Department of Social Policy and Intervention

A multidisciplinary social science centre for research and teaching

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News

A Nation Divided by Wealth?

Professor Brian Nolan on panel at Oxford Martin School event

Alumni lecture coming up in September

Analyses of Contemporary Social Policy Problems

Explore work from our current MSc Social Policy students

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Austerity and Beyond? New seminar series

Andy Haldane speaking at Oxford Martin School

Bank of England chief economist lays out the costs of income insecurity for UK households

Barnett Prize Winners 2019

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Barnett Professorship of Social Policy

Opportunity to take up a key Chair for the Department of Social Policy and Intervention

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Behind the scenes with a UN Special Rapporteur

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Children of Austerity

A new book edited by Brian Nolan

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Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success, depending on their background

Comparative Social Policy student to write for New York Times

Tyler Pager wins a trip with prize-winning columnist

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Coronavirus - the making or the unmaking of Universal Credit?

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Design flaws in Universal Credit for couples revealed as claims soar

DSPI Student is finalist at ESRC 'Better Lives' competition

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DSPI wins at OUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards

Professor Mary Daly receives Most Acclaimed Lecturer award

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Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship Award

Mary Daly at European Parliament

Fighting child poverty in the EU

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First term highlights: Reflections from a Social Policy student

Fran Bennett features on BBC Radio 4's Money Box Live

Our Senior Research and Teaching Fellow has taken part in a radio panel

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Generating Prosperity

New book & conference from 'Employment, Equity and Growth' research programme

Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries

New book edited by Brian Nolan looks at shared challenges and contrasting fortunes

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Inequality and prosperity in the industrialized world

New report looks at the growing challenge of inequality

Investigating the impact of Universal Credit for families balancing work, money and care

A new project with the University of Bath

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Is smoking transmitted from one generation to another?

Dr Alexi Gugushvili introduces his recent findings

Kilmer & Kind

Two U.S. Representatives in Conversation at Barnett House

Caspar Kaiser presenting at Nuffield College

Life as a doctoral research student - Caspar Kaiser

Life as a doctoral research student - Inga Steinberg

Life as a doctoral research student - Julius Wersig

Major European Research Council Synergy funding win for economic inequality project

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Money within the Household

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New Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy

New Barnett Paper Published

Read John Haskey's paper on the concentration of reproduction and partnership history in Great Britain

New Barnett Paper Published

Read Selçuk Bedük's paper on identifying people in poverty in the EU

New Barnett Paper published

Read Bastian Betthäuser's paper on educational inequality after state socialism

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New book explores progress in gender equality in the EU

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New book: Welfare and the Great Recession

New British Academy Mid-Career Fellows announced

DSPI's Erzsébet Bukodi wins prestigious fellowship

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New position at Beijing Normal University for Robert Walker

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New report investigates increasing inequality in rich countries

Professor Brian Nolan speaks at Citi launch event for new report

Our World in Data: COVID-19 Statistics

OxPop launches new demography blog

Pensions, inequalities, and poverty in old age

Poverty in the UK: responding to the Alston report

Preparing for the 2019 Y7 Summit

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Professor Mary Daly appointed to ESRC Strategic Advisory Network

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Professor Mary Daly is elected to the British Academy

Our chair of Sociology and Social Policy recognised by the British Academy

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Re-thinking the approach to long-term care

A response to pressures across Europe

Robert Walker meeting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang

Reflections from Beijing

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Social Fluidity in Europe

New paper from the INET team

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Social Mobility and Education in Britain

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Social Mobility and Education in Britain: London launch

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Specialist advisers appointed to House of Lords’ Universal Credit inquiry

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Spotlight on graduate research: Adaptation to increase in income

A glimpse of what our DPhil students are working on, as overheard at our 2018 Graduate Research Student Conference at Wolfson College on 25 May 2018.

Spotlight on graduate research: Elder care and the emerging East Asian welfare state

Why did Taiwanese welfare reform fail to defamilialise elder care?

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Spotlight on graduate research: Impact of voucher school reform in Chile

A glimpse of what our DPhil students are working on, as overheard at our 2018 Graduate Research Student Conference at Wolfson College on 25 May 2018.

