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- US-UK Academic Policy Dialogue on Countering Violent Extremism
- Realising the right to education through strategic public interest lawyering
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- Overcoming political and organisation barriers to international practitioner collaboration on national examination standard-setting
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- Artistic Engagement in Immigration Detention Centres
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- Is there a genetic component to reproductive outcomes?
- Designing better schools
- What does it mean to be a migrant in your own country?
- The benefits of forced experimentation: Evidence from the London Underground network
- Good Germs, Bad Germs
- Rise of online work captured in a new Online Labour Index
- Do people who move together bond together?
- We are all Social Animals
- Young Lives: Understanding and improving children's lives in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
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- What is a Unit of Assessment (UoA)?
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- Armed Attack in Colombia
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- Taster video: Wind erosion in Namibian desserts
- Facing Calamities - A fieldstory from Western India
- Fieldwork in the Favelas
- Healthcare in Burundi and DRC
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- The Symbiosis of People and Plants in Amazonian Guyana
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- An Uncertain Future
- Building stronger economies in resource rich countries
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- Guns, alcohol and violence: making better laws
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- Centre for Demographic Science to launch with £10m from Leverhulme Trust
- Royal Vision for Oxford University’s Southeast Asian Studies Centre
- Four Oxford academics become Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
- Oxford researchers receive EU funding for ‘pioneering’ research projects
- New evidence proves the work of UN agencies is effective
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- Student Prize Winners Recognised at Encaenia
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- Advancing accountability for corporate complicity in authoritarian regimes’ human rights violations
- The ethics and politics of the refugee crisis
- Learning Lesson From Litigators
- From social worker to international policy influencer
- Eloquent Things: Teaching using real objects
- Improving the lives of couples affected by internet infidelity
- Understanding hunger: Strengthening data collection on foodbank use and intervention in the UK
- Empowering women to take control over reproductive health with information and technology
- Understanding the current and future challenges of immigration detention
- What solutions can the Columbian peace process provide for violent non-state conflict?
- Social worker joins Oxford's Rees Centre to improve the lives of children in care
- Changing Lives: Understanding what enables children growing up in adversity to thrive in modern Britain
- US-UK academic policy dialogue on countering violent extremism
- Realising the right to education through strategic public interest lawyering
- Addressing the challenges to making energy upgrades in social housing flats
- How can academic research help parent victims of adolescent violence?
- Pitt Rivers Museum works with the Haida Museum to inspire new generation of artists
- How can research support police reform in Nigeria?
- Exploring migration: Research and drama in schools
- Helping teachers understand PIRLS data to improve literacy
- Training diplomats from unrepresented nations: Capacity building for effective UN lobbying
- Education resources
- Women Speak Out: collaboration brings drug-dependent women’s rights to the forefront
- The Funding Landscape for Early Career Researchers
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship workshop
- How to measure happiness
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- Wellbeing Research Centre launched
- Global Challenges in Transport Leadership Programme
- Mapping the value of nature for people
- 3D technology brings museum collections to life for Oxford students
- How to measure happiness
- Elizabeth Crawford (Maternity leave)
- Oxford-Islamic Development Bank International Scholarship programme launched
- Winning Ways: Grant Writing workshop
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- Horizon Impact Award for 'Parenting for Lifelong Health' teen project
- Researcher Development Training Terms and Conditions
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- Better Business for People and Planet: Bridging Research and Industry
- Alumni Meet Our Researchers Tackling Global Challenges
- Oxford Social Sciences talks information, security and democracy
- How 'crazy ideas' and breaking barriers helped secure £10 million funding for a new research centre
- Neil Carveth
- Oxford Teaching Innovation Forum
- Award-winning ‘Remembering Rwanda’ project honours victims and survivors
- Researcher Strategy Consultancy
- Working with Weeds
- 'Outstanding' social scientists awarded prestigious 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Times Higher Education Rankings 2020
- How Oxford’s social scientists are informing the digital transformation of marketing for global companies
- Poverty research wins Oxford prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize
- Alan Turing Institute: Enrichment scheme now open for applications
- New HEIF Knowledge Exchange Fellowships to support collaborations with external partners
- Entrepreneurial skills training and £50,000 for Social Sciences researchers to turn bright ideas into business
- Call for Applications - Teaching Associates
- Oxford Professor of Political Science and British Politics provides ITV's expert analysis on election night
- Department of Education secures £1.85m for study into children's oral language development in multilingual environments
- How partnering with the world’s largest e-commerce company has informed research about mobile credit and social mobility
- Head of Division, Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore, appointed DBE in New Year's Honours
- Bridging the gap between academia and industry to understand how climate change is impacting our water resources
- Japanese data newly-available to Oxford researchers to be showcased at the Department of Sociology
- Engaging with Public Policy: An Introduction for Researchers
- ContEd's Graduate School Training Week
- Venture Associate Placements for DPhil students
- Introduction to Community Engagement
- Storytelling for Social Scientists
- Careers Conference for Researchers
- The Researcher Strategy Consultancy
- ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2020 now open for applications
- Research Data Management review
- Sarah Warden
- Minhui Wei
- Dr Patrick Brindle
- Oxford Social Scientists secure two awards to explore effects of AI on society
- Ballot Box 2020: The US Election
- Social Sciences Success in 2020 QS World Rankings
- International Women's Day 2020
- Meghan Lawson
- Kathleen Parsons
- Internet on tap: the social science of the internet
- O²RB Excellence in Impact Awards - open for nominations
- Impact Acceleration Account – call for applications
- Young Lives receives £9.4 million in further funding from DFID
- Doctoral Davos event 2020
- First cohort of Divisional Teaching Associates
- Perceptions of ageing
- Social sciences on coronavirus
- Social Sciences on coronavirus
- Training update and Trinity trailer
- COVID-19: Department of Education publishes home-schooling resource
- University launches COVID-19 Research Response Fund
- Dr Daisy Akinyi Ogembo
- Shona Loong
- DSPI launches 'Parenting in the time of COVID-19’ in partnership with WHO and UNICEF
- UKRI invites proposals addressing impacts of COVID-19
- Milestones and personal development
- New Covid-19 Impact Monitor reveals UK population moves drops by 98%
- Our Programme
- Piero Vitelli
- Dr Tanja Collavo
- New factsheet identifies types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation
- Support for app-based contact tracing of COVID-19
- Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19
- Alexander Betts named Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- New: COVID-19 Impacts - Urgent Response Fund launched
- OXFO venture 'Crowdless' app helps avoid lockdown crowds
- Social Sciences COVID-19 projects awarded funding
- Social Sciences Division launches weekly Events Digest
- British Academy launches Special Research Grants: COVID-19 scheme
- SSD Events Digest
- Green COVID-19 recovery packages can boost economic growth and help tackle climate change
- SUCCESS programme winners to transform research into sustainable social enterprises
- DNA4Science to launch with ERC Proof of Concept grant
- Professor Timothy Power
- Social Sciences welcomes new members to Leadership team
- Armando Román Zozaya
- Coronavirus school closures impact 1.3 billion children – and remote learning is increasing inequality
- Professor Heather Viles honoured by Royal Geographical Society with prestigious Founder's Medal
- Blog: 10 tips on making a short-term business collaboration work for your academic career
- Blog: How a micro-internship 'holiday' can broaden skills without disrupting research
- Blog: Collaboration with Goldman Sachs and go_girl
- Blog: Business placement results in two job offers
- Blog: Oxford University Press and DPhil school improvement collaboration
- Blog: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute collaborating with industry experts and policymakers
- How has behaviour changed under the COVID-19 lockdown?
- Social Sciences awards over £210,000 to projects addressing social, economic, cultural, & environmental impacts of COVID-19
- BCG Webinar: Imagining a Post-COVID World with Martin Reeves
- Young Lives study to provide rapid new insights into COVID-19 impacts
- COVID-19 lockdown data shows men travelled 48% more than women
- Oxford launches COVID Conversations
- #ShouldBeWriting? Help is at hand!
- COVID-19 Government Response Tracker extends to economic and testing measures
- 2020 Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards Winners
- Social Sciences research on COVID-19
- School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography on COVID-19
- Oxford School of Global and Area Studies on COVID-19
- Department of Education on COVID-19
- Humans and Neanderthals: less different than polar and brown bears
- Department of Politics and International Relations on COVID-19
- Lockdown gender gap remains firm
- International lawyers: Time’s up for global cyber hackers
- Why coronavirus death rates won’t fall as quickly as they rose
- Writing & Editing Books and Book Chapters
- Strategic distancing: the middle-ground between isolation and re-opening society
- Oxford study finds mobile phones are empowering women in the developing world
- Policy engagement team launches new hub for funding, support, and opportunities
- NVivo - Walking before Running: Code and Retrieve
- Experience combating Ebola has been key in effective response of African nations to COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 in care homes: What happened and how should we go forward?
- Why the pandemic could slash the amount of plastic waste we recycle
- Storytelling - Putting Stories to Work
- Oxford Minds
- Oxford dashboard highlights potential future COVID-19 virus hotspots
- Britain is reluctant to move on COVID-19 advice, but not if it is sunny
- Parenting in a pandemic: resources have helped over 50 million families so far
- COVID-19 and the post-Brexit immigration system
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships awarded across the Social Sciences Division
- Careers Service Workshop
- Department of Sociology on COVID-19
- Oxford Minds
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Briefing
- Oxford COVID-19 study: face masks and coverings work
- Progress against the multiple dimensions of poverty was made before the pandemic – but now it is at risk
- Three British Academy Global Professors to join Oxford Social Sciences
- Collaboration
- Induction 2020
- Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards 2020
- Oxford Endowment Challenge Fund
- Archaeological science is allowing us to uncover a new story of the colonisation of the Americas
- Oxford data shows massive leap in movement as UK hits the town in July
- The parenting support that works - around the world
- Collaboration case studies
- Collaboration Journeys
- Study finds ‘significant increase’ in child-to-parent violence in lockdown
- Oxford Social Sciences postgraduate students take top honours at Rare Rising Star Awards 2020
- European awards for Oxford social scientists
- Sacked by an algorithm: managing the future
- Mindfulness course
- Social Science Innovation Fellowships programme announced
- University of Oxford and Lombard Odier launch strategic partnership on Sustainable Investment
- Spinouts for Social Sciences: Bold, new opportunities for impact
- Professor Heather Viles
- Accelerating Business Collaboration
- New principles for credible carbon offsetting launched
- United States' COVID-19 response cost more American lives than World War I
- Advanced Qualitative Research
- Researcher Development Office Hour
- Oxford Minds: Reimagining social sciences
- Aspect Research Commercialisation (ARC) Accelerator: Turning social science research ideas into business
- Ecosystem scientist Professor Yadvinder Malhi appointed CBE in 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Innovative early career researcher wins prestigious £1.2 million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- Professor Carolyn Hoyle
- Professor Jonathan Wolff
- Major new funding to REACH Water programme to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia
- Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Cooling: the hidden threat to climate change and sustainable development
- New graduate funding opportunities for under-represented groups, including new Black Academic Futures scholarships for DPhil/PhD
- Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience
- Wesam Hassan
- Dialogue & Debate: Is education the answer to social mobility?
