Professor Helen Margetts FBA

The relationship between government, politics and digital technology including: digital government; politics and social media; public policy-making and data-intensive technologies such as artificial intelligence
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Media, performance and communications, Politics, Sociology

Current Post

Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Director of Public Policy Programme

Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Turing Fellow

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Professor of Society and the Internet

Mansfield College, Oxford Professorial Fellow

Past appointments

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Director

2011 - 2018

School of Public Policy, UCL Professor of Political Science and Director

1999 - 2004

Birkbeck, University of London Lecturer in Politics

1994 - 1999

London School of Economics Research Officer

1991 - 1994

Amoco Systems Analyst

1987 - 1990

Rank Xerox Computer Programmer

1984 - 1987

Publications

Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action

Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri - Published in 2016 by Princeton University Press

Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform

Edited by Helen Margetts, Perri 6 and Christopher Hood - Published in 2010 by Oxford University Press

The Tools of Government in the Digital Age

Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts - Published in 2007 by Macmillan.

Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State and E-Government

Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow and Jane Tinkler - Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press

Revised edition.

Information Technology in Government: Britain and America

Helen Margetts - Published in 1999 by Routledge

Political behaviour and the acoustics of social media

Helen Margetts - Published in 2017 by Nature Human Behaviour

Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action

Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott A. Hale and Stéphane Reissfelder - Published in 2015 by Political Studies

The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web

Helen Margetts and Patrick Dunleavy - Published in 2013 by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

The Latent Support for the Extreme Right in British Politics

Helen Margetts and Peter John - Published in 2009 by West European Politics

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