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- Why should we have trust in numbers?
- Administrative Data Liaison Service (2014)
- An emerging fertility pattern in London (2014)
- Assessing and Monitoring Family Policy (2016)
- Becoming 'Adult': Conceptions of futures and wellbeing among young people subject to immigration control in the UK (2017)
- Being EU Citizens: Perceptions and lived experiences of exercising social rights in the UK (2016)
- bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards European citizenship (2016)
- Carer-child well-being project
- Child poverty in Oman (2014)
- Parenting manuals gain momentum
- Child Poverty in South Africa (2012)
- Child poverty in South Africa: improving the evidence base (2015)
- Cities, Children and Childbearing (2016)
- Crime, Deprivation and Inequality in South Africa (2012)
- Democratic police training in Israel: moving towards an evidence base
- Designing strategies for efficient funding of higher education in Europe (DEFINE) (2015)
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- How does social progress in Britain since 1950 compare with that in “peer” countries?
- Opportunities and challenges in using research to influence policy on childhood poverty in low- and middle-income countries
- CANCELLED: Social impact bonds: the role of private capital in outcomes based commissioning
- What should we do about social care, and why?
- CANCELLED: Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: a human rights approach
- An interview with Professor Ebbinghaus
- The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an “Emerging Markets” Welfare State Regime
- Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project (CIMHP): Evaluation of reach of the Circle of Security – Parenting Intervention in a Danish randomized control trial
- Conceptualising the relationship between children and social policy
- Impact of investment in Early Parenting on Social Capital: Emerging lessons from A Better Start
- Exciting opportunity: Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy
- Barnett Professorship of Social Policy
- First Barnett Paper for 2018 published
- Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany
- Development of a social budget for South Africa (2012)
- Development of a Tax and Benefit Microsimulation Model for Namibia (NAMOD) (2013)
- Economic Deprivation Index 2008-2012 (2012)
- Ensuring global impact for research on poverty and shame: generating content for a knowledge exchange proposal (2012)
- Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit (2014)
- Implementing health care delivery in low resource settings: a qualitative evaluation (2014)
- In protracted limbo: a comparative study of the tranisitions to adulthood and life trajectories of former unaccompanied children
- Participation and Multi-dimensional Poverty: Designing research for the World Bank Group (2016)
- Poverty, choice and diversity: re-interpreting Peter Townsend's ideas (2012)
- Shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes: a study in seven countries (2012)
- Young people's experience of poverty and use of space (2014)
- KwaZulu-Natal Poverty Profiling Project (2016)
- Lone mothers in South Africa - the role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity (2014)
- Update the South African Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model (SAMOD) (2013)
- Safe and inclusive cities: research to reduce urban violence, poverty and inequalities (2015)
- The relationship between spatial inequality and attidtudes to inequality in South Africa (2014)
- Youth in South Africa (2012)
- The realities of relocation (2014)
- Education and multiculturalism in France - CNRS visit (2013)
- Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives (2015)
- The role of education in intergenerational social mobility (2015)
- Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE) (2017)
- Family Policy Briefings (2013)
- Future Trajectories of Fertility in China (2012)
- Evaluation of Children's Centres (2015)
- Sustainable growth, social inclusion and family policy: innovative ways of coping with old and new challenges (2009)
- Family and parenting support policies, programmes and services (2014)
- Gender and poverty: evidence and policy review (2013)
- Governing 'new social risks': the case of recent child policies in European welfare states (2014)
- Maximising the social and economic impact of demographic research in Oxford and the UK: a new collaborative blog (2013)
- Prospects for a fertility increase in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (2015)
- The gap between fertility ideals and reality in East Asia: a mixed method comparative study of Beijing and Taiwan (2015)
