About Helen Margetts
Helen Zerlina Margetts, is Professor of Internet and Society at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford and from 2011 to 2018 was Director of the OII. She was formerly Director of the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute. She is a political scientist specialising in digital era governance and politics, and has published over a hundred books, journal articles and research reports in this field. Margetts obtained her first degree, a BSc in mathematics, from the University of Bristol. There she earned a MSc in Politics and Public Policy (awarded in 1990) and a PhD in Government (in 1996). She was awarded an OBE for services to social and political science in the 2019 New Year's Honours List. In 2018 she was awarded the Friedrich Schiedel Prize by the Technical University of Munich, for research and research leadership in politics and technology.
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