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- Public health improved if planners and health authorities work closer together, says DSPI academic
- Student helps make a difference for disadvantaged communities to enter Higher Education
- DSPI leads study revealing health outsourcing linked to higher mortality rate
- Professor Erzsébet Bukodi
- Dr Tim Vlandas
- Dr Selçuk Bedük
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- Mavis Maclean
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- Dr Aoife O’Higgins
- Dr Elizabeth Peretz
- Professor Laetitia Rispel joins DSPI as part of her Senior Africa Oxford Fellowship
- Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
- Dr Yulia Shenderovich
- George Smith
- Teresa Smith
- Janina Steinert
- Dr Elona Toska
- Professor Robert Walker
- Dr Isang Awah
- Francisco Antonio Calderón Alfaro
- Jenny Chen-Charles
- Stephanie Eagling-Peche
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- Jonathan Klapwijk
- Professor Jamie M. Lachman
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- Dr William Rudgard
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- Camille Wittesaele
- Laura Ainsworth
- Sherif Akil
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- Ali Bargu
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- Israel (Raeli) Bronstein
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- Patrick Casement
- Peter Combey
- Alfonso Costa Jr.
- Stephanie Darby
- John Frame
- Zeenia Framroze
- Michael C. George
- Tanyah Hahmeed
- Reshma Jagsi
- Ben Jealous
- Naira Kalra
- Lauren Karrys
- Derek Kilmer
- Michael Rivera King
- Huck-ju Kwon
- Brittany C.L. Lange
- Jason Lever
- Jane Lilly Lopez
- Christina Maags
- Nigel Malin
- Evan Mayo-Wilson
- Matthew Morton
- Ani Movsisyan
- Yvonne Muthien
- Vasileios Nittas
- Pavel Ovseiko
- Judith Phillips
- Hamsa Rajan
- Jennifer Sigafoos
- Heidi Stoeckl
- Audrey Tan
- Arianna Tassinari
- Elizabeth Thom
- Freya Turner
- Kristen Underhill
- Dr Laura Valadez-Martinez
- Julius Wersig
- Mike Wiles
- Alexa Yakubovich
- Maheen Zahra
- Sarah Borg
- Continued community health extension workers funding key to transforming young women’s lives in Ethiopia
- DSPI leads study revealing health outsourcing linked to higher mortality rate
- Research presented at the House of Commons
- Student Lukas hails DSPI’s support in double award success
- Teaching Excellence Award for Mark Fransham
- Oxford study shows public bias against welfare claimants from stigmatised social class backgrounds
- DSPI reflects its commitment to EDI with appointment of dedicated officer
- Successful research symposium continues to develop our collaborative culture
- Associate Professor invited to influential journal role
- DSPI student earns prestigious research grant
- DSPI MSc student meets Prince Charles at prestigious building opening
- Vital advice for parents and families fleeing Ukraine
- DSPI REF 2021 results
- Preventing child abuse globally through research-driven parenting programmes
- Cash Care: Transforming HIV outcomes for adolescents in Africa through social protection
- Teens and Screens – shaping policy and public debate
- DSPI research benefits from £11 million grant from LEGO Foundation
- Mark Fransham receives 2022 SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence
- George and Teresa Smith Award Winners 2021
- Oxford Ukrainian community works with academics to create advice for families affected by war
- DSPI MSc student Rai Sengupta represents Oxford at the Winter School 2022
- Stress for couples on Universal Credit as living costs soar - new research
- Oxford University study recommends commissioning of Specialist Health Visitors in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health throughout UK to tackle growing social cost issue
- Brian Nolan and Juan Palomino contribute to special edition of Journal of European Social Policy
- Fran Bennett speaking at the IFS event: Men and women at work: the more things change the more they stay the same?