- Evaluating emerging fertility patterns and family changes in London (2012)
- Fertility of second-generation minority groups in the UK (2011)
- Prenatal sex selection against females in the UK: ethics, extent and policies (2014)
- Enterprises as actors in family policy: the US and Dutch cases (2009)
- Integrating macro and micro perspectives in cross-national comparison: Dynamic policy structures and individual outcomes (2012)
- International Research Network: The Dualisation of Societies in Advanced OECD countries (2009)
- Prowelfare 2014-2016 (2017)
- Social inclusion and participation in rich democracies: an empirical analysis through the lens of citizenship (2013)
- UK in a Changing Europe; Being EU citizens: Experiences of exercising social rights in the UK (2015)
- Unemployment and Pensions Protection in Europe: The Changing Role of Social Partners (2017)
- Political parties and non-standard employment (2014)
- Understanding policy change in democratic South Africa: an analysis of the medical professions' views about proposed reforms
- History of Barnett House (2014)
- Comparative Social Policy student to write for New York Times
- Development of an AIDS-related child abuse prevention programme (2014)
- Mzantsi Wakho Plus: How to reduce ART-defaulting among adolescents in South Africa (2015)
- Pathways to survival: identifying psychosocial, family and service mechanisms to improve anti-retroviral adherence
- Reducing abuse and maltreatment of children in high-risk families in South Africa (2013)
- Risk and protective factors in the psychological well-being of children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa (2012)
- Young carers for AIDS-ill parents: social, health and educational impacts (2013)
- Nutrition for child behaviour (2013)
- DHA Learning and Behaviour Clinical Trial (2012)
- Menstruation and Poverty (2016)
- Menstruation and the cycle of poverty (2014)
- Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E for Autistic Spectrum Disorders (a pilot randomised controlled trial) (2017)
- Organisational interventions for teacher wellbeing: intervention development and piloting (2014)
- The Oxford Implementation Index
- Evidence-based research for local services and decision-making (2013)
- How Empty are Empty Reviews? (2011)
- Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: A pilot study - methodology and interventions (2011)
- Siblings Together (2016)
- How far could widespread dissemination of parenting programmes improve child antisocial behaviour and reduce social inequalities
- Parents under pressure (2014)
- Psychosocial resilience in adolescent offspring of mothers with depression: testing causal mechanisms (2014)
- Risk factors for antisocial behaviour in low-income youth in South Africa (2012)
- Systematic review on transportability of parenting programmes across cultures and countries (2013)
- UBS Parenting Interventions (2015)
- Understanding and preventing childhood drug abuse risk (2013)
- Understanding harmful effects of social policies and interventions (2016)
- Protective factors that interrupt continuity from school bullying to anti social-behavior and offending later in life
- Resilience among children exposed to harsh, non-supportive parenting (2017)
- Completed Research Projects
- Barnett House Blog
- ‘We have joy’: Parenting programme for Africa’s poorest communities makes a real difference
- Student spotlight: Anne-Marie Baan
- Tackling poverty, shame and social exclusion
- Is smoking transmitted from one generation to another?
- RISE: Prevention of Child Mental Health Problems in Southeastern Europe
- CEBI researchers in Macedonia to kick off major new project
- Dr Aaron Reeves joins DSPI
- Good news in the QS World University Rankings
- Alfonso Costa Jr.
- Professor David Kirk
- Do fish oil supplements boost children’s reading ability?
- Manual typewriters and card-punch programming
- Dr Aaron Reeves
- Dr Antonina Santalova
- Understanding #MeToo
- Where next for Social Policy? Reflections in an age of social discord
- Leading the global fight against child abuse and neglect
- Kilmer & Kind
- Carrying out evaluations with families facing adversity
- Vacancy: Associate Professorship of Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation
- Re-thinking the approach to long-term care
- When and why do (survey) experimental treatment effects generalise?
- Leave or Remain: Is there still a place for Qualitative Evidence Syntheses in the Systematic Reviews "family"?
- A manifesto for trustworthy social science (and why it’s needed)
- Evidence for Policy Prediction: Intervention-centred or Context-centred?