- *Ballot Box 2020: The US Election*
- Call for submissions
- Delivery Skills
- Impacting Large Organisations
- Engaging Media Communications
- Machine Politics
- COVID-19 vaccine: reliable communications needed to beat ‘infodemic’ of misinformation
- New research suggests says time spent playing video games can be good for wellbeing
- *CANCELLED* Divisional Board Meeting HT21-2 | 7th Week
- Divisional Board Meeting TT21-2 | 7th Week
- Oxford Net Zero launched to tackle global carbon emissions
- Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE to deliver this year’s Romanes Lecture
- Placement Opportunities
- Penny Moreton
- Professor Mary Bosworth
- New £2m global policy project to address social impacts of COVID-19
- Associate Professor of Demography & Population Health awarded prestigious European Research Consolidator grant to explore stalling life expectancies
- New international network for freedom of religion and belief
- Social Sciences Engagement Fellowships
- Social Scientists awarded 2020 OPEN Fellowships
- Postgraduate Funding
- Pre-call announcement: SSD Interdisciplinary Hubs
- New funding calls for engagement and impact activities across the social sciences, and support for very early career academics
- SSD Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Insight into Policy
- Jamie Shenk
- Members of the Social Sciences Division recognised in New Year Honours list
- Gillian Rose
- Africa’s electricity unlikely to go green this decade
- Miles Larmer
- Business Process Redesign
- Presentation Delivery Skills
- The Power Hour: communicating research beyond academia
- Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem
- Oxford COVID-19 Monitor reveals January lockdown has a third less national impact on movement than March shutdown
- 21st century crises demand new economic understanding, say top economists
- Why projects to adapt to climate change backfire
- Rebecca Launchbury
- The pandemic's mortality impact in England and Wales: 63,000 more deaths and a year off life-expectancy
- Towards equity and fairness in North-South research partnerships
- Three Minute Thesis
- Gambling research: The ‘fun’ can stop with unemployment, ill-health and even death
- The Future of Cities
- The world of consulting for social scientists
- UK launches new University of Oxford-led research centre to accelerate the 'greening' of the global financial system
- Overseas Fieldwork Safety - Online
- Renewed funding calls for engagement and impact activities across the social sciences
- Deliberate vaccine misinformation should be held to account - but better information is essential
- Nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards 2020-21 are now open
- Alan McKechnie
- IDEA: Meet Oxford's Female Spinout Founders
- What is Social Science Innovation?
- SSD Women at Oxford
- Tackling Race Bias at Work
- Progress towards diversity and HR Self-service
- Social Sciences Division Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan
- The Venture Builder programme
- Neanderthals disappeared from North West Europe earlier than thought
- Are we on track for a green recovery? Not Yet. Hundreds attend Oxford-UN eco event.
- Thousands of children have not seen parents for a year: hidden impact of COVID on prisoners’ families
- SSD Recruitment Protocol
- Teaching Development and Enhancement Project (TDEP) Awards (Round 2)
- Oxford awarded major funding to probe childhood poverty and social inequalities
- Taking stock: a global assessment of net zero targets report published
- Social Sciences Engagement Fellowship supports collaboration between Oxford researchers and English Heritage for sustainable conservation
- Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
- Isla Wythe
- Career development support for research staff in Social Sciences
- Whose responsibility? The ethics of commissioning images
- Dr William Kelly
- Alexander Betts
- Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
- Timothy Power
- ESRC IAA Privacy Notice
- Social scientists awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grants
- Call for applications: Research Chair on Heritage, with Paris-Saclay University
- Volunteers needed
- Thousands of primaries benefit from Oxford oral language programme
- Policies for COVID-19 elimination, not mitigation, best for health, economy and civil liberties
- Call for applications: Europaeum Summer School 2021
- SSD IT Forum (TT21)
- O²RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 – open for nominations
- SSD newsletter, May 2021: A message from Head of Division, Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore
- £30 million official backing for Oxford-led greenhouse gas removal programme
- Global History of Capitalism - 4th Year Doctoral Studentship 2021-22
- Introduction to writing for The Conversation
- Jessica Hedge (Maternity Leave)
- Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
- Social Sciences Division Interdisciplinary Hubs
- Doctoral research collaboration with people in situ
- Return to Normal?
