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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
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- Professor Laetitia Rispel joins DSPI as part of her Senior Africa Oxford Fellowship
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- Tamar Bortsvadze
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- 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
- Could scale-up of parenting programmes improve child disruptive behaviour and reduce social inequalities?
- 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
- Athena Chow
- Educational inequalities in Britain revisited: a new approach to investigating primary and secondary effects of social origins
- Stephen Dillon
- Ana Beatriz Fernandez Jondec
- Employment, Equity and Growth
- Kristijan Fidanovski
- Rachel Ganly
- Michael Ganslmeier
- Benjamin Goodair
- Evaluating the impact of “stand your ground” self-defence laws in the US
- Ye Eun Ha
- Evidence mapping review of intergenerational interventions
- Doaa Hammoudeh
- 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
- Matthias Haslberger
- 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
- Mobarak Hossain
- Roselinde Janowski
- Needs and Entitlements: How UK welfare reform affects larger families
- Joe Hasell
- Tina Khanna
- OUR SPACE: Oxford Understanding Relationships, Sex, Power, Abuse, and Consent Experiences
- Kun Lee
- 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 suite of parenting programmes to prevent violence
- 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
- Lukas Lehner
- RISE: Prevention of Child Mental Health Problems in Southeastern Europe
- Alistair Leitch
- Madison Little
- Xi Liu
- Lamma Mansour
- Mackenzie Martin
- Adrienne McManus
- Camila Mella San Martin
- Kathleen Murphy
- Guillaume Paugam
- Hannah Phillips
- Vanessa Picker
- Ertuğrul Polat
- Katariina Rantanen
- Sunwoo Ryu
- Moa Schafer
- Benjamin Scher
- Social and gender inequalities in care
- Karen Snow
- Bridget Steele
- Inga Steinberg
- Social origins, cognitive ability and educational attainment: a birth cohort and life-course perspective
- Timea Suli
- Susan Swingler
- Sovereign Wealth Funds
- The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis
- Andrea Tartakowsky
- Meaghan Thumath
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on services
- Roland Tusz
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth
- Rosa von Gleichen
- 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
- Dr MaryJane Nweje
- Enrico Benassi
- 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
- Katharine de Viliers
- Dr Hernando Grueso
- Dr Bothaina Eltigani
- Petra Fitzgerald
- 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
- Annual Report 2021/22
- DSPI publishes annual report for 2021/22
- 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
- Snezana Todorovic
- Michele Bavaro
- Agathe Osinski
- Seonwoo Yoon
- Alfredo Praticò
- Taehwan Kim
- Coleman Warren
- Tyler Pugh
- Lala Zinkevych
- Tamsin Greene Barker
- Minha Khan
- Zuyi Fang
- Emily-Rae Foreman
- Dulashini Sooriyarachchi
- The Global Parenting Initiative Opens its Doors
- Margaret Lim
- Kimberley Kudwoli
- Diana Baltazar Cordero
- Lauren Skinner
- Arne Kuehl
- Dr Vladimir Bortun
- More than one third of year's learning lost in pandemic – new study in Nature Human Behaviour
- Anna Louise Todsen
- Paula Dornbusch
- Dr Peter Burr
- Dr Lewis R. Anderson
- Cherise Regier
- Victoria Tan
- New research by Dr Mark Fransham examines the levelling up agenda
- Carlee Goldberg
- Matthew Ding
- Geis Simmons
- Karl Angela Eligado
- Dr Benjamin Alsop-ten Hove
- 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
- Sanjana Balakrishnan
- Kimberly Rimber
- 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