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- Young carers for AIDS-ill parents: social, health and educational impacts.
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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)
- Two new Barnett Papers published
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- 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
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- 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)
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- ‘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
- Professor Lars Osberg
- 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 Katharina Cordes
- 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
- 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
- Jade Schneiders
- 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
- Ellie Purser
- New Barnett Paper Published
- Olivia Hawkes
- 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’