- Research Revitalised SSO
- Heads of Administration Meeting MT21 #1 | 1st Week
- Heads of Administration Meeting MT21 #2 | 7th Week
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee MT21 #1 | 0th Week
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee MT21 #2 | 6th Week
- Divisional Board Meeting MT21 #1 | 2nd Week
- *CANCELLED* Divisional Board Meeting MT21 #2 | 7th Week
- Meaningful Online Engagement
- Major UKRI funding awarded to collaborative programme exploring mental health outcomes for care-experienced young people
- Teaching Awards 2020-21
- SSD Newsletter, July 2021: A message from Dr Susan James Relly
- New social sciences spin-out offers affordable tech valuation tool to help innovators and startups access funding
- Lombard Odier and Oxford in landmark research collaboration on sustainable finance and investment
- Recruitment and appointment of Associate Professors
- Conferment of the title of Visiting Professor
- Oxford climate scientists: No doubt about climate change
- University of Oxford’s Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund 2021
- Neta Crawford appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations
- Priscilla Warner
- SSD HR Network MT21 Week 1
- Bev Cousins
- Dr Louise Slater awarded prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee HT22 #1 | 0th Week
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee HT22 #2 | 6th Week
- Heads of Administration Meeting HT22 #1 | 1st Week
- Heads of Administration Meeting HT22 #2 | 7th Week
- Divisional Board Meeting HT22 #1 | 2nd Week
- *CANCELLED* Divisional Board Meeting HT22 #2 | 7th Week
- UNIQ+ Social Science
- Winners of the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 announced
- Advancing Teaching and Learning MT2021
- Consumption, lifestyles and climate adaptation, Innovating in the Human
- Social Sciences Division Recognition of Distinction Committee
- Coffee Walks
- David White
- Elizabeth Meadowcroft
- Sarah Mallet (Maternity leave)
- Highly Commended awardees of the O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021 announced
- Turing Fellowships for Social Sciences academics
- New Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
- Doctoral Fellowships at the Université libre de Bruxelles
- Social scientists among early career Oxford academics to win £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes
- Teaching Recognition Scheme pilot achieves 100% success rate
- Three teams from Oxford Social Sciences named as finalists in ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2021
- Global Leadership Challenge
- G20 Peoples’ Climate Vote: Large majority back action
- Dirty Parenting? Exploring good germs and bad germs in your child’s microbiome
- Climate Change, Small Islands, and Me
- Blue Carbon Habitats in Nature and Art: coastal ecosystems for a healthy planet
- Social Inequality and Saving the Planet
- Sensor-y Walks: Exploring Air Pollution in Oxford
- A Story in Sand: make your own excavation
- Cashmere, Copper and Nomadic Cuisine: Exploring the tastes and textures of Mongolia
- Climate Creativity: The power of the word to tackle the climate emergency
- Storytelling through crises: creative responses to climate and nature
- UNEP emissions gap report: Damning findings on G20 ambition and post-Covid green finance
- Co-working Community
- O²RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021
- Reducing violence against children and improving child wellbeing through evidence-informed parenting resources delivered globally to 196 million people during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Supporting and informing policy reforms relating to irregular and destitute migrants across Europe
- Data driven policy interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Educating drivers on the dangers of hands free phone use
- Climate change and resource management
- PEAK Urban at COP26
- The Reuters Institute launches the Oxford Climate Journalism Network to help journalists cover the climate crisis better
- Social Sciences Events around COP26
- Climate change: six priorities for pulling carbon out of the air
- Freelance Research Associate opportunity - Shaping Social Mobility: Education
- 80% of world economy now aiming for net zero - but not all pledges are equal
- Dieter Schwarz Foundation and Oxford announce major research collaboration on artificial intelligence, government
- Indonesians’ support for the death penalty declines with more rigorous survey methods
- COP26: a letter to school strikers from ‘the physicist behind net zero’
- UN global climate poll: ‘The people’s voice is clear – they want action’
- Effective householder engagement powers smart meter success
- How unlocking nature’s power can help the UK step up its fight against climate change
- Creating community
- Chris Fox
- Personal and Professional Boundaries in Fieldwork
- Being a Responsible Re-user of Data
- Developing Researcher Connections
- New joint Oxford-Wits project to study human mobility in Global South
- British Library Doctoral Open Days: Now open for bookings
- Oxford's social scientists recognised at ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2021
- Refugee-Led Social Protection During COVID-19
- COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response
- Supporting European and UK cities to integrate newcomers and vulnerable migrants
- Where does your time go?
- 'Separating the hats'
- Tessa Finlayson-Gray
- Clare Lowe
- A Chat With… Morgan Clarke
- Children and families get hands-on with Oxford research to explore their environments at the ESRC Festival of Social Science
- Oxford investigators part of urgent new economic and social research programme
- Oxford SDG Impact Lab launches to enable graduate students to further the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership – webinar for prospective applicants
- Saïd Business School among top ten across Europe
- Climate change: Why do social sciences matter?
