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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

07/2026
  • News & Media
Pepper Culpepper Billionaire backlash: the age of corporate scandal and how it could save democracy

Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper appeared on this episode of Forthright Radio to discuss his recent book Billionaire backlash

07/2026
  • Paper
The dynamics of costly norms

Paper in The Economic Journal by Sam Jindani and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow H. Peyton Young

07/2026
  • News & Media
Andy Burnham urged to scrap income tax and NI in radical fiscal overhaul

Coverage of the open letter to Andy Burnham from leading economists, including Nuffield Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer

07/2026
  • Paper
Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UK

Paper in West European Politics by Ronja Sczepanski and Nuffield Fellow Geoffrey Evans

07/2026
  • Paper
Chronic health conditions and health-related economic inactivity in midlife

Paper in SSM - Population Health by Laura Gimeno, Charis Bridger Staatz, Alice Goisis, Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer B. Dowd and George B. Ploubidis

07/2026
  • News & Media
Farage’s finances risk derailing his project to own the British right

Financial Times column which quotes the research of Nuffield Fellow Jane Green and Nuffield Research Fellow Marta Miori