Spotlight on Graduate Research: Intergenerational social class mobility in Europe

Ali Bargu responds to questions, GRS 2019

Spotlight on Graduate Research: Social Policy Beyond the West

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Spotlight on graduate research: Subjective poverty in Ukraine

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Spotlight on graduate research: Wage inequality in OECD countries

Student insights: Ashly Fuller

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Student insights: Michael Rees

Swinging Both Ways – EU Social Policy after Brexit

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The Brexit Generation Game

New paper looks at the welfare challenges masked by inter-generational conflict

The challenges of Universal Credit

Fran Bennett talks about the issues at stake

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The costs of education in an age of austerity

UK pension system among those with highest old age poverty in Europe

Understanding #MeToo

Alumna Rhaina Cohen tells us about her work in American public radio

Universal Credit: Design matters

Unveiling the hidden dimensions of poverty

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Vacancy: Associate Professorship of Social Policy

We have to talk about the children

Alumni lecture throws the spotlight on children’s place in social policy in Europe

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Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany

New book by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Elias Naumann

Where next for Social Policy?

Watch this year's Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture

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Who really are the poor? Measuring poverty with multiple dimensions

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Why Demography Matters

New book by Dr Stuart Gietel-Basten

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Working-class children don’t primarily do worse because they are ‘less bright’

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‘Supertracker’ global directory launched to track policy changes during COVID-19

Academics

Leo Azzollini

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Bastian Betthäuser

Dr Bastian Betthäuser

Associate Member

Professor Ann Buchanan

Senior Research Associate

Professor Erzsébet Bukodi

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

Deputy Head of Department & Director of Graduate Studies

Rafael Carranza

Rafael Carranza

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Dr Rossella Ciccia

Associate Professor of Social Policy

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Professor Mary Daly

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

Course Director - Comparative Social Policy

Dr Ivana Dobrotić

Marie Curie Fellow

Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Professor of Social Policy

Head of Department 2017-2020

Professor Mark Fransham

Dr Mark Fransham

Senior Research Officer / Departmental Lecturer in Quantitative Methods

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Dr Tim Goedemé

Senior Research Officer

Dr Helen Kowalewska

Dr Helen Kowalewska

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Dr Marek Naczyk

Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy

Professor Brian Nolan

Professor of Social Policy

Dr Aoife O'Higgins

Dr Aoife O’Higgins

Associate Member

Dr Juan C. Palomino

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Dr Marii Paskov

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Dr Rebecca Surender

Senior Research Fellow

Pro-Vice Chancellor

Dr Tim Vlandas

Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy

Course Director for Comparative Social Policy

Professor Robert Walker

Associate Fellow & Professor Emeritus

Staff

Duncan Fisher

Students

Ali Bargu

Politics of Welfare in Emerging Market Economies Scholar

Lucy Bartel

Master's Student

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Priyanka Bawa

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Selçuk Bedük

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Michaela Bunakova

Kaitlyn Ju Cho

Barnett Scholar

Mairi Clarkson

Master's Student

Gideon Daitz

Master's Student

Charlotte Densmore

Charlotte Densmore

Master's Student

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Paloma Diaz Topete

Centenary Scholar

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Stephen Dillon

kristijan Fidanovski

Kristijan Fidanovski

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John Frame

Cynthia M. Galaz

Master's Student

Michael Ganslmeier

All Souls College and ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Studentship

Michael C. George

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Doaa Hammoudeh

Solhee Han

Justin Hartley

Master's Student

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Matthias Haslberger

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholarship

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Mobarak Hossain

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholarship

Sarani Jayawardena

Sarani Jayawardena

Master's Student

Oxford-Weidenfeld & Hoffman-Barnett, Kofi Annan Scholar

Tylor-Maria Johnson

Master's Student

Daniel M. Sachs Scholar

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Michael King

Juhi Kore

Master's Student

Kun Lee

Centenary Scholar

Lukas Lehner

ESRC Scholar, Scatcherd European Scholar, Saven European Scholar

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Alistair Leitch

Centenary Scholar

Xi Liu

China Council Scholarship holder

Martin Loinig

Master's Student

Camila Mella San Martin

João Monteiro

Master's Student

Mercy Muroki

Master's Student

Guillaume Paugam

Hannah Phillips

Hannah Phillips

Clarendon Scholar

Ertugrul Polat

Barnett Scholar

Katariina Rantanen

Katariina Rantanen

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholar

Maya Richardson

Maya Richardson

Master's Student

Sunwoo Ryu

Moa Schafer

ESRC Grand Union Scholar; Saven European Scholar

Nikolai Soukup

Master's Student

Saven European Scholar

Inga Steinberg

Barnett House-Nuffield Joint Scholarship

Timea Suli

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Andrea Tartakowsky

Sumaiya Tasnim Zahoor

Master's Student

Brian Treacy

Master's Student

Hannah Treon

Master's Student

Nhat An Trinh

Rosa von Gleichen

Jiayun Wang

Master's Student

Julius Wersig

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Leonie Westhoff

Clarendon Scholarship, ESRC AQM Scholarship

Kristiana Yao

Master's Student

Events

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A Critical Review of English Reforms in Support Services for Children, Parents and Families during Austerity