- Parenting for Lifelong Health launches in Thailand
- Reforming Poland’s Social Market Economy in the Age of Populism
- Migrant workers in the home care sector: What can we learn from the Israeli experience?
- Is early intervention better? Findings from two meta-analyses of parenting interventions for reducing child behaviour problems
- Food bank usage and the roll-out of Universal Credit in the United Kingdom
- Parenting for Lifelong Health - Thailand (2018-2020)
- Investigating the impact of Universal Credit for families balancing work, money and care
- Stop Start
- Young Carers project wins 02RB Impact Award
- Remembering Dr Zola Skweyiya
- Taking a pause reduces violence against children
- New British Academy Mid-Career Fellows announced
- Stand Your Ground
- DSPI wins at OUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards
- Spotlight on graduate research: Wage inequality in OECD countries
- Spotlight on graduate research: Intimate partner violence against women
- Spotlight on graduate research: Adaptation to increase in income
- Spotlight on graduate research: Subjective poverty in Ukraine
- Return of the GRS Conference
- Spotlight on graduate research: Impact of voucher school reform in Chile
- Spotlight on graduate research: Elder care and the emerging East Asian welfare state
- New Barnett Paper Published
- Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Sexual Risk Behaviour Among Women Who Inject Drugs in Indonesia
- Barnett Prize 2018 Winners Announced
- DSPI will be part of new NIHR Policy Research Unit in Children and Families
- Dr Marii Paskov
- DPhil student leads Oxford to cricket glory
- Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries
- Embedding financial literacy training in parenting programmes - does it work?
- Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship Award
- Reducing HIV in Africa with ‘cash plus care’
- Double success at Vice Chancellor's Innovation Awards
- The Brexit Generation Game
- Dr David Weisstanner
- Parenting under duress
- Unreasonable behaviour
- Dr Juan C. Palomino
- AIDS2018
- Alumni lecture coming up in September
- Dr Tim Vlandas
- Opportunity to study the impact of U.S “stand your ground” self-defence laws
- Looking back: Max Grünhut
- New Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy
- New Barnett Paper Published
- HEY BABY
- Getting help with parenting makes a difference - at any age
- Body-worn cameras and policing
- Applying insights and principles from implementation science in the real world
- Preventing violence against women, children and adolescents: reflections, lessons learned and questions for the field
- CANCELLED Health inequalities through the best of times and the worst of times. What makes a difference?
- Results from the INCLUSIVE trial of a whole-school health intervention: outcomes, mediators and processes
- CANCELLED Advances in methods for identifying causal effects from observational data
- A Better Start – Comparison of profile data with national
- Violet Butler: Relating Social Research to Social Action: a lifetime's work
- Startups as social risks in Finland
- We have to talk about the children
- 2018 Smith Prize Winners announced
- New position at Beijing Normal University for Robert Walker
- Dr Ivana Dobrotić
- Social and gender inequalities in care: childcare-related policies and parenting practices in the post-Yugoslav countries and the role of policy ideas — INCARE
- Who really are the poor? Measuring poverty with multiple dimensions
- Inga Steinberg
- Bridget Steele
- Alice Hawryszkiewycz
- Dr Tim Goedemé
- Leonie Westhoff
- Oxford Family Policy Database
- Swinging Both Ways – EU Social Policy after Brexit
- Michaela Bunakova
- Sharing research around the globe
- Mackenzie Martin
- Sophia Backhaus
- Robust Research - A practical guide
- Sidney Ball: 100 years on
- Ertugrul Polat
- Generating Prosperity
- Benchmarking in social comparisons and health outcomes
- Dr Inge Wessels
- Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
- Poverty in the UK: responding to the Alston report
- Dr Elona Toska
- Where next for Social Policy?
