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Helen Margetts
OBE FBA
Helen Margetts in Oxford
Born
Helen Zerlina Margetts

(1961-09-15) 15 September 1961 (age 63)
NationalityBritish
AwardsFBA (2019)

OBE (2019)

Friedrich Schiedel Prize (2018)

Political Scientists Making a Difference award (with Patrick Dunleavy) by the UK Policy Studies Association (2003)
Academic background
Alma materLondon School of Economics and Political Science
ThesisComputerisation in American and British central government 1975-95: policy-making, internal regulation and contracting in information technology (1996)
Academic work
Main interestsPolitical science
Websitehttps://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/helen-margetts/

Helen Zerlina Margetts[1] OBE FBA (born 15 September 1961),[2][3] 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 is currently 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.

Career

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Margetts obtained her first degree, a BSc in mathematics, from the University of Bristol.[4] In her early career she was a computer programmer and systems analyst with Rank Xerox,[5][4] after which she took up postgraduate study at the London School of Economics.[6] There she earned a MSc in Politics and Public Policy (awarded in 1990) and a PhD in Government (in 1996).[6] From 1994 to 1999 she lectured at Birkbeck College, London.[6]

Margetts is Professor of Internet and Society at the University of Oxford,[4] a fellow of Mansfield College[7] and from 2011 to 2018 was Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). 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.[5][8]

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.[9][10] In March 2011 she was an expert witness for the UK Parliament's Public Administration Select Committee's investigation into the cost of publicly funded information technology projects.[11]

Margetts is a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute and is currently Director of the Public Policy Programme at the institute.[12]

Margetts holds many advisory positions, including sitting on the UK Government's Digital Economy Council, the Home Office Scientific Advisory Council, the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute, and (from 2011-2015) the Government Digital Advisory Board.[13][14][15][16]

She was appointed an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours.[17] In July 2019 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[18]

Bibliography

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Books

Margetts has co-authored a series of books which have helped to define the field of digital-era governance:

  • Margetts, Helen; John, Peter; Hale, Scott A.; Yasseri, Taha (2016). Political turbulence: how social media shape collective action. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691159225.
  • Margetts, Helen; Perri 6; Hood, Christopher (2010). Paradoxes of modernization: unintended consequences of public policy reform. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199573547.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Bastow, Simon; Tinkler, Jane (2008). Digital era governance: IT corporations, the state, and e-government. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199547005.
  • Margetts, Helen Z.; Hood, Christopher C. (2007). The tools of government in the digital age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230001435.
  • Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Weir, Stuart; Trevor, Smith (2005). Voices of the people: popular attitudes to democratic renewal in Britain. London: Politico's. ISBN 9781842751343.
  • Margetts, Helen; Dowding, Keith; Hughes, James (2001). Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions. The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9780333789827.
  • Margetts, Helen (1999). Information technology in government: Britain and America. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203208038.
  • Margetts, Helen Zerlina (1996). Computerisation in American and British central government 1975-95: policy-making, internal regulation and contracting in information technology (Ph.D. thesis). University of London. OCLC 556741174.
  • Margetts, Helen; Smyth, Gareth, eds. (1994). Turning Japanese?: Britain with a permanent party of government. London: Lawrence & Wishart. ISBN 9780853157854.
Chapters in books
Journal articles
Papers

Awards

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In July 2019 Helen was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In March-April she held the John F Kluge Senior Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.  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. 

Her co-authored book Political Turbulence won the W.J.Mckenzie Prize of the UK Political Studies Association for best politics book in 2017.

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.

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.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Margetts, Helen Zerlina (1996). Computerisation in American and British central government 1975-95: policy-making, internal regulation and contracting in information technology (Ph.D. thesis). University of London. OCLC 556741174.
  2. ^ "Margetts, Helen". Library of Congress. Retrieved 31 August 2016. data sheet (b. 9-15-1961)
  3. ^ "Margetts, Helen Zerlina". Who's Who. November 2015. ISBN 9780199540884.
  4. ^ a b c d "Professor Helen Margetts". oii.ox.ac.uk. Oxford Internet Institute. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. ^ a b Schofield, Jack; Doyle, Eric; Mathieson, S. A. (28 April 2004). "IT news". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. ^ a b c "Helen Margetts". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  7. ^ "Professor Helen Margetts". Mansfield College, Oxford. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Digital Advisory Board profile - Professor Helen Margetts". gds.blog.gov.uk. Government Digital Service. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. ^ Clarke, Amanda (20 December 2013). "Oxford Internet Institute". In Harvey, Kerric (ed.). Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. SAGE Publications. p. 938. ISBN 9781452290263.
  10. ^ Lowther, Ed (4 September 2013). "First day 'is crucial for success of e-petitions'". BBC News. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  11. ^ Government and IT - a Recipe for Rip-offs: Time for a New Approach, Twelfth Report of Session 2010-11, Vol. 2: Oral and Written Evidence. The Stationery Office, Great Britain House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee. 28 July 2011. ISBN 9780215561077.
  12. ^ "Professor Helen Margetts OBE". Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  13. ^ Lane Fox, Martha (25 April 2012). "Introducing the Digital Advisory Board | Government Digital Service". GOV.UK. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  14. ^ Solon, Olivia (25 April 2012). "Digital Advisory Board to support Government Digital Service (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  15. ^ Hall, Kathleen (25 April 2012). "Government launches Digital Advisory Board". ComputerWeekly. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  16. ^ "The Alan Turing Institute's Public Policy Programme – written evidence (DAD0063)". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  17. ^ "2019 New Year Honours List". The London Gazette. 29 December 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  18. ^ "New Fellows 2019" (PDF). British Academy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
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