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News

Barnett Prize 2017 Winners Announced

Revealing the winners of this annual prize.

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

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Is smoking transmitted from one generation to another?

Dr Alexi Gugushvili introduces his recent findings

New Barnett Paper published

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

New Barnett Paper Published

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

New British Academy Mid-Career Fellows announced

DSPI's Erzsébet Bukodi wins prestigious fellowship

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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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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

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

Academics

Bastian Betthäuser

Dr Bastian Betthäuser

Associate Member

Professor Erzsébet Bukodi

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

Deputy Head of Department

Professor Brian Nolan

Professor of Social Policy

Students

Mobarak Hossain

Mobarak Hossain

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholarship

Pages

critical life events

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)

Education and multiculturalism in France - CNRS visit (2013)

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

Intergenerational Health Inequalities in Morbidity and Mortality

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Intergenerational social mobility in Europe

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

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

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

The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth

The role of education in intergenerational social mobility (2015)