- DSPI MSc student Rai Sengupta at COP26
- Fran Bennett to speak at IFS Deaton Review event
- Lucie Cluver and Jamie Lachman win ESRC Panel’s Choice award
- Oak Foundation grant awarded to Dr Jamie Lachman, Professor Lucie Cluver and Professor Cathy Ward
- Watch Sidney Ball Lecture by Baroness Minouche Shafik
- A study of partisan perceptions of government competence during Covid-19
- Violet Butler and Grace Hadow honoured with blue plaques in Oxford
- Paper co-authored by Jamie Lachman and Frances Gardner explores effectiveness of parenting programme in Philippines
- New report uncovers complexities and structural problems of Universal Credit
- Frances Gardner awarded Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship
- Who cares for the carers? New study will gather opinions on working conditions of care home workers
- Baroness Minouche Shafik to give 2021 Sidney Ball lecture
- Dr Jamie Lachman and Professor Lucie Cluver win O2RB Excellence in Impact Award
- Research into gender and employment turned into educational materials for teenagers
- Global study estimates 1.5 million children worldwide have lost a parent, grandparent, or caregiver due to COVID-19
- Cambridge University Press Awards Winner for Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship
- Barnett Prize Winners 2021
- Equal marriage, equal civil partnerships? Issues around legal unions.
- New research collaboration aims to help end violence against children
- Launch of new doctoral scholarship programme to research the impact of poverty and social inequalities in early childhood
- Study finds US Stand Your Ground laws do not cut crime but risk public health and safety
- Gambling study led by Dr Naomi Muggleton reveals health risks to gamblers
- Guidelines for Academic Visitors
- A 'Supertracker' to improve social policy monitoring during the COVID-19 crisis
- A study of elite mobility in Britain
- Assessment of specialist health visitors’ contribution to perinatal and infant mental health
- Atypical employment and the Intergenerational Transmission of disadvantage: Britain and Germany in Comparative Perspective
- Changing elites: how social and institutional change has altered the processes of elite formation over time?
- Child Poverty in Urban China
- Couples balancing work, money and care: exploring the shifting landscape under Universal Credit
- Critical life events and the dynamics of inequality: Risk, vulnerability and cumulative disadvantage
- Dimensions of Poverty in China
- e-Parenting for Lifelong Health (ePLH) Pilot study
- Paloma Diaz Topete
- Educational inequalities in Britain revisited: a new approach to investigating primary and secondary effects of social origins
- Employment, Equity and Growth
- Kristijan Fidanovski
- Rachel Ganly
- Evaluating the impact of “stand your ground” self-defence laws in the US
- Ye Eun Ha
- Evidence mapping review of intergenerational interventions
- Solhee Han
- Furaha Adolescent Implementation Research (FAIR) Study
- Generating a research resource and public health surveillance tool for monitoring child maltreatment in the UK
- HEY BABY: Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children
- How far could widespread dissemination of parenting programmes improve child antisocial behaviour and reduce social inequalities
- Inequality and Prosperity
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Formation Policies
- Intergenerational social mobility in Europe
- Linking National and Regional Income Inequality: Cross-Country Data Harmonization and Analysis
- Alice Hawryszkiewycz
- Christoph Henking
- Mzantsi Wakho Adolescent Adherence Study
- Roselinde Janowski
- Needs and Entitlements: How UK welfare reform affects larger families
- OUR SPACE: Oxford Understanding Relationships, Sex, Power, Abuse, and Consent Experiences
- Oxford Family Policy Database
- Parenting for Lifelong Health - Thailand
- ParentApp for Teens
- Parenting for Lifelong Health SUPER (Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research) Study
- Parenting for Lifelong Health – Philippines
- Parenting for Lifelong Health: A social enterprise charity
- ParentText Optimisation Study: A Chatbot-led Intervention Aimed to Promote Playful Parenting and Prevent Violence Against Children
- Political economy of Far-right party support
- Political economy of Labour Market Policies
- Politics of economic policy and outcomes
- Politics of Universal Basic Income
- Politics, electoral systems and inclusive decision-making: Do political institutions affect health?
- Poverty and the World Order
- Promoting Safer Sleep in Babies
- Which models of health visiting (HV) in England are most promising for mitigating the harms of ACES
- RISE: Prevention of Child Mental Health Problems in Southeastern Europe
- Madison Little
- Adrienne McManus
- Hannah Phillips
- Ertuğrul Polat
- Katariina Rantanen
- Moa Schafer
- Benjamin Scher
- Social and gender inequalities in care
- Karen Snow
- Inga Steinberg
- Social origins, cognitive ability and educational attainment: a birth cohort and life-course perspective
- Susan Swingler
- Sovereign Wealth Funds
- The Global Reference Group for Children Affected by Crisis
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on services
- Roland Tusz
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth
- The perception of families of virtual group-based support during the COVID-19 lockdown
- The political impact of ageing on the economy
- Trade union institutions and inequality of work and income
- What are the essential components of parenting interventions for reducing child maltreatment and child behavioural problems?