- Big prize for ESRC video on Professor Lucie Cluver's research
- Universal Credit: Design matters
- First term highlights: an MSc student looks back at Michaelmas Term 2018
- Child and family mental health and well-being
- Public health
- Violence prevention
- Social inequality and poverty
- Innovative research methods
- First term highlights: Reflections from a Social Policy student
- Peter Combey
- Social Mobility and Education in Britain
- Doctoral Scholarships available for 2019
- Dr Benjamin Chrisinger
- Katongo Chileshe
- Effects of the Perceived Sustainability of Public Pension Systems on Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Germany, Spain and the United States
- Social inequality and social mobility: is there an inverse relation?
- Insecurity, the welfare state and far right party support in Europe
- Revisiting social concertation in Europe: A fsQCA-comparison of social partner involvement since the 2008 crisis
- Colonialism and social policy in the Global South
- Critical policy analysis and social protection in the Global South: A view from the MENA region
- Gender, right-wing populism and family policy discourses in Hungary and Poland
- The origins of social security in India
- Opting out of the social contract: Tax morale and evasion in Latin America
- Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian civil service
- Activating the youth in post-industrial Japan and Korea
- Where next for research on social policy in the Global South?
- Joe Feyertag
- Dr Benjamin Chrisinger joins DSPI
- Claudia Stoicescu
- DSPI Alumnus appointed to University of Exeter Professorship
- New book: Welfare and the Great Recession
- Evaluating the impact of “stand your ground” self-defence laws in the US
- £20 million research hub could help African teens achieve their full potential
- Michelle Degli Esposti
- Staff spotlight: an insight into HR
- hometest
- Social Mobility and Education in Britain: London launch
- Atypical employment and the Intergenerational Transmission of disadvantage: Britain and Germany in Comparative Perspective
- Recent publications
- QS World University Rankings 2019
- Reflections from Beijing
- Is child abuse on the increase?
- New evidence from Oxford University proves that the work of UN agencies is effective
- Andrew Orchard
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Formation Policies
- DSPI Student Mackenzie Martin Presents Research to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth
- Life after 'EBSIPE' - James Dickson
- The political impact of ageing on the economy
- Life after 'EBSIPE' - Fabian Reitzug
- DSPI Student is finalist at ESRC 'Better Lives' competition
- A conference with a difference: LEGO, parenting and banjos
- Preparing for the 2019 Y7 Summit
- New book: After the Act
- Large Family, Poor Family? Household Incomes and Child Poverty in Large Families in the US, UK and Ireland
- Poverty in all its Dimensions: Participatory Research with a Social Movement
- Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescents: The GCRF Hub
- Street Sense: Capturing How Cities Make Us Feel [date updated]
- Put the security back in social security
- Professor Mary Daly appointed to ESRC Strategic Advisory Network
- Rising hunger among low-income households
- Green Impact: Getting to work well
- Unveiling the hidden dimensions of poverty
- The costs of education in an age of austerity
- Paloma Diaz Topete
- Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success, depending on their background
- International Women's Day 2019: Balance for Better
- DSPI Graduate Research Student Conference 2019
- Frances Gardner wins 2019 Nan Tobler Award
- Humanities Innovation Challenge winner 2019
- Ground-breaking report aims to STACK the odds for adolescents living with HIV and reach the Sustainable Development Goals
- Research on Food Bank Usage in Bath, Bristol and Oxford: Investigating the Association between Universal Credit and Food Poverty
- DSPI wins Bronze at University Green Impact Awards
- Dr Laura Valadez-Martinez
- Spotlight on Graduate Research: ICT for Health Equity/ Sexual Violence in Higher Education/ Implementation Fidelity in Parenting Programmes
- Barnett Prize Winners 2019
- Life as a doctoral research student - Inga Steinberg
- Laura Ainsworth
- Money within the Household
- Accelerate Hub
- Parenting for Lifelong Health SUPER (Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research) Study
- Spotlight on Graduate Research: Intergenerational social class mobility in Europe
- Dr Yulia Shenderovich
- Life as a doctoral research student - Julius Wersig
- Spotlight on Graduate Research: Social Policy Beyond the West
- Violet Butler to be honoured with blue plaque
- Life as a doctoral research student - Caspar Kaiser
- Dr Helen Kowalewska
- Amanda Maffett
- Dr Aaron Reeves wins sought-after ERC Starting Grant
- UK pension system among those with highest old age poverty in Europe
- Promising new evidence from South Africa for Parenting for Lifelong Health
- Behind the scenes with a UN Special Rapporteur
- Dr William Rudgard
- Mona Ibrahim
- George and Teresa Smith Award Winners 2019
- Are there more hungry people in the UK?