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Activating the youth in post-industrial Japan and Korea

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

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Austerity and the Reconfiguration of the Welfare State

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

CANCELLED: Basic Income and Austerity

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

CANCELLED: Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: a human rights approach

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

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CANCELLED: Lived Experiences of People at the Margins in Times of Austerity

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CANCELLED: Low-income America and the Delegated State

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

CANCELLED: Social impact bonds: the role of private capital in outcomes based commissioning

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

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Climate change: the myopia of social policy - Climate change and the welfare state | Ian Gough

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Colonialism and social policy in the Global South

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

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Critical policy analysis and social protection in the Global South: A view from the MENA region

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Deindustrialisation, state responses and social democracy

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

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

An event in our Hilary term 2019 Colloquium series

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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

Gender, right-wing populism and family policy discourses in Hungary and Poland

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

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Gritty Citizens? Exploring the Logic and Limits of Resilience in Social Policy During Times of Socio-Material Insecurity

Dr Matthew Donoghue gives the second of our Michaelmas Departmental Colloquia

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Hidden asymmetries in explaining intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Europe: set analytic comparison

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Hostile environments: State infrastructural power and the exclusion of unauthorized migrants in Western Europe | Kimberly Morgan

How does social progress in Britain since 1950 compare with that in “peer” countries?

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

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How Policies & Institutions Shaped Welfare Consequences of the Great Recession in Europe

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Locally controlled minimum wages are no closer to public preferences | Gabor Simonovits & Julia Payson

Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian civil service

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Material deprivation and intra-household allocation of resources across Europe

Dr Tania Burchardt gives the last of our Michaelmas Term colloquia

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Neo-liberalism and the Political Economy of Austerity

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Opportunities and challenges in using research to influence policy on childhood poverty in low- and middle-income countries

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Opting out of the social contract: Tax morale and evasion in Latin America

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Political philosophy and social policy: the concept of poverty

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Poverty and shame in China: a moral perspective

Dr Lichao Yang gives the first of our Michaelmas Term colloquia

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Power at work: inequality by social class and gender across countries and policy contexts

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Queery-ing policy studies: using insights from LGBT service users to advance our understanding

Dr Peter Matthews gives the third of our Michaelmas Term colloquia

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Social Policy, Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Oxford University: lessons from the study of Japan

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Taking back control: What will Brexit mean for UK social policy? | Kitty Stewart

The Evolution of Growth and Welfare Regimes in the Knowledge Economy

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

The origins of social security in India

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

What role for basic income in a post-Covid world? | Lena Lavinas and Olli Kangas

What should we do about social care, and why?

Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Where next for research on social policy in the Global South?

Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Pages

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A 'Supertracker' to improve social policy monitoring during the COVID-19 crisis

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)

Child poverty in Oman (2014)

Child Poverty in South Africa (2012)

Child poverty in South Africa: improving the evidence base (2015)

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Child Poverty in Urban China

Cities, Children and Childbearing (2016)

Crime, Deprivation and Inequality in South Africa (2012)

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Critical life events and the dynamics of inequality: Risk, vulnerability and cumulative disadvantage

Designing strategies for efficient funding of higher education in Europe (DEFINE) (2015)

Development of a social budget for South Africa (2012)

Development of a Tax and Benefit Microsimulation Model for Namibia (NAMOD) (2013)

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Dimensions of Poverty in China

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Does 'shame-proofing' anti-poverty programmes improve their effectiveness? Theory of change and impact policy evaluation in cross-national settings

Economic Deprivation Index 2008-2012 (2012)

Education and multiculturalism in France - CNRS visit (2013)

Education, Social Policies and Inequalities

An Oxford Institute of Social Policy research group

Educational inequalities in Britain revisited: a new approach to investigating primary and secondary effects of social origins

