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• Launch of the University Campaign for a New Centre for SE Asian Studies
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• Helping to address religious conflict in northern Nigeria
• Andy Garlick
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• Eleanor Pritchard
• Sam Sneddon
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• Peter Sheppard
• Oxford Social Sciences key collaborator in £5m social science consortium
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• John Fell OUP Research Fund
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• Changing Lives
• Achieving sustainable growth in a low-carbon economy
• 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
• Overcoming political and organisation barriers to international practitioner collaboration on national examination standard-setting
• Addressing the challenges to making energy upgrades in social housing flats
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• Professor Sarah Whatmore appointed to Council of the British Academy
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• Oxford Social Sciences key collaborator in £5m social science consortium
• Impact: Making a Difference conference
• Social Sciences shine at O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards
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• Video feature: Smart pumps – discover
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• Research and Impact Videos
• How Can an Academic Fight Crime?
• Feeding the mind ... with oily fish
• Artistic Engagement in Immigration Detention Centres
• Uniting cities and companies to tackle climate change
• 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
• Short films
• Armed Attack in Colombia
• Taster video: Humanitarian aid along the migration corridor in Mexico
• Taster video: Post conflict experiences of adolescents in Colombia
• Training video: Wind erosion in Namibian desserts
• Fieldworker Experiences
• Training video: Reflections on conducting research in immigration detention centres
• Taster video: Street associated youth in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Training video: Fieldworkers' Top Tips
• Training video: Humanitarian aid along the migration corridor in Mexico
• Training video: Post conflict experiences of adolescents in Colombia
• Taster video: Wind erosion in Namibian desserts
• Facing Calamities - A fieldstory from Western India
• Fieldwork in the Favelas
• Healthcare in Burundi and DRC
• Research in detention centres
• Street Youth in Indonesia
• Taster video: The impact of violence on social identity in Lagos, Nigeria
• Uncertainty in the Field – a Chilean Archipelago
• Videos behind SSO
• Sam Harper
• Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership Success
• Georgie Gough
• Training video: Enacting Sustainable Development Goals
• Training video: Sanctity and Teaching in Jerusalem
• Training video: Land Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
• Training video: Child Abuse Victimisation
• Training video: Rock Art in Eastern Eurasia
• Training video: Trade and Cultural Exchange in Nigeria
• Training video: The Impact of Violence on Social Identity
• Training video: Street Youth in Indonesia
• Training video: Political Economy of Petroleum Revenue Management
• William Pryor
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• Oxford secures continued funding to boost research impact
• The Symbiosis of People and Plants in Amazonian Guyana
• The travails of fieldwork in Bosnia
• Voyage to the High Arctic
• A casual conversation?
• A powerful partnership
• An Uncertain Future
• Building stronger economies in resource rich countries
• Stone Age Farmers
• Reducing Child Antisocial behaviour in Britain
• Demystifying Private Sector Standards Bodies
• The High Street’s new shopfront
• Geometry to the rescue
• Small states, big deals
• Guns, alcohol and violence: making better laws
• The cost of conflict
• Changing lives in a changing world
• Changing the future for Japanese children in care
• Catherine Goodwin
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Social Protection and Governance for Health
• O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards
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• How to Write about your Research for Publication
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• Introduction to Research Ethics at Oxford
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• Introduction to Learning and Teaching at Oxford
• Vicarious [Secondary] Trauma Workshop
• Preparing for your DPhil Viva
• The Seoul of Cats and Dogs
• 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
• £20 million research hub could help African teens achieve their full potential
• Fieldwork
• Important learning from ISCF event
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• Who edits what
• Donation Endows Academic Post with Archaeology and Anthropology
• Call for Research Posters
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• Research - Open Access
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• Researchers and donors gather to discuss global challenges
• Student Prize Winners Recognised at Encaenia
• Dr Shona Minson wins ERSC Celebrating Impact Prize
• Departmental contact details
• 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
• Teaching with Museum Objects: Eloquent Things
• 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
• Women Speak Out: collaboration brings drug-dependent women’s rights to the forefront
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships: Briefing and General Information Session
• How to measure happiness
• Support us
• 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
• Oxford-Islamic Development Bank International Scholarship programme launched
• Horizon Impact Award for 'Parenting for Lifelong Health' teen project
• Researcher Development Training Terms and Conditions
• Academic Writing Community
• Engage
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• New principles for credible carbon offsetting launched
• United States' COVID-19 response cost more American lives than World War I
• Advanced Qualitative Research
• DPhil Training and Development 1:1 Appointments
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Florencia Donato
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dr Louise Slater awarded prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
• 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
• Introduction to Digital Methods
• Coffee Walks
• David White
• Elizabeth Meadowcroft
• Sarah Mallet
• 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
• Climate Creativity: The power of the word to tackle the climate emergency
• 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
• 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 Impact
• Research excellence
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Innovation
• Resources for Teaching Staff
• Education
• 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
• 2022 Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards Announced
• Social scientists named among UKRI's Future Leaders Fellowships
• 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
• 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?
