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• Professor Francis Dodoo awarded prestigious British Academy Global Professorship to join Oxford
• Projects
• Family size matters: How low fertility affects the (re)production of social inequalities (FAMSIZEMATTERS)
• New book by Takehiko Kariya: “Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age: The Japanese Approach”
• Rebecca W. Y. Wong wins the 2020 Asian Criminological Society Distinguished Book Award
• Face coverings made compulsory after study inspires debate
• Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science releases new online tool which identifies potential future COVID-19 hotspots
• Wage inequality: studying the pay gap between women and other women in traditionally male occupations
• What has happened to the association between sibling size and educational attainment over time?
• Analysing changes in population health through the lens of lifespan inequalities
• Analysing Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Scale Inequalities in Scottish Society (AMMISS)
• Temporal structures of gender inequalities in Asian and Western welfare regimes (Gentime)
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• José Manuel Aburto receives 2021 European Demographer Award
• Oxford Sociologists find strong link between mobile phone access and empowerment for women in developing world
• New report finds the lockdown gender gap remains firm
• Dr Heather Hamill gives podcast interview on food during the COVID-19 lockdown
• Strategic Distancing to Flatten the COVID-19 Curve
• Polling finds marginal support for green council tax
• DNA4Science gets ERC Proof of Concept Grant
• International collaboration will reveal AI's potential to transform unpaid domestic work
• Why gender inequality is a concern beyond the workplace
• Hear Melinda Mills discuss the intersection of genetics and fertility
• New book: An Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis
• Uber linked to a reduction in serious road traffic injuries in the UK
• How new information is changing our understanding of social mobility
• Labour leadership: new article by Stephen Fisher in Prospect
• New book by Richard Breen: "Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States"
• GenTime project to host symposium showcasing Japanese data newly available to Oxford researchers
• New book by Rolando Ochoa: "Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs, and Trust in Mexico City"
• Does Outsourcing School Systems Degrade Education Workforces?
• Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana
• New book by Rebecca W.Y. Wong: "The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China"
• New Book: "Societal Problems as Public Bads"
• Role of Trust in a Self-Organizing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Model with Variable Good Quality and Imperfect Information
• Centre for Demographic Science to launch with £10m from Leverhulme Trust
• Domestic AI: AI's potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan
• Demographic science and COVID-19 in the UK
• Strengthening private-sector medicine systems to tackle the persistence of poor-quality medicines in Africa: a proof-of-concept study
• Family dynamics: Establishing an on-site facility for accessing Japanese data for comparative research in Japan and UK
• Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change after Hurricane Katrina (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Collaboration with Korean Time Use Researchers on Time Use of the Elderly and Elderly Care Providers
• Eldercare Policy Implications on the Time Use Patterns and Quality of Life of the Elderly and Elder Caregivers in Europe, UK, US, and Japan (AgeingTimeUse)
• Chronotype, health and family: The role of biology, socio- and natural environment and their interaction (CHRONO)
• Invisible stripes? A field experiment on the mark of a criminal record in the British labour market
• Gendered time, gendered life in Hong Kong
• New study indicates children raised by same-sex parents perform better at school
• Jeanette Chin
• Mirakka Danielsbacka
• Nina-Sophie Fritsch
• Ben Gibbs
• Jungho Kim
• Jaromir Mazak
• Irma Mooi-Reci
• Jaap Nieuenhuis
• Satu Ojala
• Mikiko Shinoki
• Antonia Siino
• Megan Sweeney
• Antti Tanskanen
• Toshirio Abe
• Emilia Aiello
• Johanna Arnardottir
• Manuela Aviles Hernandez
• Ozgur Bal
• Maria Berrittella
• Christina Borra
• Todd Bridges
• Renzo Carriero
• Baris Cayli
• Henar Criado
• Man-Yee Kan
• George Davis
• Marie De Boucher
• Canet Saritas Eldem
• Giovanni Frazzica
• Lina Galvey-Munoz
• Elena Gazzotti
• Bjorn Gernig
• Francisco Herreros
• Grace Hong
• Daniela Irrera
• Chunmei Ji
• Mailys Korber
• Sunil Kumar
• Heather Laurie
• Sofia Milone
• Francesco Moro
• Salvatore Orlando
• Berkay Ozcan
• Martina Panzarasa
• Chris Payne
• Robert Putnam
• Elyamine Settoul
• Peter Skov
• Kristie Smith
• Poh Lin Tan
• Paul Tromp
• Sian Tsuei
• Bertrand Venard
• Haiyan Xiong
• Nicola Barban
• Paolo Campana
• Elizabeth David-Barrett
• Gabriella Elgenius
• Elisabeth Garratt
• John Goldthorpe
• Rob Gruijters
• Bernie Hogan
• Neil Ketchley
• Philip Kreager
• Laura Langner
• Vili Lehdonvirta
• Rachel Loopstra
• Tiziana Nazio
• Aaron Reeves
• Maria Sironi
• Tom Snijders
• Riley Taiji
• James Tilley
• Sonja Vogt
• Michael Biggs
• Richard Breen
• Nan Dirk De Graaf
• John Ermisch
• Stephen Fisher
• Heather Hamill
• Jan O. Jonsson
• Takehiko Kariya
• Ridhi Kashyap
• David Kirk
• Colin Mills
• Christiaan Monden
• Rachel Murphy
• Leigh Payne
• Lindsay Richards
• Federico Varese
• José Manuel Aburto
• Jonathan Lusthaus
• Hannah Brawn
• Samantha Harper
• Khalid Omer
• Agnieszka Swiejkowska
• Aboabea Akuffo
• Priya Devendran
• Gabriel Funari
• Abdul Nasser Rad
• Yongchao Jing
• Cynthia Kwakyewah
• Benjamin Low
• Eilidh Macfarlane
• Cora Tsang
• Hanbo Wu
• Jung In
• Xijing Wu
• Scarlett Yee-man Ng
• Clemens Jarnach
• Joan Madia
• Carla Rowold
• Jiaxin Shi
• Kasimir Dederichs
• Alicia García Sierra
• COVID-19 vaccine: reliable communications needed to beat ‘infodemic’ of misinformation
• Yoav Roll
• See Pok Loa
• Jessica Anania
• Qiaoyu Luo
• Wei Wang
• Takehiko Kariya awarded humanities and social sciences book prize
• Oxford University COVID-19 Response
• Jennifer Dowd awarded prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Grant
• ‘Nerdy Girls’ fight the COVID infodemic with facts – and friendliness
• Ben Herridge
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• Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science offers three types of student scholarships - applications open
• New study finds teenagers catch moods and negative moods are more contagious
• Thomas Evans
• World’s largest survey of public opinion on climate change shows a majority of people call for wide-ranging action
• 63,000 extra deaths and a year off life expectancy: COVID-19 in 2020 in England & Wales
• Applications now open for OxPo 2021-22 academic exchanges
• Ilka Vari-Lavoisier
• Melinda Mills appointed member of European Commission’s High-Level Advisory Group to reflect on post-COVID economic and social challenges
• Twin Peaks: New research shows number of twins being born in the world has reached an all-time high
• The Department of Sociology and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science awarded three prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships
• David Kirk wins the James Short Senior Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology
• New study finds children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning
• Congratulations to Evelina Akimova and Iris Po Yee Lo on the successful completion of their DPhils in Sociology
• Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology, awarded major European Research Council Advanced Grant
• North and South of England more divided than England and Scotland - article in The Conversation
• Benjamin Ferschli
• Understanding mortality: Biosocial determinants across cohorts, time and place
• Deni Mazrekaj receives the James Coleman Award for Best Article from the American Sociological Association
• Congratulations to Fijnanda van Klingeren and Lukas Lohove on the successful completion of their DPhils in Sociology
• New research suggests the rate of ageing cannot be slowed due to biological constraints
• Professor Federico Varese appointed new Head of Department
• Oxford Sociology invites Expressions of Interest to participate in the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme 2021
• 'Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America' - New book by Professor Leigh Payne
• Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
• Winners of the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 announced
• Revolution and Social Development in Iran | Ali Kadivar
• Trust, Protection and Criminal Governance: My Journey in the Study of Organized Crime | Federico Varese
• Events, My Dear Boy, Events | Michael Biggs
• Gender Equality, It’s About Time | Man Yee Kan
• Understanding the evidence, getting into mechanisms, and making a contribution: Reflections on The Spirit Level (Why equality is better for everyone) | Lindsay Richards
• Understanding Political Change | Stephen Fisher
• Educational Differences in Health | Christiaan Monden
• Open and Reproducible Research with Semi-Structured Data | Charles Rahal
• Peoples' Climate Vote team recognized in the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021
• G20 Peoples' Climate Vote
• Martina Baradel
• New study dispels myth that stressful life events hit women’s mental health harder
• Oxford Sociologists to drive forward part of urgent new economic and social research programme
• Full Professorship for Jennifer Dowd
• MPhil Student Spotlight: Yao Fu
• Stephen Fisher becomes full Professor of Political Sociology
• Kate Fox
• Chantelle Lewis
• Patricia Kingori
• Congratulations to Nate Rosenblatt on the successful completion of his DPhil
• Climate Change: Why Do Social Sciences Matter?
• Law before the state: the possibilities and challenges of comparison | Fernanda Pirie
• The future of domestic automation: social implications | Ekaterina Hertog
• Perspectives from a Pandemic: Demographic Insights and Battling the “Infodemic" | Prof Jenn Dowd
• Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention | Matthew Amengual
• CANCELLED | The importance of Fakes, Fabrications and Falsehoods | Prof Patricia Kingori
• Department of Sociology Achieves Athena Swan Bronze Award
• Jonathan Gershuny
• Anthony Heath
• Congratulations to Domante Gerciene on the successful completion of her DPhil
• Palaeodigital | Kate Fox
• Otto Simonsson
• Zachary Van Winkle
• Matthew Henglong Luo
• Said Hassan
• Helen Kosc
• Masters Students
• Xinyi Zhao
• Food in the time of COVID-19 anxiety, England 2020 | Prof Stanley Ulijaszek & Dr Sabine Parrish
• A Weberian Perspective on Conspiracy Theory Beliefs in Turkish Politics | Dr Turkay Salim Nefes
• Shoudeng Zhang
• Yan Zhang
• The Future is Bright – or is it? Comparing Opportunities across the Generations in the UK
• An evolving elite: New York Times obituaries, 1851-2022 | Professor David Strang
• The invasion of Ukraine and its implications: a panel discussion
• Lulu Shi
• MSc Student Spotlight: Lucas Baude de Bunnetat
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Benjamin Low
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Jamie Shenk
• Research Impact
• Joe Millard
• Congratulations to Arun Frey on the successful completion of his DPhil
• Congratulations to Ran Ren on the successful completion of his DPhil
• Professor Dowd wins PAA Clifford C. Clogg Award
• Miranda Bruce
• Pilot Event for a Youth Advisory Board
• Robert Lea
• Congratulations to Zora Hauser on the successful completion of her DPhil
• Data driven policy interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Risk in Research Seminar Series: Covid-19 and the politics of bio-moral marginality on the south Kerala coast (India)
• 'Sugar and Bullets': Investigating the Efficacy of Indigenous People(s)' Protest in Latin America | Dr Anna P. Krausova
• Polarization of public attitudes in Ukraine: a research of belief networks from 1992 to 2018
• LCDS Director Melinda Mills appointed as special advisor to the European Commission
• Morten Kjær Thomsen
• Academic Research with the Twitter API v2
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Alicia Garcia Sierra
• Results Announced for Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Cynthia Kwakyewah
• 'Ukraine Crisis: Monitoring population displacement through social media activity' | Dr Douglas Leasure
• Zora Hauser
• The social integration of ethnic minorities in England
• Managing digital transformations of labour markets
• Oxford Sociology invites Expressions of Interest to participate in the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme 2022
• Oxford Sociology invites expressions of interest to participate in the BA Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2022
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
• Laurel Quinn
• Congratulations to Jamie Shenk on the successful completion of her DPhil
• Research by Federico Varese inspires Cape Town student to develop crime prevention strategy
• Emma Mateo completes DPhil exploring how social networks shape regional protests in Ukraine and Belarus
• Elena Racheva
• Dirk Witteveen
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Helen Kosc
• Information for New Students
• Public Engagement
• New research from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science casts light on impacts of COVID-19 on life expectancy
• Full Professorship for Man-Yee Kan
• Full Professorship for Ridhi Kashyap
• Our advice when writing a personal statement
• Meet Our Students
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Xinyi Zhao
• The effects of mortality on lifetime pension inequality: reviewing five decades of evidence from Sweden
• Michael Biggs reviews history of the Dutch Protocol
• Francesco Rampazzo
• Fanqi Zeng
• Tania Boyt
• Seminar: Social Class Mobility
• A New Life: Discussing life experiences in and out of the yakuza
• Niles Breuer
• Edith Darin
• Jasmin Abdel Ghany
• Ruonan Ji
• José Manuel Aburto awarded Silver Medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
• Trends in social mobility in Britain from the early 19th to the early 21st centuries
• The role of education-occupation matching in economic inequality
• Childhood stressful events, age at first birth and health among women at older age: a sociogenomic approach
• Seminar: Do Children Perform Better in Religious Schools?
• 21st Century Yakuza: Resilience and Downfall of Japanese Organised Crime
• Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain
• Research by alum Dr Iris Po Yee LO reveals how non-heterosexual women in China navigate parenthood
• Wing-Kei Cheng
• Henrik-Alexander Schubert
• Applying to the DPhil: Information for Prospective Students
• Applying to the MPhil: Information for Prospective Students
• Life expectancy in many countries has not recovered following COVID-19
• Yuqi Liang
• Do Audit Experiments Reflect Applicant Behaviour? Cautions for Calculations of Probabilities of Success
• UKRI-SBE lead agency opportunity (UK-US collaboration)
• British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grants
• Cybercriminal Business Models – A Virtual Event
• Alae Baha
• Jiani Yan
• MPhil Student Spotlight: Tyrese Bender
• Yujiao Xing
• Applying to the MSc: Information for Prospective Students
• MPhil Student Spotlight: Yao Fu
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Eilidh Macfarlane
• Alumni Spotlight: Meet expert on LGBT+ research Yiu-tung Suen
• Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
• Is ability grouping good or bad for school performance and educational choice?
