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Evidence-based child abuse prevention: Developing measures for observation and evaluation in a global context

A Call to End Violence Against Children

CEBI Professor Frances Gardner presents to UNICEF conference in Montenegro

A conference with a difference: LEGO, parenting and banjos

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Accelerate Hub: Year 1 Highlights

Accelerator interventions at the UNAIDs Programme Coordinating Board

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Adolescent gun homicides double and racial disparities worsen after 'Stand Your Ground' self-defence law

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DSPI at the annual conference of the Child Protection Network

Meeting Minds 2019

Are there more hungry people in the UK?

Associate Professor in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Important vacancy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Barnett Prize Winners 2019

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Big prize for ESRC video on Professor Lucie Cluver's research

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Billions of children out of school: here’s how to cope

Professor Jane Barlow

Carrying out evaluations with families facing adversity

Professor Jane Barlow writes for NSPCC on the challenges of research

CEBI researchers in Macedonia to kick off major new project

Parenting for Lifelong Health extends into Southeastern Europe

Do fish oil supplements boost children’s reading ability?

Results from the second DOLAB study tell a different story

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Double success at Vice Chancellor's Innovation Awards

DPhil student leads Oxford to cricket glory

DSPI's Vanessa Picker on juggling sporting passion with innovative research

Dr Aaron Reeves joins DSPI

New Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Dr Aaron Reeves wins sought-after ERC Starting Grant

Dr Benjamin Chrisinger joins DSPI

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DSPI Alumnus appointed to University of Exeter Professorship

DSPI Student Mackenzie Martin Presents Research to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

DSPI will be part of new NIHR Policy Research Unit in Children and Families

Professor Jane Barlow to lead research on early interventions for children and families

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Elites highlight ordinary pursuits in public profiles

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Embedding financial literacy training in parenting programmes - does it work?

Evidence from a field experiment in South Africa

UBS Agrics Tanzania project

Evidence Matters: Farmers in Tanzania

A new film from UBS, one of our project funders, about the importance of evidence.

FAIR project to evaluate parenting programme in Tanzania

First term highlights: an MSc student looks back at Michaelmas Term 2018

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Frances Gardner wins 2019 Nan Tobler Award

Getting help with parenting makes a difference - at any age

Interventions for helping children with behaviour problems are just as effective in school age

Ground-breaking report aims to STACK the odds for adolescents living with HIV and reach the Sustainable Development Goals

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Horizon Impact Award for 'Parenting for Lifelong Health' teen project

Elizabeth Nye receiving her award

Humanities Innovation Challenge winner 2019

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International Women's Day 2019: Balance for Better

Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Sexual Risk Behaviour Among Women Who Inject Drugs in Indonesia

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Is child abuse on the increase?

Franziska Meinck

Leading the global fight against child abuse and neglect

DSPI researcher elected to ISPCAN Council

Let's End It

Professor Lucie Cluver at the launch of UNICEF's latest report on World Aids Day

Life after 'EBSIPE' - Fabian Reitzug

Life after 'EBSIPE' - James Dickson

New call for interest from PLH Digital

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New evidence from Oxford University proves that the work of UN agencies is effective

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New paper: ‘The Other Oldest Profession in the World’

New research paper from the Young Carers SA group

New podcasts explore adolescence in African contexts

New research to investigate impact of benefit changes on larger families

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Opportunity to study the impact of U.S “stand your ground” self-defence laws

Lucie Cluver with her ESRC Outstanding International Impact award

Outstanding International Impact – from 32 Wellington Square to the world

A new accolade for Professor Lucie Cluver and team

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Parenting for Lifelong Health launches in Thailand

DSPI researchers in Udon Thani for project launch

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Parenting in a pandemic: helping over 50 million families

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Parenting manuals gain momentum

World Health Organisation endorses Parenting for Lifelong Health's manuals

Parenting under duress

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Promising new evidence from South Africa for Parenting for Lifelong Health

