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  • Paper
September 2026
Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time

Paper in PNAS Nexus by Ralph Lawton, Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd, Jonathan Skinner and Ellen Meara

  • Preprint
September 2026
The impact of an ageing population on pandemic risk in England

medRxiv preprint by Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Thomas Rawson, Pablo N. Perez-Guzman, Edward S. Knock, Christian Morgenstern, Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Daniel Valdenegro, Katy A.M. Gaythorpe, Lilith K. Whittles, Wes Hinsley, Raphael Sonabend, Richard G. FitzJohn, Anne Cori, Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd, Jakub Bijak, Neil M. Ferguson and Nuffield Fellow Melinda C. Mills

  • News & Media
September 2026
Research reveals how Russia’s ‘thieves-in-law’ fraternity governs prisons from afar

Sociology Department news story covering the recent paper
Criminal governance in Russian prisons by Elena Racheva and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese

  • News & Media
September 2026
Is 50 the new 60?

Data for Health Substack post by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jenn Dowd

08/2026
  • Paper
Sex differences in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal ecological analysis of 34 high-income countries

Paper in eClinicalMedicine by former Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Katarzyna Doniec, Jonas Schöley, Mine Kühn and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd

08/2026
  • News & Media
Labour overtakes Reform UK in opinion polls for the first time in more than a year

Financial Times article including comments from Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

08/2026
  • News & Media
AI behöver fler trafikregler – inte fler moralfilosofer

EFN Vetenskap coverage of the recent article Practice-Dependent Governance of AI in the Journal of Business Ethics by Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Elsa Kugelberg and Associate Member Henrick Kugelberg

08/2026
  • News & Media
How divided is the UK really? Here’s a way to find out

Article in The Guardian by Brendan Cox discussing the National Conversation project led by Nuffield Fellow Melinda Mills and Honorary Fellow Jon Cruddas

07/2026
  • Paper
Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind? A cause-of-death decomposition approach

Paper in Population Studies by Nuffield Alumnus Antonino Polizzi, Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Andrea M. Tilstra, Luyin Zhang and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd

07/2026
  • Preprint
Climate mobilization and carbon apathy: Mapping the political economy of vulnerability in the Global South

SocArXiv preprint by Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Mats Ahrenshop, Associate Member Anthony Calacino, Associate Member Federica Genovese and Alumna Hayley Pring