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Research Group > OISP - Poverty, welfare & social exclusion

News

Andy Haldane speaking at Oxford Martin School

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

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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

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

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

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

A new project with the University of Bath

New Barnett Paper Published

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

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New book: Welfare and the Great Recession

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New position at Beijing Normal University for Robert Walker

Poverty in the UK: responding to the Alston report

Robert Walker meeting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang

Reflections from Beijing

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

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

Universal Credit: Design matters

Unveiling the hidden dimensions of poverty

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Who really are the poor? Measuring poverty with multiple dimensions

Academics

Fran Bennett

Honorary Researcher

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Professor Mary Daly

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

Course Director - Comparative Social Policy

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

Professor Brian Nolan

Professor of Social Policy

rebecca surender

Dr Rebecca Surender

Senior Research Fellow

Pro-Vice Chancellor

Professor Robert Walker

Associate Fellow & Professor Emeritus

Students

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Paloma Diaz Topete

Centenary Scholar

Pages

Becoming 'Adult': Conceptions of futures and wellbeing among young people subject to immigration control in the UK (2017)

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

Crime, Deprivation and Inequality in South Africa (2012)

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)

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

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

KwaZulu-Natal Poverty Profiling Project (2016)

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

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

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

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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)

Tackling poverty, shame and social exclusion

The realities of relocation (2014)

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

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)