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Nationality
  
British

Main interests
  
Political science

Thesis year
  
1996

Main interest
  
Political Science

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Full Name
  
Helen Zerlina Margetts

Born
  
15 September 1961 (age 55) (
1961-09-15
)

Awards
  
Political Scientists Making a Difference (with Patrick Dunleavy) by the UK Policy Studies Association

Website
  
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/associates/helen-margetts.html

Thesis title
  
Computerisation in American and British central government 1975-95: policy-making, internal regulation and contracting in information technology

Alma mater
  
London School of Economics and Political Science

Books
  
Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action

Similar
  
Patrick Dunleavy, Christopher Hood, Peter John

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Helen Zerlina Margetts (born 15 September 1961), is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Professor of Internet and Society at the University of Oxford. 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. Prior to joining the OII in October 2004, she was a Professor in Political Science and Director of the Public Policy Programme at University College London. She holds many advisory positions, including sitting on the Digital Advisory Board of the UK Government Digital Service.

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Career

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Margetts obtained her first degree, a BSc in mathematics, from the University of Bristol. In her early career she was a computer programmer and systems analyst with Rank Xerox, after which she took up postgraduate study at the London School of Economics. There she earned a MSc in Politics and Public Policy (awarded in 1990) and a PhD in Government (in 1996). From 1994 to 1999 she lectured at Birkbeck College, London.

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Amongst her research projects at the OII, she has used a variety of methods to investigate how the Internet can affect the relationship between citizens and government, and how informational cues can affect the success of online petitions and charity fundraising. In March 2011 she was an expert witness for the UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee's investigation into the cost of publicly funded information technology projects.

Awards

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In 2003 Margetts and Patrick Dunleavy were presented with the 'Political Scientists Making a Difference' award by the UK Policy Studies Association, in recognition for their work on a series of policy reports assessing the state of Government on the Internet for the UK National Audit Office.

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