St Cross College, Oxford

The Economic and Research Council have appointed Dr Marina Jirotka, Fellow of St Cross, as their new Deputy Director of e-Social Science.

Dr Jirotka will take a key strategic role in maximising the uptake, use and impact of new e-technologies across the Social Science community, alongside the new Strategic Director Professor David De Roure. The programmes is part of the NCeSS (National Centre for e-Social Science) research programme and is designed to ‘enable social scientists to harness the wealth of digital technologies in undertaking innovative world leading research'.

Dr Jirotka, who is also Associate Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, has said her "background in both social and computer science will enable me to assist in the coordination of training and capacity building activities to embed e-Social Science techniques in research practice and make effective use of emerging infrastructure".

We wish her good luck for when she takes up the appointment this month.

For more information please visit the Economic and Social Research Council, and Oxford e-Research Centre websites.