About us

About the Department

The Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, is an interdisciplinary centre for research and teaching in social policy and the systematic evaluation of social interventions. The academic backgrounds of members of staff include anthropology, demography, economics, health services research, political science, psychology, social policy, social work and sociology.  

Our teaching programmes include the Masters in Comparative Social Policy (CSP), the Masters in Evidence Based Social Intervention (EBSI), and doctoral research in Social Policy and in Social Intervention.

At undergraduate level, we teach an option course on Social Policy within the PPE and Modern History degrees. We also teach Demography on the Human Sciences degree.

Our two main research clusters are the Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP) and the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention (CEBI). In addition, we host the interdepartmental Centre for AIDS Interdisciplinary Research at Oxford (CAIRO).