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Teen mums in South Africa: largest ever study explores what it takes to go back to school

17 August 2023
DSPI researchers Kathryn Steventon Roberts and Janina Jochim shed light on their research identifying the hurdles young South-African mothers face and how these can be overcome.
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The neglected next generation: Investing in support for young people in the streets

09 August 2023
Street-connected young Africans face stigma and adversity. Doctoral researcher Kathleen Murphy discusses the education, healthcare and community support interventions needed to empower them. Via Democracy in Africa.
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Professor Mary Daly elected President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Family Research

29 June 2023
This is a collage of two people Kun Lee and Solhee Han both smiling at the camera.

DPhil students Solhee Han and Kun Lee awarded prestigious grants for social policy research

26 June 2023
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Two in five children in care are placed outside their local authority - here's why that's a problem

26 June 2023
DSPI researchers discuss how for-profit outsourcing is connected to placement stability and distance for children in care - via The Conversation
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New Royal partnership study with health visitors to promote infant wellbeing and development

15 June 2023
Lucie Cluver and Seth Flaxman

University of Oxford researchers work together to protect COVID-19 orphans

01 June 2023
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Outsourced social care linked to concerns over placements of vulnerable children

30 May 2023
A group of students standing on some steps in front of an Oxford college building

Student-led research symposium fosters engagement and collaboration

23 May 2023
Fran Bennett

Fran Bennett provides oral evidence at Treasury Committee meeting about 'cliff edges' in the benefit and tax system

19 May 2023
The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy A Life-Course Perspective

Professor Mary Daly's new book joins prestigious Oxford Handbooks series

21 April 2023
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Key DSPI research underpins new WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment

14 March 2023
Baby sleeping on back

Promoting safer sleeping for babies in England - new report

13 March 2023
Parenting for Lifelong Health - tips in Turkish

Parenting for Lifelong Health team create new resources to support parents and caregivers affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

21 February 2023
levelling up up city scene

New research by Dr Mark Fransham examines the levelling up agenda

13 February 2023
Child watching a lesson on a laptop

More than one third of year's learning lost in pandemic - new study in Nature Human Behaviour

31 January 2023
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The Global Parenting Initiative Opens its Doors

21 December 2022
Professor Ann Phoenix

Watch Professor Ann Phoenix's Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture

22 November 2022
Priscilla Samey (left) and Karen Torres Alarcon (right)

George and Teresa Smith Award Winners 2021-22

18 November 2022
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Alumni from Britain's top girls' public schools 20 times more likely to reach elite positions

11 November 2022
A woman wearing traditional dress sitting on wall and looking at Hunza valley in autumn season, Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan, Asia

PLH team respond to Pakistan floods with new parenting tips

07 November 2022