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• Administrative Data Liaison Service (2014)
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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
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• 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
• 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
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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sumaiya Tasnim Zahoor
• Politics of Universal Basic Income
• Dimensions of Poverty in China
• João Monteiro
• David Rodriguez
• Roselinde Janowski
• The Global Impact of DSPI Research
• Child Poverty in Urban China
• Impact Case Study: Cash + Care: Transforming HIV outcomes for adolescents in Africa through social protection
• Impact Case Study: Preventing child abuse globally through research-driven parenting programmes
• Equal marriage, equal civil partnerships? Issues around legal unions.
• Paula Zinser
• ParentText Optimisation Study: A Chatbot-led Intervention Aimed to Promote Playful Parenting and Prevent Violence Against Children
• Barnett Prize Winners 2021
• Cambridge University Press Awards Winner for Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship
• The heat, water and health nexus in urban India: What is the role of research in framing climate vulnerability?
• The implementers' perspective on climate vulnerability
• The perspective of policy-makers
• What next? Synthesizing challenges and opportunities
• Global study estimates 1.5 million children worldwide have lost a parent, grandparent, or caregiver due to COVID-19
• 2021 Sidney Ball Lecture - What We Owe Each Other
• Duncan Fisher
• Damien Piron
• Political economy of Labour Market Policies
• Political economy of Far-right party support
• Trade union institutions and inequality of work and income
• Sovereign Wealth Funds
• Politics of economic policy and outcomes
• The political consequences of Covid-19
• Research into gender and employment turned into educational materials for teenagers
• Olha Homonchuk
• Dr John Francis Davies
• Sherif Akil
• Dr Jamie Lachman and Professor Lucie Cluver win O2RB Excellence in Impact Award
• Epidemic illusions: on the coloniality of global public health
• The rehabilitative prison: challenging practices in prison design in order to challenge attitudes to prisoners
• Integrating culture, science, and social justice: a 12-year program of prevention parenting research with Latina/o immigrants in the US, and Latina/o populations in Latin America
• Qing Han
• Refining paradigms to integrate health equity into implementation science
• Moving anti-racism in implementation science from the margins to the center
• Racism in the time of COVID-19: reflections on theory, data, and action
• Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods: a new concept for an age of complexity
• (Over) population, people, & climate emergency: reproductive justice as a paradigm shift
• Decomposing wealth mobility in the US: The role of education and income
• Pension financialization in a multilevel setting: Redrawing the pension schemes of local public agents in Belgium
• A Global Parenting Initiative
• Modelling inequalities in economic loss and an economic recovery from Covid-19: A ‘big’ administrative data approach
• Baroness Minouche Shafik to give 2021 Sidney Ball lecture
• Dr Ben Verboom
• Research Theme: Ageing
• Who cares for the carers?: New study will gather opinions on working conditions of care home workers
• Frances Gardner awarded Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship
• Research Theme: Child and Family Welfare
• Research theme: Covid-19
• Research theme: Elites
• Research theme: Gender & Inequality
• Research theme: Political Economy
• Research theme: Violence Prevention
• Research theme: Social inequality
• New report uncovers complexities and structural problems of Universal Credit