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Research presented at the House of Commons

Teaching Excellence Award for Mark Fransham

Academics

Michele Bavaro

Postdoctoral Research Officer

Dr Selçuk Bedük

Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy

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Dr Bastian Betthäuser

Associate Member

Erzsébet Bukodi

Professor Erzsébet Bukodi

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

Director of Graduate Studies

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Dr Rossella Ciccia

Associate Professor of Social Policy

Course Director for Comparative Social Policy

Professor Mary Daly

Professor of Sociology and Social Policy

Dr Ivana Dobrotić

Associate Member

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Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus

Associate Fellow

Head of Department 2017-2020

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Dr Mark Fransham

Senior Departmental Research Lecturer in Quantitative Methods

Chair of Examiners for Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation

Dr Marek Naczyk

Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy

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Professor Kenneth Nelson

Barnett Professor of Social Policy

Deputy Head of Department

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Dr Nhat An Trinh

Research Officer

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Dr Rebecca Surender

Senior Research Fellow

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Professor Alex Sutherland

Professor in Practice Criminology & Public Policy

Nuffield College

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Dr Merve Uzunalioğlu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Tim Vlandas

Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy

On leave from 1st September 2024 to 1st September 2026

Professor Robert Walker

Associate Fellow & Professor Emeritus

Staff

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Jonathan Lowe

Research Facilitator

Dr Aoife O’Higgins

Associate Member

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Kimberly Rimber

GPI Programme Assistant

Students

Alexandra Abbs

Master's student

Lady Margaret Hall

Ali Bargu

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Martina Beretta

Clarendon and Nuffield College Scholarships

Kaitlyn Ju Cho

Barnett Scholar

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Paloma Diaz Topete

Centenary Scholar

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Kristijan Fidanovski

Barnett Scholar

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Emily-Rae Foreman

MPhil Comparative Social Policy

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Joana Geisler

MSc Student Comparative Social Policy

Rosa Von Gleichen

Rosa von Gleichen

DPhil Candidate

Department of Social Policy and Intervention

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'Adela' Yuxuan Guo

MSc Student, St Catherine’s College

Ye Eun Ha

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Shreyas Hallur

Green Templeton College

Solhee Han

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Kun Lee

Centenary Scholar

Lukas Lehner

ESRC Scholar, Scatcherd European Scholar, Saven European Scholar

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Alistair Leitch

Centenary Scholar

Xi Liu

China Council Scholarship holder

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Anjali Mahajan

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Adrienne McManus

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Alyssa Mohammed

MSc in Comparative Social Policy

Lady Margaret Hall

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Daniele Myallonnier

St Antony's College

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Guillaume Paugam

Associate Member

Hannah Phillips

Clarendon Scholar

Ertuğrul Polat

Barnett Scholar

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Katariina Rantanen

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholar

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Steffen Redeker

Trinity College

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Moa Schafer

Research Associate

Benjamin Scher

Society for the Study of Addiction Doctoral Studentship

Karen Snow

Inga Steinberg

Barnett House-Nuffield Joint Scholarship

Timea Suli

Roland Tusz

Barnett House-Nuffield Scholar

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Sophia Ungerer

Master's Student

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Marianne Joy Vital

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Eriko Yamakuma

MSc Student in Comparative Social Policy

Seonwoo Yoon

Clarendon Scholar

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Yuehan Zhu

St Antony’s College

Pages

Supertracker project DSPI

A 'Supertracker' to improve social policy monitoring during the COVID-19 crisis

parentingprojectDSPI

Assessing and Monitoring Family Policy

BecomingAdultDSPI

Becoming 'Adult': Conceptions of futures and wellbeing among young people subject to immigration control in the UK

EUcitizens DSPI

Being EU Citizens: Perceptions and lived experiences of exercising social rights in the UK

bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards European citizenship

tanzaniaprojectDSPI

Building evidence for prevention of child maltreatment

fatherwithchildcovid

Child Policy during COVID-19 Database

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Child poverty in South Africa: improving the evidence base

childpovertychinaprojectDSPI

Child Poverty in Urban China

criticallifeeventsprojectDSPI

Critical life events and the dynamics of inequality: Risk, vulnerability and cumulative disadvantage

Designing strategies for efficient funding of higher education in Europe (DEFINE)

povertychinaprojectDSPI

Dimensions of Poverty in China

educationalinequalitiesprojectDSPI

Educational inequalities in Britain revisited: a new approach to investigating primary and secondary effects of social origins

EmploymentEquityGrowthprojectDSPI

Employment, Equity and Growth

incomeinequalityprojectDSPI

Helping to shape global conversations on poverty to 2015 and beyond: a shame-proofing toolkit

healthvistingprojectDSPI

Implementing health care delivery in low resource settings: a qualitative evaluation

welfarereformprojectDSPI

In protracted limbo: a comparative study of the tranisitions to adulthood and life trajectories of former unaccompanied children

inequalityprosperityprojectDSPI

Inequality and Prosperity

familyformationprojectDSPI

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Formation Policies

morbiditymortalityprojectDSPI

Intergenerational Health Inequalities in Morbidity and Mortality

socialmobilityeuropejprojectDSPI

Intergenerational social mobility in Europe

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Optimising Parenting Interventions

familyformationprojectDSPI

Oxford Family Policy Database

farrightprojectDSPI

Political economy of Far-right party support

LabourMarketPoliciesprojectDSPI

Political economy of Labour Market Policies

economicpolicyprojectDSPI

Politics of economic policy and outcomes

UniversalBasicIncomeprojectDSPI

Politics of Universal Basic Income

povertyprojectDSPI

Poverty in All its Forms: Determining the dimensions of poverty and how to measure them with people who experience it

europefertilityDSPI

Prospects for a fertility increase in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe

IncomeInequalityResearchDSPI

Prowelfare 2014-2016

foodbankusageprojectDSPI

Research on Food Bank Usage in Bath, Bristol and Oxford: Investigating the Association between Universal Credit and Food Poverty

infantmentalhealthprojectDSPI

Social and gender inequalities in care

inequalitiesineducationprojectDSPI

Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives

educationalattainmentprojectDSPI

Social origins, cognitive ability and educational attainment: a birth cohort and life-course perspective

SovereignWealthFundsprojectDSPI

Sovereign Wealth Funds

fertilityasiaDSPI

The gap between fertility ideals and reality in East Asia: a mixed method comparative study of Beijing and Taiwan

familywealthprojectDSPI

The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Wealth

impactageingprojectDSPI

The political impact of ageing on the economy

povertyprojectDSPI

The relationship between spatial inequality and attitudes to inequality in South Africa

The role of education in intergenerational social mobility

antipovertyprojectDSPI

Theory of change and impact policy evaluation in cross-national settings

Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts

workinequalityprojectDSPI

Trade union institutions and inequality of work and income

EUcitizens DSPI

UK in a Changing Europe; Being EU citizens: Experiences of exercising social rights in the UK