Dylan Thurgood is a third-year DPhil in Social Data Science student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He has been a Visiting Scholar at MIT during his PhD and holds an MSc in Social Data Science from the OII as well as a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick, during which he spent one year studying at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Dylan’s research lies at the intersection of political science, data science, psychology and communication studies and is generously funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on the GUDTP’s Digital Social Science pathway. He is primarily interested in understanding belief change and how individuals process information they encounter online, focusing on AI-generated content, hyperpartisan news and news from public broadcasters. He also investigates potential interventions to mitigate political polarisation such as the redesign of social media algorithms. He is very passionate about teaching and fostering bridges between research and policy, which has led him to teach on several courses, become a Europaeum Scholar and work at the Open Innovation Team during his PhD.
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