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Dr. Sandra Wachter

Posted on 14th January 2019

Dr. Sandra Wachter is a Researcher in Data Ethics and Algorithms at the Oxford Internet Institute, she is a member of the Ethics and Philosophy of Information research cluster and the Digital Ethics Lab. Sandra is also a Turing Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. Her research focuses on the legal and […]

Prof. Ralph Schroeder

Posted on 9th August 2018

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.  Ralph Schroeder was formerly Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden). He […]

Joe Shaw

Posted on 19th July 2016

Joe’s DPhil research is examining disruption and innovation within the ‘PropTech’ industry. In particular, he is interested in the market effects of platforms that promise heightened accuracy and efficiency in the property valuation process. His research seeks to explain how such technologies are transforming property market practices, and how this is affecting different processes and […]

Odysseas Sclavounis

Posted on 19th July 2016

I am currently a PhD candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, looking at the governance and development of public blockchains. I am also a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute, where I have received a Turing Studentship. Prior to my PhD, I completed an MSc on the Social Science of the Internet at the […]

Corinne Cath

Posted on 30th June 2016

Corinne J.N. Cath worked at the intersection of Internet governance, tech-policy, ethics and human rights for various years. She joined the Oxford Internet Institute in 2015 as an MSc student. Her MSc research at the OII focused on the (im)possibility of instantiating human rights principles in Internet standards and protocols. Before coming to Oxford she […]

Prof. Mark Graham

Posted on 14th June 2016

Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, an Associate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment, and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications in the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has […]

Dr. Joss Wright

Posted on 14th June 2016

Dr. Joss Wright gained his PhD in Computer Science at the University of York, where his work focused on the description and analysis of anonymous communication mechanisms. Following this, he spent time at the University of Siegen in Germany examining security and privacy issues in cloud computing. Joss’ interests lie in the area of anonymous […]

Prof. Helen Margetts

Posted on 14th June 2016

Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. She is a political scientist specialising in digital era governance and politics, investigating political behaviour and political institutions in the age of the internet, social media and big data. She has published over a hundred books, […]

Dr. Bernie Hogan

Posted on 14th June 2016

Bernie Hogan’s research focuses on the creation, maintenance and analysis of personal social networks, with a particular focus on the relation between online and offline networks. Hogan’s work has demonstrated the utility of visualization for network members, how the addition of new social media can complicate communication strategies, and how the uneven distribution of media […]

Prof. Eric T. Meyer

Posted on 14th June 2016

Prof. Eric T. Meyer’s work focuses on shifts in work, knowledge creation, and interactions when digital technologies replace their previously non-digital counterparts. His research in this area has included studies of data sharing in dementia research, the use of digital images in biology, digital information practices in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and […]