Employment, Equity and Growth

Employment, Equity and Growth

Ensuring global impact for research on poverty and shame: generating content for a knowledge exchange proposal (2012)

Enterprises as actors in family policy: the US and Dutch cases (2009)

Evaluating emerging fertility patterns and family changes in London (2012)

Evaluation of Children's Centres (2015)

Family and parenting support policies, programmes and services (2014)

Family Policy Briefings (2013)

Family Policy, Gender and Demographic Change

An Oxford Institute of Social Policy research group

Fertility of second-generation minority groups in the UK (2011)

Future Trajectories of Fertility in China (2012)

Gender and poverty: evidence and policy review (2013)

Governing 'new social risks': the case of recent child policies in European welfare states (2014)

Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit (2014)

History of Barnett House (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

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Inequality and Prosperity

An Oxford Institute of Social Policy/ Oxford Martin School research group

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Inequality and Prosperity

Investigating economic inequality

Integrating macro and micro perspectives in cross-national comparison: Dynamic policy structures and individual outcomes (2012)

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Formation Policies

Intergenerational Health Inequalities in Morbidity and Mortality

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Intergenerational social mobility in Europe

International Research Network: The Dualisation of Societies in Advanced OECD countries (2009)

KwaZulu-Natal Poverty Profiling Project (2016)

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Leverhulme Trust Biopsychosocial Doctoral Scholarship Programme

Information on undertaking a DPhil in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Lone mothers in South Africa - the role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity (2014)

Maximising the social and economic impact of demographic research in Oxford and the UK: a new collaborative blog (2013)

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Oxford Family Policy Database

Oxford Institute of Social Policy

Scholarly and policy-relevant social policy research

Participation and Multi-dimensional Poverty: Designing research for the World Bank Group (2016)

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Political economy of Far-right party support

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Political economy of Labour Market Policies

Political parties and non-standard employment (2014)

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Politics of economic policy and outcomes

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Politics of Universal Basic Income

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Poverty in All its Forms: Determining the dimensions of poverty and how to measure them with people who experience it

Poverty, choice and diversity: re-interpreting Peter Townsend's ideas (2012)

Poverty, Welfare and Social Exclusion

An Oxford Institute of Social Policy research group

Prenatal sex selection against females in the UK: ethics, extent and policies (2014)

Prospects for a fertility increase in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (2015)

Prowelfare 2014-2016 (2017)

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Research on Food Bank Usage in Bath, Bristol and Oxford: Investigating the Association between Universal Credit and Food Poverty

Safe and inclusive cities: research to reduce urban violence, poverty and inequalities (2015)

Shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes: a study in seven countries (2012)

Social and gender inequalities in care: childcare-related policies and parenting practices in the post-Yugoslav countries and the role of policy ideas — INCARE

Social inclusion and participation in rich democracies: an empirical analysis through the lens of citizenship (2013)

Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives (2015)

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Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives: the changing effects of different components of social origins

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Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation Doctoral study

Information on undertaking a DPhil in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Social origins, cognitive ability and educational attainment: a birth cohort and life-course perspective

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Social Policy Doctoral study

Information on undertaking a DPhil in Social Policy

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Sovereign Wealth Funds

Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE) (2017)

Sustainable growth, social inclusion and family policy: innovative ways of coping with old and new challenges (2009)

Tackling poverty, shame and social exclusion

The gap between fertility ideals and reality in East Asia: a mixed method comparative study of Beijing and Taiwan (2015)

The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth

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The political consequences of Covid-19

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The political impact of ageing on the economy

A review and collection of evidence for 20 OECD countries between 1970 and 2010

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The Politics of Social Policy Reform

An Oxford Institute of Social Policy research group

The realities of relocation (2014)

The relationship between spatial inequality and attidtudes to inequality in South Africa (2014)

The role of education in intergenerational social mobility (2015)

Income inequality vector image: one man standing on a small pile of money, another man standing on a large pile of money

Trade union institutions and inequality of work and income

UK in a Changing Europe; Being EU citizens: Experiences of exercising social rights in the UK (2015)

Understanding policy change in democratic South Africa: an analysis of the medical professions' views about proposed reforms

Unemployment and Pensions Protection in Europe: The Changing Role of Social Partners (2017)

Update the South African Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model (SAMOD) (2013)

Young people's experience of poverty and use of space (2014)

Youth in South Africa (2012)