- ‘Meta must do better’ Global experts call for Zuckerberg to act on adolescent wellbeing
- Growth in AI tech for the legal profession is improving how the legal sector operates, new study finds
- Your research in film: Video production training programme
- Jennifer Blaikie
- New SSD Interdisciplinary Hubs to foster institutional and international collaborations
- Our Research and Innovation
- Research excellence
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee TT22 #1 | 1st Week
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee TT22 #2 | 7th Week
- Heads of Administration Meeting TT22 #1 | 1st Week
- Heads of Administration Meeting TT22 #2 | 7th Week
- Divisional Board Meeting TT22 #1 | 2nd Week
- Divisional Board Meeting TT22 #2 | 7th Week
- How to collaborate and engage with our researchers
- Leverhulme Trust awards £10 million to new Oxford nature recovery centre
- Christine Condello
- Improving routes to justice for victims of transnational human rights violations in South America
- Influencing public and government awareness of climate change attitudes
- Professor Myles Allen awarded CBE in New Year's Honours
- Impacting policy and practice to safeguard against abuse by humanitarian aid workers
- Impacting corporate and government policies leading to improved working conditions for workers in the gig economy
- Influencing foreign language teaching practices and student achievement
- Influencing international understanding of COVID-19 precautions
- Impacting judicial approaches to discrimination law in India
- Impacting law, policy, and business practice around the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence
- Reforming satellite imagery restrictions over Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Your research in film: Video production training programme
- Review of the Digital Education Strategy
- UK net zero strategies are overlooking something vital: how to cool buildings amid rising temperatures
- Impact
- Innovation and the Social Sciences: Panel discussion and Fellowships launch
- Non-Stipendiary Research/Junior Research Fellowships 2022
- City Working Groups: Supporting the inclusion of newcomers and destitute migrants in Europe
- Opportunities with Zinc
- Changing the face of early years education policy and practice
- Astor Visiting Lecturers for 2022
- SSD HR Network
- COVID-19
- We need to define the rules of a post-pandemic world
- When will life return to normal after the pandemic?
- Cash incentives for vaccination could be an effective long-term strategy – here’s how to fund it
- 2021-22 Teaching Development and Enhancement Projects (TDEP) awards: Round 2
- Nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards 2021-22 are now open
- Improving working conditions for workers in the gig economy
- Ukraine: how Putin used a long proxy conflict to justify invasion - The Conversation
- Ukraine refugees: how displacement could impact farms and families in the UK - The Conversation
- Too many words, too little action: climate justice is essential to limit climate change - IPCC chapter author
- Competing identities of the past and future in Russia and Ukraine
- Three Minute Thesis Competition 2022, deadline to register: Friday 25 March
- How the pandemic has affected periods
- UN report highlights cautionary tales of climate finance that backfires
- Calling for a special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression committed against the Ukraine
- Global response to humanitarian crises could be transformed by better forward planning
- Research shines a light on “under the radar” innovation in low income countries
- Vaccinated or not? Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker now tracks separate policies and mandates
- Making fairer decisions: The bias detection tool developed at Oxford and implemented by Amazon
- Leveraging economic theory to improve outcomes for resettled refugees: Annie™ MOORE
- New SSD Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded
- New research will help protect society from unethical AI
- Research Staff Forum
- Running Effective Online Engagement Sessions
- Changing policy and practice around the education of looked after children
- Japanese lake sediment unlocks 150,000 years of history
- Advancing Teaching and Learning TT2022
- Professor Nandini Gooptu and Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea join Social Sciences Leadership Team
- Ukraine and the Role of the University
- Oxford Ukrainian community works with academics to create advice for families affected by war
- Pioneering Pitt Rivers exhibition brings together Tibetan community in a unique celebration of identity
- Transformative community archaeology project breaks new ground
- Oxford University retains top spot for spinout generation in the UK
- Summer Schools for the Social Sciences in 2022
- Emma Stell
- Clarice Hoole
- Kate Muir
- Overseas Fieldwork Safety - In-person course
- Robert Nodding
- Diego Dewar
- Diyi Liu
- Wytham Woods’ Great Tit study celebrates 75 years and reveals how spring has advanced a calendar month in that time
- Alison Crompton
- Changing the conversation: how academic research is supporting Japanese education policy
- SSD Impact Café
- Improving workplace happiness in partnership with Indeed
- Social Sciences Division REF 2021
- Research shines a light on social inequalities facing ethnic minorities in Britain
- A fresh approach to assessing equality in human rights law paves the way for a fairer world
- LEGO Foundation gives £11 million in support of international parenting initiative
- COVID-19: How are social sciences making a difference?
