Analyses of Contemporary Social Policy Problems Explore work from our current MSc Social Policy students 11 Dec 2017
Barnett Professorship of Social Policy Opportunity to take up a key Chair for the Department of Social Policy and Intervention 8 Jan 2018
Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success, depending on their background 29 May 2019
Comparative Social Policy student to write for New York Times Tyler Pager wins a trip with prize-winning columnist 24 Jan 2018
DSPI wins at OUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards Professor Mary Daly receives Most Acclaimed Lecturer award 10 May 2018
Fran Bennett features on BBC Radio 4's Money Box Live Our Senior Research and Teaching Fellow has taken part in a radio panel 27 Sep 2017
Generating Prosperity New book & conference from 'Employment, Equity and Growth' research programme 14 Nov 2018
Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries New book edited by Brian Nolan looks at shared challenges and contrasting fortunes 4 Jul 2018
Inequality and prosperity in the industrialized world New report looks at the growing challenge of inequality 20 Sep 2017
Investigating the impact of Universal Credit for families balancing work, money and care A new project with the University of Bath 18 Apr 2018
Is smoking transmitted from one generation to another? Dr Alexi Gugushvili introduces his recent findings 19 Feb 2018
New Barnett Paper published Read Bastian Betthäuser's paper on educational inequality after state socialism 25 Sep 2017
New Barnett Paper Published Read John Haskey's paper on the concentration of reproduction and partnership history in Great Britain 7 Jun 2018
New Barnett Paper Published Read Selçuk Bedük's paper on identifying people in poverty in the EU 17 Sep 2018
New British Academy Mid-Career Fellows announced DSPI's Erzsébet Bukodi wins prestigious fellowship 1 May 2018
New report investigates increasing inequality in rich countries Professor Brian Nolan speaks at Citi launch event for new report 3 Oct 2017
Professor Mary Daly is elected to the British Academy Our chair of Sociology and Social Policy recognised by the British Academy 21 Jul 2017
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. 13 Jun 2018
Spotlight on graduate research: Elder care and the emerging East Asian welfare state Why did Taiwanese welfare reform fail to defamilialise elder care? 20 Jun 2018
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. 4 Jun 2018
The Brexit Generation Game New paper looks at the welfare challenges masked by inter-generational conflict 18 Jul 2018
Understanding #MeToo Alumna Rhaina Cohen tells us about her work in American public radio 14 Mar 2018
We have to talk about the children Alumni lecture throws the spotlight on children’s place in social policy in Europe 24 Sep 2018
Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany New book by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Elias Naumann 15 Jan 2018
Professor Erzsébet Bukodi Professor of Sociology and Social Policy Deputy Head of Department & Director of Graduate Studies
Professor Mary Daly Professor of Sociology and Social Policy Course Director - Comparative Social Policy
Dr Tim Vlandas Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy Course Director for Comparative Social Policy
Michael Ganslmeier DPhil Student All Souls College and ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Studentship
13 Feb A Critical Review of English Reforms in Support Services for Children, Parents and Families during Austerity Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
28 Feb 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
23 Jan Austerity and the Reconfiguration of the Welfare State Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
5 Mar CANCELLED: Basic Income and Austerity Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
8 Mar CANCELLED: Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: a human rights approach Part of Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford: Hilary 2018 seminar series Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
20 Feb CANCELLED: Lived Experiences of People at the Margins in Times of Austerity Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
12 Mar CANCELLED: Low-income America and the Delegated State Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
22 Feb 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 Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
17 Jan Colonialism and 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
24 Jan 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
25 Jan 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
17 Jan 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 Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
11 Feb Family changes and incipient political responses in a context of high inequalities: Latin America before and since COVID | Merike Blofield Zoom Webinar
31 Jan Gender, right-wing populism and family policy discourses in Hungary and Poland Part of Social Policy beyond the West: Hilary 2019 seminar series Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
26 Oct 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 Violet Butler Room
23 Jan Hidden asymmetries in explaining intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Europe: set analytic comparison Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
4 Mar Hostile environments: State infrastructural power and the exclusion of unauthorized migrants in Western Europe | Kimberly Morgan Zoom Webinar
8 Feb 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
6 Feb How Policies & Institutions Shaped Welfare Consequences of the Great Recession in Europe Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
28 Jan Locally controlled minimum wages are no closer to public preferences | Gabor Simonovits & Julia Payson Zoom Webinar
21 Feb 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
23 Nov Material deprivation and intra-household allocation of resources across Europe Dr Tania Burchardt gives the last of our Michaelmas Term colloquia Violet Butler Room
30 Jan Neo-liberalism and the Political Economy of Austerity Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
15 Feb 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
14 Feb 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
18 Jan 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
12 Oct Poverty and shame in China: a moral perspective Dr Lichao Yang gives the first of our Michaelmas Term colloquia Violet Butler Room
5 Mar Power at work: inequality by social class and gender across countries and policy contexts Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
16 Nov 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 Violet Butler Room
1 Feb 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
27 Feb The Evolution of Growth and Welfare Regimes in the Knowledge Economy Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
7 Feb 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
1 Mar 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
7 Mar 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
Becoming 'Adult': Conceptions of futures and wellbeing among young people subject to immigration control in the UK (2017)
Does 'shame-proofing' anti-poverty programmes improve their effectiveness? Theory of change and impact policy evaluation in cross-national settings
Educational inequalities in Britain revisited: a new approach to investigating primary and secondary effects of social origins
Ensuring global impact for research on poverty and shame: generating content for a knowledge exchange proposal (2012)
In protracted limbo: a comparative study of the tranisitions to adulthood and life trajectories of former unaccompanied children
Integrating macro and micro perspectives in cross-national comparison: Dynamic policy structures and individual outcomes (2012)
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)
Poverty in All its Forms: Determining the dimensions of poverty and how to measure them with people who experience it
Prospects for a fertility increase in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (2015)
Research on Food Bank Usage in Bath, Bristol and Oxford: Investigating the Association between Universal Credit and Food Poverty
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: the changing effects of different components of social origins
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
Sustainable growth, social inclusion and family policy: innovative ways of coping with old and new challenges (2009)
The gap between fertility ideals and reality in East Asia: a mixed method comparative study of Beijing and Taiwan (2015)
The political impact of ageing on the economy A review and collection of evidence for 20 OECD countries between 1970 and 2010
Understanding policy change in democratic South Africa: an analysis of the medical professions' views about proposed reforms