Rebecca Eynon is jointly appointed by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.
Her research explores the relationships between education, the Internet and inequalities. At the Department of Education she convenes the Critical Digital Education Research Group.
Her work has been supported by a range of funders including the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission and Google. Rebecca was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2026. She is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology in Education and Learning, Media and Technology, where she was an editor from 2011-2021.
Rebecca currently leads a project titled, Towards Equity Focused Approaches to EdTech – one of nine projects funded by the ESRC Education Programme, and is an international investigator for the ARC Centre for the Digital Child.
Rebecca teaches on the MSc in Education (Digital and Social Change) at the Department of Education and the MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the OII. At both departments, she supervises DPhil students interested in digital education and social justice.