- Maximising decision making, effectiveness, and accountability at the Criminal Cases Review Commission
- 'Shining a bright light into a dark corner': the journey to investment consultant regulation
- REF 2021 results published
- Eliya Lucks
- Innovation
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- Education
- Heads of Administration Meeting MT22 #1 | 1st Week
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- New film celebrates twenty years of COMPAS
- New Social Science Innovation Fellows announced
- Professor Nandini Gooptu
- Teaching Excellence Awards 2021-22
- Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
- SSD zero tolerance on bullying or harassment
- Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Awards 2021-22
- Helena Channon-Wells (Maternity leave)
- 2022 Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards Announced
- Social scientists named among UKRI's Future Leaders Fellowships
- Juliet Scott-Barrett
- Newsletter welcome, June 2022
- Oxford Conflict, Peace and Security Hub launches library of policy digests and podcasts for the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative
- Professor Dame Jessica Rawson named winner of prestigious Tang Prize
- Katharine Herdt
- Oxford University launches the Astrophoria Foundation Year programme
- Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Awards
- Teaching Excellence Awards
- Advanced Qualitative Research (AQR) course
- Kathy Louie
- Health outsourcing linked to higher mortality rate
- DPhil students Lukas Lehner and Ertuğrul Polat awarded prestigious grants for social policy research
- How Climate Smart Cocoa builds sustainable communities
- Bodleian launches new online COVID-19 research archive collection
- Jonathon Barnes
- Getting ready for MT22: free online Canvas training sessions from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
- Oxford social scientists elected British Academy Fellows
- Death Threats in Uruguay
- Juliette Hargreave
- Katy Doherty
- UNIQ graduate internships in DPIR
- Social Sciences Division Induction Event 2022
- Festival of Social Science
- Pakistan floods: what role did climate change play?
- Katherine Collins
- Making a difference: Social scientists celebrated at the Vice-Chancellor's Innovation and Engagement Awards
- The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- Recognition of Distinction 2022
- Senior Appointments Panel (SAP)
- Research Video Showcase
- Achieving impact at scale through social science innovation
- Record number of Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships awarded to Oxford social scientists
- Professor Alis Oancea elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- Communicating research through film
- Quantitative Research for Qualitative Researchers
- Advanced R for Social Science Researchers
- Exploring AI in healthcare: the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Become an Antibiotic Guardian: how we beat the bugs and keep antibiotics working
- Smartphones for science: from ‘toy to tool’
- I’m an Anthropologist, ask me anything!
- Coastal ecosystems in nature and art
- Superpillars Assemble!
- What if? Let’s play a scenario game!
- What do the police do for me?
- Edible Streets – growing food in unexpected places!
- Douglas Thornton
- Professor Abi Adams-Prassl among four Oxford researchers to win 2022 Philip Leverhulme prizes
- Heads of Administration Meeting HT23 #1 | 1st Week
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- Heads of Administration Meeting TT23 #1 | 1st Week
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- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee HT23 #1 | 0th Week
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- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee TT23 #1 | 1st Week
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- Divisional Board Meeting HT23 #1 | 2nd Week
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- Horse Power: €10 million ERC Synergy grant for project in which Terracotta warriors meet the ancient Mongolian state
- PI Support and Development Programme
- Impact Conference Call for Contributions
- "It’s perfectly possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere" - interview with Professor Myles Allen
- Understanding migration in the UK
- Training lawyers for a digital world
- Reaching for the stars: engaging with industry to build a smarter space sector
- Community play packs inspire families to be more playful at home
- Applications welcome for the 2022-23 Teaching Development and Enhancement Project (TDEP) Awards
- Using big data to highlight digital inequalities
- Telling stories for empathy in animal research
- Research Venturers
- Social sciences perspectives at COP27
- Graduate access programme for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds in SSD
- Introduction to writing for The Conversation
- New Chair in Global Security named after Vice Chancellor Louise Richardson
- Public and Community Engagement with Research
- Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership webinar for 2023 entry
- Policy engagement: who cares?