- Horizon Impact Award for 'Parenting for Lifelong Health' teen project
- Divorces by fact proven over the past half century in England and Wales: the historical context; statistical trends, and future prospects
- Economic uncertainty and labour market change: Challenges for public policy from income volatility
- Trends in hospital admissions for mental health disorders in England, 1999–2018
- Private Health Insurance and the European Union
- Changing places: the science and art of new urban planning
- Universal Credit In-Work Progression Randomised Control Trial
- Flexible intervention and rigorous evaluation in complex contexts: tough learning through action research with the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP)
- Chess, not chequers: the need for a complex systems approach to public health
- Bullying and mental health: can virtual reality help?
- School-based mental health interventions: promise and pitfalls
- Longitudinal research: innovations in wearable technology and biomeasure collection
- The Great Leap Backwards
- Fighting child poverty in the EU
- Major European Research Council Synergy funding win for economic inequality project
- Stephanie Darby
- Michael Liu
- Mandy Chong
- Ana Beatriz Fernandez Jondec
- Edward Yee
- Kristiana Yao
- Tylor-Maria Johnson
- The Great Leap Backwards
- Oxford IF: Making better policy for children and their families
- Himani Aggarwal
- Juhi Kore
- Mobarak Hossain
- Lukas Lehner
- Mercy Muroki
- Michael Ganslmeier
- Zuyi Fang
- Vacancy: Associate Professorship of Social Policy
- Kaitlyn Ju Cho
- Katharina Christina Merkel
- Wellbeing week: 11-15 November
- Justin Hartley
- Professor Harriet MacMillan, CM, MD, MSc, FRCPC
- World Children's Day 2019
- Women who spend their childhoods in deprived neighbourhoods face an increased risk of intimate partner violence
- Dr Isang Awah
- Guillaume Paugam
- Karen Snow
- New call for interest from PLH Digital
- Doctoral Scholarships available for 2020
- Accelerator interventions at the UNAIDs Programme Coordinating Board
- The Great Leap Backwards
- Adolescent gun homicides double and racial disparities worsen after 'Stand Your Ground' self-defence law
- Hidden asymmetries in explaining intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Europe: set analytic comparison
- Mental health and adherence to antiretroviral medication in a cohort of South African adolescents (title updated)
- Realist Review and Realist Evaluation: Why Bother?
- Power at work: inequality by social class and gender across countries and policy contexts
- Austerity and the Reconfiguration of the Welfare State
- Neo-liberalism and the Political Economy of Austerity
- How Policies & Institutions Shaped Welfare Consequences of the Great Recession in Europe
- A Critical Review of English Reforms in Support Services for Children, Parents and Families during Austerity
- CANCELLED: Lived Experiences of People at the Margins in Times of Austerity
- The Evolution of Growth and Welfare Regimes in the Knowledge Economy
- CANCELLED: Basic Income and Austerity
- CANCELLED: Low-income America and the Delegated State
- Austerity and Beyond? New seminar series
- Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts
- Working-class children don’t primarily do worse because they are ‘less bright’
- David Coleman
- A year of collaboration
- New research to investigate impact of benefit changes on larger families
- Pensions, inequalities, and poverty in old age
- Student insights: Ria Jodah
- Student insights: Michael Rees
- Student consultants work with PLH Digital
- Student insights: Moa Schafer
- Student insights: Ashly Fuller
- FAIR project to evaluate parenting programme in Tanzania
- Student Insights: Krishna Patel
- Specialist advisers appointed to House of Lords’ Universal Credit inquiry
- Bank of England chief economist lays out the costs of income insecurity for UK households
- DSPI regains top spot in Europe
- New book explores progress in gender equality in the EU
- New podcasts explore adolescence in African contexts
- Social Scientists respond to Coronavirus
- Our World in Data: COVID-19 Statistics
- 32 Wellington Square
- Billions of children out of school: here’s how to cope
- Coronavirus - the making or the unmaking of Universal Credit?
- Elites highlight ordinary pursuits in public profiles
- Accelerate Hub: Year 1 Highlights
- The commissioning of specialist mental health services for vulnerable mother-infant dyads in the UK: a study of stakeholder views
- The Accelerate Hub: Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Researchers secure major new funding to support Coronavirus response
- Needs and Entitlements: How UK welfare reform affects larger families
- Changing elites: how social and institutional change has altered the processes of elite formation over time?
- Politics, electoral systems and inclusive decision-making: Do political institutions affect health?
- Research and Research-related Staff
- Furaha Adolescent Implementation Research (FAIR) Study
- Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital (PLH Digital)
- Coronavirus
- COVID-19 in UK care homes
- Leo Azzollini
- Design flaws in Universal Credit for couples revealed as claims soar
- Joe Hasell
- Katie McNeil
- Parenting in a pandemic: helping over 50 million families
- Dr Rossella Ciccia
- Reducing violence against children in rural Tanzania: study results
- Barnett Prize Winners 2020
- ‘Supertracker’ global directory launched to track policy changes during COVID-19
- A 'Supertracker' to improve social policy monitoring during the COVID-19 crisis
- Guidelines for Academic Visitors
- Barnett Papers Guidelines
- Fran Bennett acts as Specialist Adviser for Universal Credit inquiry
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on services from pregnancy through age 5 years for families who are high risk or have complex social needs
- Assessment of specialist health visitors’ contribution to perinatal and infant mental health
- The perception of families of virtual group-based support during the COVID-19 lockdown
- DSPI affiliates contribute to China’s policy debate on poverty
- Tackling COVID-19 child neglect and violence: The parenting 'vaccine'
- Sex, gender and COVID-19: evidence, equity and inexplicable absences
- Universal Credit: Couples balancing work, care and finances
- Ownership variation in violated regulations and national care standards: Evidence from social care providers
- Protest and social policies for outsiders: The expansion of social pensions in Latin America", Rossella Ciccia and Cesar Guzman-Concha
- Linking National and Regional Income Inequality: Cross-Country Data Harmonization and Analysis
- Pandemics and urban planning: COVID-19 illuminates why urban planners should have listened to community advocates all along
- Measuring population-level mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The unequal impact of COVID-19 on the labour market
- Centenary Sidney Ball Lecture: COVID-19 and the UK Welfare State: where next for post-pandemic welfare provision?
