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- 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