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News

An interview with Professor Ebbinghaus

Our new Head of Department interviewed at the end of Michaelmas Term

Pensions, inequalities, and poverty in old age

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Specialist advisers appointed to House of Lords’ Universal Credit inquiry

Ali Bargu responds to questions, GRS 2019

Spotlight on Graduate Research: Social Policy Beyond the West

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The Brexit Generation Game

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

UK pension system among those with highest old age poverty 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

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

Academics

Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Professor of Social Policy

Head of Department 2017-2020

Dr Marek Naczyk

Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy

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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

Students

Rania AbdelNaeem

DPhil Candidate

Weidenfeld Scholar

Kaitlyn Ju Cho

Barnett Scholar

Kun Lee

Centenary Scholar

Xi Liu

China Council Scholarship holder

Events

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

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

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

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

Regimes of inequality and Covid-19: How the welfare states of the past affect health inequalities in the pandemic | Prof Julia Lynch

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

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

Pages

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

Being EU Citizens: Perceptions and lived experiences of exercising social rights in the UK (2016)

bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards European citizenship (2016)

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

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)

Political parties and non-standard employment (2014)

Prowelfare 2014-2016 (2017)

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

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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

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)