- Where SNAP works: Understanding the place effects of food welfare
- A Better Start - National Evaluation
- Becoming 'Adult': Conceptions of futures and wellbeing among young people subject to immigration control in the UK
- Theory of change and impact policy evaluation in cross-national settings
- Feasibility study of the Steps to Safety Programme
- GRADE Guidance for Complex Social Interventions
- Intergenerational Health Inequalities in Morbidity and Mortality
- Parenting for Lifelong Health – the Sinovuyo Teen Program
- Poverty in All its Forms: Determining the dimensions of poverty and how to measure them with people who experience it
- Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of the Parents Under Pressure Programme
- Research on Food Bank Usage in Bath, Bristol and Oxford: Investigating the Association between Universal Credit and Food Poverty
- Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives
- Systematic review of the effectiveness of video feedback for improving parental sensitivity and infant attachment
- Being EU Citizens: Perceptions and lived experiences of exercising social rights in the UK
- bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards European citizenship
- Child poverty in South Africa: improving the evidence base
- CONSORT-SPI
- Designing strategies for efficient funding of higher education in Europe (DEFINE)
- Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit
- Implementing health care delivery in low resource settings: a qualitative evaluation
- In protracted limbo: a comparative study of the tranisitions to adulthood and life trajectories of former unaccompanied children
- Pathways to survival: identifying psychosocial, family and service mechanisms to improve anti-retroviral adherence
- Prospects for a fertility increase in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe
- Prowelfare 2014-2016
- The gap between fertility ideals and reality in East Asia: a mixed method comparative study of Beijing and Taiwan
- The relationship between spatial inequality and attitudes to inequality in South Africa
- The role of education in intergenerational social mobility
- UK in a Changing Europe; Being EU citizens: Experiences of exercising social rights in the UK
- Understanding harmful effects of social policies and interventions
- Optimising Parenting Interventions
- Building evidence for prevention of child maltreatment
- Accelerate Hub
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Two new Statutory Professors appointed at DSPI
- Copyright
- Assessing and Monitoring Family Policy
- Front end test
- Craig Carty
- Brand guidelines
- Barnett Papers guidelines
- Brand new look for the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI)
- The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- COVID-19 Parenting response wins the Oxford Vice Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement 2022 award
- Louise Gordon
- Global Parenting Initiative
- Recognition of Distinction 2022 – Congratulations to Aaron Reeves
- Dr Laura Sochas awarded Leverhulme Trust funding
- Dr Katie Higgins
- Outsourced children’s care homes provide poorer quality care
- Professor Ann Phoenix to give 2022 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture
- Dr Hernando Grueso
- Dr Bothaina Eltigani
- Kristen de Graaf
- Kathryn Steventon Roberts
- Yvonne Agengo
- Dr Rachel Yates
- Sopuruchukwu Obiesie (MBBS)
- Alina Kiradjieva
- Amberley Barrington-Peek
- Juliet Mcdermott
- Lydia Holland
- Janina Jochim
- Nontokozo Langwenya
- Saara Thakur
- Dr Rossella Ciccia wins EJPG Best Article Award
- Maria Ambrosio
- Professor Mary Daly delivers keynote address on the challenges of long-term care
- Dr Tim Vlandas launches new book published with Oxford University Press
- PLH team respond to Pakistan floods with new parenting tips
- Alumni from Britain’s top girls’ public schools 20 times more likely to reach elite positions
- George and Teresa Smith Award Winners 2021-22
- Watch Professor Ann Phoenix's Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture
- Michele Bavaro
- Seonwoo Yoon
- Tamsin Greene Barker
- Zuyi Fang
- The Global Parenting Initiative Opens its Doors
- Arne Kuehl