• 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
• Professor Abi Adams-Prassl among four Oxford researchers to win 2022 Philip Leverhulme prizes
• 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
• 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
• 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 2024-25
• Fixed term researchers
• Social Sciences and BBC Ideas launch video partnership
• PI Support and Development Programme launched
• Social Sciences Impact Conference 2026
• 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
• Protecting our children in a crisis
• STORIES Conference 2023
• Social Sciences Business Engagement Seed Fund
• Established PIs and Academics
• Professor Rebecca Surender
• 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: Spotlight on EDI Research
• EDI Project: Diversification and decolonisation of curricula/disciplines
• EDI Project: Induction workshops for students on inclusive classroom culture and collaborative learning
• EDI Projects
• EDI Resources for Departments
• EDI around the Division
• 2023/24 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
• Navigating Power Dynamics in Fieldwork
• Explore the interactive illustration
• Gillian Willis
• Programme to teach ‘continuous improvement’ techniques opens for new applications
• Bianca
• 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
• Iwona Kedzior-Wood
• Kate O'Connor
• Faith Inch
• Research and Impact Strategy 2023 - 2028
• 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
• Five Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships awarded to Oxford social scientists
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Six Oxford social scientists shortlisted by ESRC for research making outstanding economic or societal impact
• Five British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded to Oxford social scientists
• Quiet rooms make space to support equality, diversity, and inclusion
• Catch up on Meeting Minds 2023: democratic backsliding
• EDI Research
• Fundamentals of Stakeholder Mapping in the Social Sciences
• Research Impact Fundamentals in the Social Sciences
• Refreshed Research and Impact Strategy to guide research culture in social sciences into next five years
• Children and families enjoy an adventure for the senses with researchers at the ESRC Festival of Social Science
• Evidencing Impact in Social Sciences Research
• Innovation Fellowship deliver programme of creative and engaging events to explore culture change in the Social Sciences
• Oxford-led consortium wins £18 million in renewed funding for doctoral studentships
• New 'Common Ground Seminar Series' launches with session on the AI and Society interface
• Applying to Horizon Europe funding opportunities
• Advanced R Support Surgery
• Noora Kanfash
• Six Oxford social science researchers awarded at prestigious 2023 ESRC Impact Awards
• Lindsey Spriggs
• Professor Lucie Cluver nominated for a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences
• Exploring children's right to play through the lens of human rights
• Effective Data Management Techniques
• Briefing - Your Academic Event, Our Professional Support
• Stephen Harwood
• Professor Roger Goodman Awarded CBE in New Year Honours
• New five step video helps researchers upload work to Oxford University Archive (ORA) for open access
• Refreshed monthly SSD Funding and Opportunities Digest provides key updates for SSD researchers on grants, fellowships, training and more
• Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
• Engaging Businesses in Social Sciences Research
• Introduction to writing for The Conversation
• Common Ground Seminar Series
• Nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards 2024 are now open
• SSD EDI Research Spotlight Event
• Networking: career ideas and job opportunities
• Career Planning 101: what next beyond the DPhil?