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Reducing HIV in Africa with ‘cash plus care’

A year on from her ESRC International Impact prize, Lucie Cluver looks ahead

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Reducing violence against children in rural Tanzania: study results

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Rising hunger among low-income households

Sharing research around the globe

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South African youth design their own national health policy

Alexa Yakubovich

Spotlight on graduate research: Intimate partner violence against women

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Stand Your Ground

Major new grant enables further research into the impact of America’s controversial Stand Your Ground laws

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Stand Your Ground - The impact of Florida's firearm self-defence laws

Media coverage of David Humphrey's recent study

Student consultants work with PLH Digital

Student Insights: Krishna Patel

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Student insights: Moa Schafer

Student insights: Ria Jodah

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Tackling COVID-19 child neglect and violence: The parenting 'vaccine'

Taking a pause reduces violence against children

A project supporting parenting in the Philippines

The Accelerate Hub: Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead

The Great Leap Backwards

Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead gives the 2019 Sidney Ball Lecture

The Great Leap Backwards

Vacancy: Associate Professorship of Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation

A new opportunity to join our thriving Department

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Why should we have trust in numbers?

Our annual lecture laid down a challenge to rebuild public trust in evidence

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Women who spend their childhoods in deprived neighbourhoods face an increased risk of intimate partner violence

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Young Carers project wins 02RB Impact Award

Innovative DSPI research rewarded at prize ceremony

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£20 million research hub could help African teens achieve their full potential

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‘We have joy’: Parenting programme for Africa’s poorest communities makes a real difference

Academics

Professor Jane Barlow

Professor Jane Barlow

Chair in Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Head of Department & Director of Research

Marisa Casale

Associate Member

Dr Benjamin Chrisinger

Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation

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Professor Lucie Cluver

Professor of Child and Family Social Work

Michelle Degli Esposti

Michelle Degli Esposti

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Professor Mark Fransham

Dr Mark Fransham

Senior Research Officer / Departmental Lecturer in Quantitative Methods

Professor Frances Gardner

Professor of Child and Family Psychology

Dr David Humphreys

Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Mona Ibrahim

Research Officer: UN policy engagement

University of Oxford

Dr Jamie M. Lachman

Research Officer

Wolfson College

Harriet MacMillan

Professor Harriet MacMillan, CM, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Member

Naomi Muggleton

Dr Naomi Muggleton

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Marija Pantelic

Marija Pantelic

Associate Member

Dr Aaron Reeves

Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Course Director - Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation

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Dr William Rudgard

Postdoctoral Researcher

Yulia Shenderovich

Dr Yulia Shenderovich

Associate Member

Dr Laura Sochas

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Janina Steinert

Associate Member

Dr Eve Worth

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Academic Visitors

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Stephanie Darby

Staff

Dr Isang Awah

Project Manager

Dr Ohad Green

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Dr Inge Wessels

Senior Research Project Manager

Camille Wittesaele

Project Manager

Students

Himani Aggarwal

Master's Student

Maira Rebeca Alvarez Loyo Barcenas

Maira Rebeca Alvarez Loyo Barcenas

Master's Student

Vira Ameli

Anders Bach-Mortensen

Anders Bach-Mortensen

Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow

Sophia Backhaus

Sophia Backhaus

Clarendon Scholar; ESRC Grand Union DTP Scholar

Alejandro Biondi Rodriguez

Alejandro Biondi Rodriguez

Master's Student

Oxford-Hoffmann & Kofi Annan (Mansfield College) Scholar

Tamar Bortsvadze

Tamar Bortsvadze

Master's Student

Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme Scholar

Katongo Chileshe

Master's Student

Zuyi Fang

Ana Beatriz Fernandez Jondec

Peruvian 'President of the Republic' Scholar

Benjamin Goodair

Benjamin Goodair

Wellcome Trust Doctoral Scholar

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Alice Hawryszkiewycz

Roselinde Janowski

Roselinde Janowski

ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods Scholar and All Souls Scholar

Janina Jochim

ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods Scholar

Tina Khanna

Brittany C.L. Lange

Alumni/ Research Assistant

Madison Little

Clarendon-ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods Scholar

Michael Liu

Master's Student

Mengyao Lu

Mackenzie Martin

Mackenzie Martin

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Katharina Christina Merkel

Master's Student

Ani Movsisyan

Vanessa Picker

Clarendon Scholar

David Rodriguez

David Rodriguez

Master's Student

Karen Snow

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Bridget Steele

Centenary Scholar & Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow

Ryan Thompson

Master's Student

Meaghan Thumath

Meaghan Thumath

Trudeau Scholar

Yuwei Wang

Master's Student

Alexa Yakubovich

Alexa Yakubovich

Alumni/Research Consultant

Sarah Borg

Master's Student

Events

Professor Jane Barlow

A Better Start – Comparison of profile data with national

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 Colloquium series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

A randomised controlled trial of residential change and criminal recidivism

CEBI Seminar with Dr David Kirk - Michaelmas Term Week 4

Violet Butler Room

Applying insights and principles from implementation science in the real world

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Body-worn cameras and policing

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Bullying and mental health: can virtual reality help?

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

CANCELLED Advances in methods for identifying causal effects from observational data

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

CANCELLED Health inequalities through the best of times and the worst of times. What makes a difference?

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Changing places: the science and art of new urban planning

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Chess, not chequers: the need for a complex systems approach to public health

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Delivering and evaluating e-mental health for young people at scale

CEBI Seminar with Professor Sally Merry - Michaelmas Term Week 2

Violet Butler Room

Establishing causality for population health and health policy

CEBI Seminar with Dr. Vittal Katikireddi - Michaelmas Term Week 1

Violet Butler Room

External validity and policy adaptation: from impact evaluation to policy design

CEBI Seminar with Dr. Martin Williams - Michaelmas Term Week 8

Violet Butler Room

Flexible intervention and rigorous evaluation in complex contexts: tough learning through action research with the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP)

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Food bank usage and the roll-out of Universal Credit in the United Kingdom

An event in our Trinity term 2018 Colloquium series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Improving mental health through the regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods: a natural experiment

CEBI Seminar with Dr. James White - Michaelmas Term Week 7

Violet Butler Room

Longitudinal research: innovations in wearable technology and biomeasure collection

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Mental health and adherence to antiretroviral medication in a cohort of South African adolescents (title updated)

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Preventing violence against women, children and adolescents: reflections, lessons learned and questions for the field

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Randomised controlled trials in schools: blunt instrument or better by design?

CEBI Seminar with Professor Neil Humphrey - Michaelmas Term Week 5

Violet Butler Room

Results from the INCLUSIVE trial of a whole-school health intervention: outcomes, mediators and processes

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Robust Research - A practical guide

An event in our Michaelmas term 2018 CEBI seminar series

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

School-based mental health interventions: promise and pitfalls

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

The commissioning of specialist mental health services for vulnerable mother-infant dyads in the UK: a study of stakeholder views

Universal Credit In-Work Progression Randomised Control Trial

Violet Butler Room, Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Pages

A Better Start - National Evaluation

Accelerate Hub

UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub

UBS Agrics Tanzania project

Building evidence for prevention of child maltreatment: Skillful Parenting combined with farming skills strengthening in rural Tanzania

Carer-child well-being project

CEBI Partnerships and Expert Advisory Roles

How the Centre of Evidence-Based Intervention can help you

CEBI Resources for Practitioners

Information to help you find out more about CEBI's work

Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention

World-leading research to address urgent social problems

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Changing elites: how social and institutional change has altered the processes of elite formation over time?

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Child and family mental health and well-being

CONSORT-SPI

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Could scale-up of parenting programmes improve child disruptive behaviour and reduce social inequalities?

Democratic police training in Israel: moving towards an evidence base

Development of an AIDS-related child abuse prevention programme (2014)

DHA Learning and Behaviour Clinical Trial (2012)

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e-Parenting for Lifelong Health (ePLH) Pilot study:

COVID-19 e-Parenting for Lifelong Health (ePLH) Pilot study

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Evaluating the impact of “stand your ground” self-defence laws in the US

Evidence-based research for local services and decision-making (2013)

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Feasibility study of the Steps to Safety Programme

Furaha Adolescent Implementation Research (FAIR) Study

Glossary

GRADE Guidance for Complex Social Interventions

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HEY BABY

Helping Empower Youth Brought Up In Adversity With Their Babies And Young Children

How Empty are Empty Reviews? (2011)

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How far could widespread dissemination of parenting programmes improve child antisocial behaviour and reduce social inequalities

How to interpret the sample forest plot

How to read a forest plot

How to use a systematic review

How to use evidence

Innovative research methods

Links to good evidence

Links to tools for understanding evidence

Menstruation and Poverty (2016)

Menstruation and the cycle of poverty (2014)

Mzantsi Wakho Adolescent Adherence Study

A mixed-methods, longitudinal, community-traced study of ART adherence and sexual health practices among adolescents in South Africa

Mzantsi Wakho Plus: How to reduce ART-defaulting among adolescents in South Africa (2015)

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Needs and Entitlements: How UK welfare reform affects larger families

Nutrition for child behaviour (2013)

Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E for Autistic Spectrum Disorders (a pilot randomised controlled trial) (2017)

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Optimising Parenting Interventions

Organisational interventions for teacher wellbeing: intervention development and piloting (2014)

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Parenting for Lifelong Health - Thailand (2018-2020)

Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital (PLH Digital)

Parenting for Lifelong Health SUPER (Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research) Study

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Parenting for Lifelong Health – Philippines

Parenting for Lifelong Health – the Sinovuyo Teen Program

A programme for parents and their adolescents, developed by Oxford University, Clowns Without Borders South Africa and the University of Cape Town

Parenting for Lifelong Health: A suite of parenting programmes to prevent violence

Parents under pressure (2014)

ParentText Optimisation Study: A Chatbot-led Intervention Aimed to Promote Playful Parenting and Prevent Violence Against Children

Pathways to survival: identifying psychosocial, family and service mechanisms to improve anti-retroviral adherence

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Politics, electoral systems and inclusive decision-making: Do political institutions affect health?

Protective factors that interrupt continuity from school bullying to anti social-behavior and offending later in life

Psychosocial resilience in adolescent offspring of mothers with depression: testing causal mechanisms (2014)

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Public health

Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of the Parents Under Pressure Programme in reducing the risk of child abuse in substance dependent parents of children under 36 months of age

Reducing abuse and maltreatment of children in high-risk families in South Africa (2013)

Research designs

Resilience among children exposed to harsh, non-supportive parenting (2017)

RISE: Prevention of Child Mental Health Problems in Southeastern Europe

Adapt, Optimise, Test, and Extend Parenting for Lifelong Health

Risk and protective factors in the psychological well-being of children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa (2012)

Risk factors for antisocial behaviour in low-income youth in South Africa (2012)

Siblings Together (2016)

Social inequality and poverty

Systematic review of the effectiveness of video feedback for improving parental sensitivity and infant attachment

Systematic review on transportability of parenting programmes across cultures and countries (2013)

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

The Oxford Implementation Index

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The perception of families of virtual group-based support during the COVID-19 lockdown

UBS Parenting Interventions (2015)

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: A pilot study - methodology and interventions (2011)

Understanding and preventing childhood drug abuse risk (2013)

Understanding harmful effects of social policies and interventions (2016)

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Violence prevention

What are the essential components of parenting interventions for reducing child maltreatment and child behavioural problems?

What is a meta-analysis?

What is an effect size?

What is good evidence?

What makes a good systematic review?

Information to help you find out more about CEBI's work

Young carers for AIDS-ill parents: social, health and educational impacts (2013)