- Dr Vladimir Bortun
- More than one third of year's learning lost in pandemic – new study in Nature Human Behaviour
- Dr Peter Burr
- Dr Lewis R. Anderson
- Cherise Regier
- Victoria Tan
- New research by Dr Mark Fransham examines the levelling up agenda
- Parenting for Lifelong Health team create new resources to support parents and caregivers affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
- Professor Jane Gingrich
- Promoting safer sleeping for babies in England – new report
- Key DSPI research underpins new WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment
- In Memoriam Professor Ann Buchanan
- Child Policy during COVID-19 Database
- Hal Cooper
- Start for Life National Evaluation
- Professor Mary Daly’s new book joins prestigious Oxford Handbooks series
- International Forum on Child and Family Policy
- Fran Bennett provides oral evidence at Treasury Committee meeting about ‘cliff edges’ in the benefit and tax system
- Student-led research symposium fosters engagement and collaboration
- Outsourced social care linked to concerns over placements of vulnerable children
- University of Oxford researchers work together to protect COVID-19 orphans
- New Royal partnership study with health visitors to promote infant wellbeing and development
- Work Orientations and Conditions of Care Workers
- Deanna Marie Giraldi, MPH
- Temitope Sevezun Toyon
- DPhil students Solhee Han and Kun Lee awarded prestigious grants for social policy research
- Professor Kenneth Nelson
- Professor Mary Daly elected President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Family Research
- rEUsilience: Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families
- Evidencing the outsourcing of social care provision in England
- Amanda Shriwise
- Dr Nhat An Trinh
- Yi Qie
- Dr Michael Fanner
- Kathleen Murphy
- Mobarak Hossain
- Mr. Benjamin Perks
- Ben Goodair on the privitisation of the NHS
- Teen mums in South Africa: largest ever study explores what it takes to go back to school
- Laura Sochas on social policies, reproductive injustice and health
- The neglected next generation: Investing in support for young people in the streets
- Are Campaign Promises Effective?
- Research based child abuse prevention and parenting programme to support lifelong health
- 2023 Annual Lecture to discuss political conflicts of public welfare provision
- Dr Merve Uzunalioğlu
- Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
- Oxford research on poverty, unemployment, terrorism and global kleptocracy celebrated for real-world impacts
- Two in five children in care are placed outside their local authority – here’s why that’s a problem
- Jonathan Lowe
- Jad Moawad
- Dr Bridget Steele
- Dr Ben Chrisinger
- Ellen Morgan
- Rosemary O'Connor
- Children were an afterthought in COVID-19 Policymaking, Oxford University and UNICEF reveal
- Dr Mackenzie Martin
- David Rodriguez
- Mark Orkin
- Associate member Dr Ivana Dobrotić plays major role in securing free school meals for primary students in Croatia
- A rethink of support for families in the UK is necessary, says rEUsilience report
- Steffen Redeker
- James Dean
- Lucy Liddicot
- Alexis Wong
- Marianne Joy Vital
- Duo (Ellen) Yi
- Amalina Binti Annuar
- Dr Amiya Bhatia
- Gretchen Ellis
- Nina Acharya
- New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care
- New working paper suggests the need to rethink what European countries offer to families, especially those with low resources
- Global business communities
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- New analysis: most care homes closed by industry regulator are run for-profit
- Department of Social Policy and Intervention awarded the Athena Swan Bronze Award
- Professor Alex Sutherland
- Ben Scher invited to speak at 67th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- Nesma Yassin
- Sayyed Manzer
- A mixed-methods study of the feasibility and acceptability of using the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) within universal health visiting practice in England
- Supporting Early Minds Research Network (Oxford Health NIHR Biomedical Research Centre)
- National Evaluation of Innovative Early Years Skill-Mix Working.