• Research Funding Spectrum Widens: Innovative Research Projects Backed by Diverse Funders
• Social Sciences Division: Use of cookies on this website
• Local Policy Lab
• Local Policy Lab 2024 Fellowship programme - call now open!
• Ground-breaking research unveils cost-effective model to boost COVID-19 immunisation in developing countries
• Finding Common Ground on climate change and health
• Social Sciences teams across the Division shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
• Rose John
• Athena Swan Award for DSPI brings number across the Division to 13
• Demystifying the Wellcome Trust Schemes for the Social Sciences and Humanities
• Bridging the gap between research and local policy: Local Policy Lab launches
• Oxford social scientists among Europe’s ‘outstanding’ research leaders to receive ERC Advanced Grants
• Focus on Disability – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Trinity Term Events
• Migration and asylum in the Americas: interdisciplinary perspectives
• Professor Shazia Choudhry named as the UK's candidate for the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
• Social scientists and collaborators receive new funding to help make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a reality
• Katerina Vavaliou
• Participatory research across Oxford’s social and medical sciences receives new funding boost
• Oxford expert contributes to major report on scaling up sustainable finance in EU partner countries
• Social Sciences success in Vice-Chancellor's Awards
• Winners of Teaching Excellence Awards 2024 announced
• Academic Unpaid Leave
• Kanza Basit
• Social Sciences Division Inaugural EDI lecture
• ERC Briefing Session: Starting and Consolidator Grants
• John Fell Fund: A Briefing Session
• Nineteen inaugural Fellows announced as part of Local Policy Lab partnership
• Recognition of Distinction 2024
• British Election Study and the 2024 General Election
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships: Briefing Session
• Overseas Fieldwork Safety - In-person course
• One world: interdisciplinarity and collaboration in earth observation
• Social scientists awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
• Oxford academics elected 2024 British Academy Fellows
• Sophie Herzberg
• ChatGPT for Academics
• Python for Social Science Researchers
• Inaugural Local Policy Fellowship concludes with fresh insights on local projects
• The rise of digital monitoring apps: the first BBC Ideas film for 2024 is out today
• Dr Judith Hillier elected as Vice-President for Learning and Skills at the Institute of Physics
• Why does exercising with friends benefit our workouts? New BBC Ideas film featuring Oxford's social scientist
• Gaming can be good for your mental health: new BBC Ideas film
• BA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Writing Workshop
• Equality and Diversity Research Spotlight and Network Events
• Social Sciences Division Induction Event 2024
• Learning with AI Language Models
• Eugenic Iconographies and the Public Imagination
• Songs of Genomics
• Picture This: self-reflection and the visual experience of the Museum
• Art & Nature: exploring green spaces in the Leys with local residents
• Migration Sounds
• Digital Detective
• My Family's Digital Lives
• Tap, Swipe, Toggle, Cook, and Eat!