- Constructing the story of 2020 - myths, miasma, messaging, and models - from Cholera to COVID-19
- Politics, post-truth science and COVID-19
- The inital impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes in the UK
- Dr Mark Fransham
- Tina Khanna
- Dr Naomi Muggleton
- Rafael Carranza
- Dr Laura Sochas
- Dr Eve Worth
- Low household income a key barrier to healthy eating, new study shows
- Professor Mary Daly on the COVID-19 'earthquake' that hit social care
- Kristijan Fidanovski
- New study explores variation in COVID-19 school and childcare policies across Europe
- New studies investigate individual support for universal basic income
- Lockdown measures will ‘worsen inequality’ within and between countries, study says
- COVID-19 parenting resource reaches 111m people globally
- Stephanie Eagling-Peche
- World's first universal jobs guarantee experiment starts in Austria
- Blog: Tim Vlandas on the explanation behind far right success
- Dr Aoife O’Higgins
- Impact case study: Exposing the hidden dimensions of poverty
- Women who lose custody of children have higher odds of overdose, research shows
- Out of Oxford: Rhaina Cohen (MPhil 2016), producer and editor of long-form narrative podcasts at NPR
- COVID-19 e-Parenting for Lifelong Health (ePLH) Pilot study:
- Blueprint for evaluating scale-up of promising parenting programmes
- Jingwen Kyropoulos
- Kun Lee
- Blog: A pandemic 'misery index'
- DSPI researcher advocates for free school meals for Croatian children
- “Three considerations for non-randomised evaluations of adolescent development accelerators in Africa: plausibility, presentation, and specificity”
- “Can a carbon tax and dividend scheme be an effective eco-social policy? A simulation for Belgium”
- Configurations of Gender Inequality and Segregation in Employment Across Welfare Regimes
- Meritocracy and populism – Is there a connection?
- Regimes of inequality and Covid-19: How the welfare states of the past affect health inequalities in the pandemic | Prof Julia Lynch
- Locally controlled minimum wages are no closer to public preferences | Gabor Simonovits & Julia Payson
- Fairwork in an unfair world: Resisting platform capitalism | Matthew Cole
- Family changes and incipient political responses in a context of high inequalities: Latin America before and since COVID | Merike Blofield
- What role for basic income in a post-Covid world? | Lena Lavinas and Olli Kangas
- Taking back control: What will Brexit mean for UK social policy? | Kitty Stewart
- Hostile environments: State infrastructural power and the exclusion of unauthorized migrants in Western Europe | Kimberly Morgan
- Climate change: the myopia of social policy - Climate change and the welfare state | Ian Gough
- School Closures, Care Work, and Gender Differences in Employment During COVID-19
- Physical attractiveness and social mobility in the United States
- Gender bias in promotions: Experimental evidence from the Norwegian private sector
- Alejandro Biondi Rodriguez
- Gambling study led by Dr Naomi Muggleton reveals health risks to gamblers
- Ryan Thompson
- Hannah Phillips
- Solhee Han
- Yuwei Wang
- Justin May
- Tamar Bortsvadze
- Moa Schafer
- Charlotte Densmore
- Benjamin Goodair
- Jiayun Wang
- Martin Loinig
- OUR SPACE: Oxford Understanding Relationships, Sex, Power, Abuse, and Consent Experiences
- Katariina Rantanen
- Hannah Treon
- Study finds US Stand Your Ground laws do not cut crime but risk public health and safety
- Gideon Daitz
- Mairi Clarkson
- Maira Rebeca Alvarez Loyo Barcenas
- Cynthia M. Galaz
- Maya Richardson
- Sarani Jayawardena
- Nikolai Soukup
- Leverhulme Trust Biopsychosocial Doctoral Scholarship Programme
- Lucy Bartel
- Launch of new doctoral scholarship programme to research the impact of poverty and social inequalities in early childhood
- Brian Treacy
- Tim Davies
- Synthetic control methods: introduction & overview of recent developments
- Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Principles and Application
- Can qualitative longitudinal research offer a window into the ‘shared typical’? Aggregating lived experiences of punitive welfare conditionality
- New research collaboration aims to help end violence against children
- An introduction to the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST): Opportunities for Intervention Science
- COVID-19 in the US: Poverty and wage inequality effects by race, gender and education
- “Health effects of collective bargaining institutions: Is there an insider-outsider effect?”
- 'Stand your ground' self-defense laws on public safety, crime, and social inequities in the United States
- “How and Why does Social Class affect Political Trust? The role of Precarious Work and Political Efficacy”
- Indigent Defense, Social Workers and Suicidality in Jail: Evidence from Randomized Clinicians and Instrumental Variables
- Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy
- Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation