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.
As AI reshapes economies and societies, governments worldwide face a critical question: how can they govern effectively in an AI-driven world?
This question has two components:
The Governing in the Age of AI group seeks to advance the science of governing in the age of AI, with a focus on:
Our research explores these issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, economics, social data science, computer science, public policy and administration.
The findings generate actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners and tackle enduring policy challenges, such as equity, productivity and economic growth.
DPhil Student
Cassidy Bereskin is a PhD researcher and Clarendon Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute specialising in the efficacy of content disclosure interventions for combatting synthetic visual disinformation.
Research Associate
In 2022 Jonathan Bright became the Head of AI for Public Services at the Turing Institute, having previously been a faculty member of the OII. A political scientist, he specialises in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.
DPhil Student
Başak is a PhD student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of human-AI interaction, political science, communication and computational linguistics.
DPhil Student
Chloe is a PhD candidate and Clarendon Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching the use of emerging technologies, including AI, in the public sector, civil service reform, and state capacity.
DPhil Student
Nathan Davies is a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). His research examines the relationship between public procurement and the governance of emerging digital technologies.
Deputy Director, Public Policy Programme, The Alan Turing Institute
Cosmina Dorobantu is Co-Director of the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute. Cosmina joined the Turing five years ago to set up and co-lead the Public Policy research programme.
DPhil Student
Kobi is a PhD candidate in Social Data Science and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Kobi’s doctoral research evaluates the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems to influence human attitudes, behaviour, and cognition.
Former MSc Student
Yasmeena is a Clarendon Scholar studying the ideological underpinnings of Silicon Valley. She holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems (Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence) from Stanford University.
Former Research Assistant
Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching platform governance and regulation in response to mis/disinformation.
Visiting Professor
Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
This project seeks to understand how citizens listen and speak to public institutions, and how alternative AI-based models and framing might encourage democratic communication.
This project seeks to quantify trends and changes in the volatility of public opinion before and after widespread use of social media, and to study how social information can drive public opinion.
This project, and the resulting report, provides a first step in the assessment of data financing as a mechanism for social good in the data economy.
