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Research presented at the House of Commons

Teaching Excellence Award for Mark Fransham

Academics

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Dr Selçuk Bedük

Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy

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Dr Bastian Betthäuser

Associate Member

Erzsébet Bukodi

Professor Erzsébet Bukodi

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

On sabbatical for academic year 2025-26

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Dr Rossella Ciccia

Associate Professor of Social Policy

Course Director for Comparative Social Policy

Professor Mary Daly

Professor Emerita of Sociology and Social Policy

Dr Ivana Dobrotić

Associate Member

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Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Associate Member

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Dr Mark Fransham

Senior Academic Fellow

Chair of Examiners for Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Professor Jane Gingrich

Professor of Social Policy

Research Director

Dr Marek Naczyk

Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy

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Professor Kenneth Nelson

Barnett Professor of Social Policy

Head of Department

Professor Brian Nolan

Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow

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Professor Zachary Parolin

Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity

Director, Economics, Inequality and Opportunity (EIO) Programme at INET Oxford; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College

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Professor Rebecca Surender

Senior Research Fellow

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Professor Alex Sutherland

Professor in Practice Criminology & Public Policy

Nuffield College

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Dr Merve Uzunalioğlu

Associate Member

Professor Tim Vlandas

Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Social Policy

On leave until September 2026

Professor Robert Walker

Emeritus Fellow & Professor Emeritus

Staff

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Jonathan Lowe

Research Facilitator

Dr Aoife O’Higgins

Associate Member

Students

Ali Bargu

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Enrico Benassi

Centenary Scholar

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Martina Beretta

Clarendon and Nuffield College Scholarships

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Paloma Diaz Topete

Centenary Scholar

Anusha Fraikin

St Cross College

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Yaxin Guo

St. Edmund Hall

Ye Eun Ha

Solhee Han

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Sara Hueber

Nuffield College

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Adrienne McManus

Ertuğrul Polat

Barnett Scholar

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Katariina Rantanen

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholar

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George Rappa

MPhil student in Comparative Social Policy

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Steffen Redeker

Trinity College

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Miya Rosenthal

MSc Student in Comparative Social Policy

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Quinn Sanderson

MPhil student in Comparative Social Policy

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Cyrette Saunier

DPhil Student in Social Policy

Nuffield College

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Julia Schaub

Nuffield College

Roland Tusz

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholar

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Marianne Joy Vital

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Christina Wang

MPhil Student in Comparative Social Policy

St. Catherine's College

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Seonwoo Yoon

Clarendon Scholar

Pages

impactageingprojectDSPI

Ageing Democracies: Grey Power and Economic Performance

parentingprojectDSPI

Assessing and Monitoring Family Policy

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Child Policy during COVID-19 Database

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Child poverty in South Africa: improving the evidence base

Designing strategies for efficient funding of higher education in Europe (DEFINE)

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Dimensions of Poverty in China

EmploymentEquityGrowthprojectDSPI

Employment, Equity and Growth

incomeinequalityprojectDSPI

Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit

healthvistingprojectDSPI

Implementing health care delivery in low resource settings: a qualitative evaluation

welfarereformprojectDSPI

In protracted limbo: a comparative study of the tranisitions to adulthood and life trajectories of former unaccompanied children

inequalityprosperityprojectDSPI

Inequality and Prosperity

familyformationprojectDSPI

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Formation Policies

farrightprojectDSPI

Political economy of Far-right party support

LabourMarketPoliciesprojectDSPI

Political economy of Labour Market Policies

economicpolicyprojectDSPI

Politics of economic policy and outcomes

UniversalBasicIncomeprojectDSPI

Politics of Universal Basic Income

europefertilityDSPI

Prospects for a fertility increase in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe

IncomeInequalityResearchDSPI

Prowelfare 2014-2016

infantmentalhealthprojectDSPI

Social and gender inequalities in care

SovereignWealthFundsprojectDSPI

Sovereign Wealth Funds

fertilityasiaDSPI

The gap between fertility ideals and reality in East Asia: a mixed method comparative study of Beijing and Taiwan

familywealthprojectDSPI

The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth

povertyprojectDSPI

The relationship between spatial inequality and attitudes to inequality in South Africa

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Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts

workinequalityprojectDSPI

Trade union institutions and inequality of work and income