- Qualitative Process Evaluation of a Practice Elements Approach on Responsive Caregiving to Infants in Early Years Skill Mix Workforce Development
- Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts
- Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation awards €1,5million research grant to international research team
- Anja Zinke-Allmang
- Dr Tim Vlandas awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
- Jem Chalk
- Lucy Olsen
- DPhil student Martina Beretta recipient of prestigious social policy award
- Symposium for early researchers in Social Policy & Intervention holds annual event discussing social and economic issues
- Global Parenting Initiative hosts film screening of 'Being Family'
- Dr. Jamie Lachman leads key discussions on parenting innovation at the Asia regional conference
- Barnett Prize winners 2024
- In the media: ‘Born to Rule’ co-authored by Professor Aaron Reeves
- Investigating links between adverse and protective childhood contexts and violence later in life: Analysis of cohort data in England, Brazil & Uganda
- New research: Outsourcing of care homes in England has disproportionately disadvantaged poorer areas
- GIR Annual Conference 2024: Putting the Spotlight on Issues from the Global South and Raising Novel Ideas on Inequality
- Announcement: Teresa Smith
- Two new Professorships awarded at DSPI
- 2024 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture: Where Next with the UN Global Violence Reduction Goals?
- A tribute from George Smith to his wife, Teresa Smith Collingwood (1941-2024)
- New report sheds light on extent and impact of outsourcing in England's social care sectors
- Dr Sophia Backhaus
- Dr Rana Khazbak
- Dr Dirk Witteveen
- Afnan Attrash-Najjar
- Dr Gabriela Pavarini
- Hannah van Vijfeijken
- Professor Lucie Cluver wins ERC Public Engagement with Research award
- DSPI welcomes Dr Gabriela Pavarini
- In the Media: Recent report into impact of outsourcing in England’s social care sector
- Project led by Professor Jane Barlow wins Social Sciences Division Interdisciplinary Hubs Award
- Jinseo Kim
- Lin Chen
- Seonghun Seo
- Robert Hill
- Eliana Lauder
- Matej Bárta
- Enrico Benassi
- Karan Kalsi
- Jianing Yang
- Wange Li
- Xinghao Li
- George Smith Award Winners 2023-2024
- Ahmed Naaif Mohamed
- Charlotte Evans
- Nicola Tomlin
- Equality Act 2010 and Protected Characteristics
- James Ward
- Cloé Gosselin
- Transforming Early Childhood: The Royal Foundation’s Partnership with Professor Jane Barlow and Dr Michael Fanner
- Benjamin Hornsby-Odoi
- Krish Wadhwani
- Funding and Scholarships
- New Global Study Highlights Alarming Rates of Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- Zamakhanya Makhanya
- Celebrating Excellence: Teresa Smith Awards 2023-24
- Won-Sub Kim
- Aniela Bankowicz
- Integrating Household Structure and Employment Patterns: Key Insights for Effective Poverty Reduction Strategies in Europe
- Eliott De Smedt Day
- Margarita León
- Ana María Restrepo-Sáenz
- Exploring Youth-Led Mental Health Initiatives: Empowering Adolescents and Strengthening Community Well-being
- New research: Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes
- Shreyanka Chandel
- Symposium for Early Researchers in Social Policy and Intervention (SERSPI)
- New Publication from Dr. Dirk Witteveen in International Migration Review Examines Immigrant Career Inequalities
- rEUsilience project, jointly led by researchers at University of Oxford and Stockholm University, recognised as European Commission Success Story
- Dr Ismael G. Munoz
- Dr Jan Helmdag
- Luciana Leite
- Dr Michael Ganslmeier
- University of Oxford strengthens collaborative efforts on sexual misconduct prevention and support
- Alejandro Biondi
- Paul Peña
- Julia Schaub
- Should smartphones be banned in UK schools? DSPI students apply learning and present recommendations to local policymakers and government
- Diana Mwala
- Kun Lee
- DSPI researchers help develop new World Health Organization guide on parenting interventions for policymakers
- Dr Siyanai Zhou
- Professor Lucie Cluver awarded King’s Birthday Honour in recognition of services to children’s wellbeing and to global public health
- Professor Frances Gardner awarded King’s Birthday Honour in recognition of services to reducing violence against children
- Event recap: Symposium for Early Researchers in Social Policy & Intervention
- New research proves two freely available tools can be used to assess mental health and depression in multiple countries
- Even when researchers play by the rules, how stable are their findings? New study shows how and why even honest research findings can flip and what to do about it
- Barnett Prize winner 2025: Neftalem Emanuel
- Neftalem Emanuel
- How AI is reshaping how we understand parent-child interactions
- Becoming Protagonists: Effectiveness of a digital intervention to promote youth participation for mental health in Brazil