Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College. She is a political scientist specialising in the relationship between digital technology and government, politics and public policy. She is an advocate for the potential of multi-disciplinarity and computational social science for our understanding of political behaviour and development of public policy in a digital world.
Prior to taking up the full-time post of Director of the RAI in September 2011, Nigel Bowles was for more than twenty years Tutorial Fellow in Politics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He was previously a staff member in the House of Commons before being appointed a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. His intellectual interests lie in American political history and, in particular, in the history of the US Presidency.
Having taught at the Universities of Sussex, 1973-4, and London (Imperial College), 1974-9, I returned in 1979 to Oxford, where I had been an undergraduate at Corpus, 1966-9, graduate at Nuffield, 1969-72, and junior research fellow at Jesus, 1972-3, this time as politics tutor at New College, working alongside first Alan Ryan and then Elizabeth Frazer. I was Oxford's co-ordinator for politics and international studies in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise, and acted as head of the Department of Politics and International Relations in its "shadow" phase, 1999-2000.
I am Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi College.
For the academic year 2024-2025, I am Visiting Professor at Science Po Paris, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée.
Political Theory; Groups, Identities and Social Movements; Political thought and ideologies; Norms, legitimacy and justification; Democratic theory; Feminism, Gender, Identity.
International Relations Theory; International Intellectual History; Historical IR
I teach the core Undergraduate International Relations paper (214) and the two historical IR undergraduate papers (212 and 213). I am the course provider for International Relations in an Era of Two World Wars (212)
MPhil option: The Making of Modern International Society
