge.
-
Strengthening Digital Democracy
Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Professor Philip N. Howard, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Dr Vidya Narayanan
This programme supports research into the use of computational propaganda in developing democracies, our management of strategic relations with industry, government and civil society stakeholders, and capacity transfer to civil society groups.
-
The Future of Healthcare: Computerisation and Automation, and General Practice Services
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Michael A. Osborne, Dr Angela Coulter, Dr Matt Willis, Dr Paul Duckworth
The Future of Healthcare: Computerisation, Automation, and General Practice Services project is a collaboration between the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford Department of Engineering Science, and the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford.
-
TRANSNET: Forecasting and understanding transport network resilience and anomalies
Participants: Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Jonathan Bright, Dr Graham McNeill, Chico Camargo
This project seeks to utilise newly available data to help urban policy makers improve transport infrastructure to cope with growing and increasingly mobile populations.
-
Turing Institute
Participants:
We are a contributing department to the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), which will place the UK at the forefront of world-wide research in data science.
-
Understanding the potential of AI in lifelong learning: A critical perspective
Participants: Professor Rebecca Eynon, Dr Huw Davies
This project seeks to discover the potential of artificial intelligence to personalise informal learning opportunities for adults across the life course.
-
VOX-Pol Network of Excellence
Participants: Dr Jonathan Bright, Dr Bharath Ganesh
The VOX-Pol research project is designed to comprehensively research, analyse, debate, and critique issues surrounding violent online political extremism (VOPE).
-
What Do ‘the People’ Want? Analysing Online Populist Challenges to Europe
Participants: Dr Sebastian Stier , Prof Ralph Schroeder, Dr Caterina Froio
Digital media allow populist messages to gain circulation, bypassing mainstream channels. This project aims to understand how widespread and impactful such messages are among the general public.
-
Wikichains: Encouraging Transparency in Commodity Chains
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Steve New, Joe Shaw
Wikichains is a website that aims to encourage ethical consumption and transparency in commodity chains, by encouraging Internet users from around the world to upload text, images, sounds, and videos of any node on any commodity chain.
-
Wikipedia’s Networks and Geographies: Representation and Power in Peer-Produced Content
Participants: Dr Han-Teng Liao, Dr Bernie Hogan, Professor Mark Graham, Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Heather Ford
This project brings together OII research fellows and doctoral students to shed light on the incorporation of new users and information into the Wikipedia community.
-
WIP: World Internet Project
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Grant Blank
The World Internet Project (WIP) carries out panel surveys in over twenty countries to help understand how individuals adopt and use the Internet and other technologies, as well as the resulting social, economic, political and everyday-life implications.