Prof. Helen Margetts, Ph.D.

Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI. From 2011 to 2018, she was Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, a multi-disciplinary department of the University of Oxford, before which she was Professor of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy at UCL.

Helen Margetts holds a Ph.D. from LSE and has researched and written extensively about the relationship between technology, politics, public policy, and government. Her work includes over 100 articles and six books, the latest of which is Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action (with Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri, Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the Political Studies Association’s W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize for the best politics book in 2017. In 2018 she received the Friedrich Schiedel Prize from the Technical University of Munich for research and research leadership in technology and politics. In July 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

Helen Margetts is member of the CAS Research Group "Exceptional Political Dynamics: Temporality, Turbulence, Transformation" of Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz.