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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
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- Domante Grendaite
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- COVID-19 vaccine: reliable communications needed to beat ‘infodemic’ of misinformation
- Yoav Roll
- See Pok Loa
- Nathaniel Rosenblatt
- Jessica Anania
- Giacomo Arrighini
- Takayuki Funayama
- Chris Jacobi
- Qiaoyu Luo
- Wei Wang
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- 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
- Mathis Ebbinghaus
- 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
- Saul Newman
- Sander Wagner
- 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
- Francis Dodoo
- 'Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America' - New book by Professor Leigh Payne
- Evelina Akimova
- Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below
- Winners of the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 announced
- Arun Frey
- 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
- Miranda Reilly
- New study dispels myth that stressful life events hit women’s mental health harder
- Andrea Tilstra
- 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
- Colin Angus
- Benjamin Elbers
- 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
- Gina Neff
- Congratulations to Domante Gerciene on the successful completion of her DPhil
- Palaeodigital | Kate Fox
- Otto Simonsson
- Zachary Van Winkle
- Matthew Henglong Luo
- Said Hassan
- Dan Snow
- Helen Kosc
- Isabella Cantoni Branco
- Douglas Leasure
- Masters Students
- Xinyi Zhao
- Bettina Szilvasi
- 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
- 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
- Ella Gibbs-Pearce
- Miranda Bruce
- Pilot Event for a Youth Advisory Board
- Robert Lea
- Congratulations to Zora Hauser on the successful completion of her DPhil
- Impact Case Study: Data Driven Policy Interventions During 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
- Hamza Shams
- 'Ukraine Crisis: Monitoring population displacement through social media activity' | Dr Douglas Leasure
- Zora Hauser
- Impact Case Study: Social Integration of Ethnic Minorities in England
- Impact Case Study: Managing Digital Transformation 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
- Daniela R. Urbina
- 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
- Alessandro Milone
- Bradley Smith
- DPhil Student Spotlight: Helen Kosc
- Information for New Students
- Leo Azzollini
- 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
- Eleanor Glynn
- Michelle Thorpe
- 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
- Bo Zhao
- Fanqi Zeng
- Tania Boyt