• The Digital Material
• Talking with Toilets
• Creative Multilingual Discovery Day for Families
• Video for Impact Showcase
• Life as a Hermit
• Professor Gabriel Stylianides elected to the Academy of Social Sciences' prestigious Fellowship
• Social Sciences Impact Awards 2025
• Zoe Burns
• SSD Co-Working Sessions 
• Fieldwork Perspectives - Data Management
• Juliet Scott-Barrett
• Professor Louise Slater
• New Associate Head for Research and Impact joins Social Sciences Division
• For-profit social care provision has drastically increased despite concerns over quality
• Flying Start Transcript
• Professor Alis Oancea appointed Chair of REF 2029 Research Diversity Advisory Panel
• SSD EDI Drop-in Day
• Can you visualise a better future? New BBC Ideas film in partnership with Social Sciences
• Participatory Research Oxford: Principles, Practice, and Impact
• Advanced Qualitative Research Course MT 24 & HT 25
• How to write a funding proposal: a basic introduction
• Introduction to Virtue Ethics
• Engaging with businesses
• New Interdisciplinary Hubs receive funding to boost collaborations across borders
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships: Briefing and General Information Session
• Social scientists named among winners of prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes
• Professor Lucie Cluver wins ERC Public Engagement with Research Award
• Social scientists call for ambitious actions at UN Climate Change Conference COP29
• Placements & Academic Progression: How to Leverage Professional Experience in Academic Funding Applications
• Clean Heat Streets
• Curious minds explore our digital lives at the 2024 Festival of Social Science
• Low-carbon transport solutions with electric car clubs
• Reducing reoffending
• Improving outcomes for children and families through parenting programmes
• PowerWash Simulator
• Keep Counselling Confidential
• Lit in Colour
• Professor Helena Hamerow among Oxford academics awarded ERC Synergy Grants to address complex scientific problems
• EDI Films
• Co-creating Flickr’s 100-year plan
• New exhibition explores our universal need to find answers
• Our EDI Associates
• Post-fieldwork: Data management best practices
• Supporting Online Justice
• Oxford-led project awarded £2 million to revolutionise clean hydropower energy
• Going behind the scenes of behavioural research
• Developing remote training for Kenyan educators
• Unlocking industry data for demographic research
• New Year Honourees from the Social Sciences Division
• Research Culture in Funding Applications
• Presentation Preparation Skills
• Advanced Qualitative Research Course HT 25 & TT 25
• ID Model: A digital business model that leaves no one behind
• Fairwork: Shining a light on the world’s gig economy
• Kickstarting Heritage Innovations: Breaking new ground with old walls
• Our World in Data: Transforming data into global impact
• Charlotte Medland
• Planning for Impact: The Theory of Change Approach
• Evaluating Impact
• Beyond Town and Gown: New report outlines University’s ambitious plans to support transformative social and economic change locally
• New film series shines a light on innovation stories across the social sciences
• Social scientists receive Fellowship funding to deepen partnerships beyond academia
• The Funding Landscape
• Grant Writing Workshops 2025
• Preparing for your DPhil Viva Trinity
• Democracy: Common Ground for our collective future
• Early Years summit highlights opportunities to support Oxfordshire's youngest residents
• Professional Development
• Digital Methods for Research in the Social Sciences
• Local Policy Lab launches new opportunities to shape responses to policy challenges in Oxfordshire
• Nominations now open for the SSD Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
• Visual literacy research launched by Department of Education
• Social scientists shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2025
• Business Engagement Seed Fund awardees announced
• Mid-Career Researcher Incentives Pilot Scheme
• Improving patient care for people prescribed medicines with a risk of dependence
• Social Sciences Division Education Strategy 2025-2030
• Informing legislative change to ban child marriage in Peru
• Addressing multidimensional poverty in developing nations
• Afua Hirsch to deliver the Social Sciences Division EDI Annual Lecture 2025
• School of Geography and the Environment tops QS World University Rankings by Subject
• Social Sciences Division launches ambitious five-year Education Strategy
• Changing the world, together: celebrating social sciences collaborations making a difference
• Chief Scientific Advisors
• Local Policy Lab Fellowship Programme
• Professor Sibel Erduran (Department of Education) elected to Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship
• Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
• Funding Public & Community Engagement in Social Sciences – PCER Fund
• How to Write your Methodology Chapter (2)
• Making the Most of Supervisory Meetings
• Interdisciplinary Research: Overcoming Barriers and Unlocking Potential
• Making Data Work: Practical Strategies for Managing Research Data
• Difficult Research Support Network
• For people and planet: New social sciences collaborations awarded funding to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Emotionally Challenging Research: Insights from Experienced Researchers
• Sweet Welcome: Coffee & Cake Launch Event of the Difficult Research Support Network
• Professor Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment) awarded Victoria Medal in 2025 RGS-IBG honours
• Alan McKechnie
• Opening your career
• Winners of Teaching Excellence Awards 2025 announced
• Social scientists' impact 'among the very best of Oxford' at Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2025
• Social scientists named in the King's Birthday Honours 2025
• SSD Interdisciplinary Hubs: Ideas in action
• Social Sciences Division Annual EDI lecture 2025