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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
  • Paper
Conceptualizing private military and security companies

Paper in Conflict Management and Peace Science by Nuffield Student Thomas Brailey

07/2026
  • Paper
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research

Paper in Nature co-authored by Nuffield Student Thomas Brailey

07/2026
  • News & Media
Pepper Culpepper says good populism can save democracy

Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper appeared on this episode of Democracy Paradox podcast

07/2026
  • News & Media
A 'Love Letter to England'

Short film inspired by The National Conversation, a large-scale national study on social cohesion across Britain led by Nuffield Fellow Melinda Mills

06/2026
  • News & Media
We haven’t reached the peak of populism yet

Delphi Economic Forum interview with Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

06/2026
  • Paper
Meritocracy: A qualified defense

Paper in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow David Miller