• Alum Nancy Tapias Torrado wins ISA Human Rights Award for DPhil Dissertation
• Boys' and Girls' Views of Parents’ Differential Treatment of Them in Migrant Families in Rural China
• Violence Against Women at Work and at Home
• Does it matter where you’re from? Geographical variation in social mobility in Britain
• Boundaries of Expertise: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Professionalisation Dilemma
• A historical sociology of ‘mass society’ in Japan: A conception of equality without ‘class’
• Progony: Criminal Governance in Russian Prisons through Hidden Written Communication
• Gangsters and Statesmen: Organised Crime, Governance and Nationalism in Torn States
• The Anxiety of Influence: Wikipedia and Law
• Roadblock politics: mapping trade-based conflict economies
• Investigating slander and sybil attacks in cybercrime marketplaces using online experiments
• Gangs, Extortion, and Development in El Salvador
• Cocaine & the Port: Utopias of security, urban relations, and displacement of policing efforts in the Port of Piraeus
• Aashish Gupta
• Professor Christiaan Monden takes on Research Advocate role for Social Sciences Division
• "Not the end of the story": Professor Federico Varese speaks on capture of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro
• Professor Ridhi Kashyap works with UNICEF to highlight digital gender gaps
• Using big data to measure digital inequalities
• Life in a violent country can be years shorter – even for those not involved in conflict
• Martina Baradel discusses the unique world of the yakuza, Japan's organised crime syndicates
• MPhil Student Spotlight: Maria Gargiulo
• Study shows female scientific researchers are less internationally mobile than their male counterparts
• "Oxford offers you all the possibilities" - Professor Giovanna Truda visits the Department
• "A discreet infiltration, a lingering presence" - Zora Hauser discusses the Calabrian Mafia in Germany
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Valentina Infante Batiste
• Micol Morellini
• Oxford's Sociology Department amongst the best in the world
• Oxford Sociology says farewell to Professor Federico Varese; Professor Colin Mills steps in as interim Head of Department
• Exchanging knowledge about falsified medicines: Dr Heather Hamill attends workshop in Zanzibar
• Alumni Spotlight: Mark Williams, Professor of Human Resource Management
• How COVID-19 impacted the migration decisions of Hong Kong people
• Resettled into Poverty: Structural Violence, Trauma and the Labour Market Incorporation of Refugees in the United States
• How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
• *CANCELLED* Assessment of the Impact of Pronatalist Measures on the Fertility Rate in Asia
• Nealam Balu
• GCSE students visit the Department of Sociology
• Mixed-mode sampling and field methods in measuring protesters' characteristics in contemporary protests
• Governments lose elections following economic crises, new research suggests
• Strong family ties hinder the development of trust in strangers
• Publications
• DPhil Student Spotlight: Aboabea Akuffo
• US gun violence: half of people from Chicago witness a shooting by age 40
• Zora Hauser: "One single investigation cannot damage the 'Ndrangheta in the long term"
• Baseball and basketball players who peak earlier also die earlier
• The influence of social class on intimacy in gay relationships
• Study shows fertility has declined across all educational groups in the UK
• A life in fighting: A conversation with former guerrillas and paramilitaries after leaving the Colombian conflict
• Professor Takehiko Kariya awarded Japanese Medal of Honour for academic achievements
• Oxford Sociology invites applications for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Emma Pritchard
• LGBTQ+ storytelling in the aftermath of conflict: the Colombian Truth Commission
• Updated Digital Gender Gaps website shows real-time gender inequalities in internet access
• Investigating the intimate relationships of Queer Chinese women migrants in the UK
• Alumni Spotlight: Aslı E. Mert, Assistant Professor, Koç University
• Casey Breen
• Oxford Sociology invites applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
• MSc Student Spotlight: Julián Gutiérrez-Martínez
• The gender gap is narrowing: trends amongst migrant scientists
• Prashant Poddar
• Individuals with a strong sense of belonging are more likely to protest and emigrate if their voices are not heard
• Alumni Spotlight: Ying Zhou, Director of the Future of Work Research Centre
• Postdoctoral Researcher in Gender Inequality in East Asian & Western Societies - 2 posts
• MSc Student Spotlight: Rachyl Lim
• Heather Hamill becomes Professor of Sociology
• The gendered impacts of partnership and parenthood on time use in Great Britain, 1992-2019
• Changing Attitudes to Climate Change
• The childhood origins of social mobility: early findings for a report commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission
• The Economic Sociology of Cybercrime
• Collective Protest and Elite Colleges: The U.S. Anti-War Movement in the 1960s
• Kieron Barclay
• Maria Gargiulo wins A.H. Halsey Prizes for MPhil performance
• A layperson's journey through matched comparisons and instrumental variables, aka the elusive quest for causality