- Social scientists join University's delegation to UN biodiversity conference (COP15)
- Social Sciences offers new scholarships to care-experienced graduates
- Helen Parker
- Rachael Stewart
- Cat Griffin
- Katie Hopcroft
- Professors Rebecca Surender and Paul Irwin Crookes join Social Sciences Leadership Team
- Presentation Delivery Skills
- Social Sciences and BBC Ideas video partnership: Introductory event
- Division appoints new Advocates for Research Staff and Impact
- Oxford University to co-lead £8m Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory to help UK reach net-zero
- Nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards 2023 are now open
- Join us as an EDI Associate
- Innovating in Environmental Archaeology
- *Extraordinary Divisional Planning & Resources Committee* HT23 #3 | 9th Week
- Planting the seeds for UK seagrass restoration
- British Academy and Academy of Social Sciences commission Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science team to reveal UK-wide impact of the arts, humanities, and social sciences
- Moving in the right direction: creating a more inclusive approach to transport projects
- Case studies
- Caring for our historic buildings: a collaboration between Oxford researchers and English Heritage
- BBC Ideas
- Professor Paul Irwin Crookes
- Policy Engagement
- Revitalising nature, knowledge and traditional culture in Paraguay
- The Social Datathon 2023: Finding Green Skills
- Business Engagement
- Creating a Value for Money toolkit for smarter public spending
- SSD Associate Professor Title exercise 2022-23
- Fixed term researchers
- Social Sciences and BBC Ideas launch video partnership
- PI Support and Development Programme launched
- Thomas Korff
- Hope into Action: Social Sciences Impact Conference 2023
- See the programme
- DPhil students
- Social Sciences Research Impact & Engagement Team and Pitt Rivers Museum shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor’s Professional Services collaboration award
- Supporters and sponsors
- Conference committee and secretariat
- Sarah Eichhorn
- Protecting our children in a crisis
- STORIES Conference 2023
- Social Sciences Business Engagement Seed Fund - apply now!
- Established PIs and Academics
- Professor Rebecca Surender
- Imisi Adefala
- Storytelling for Social Scientists
- Oxford awarded £1.25m for social sciences research
- Watch the session recordings
- Hope into Action: researchers, stakeholders and partners come together for inspiring Social Sciences Impact Conference 2023
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- EDI Project: Development of a network of EDI researchers
- EDI Project: Diversification and decolonisation of curricula/disciplines
- EDI Project: Induction workshops for students on inclusive classroom culture and collaborative learning
- EDI Project: Support of fieldworkers
- Our EDI Associates
- EDI Associates and Projects
- EDI Resources for Departments
- EDI around the Division
- EDI News & Events
- 2022/23 Call for EDI Associates
- Winners of Teaching Excellence Awards announced
- Pioneering EveryDaySafe campaign seeks safety culture shift across the University
- Hybrid ethnography
- Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
- Summer Schools for the Social Sciences in 2023
- Divisional Planning & Resources Committee MT23 #1 | 0th Week
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- Heads of Administration Meeting MT23 #1 | 1st Week
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- Navigating Power Dynamics in Fieldwork
- Explore the interactive illustration
- Gillian Willis
- Amy King
- Programme to teach ‘continuous improvement’ techniques opens for new applications
- Abbi Durrant
- Layla Black
- Strategic Research Fund
- The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has launched a video with Oxford Sparks on how demographers are understanding and improving our world
- Two students from Social Sciences Division honoured with prizes at Encaenia
- Social Sciences Division Induction Event 2023
- Rebecca Jones
- HR policies for Fixed Term Researchers
- Social Sciences and BBC Ideas launch four new short films in partnership
- Ngwarirai Mandrup
- Hannah Daley
- Iwona Kedzior-Wood
- Kate O'Connor
- Faith Inch
- Research and Impact Strategy 2023 - 2027
- Advanced Qualitative Research Course - AY2023-2024
- José Rojas Alvarado
- Alexandru Martalogu
- Routes to sustainable impact
- Elisha Ward
- Crossing Boundaries: The building blocks of good communication
- Recognition of Distinction 2023
- Renewed Bronze Athena Swan accreditation for the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography