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]
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. ISBN9780691159225.
Margetts, Helen; Perri 6; Hood, Christopher (2010). Paradoxes of modernization: unintended consequences of public policy reform. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780199573547.((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. ISBN9780199547005.
Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Weir, Stuart; Trevor, Smith (2005). Voices of the people: popular attitudes to democratic renewal in Britain. London: Politico's. ISBN9781842751343.
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. ISBN9780333789827.
Margetts, Helen (1999). Information technology in government: Britain and America. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9780203208038.
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. OCLC556741174.
Margetts, Helen; Smyth, Gareth, eds. (1994). Turning Japanese?: Britain with a permanent party of government. London: Lawrence & Wishart. ISBN9780853157854.
Chapters in books
Margetts, Helen; Dowding, Keith; Hughes, James (2001), "Introduction", in Margetts, Helen; Dowding, Keith; Hughes, James (eds.), Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions, The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave, pp. xi–xvii, ISBN9780333789827. Pdf.
Margetts, Helen Z.; John, Peter (September 2003). "Policy punctuations in the UK: fluctuations and equilibria in central government expenditure since 1951". Public Administration. 81 (3): 411–432. doi:10.1111/1467-9299.00354.
Margetts, Helen Z.; Goetz, Klaus H. (October 1999). "The solitary center: the core executive in Central and Eastern Europe". Governance. 12 (4): 425–453. doi:10.1111/0952-1895.00112.
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 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
^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. OCLC556741174.
^"Margetts, Helen". Library of Congress. Retrieved 31 August 2016. data sheet (b. 9-15-1961)
^"Margetts, Helen Zerlina". Who's Who. November 2015. ISBN9780199540884.
