Latest
  • 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

06/2026
  • News & Media
‘Abysmal’: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK suffers another by-election blow

Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell is quoted in this Financial Times article

06/2026
  • News & Media
Queensland CFMEU branch may have operated as an organised crime group, criminologists say

Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese and former Research Fellow Paulo Campana gave evidence at a probe into alleged misconduct, corruption and financial irregularities at the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union in Australia

06/2026
  • Preprint
Two-sample IV: Efficient Two-step estimation and tests for overidentification and weak-instruments

arXiv preprint by Fatima Kasenally, Ruoxi Guan and Nuffield Fellow Frank Windmeijer

06/2026
  • Award
Professor Ridhi Kashyap wins inaugural Early Career Award from European Association for Population Studies

Nuffield Fellow Ridhi Kashyap has won the inaugural Early Career Award from European Association for Population Studies

06/2026
  • Paper
Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments

Paper in European Journal of Political Research by Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Alex Yeandle and Johan Ahlbäck

06/2026
  • Paper
Life expectancy in China and the contribution of regional dynamics

Paper in Demographic Research by Mengxue Chen, Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Wen Su and Vladimir Canudas-Romo