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
  • Paper
Atmospheric analytics: Situated encounters in the age of generative AI

Paper in Science, Technology, & Human Values by Mathias Decuypere and Nuffield Fellow Carlo Perrotta

06/2026
  • News & Media
Rethink... modern monarchy

Episode of BBC Radio 4's Rethink presented by Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

06/2026
  • News & Media
Politics, polls and the public: what’s next for British politics?

Nuffied Fellow Jane Green appeared on this episode of The UK in a Changing Europe podcast (hosted by Nuffield alumnus Anand Menon)

06/2026
  • Paper
Resisting relegation to the rank and file: Explaining the effects of status seeking on military force structure

Paper in European Journal of International Security by Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Samuel Martin Seitz

06/2026
  • News & Media
New study uses digital data to monitor unprecedented population displacement in Gaza

Department of Sociology news story on the recent paper by Edith Darin, Nuffield Fellow Ridhi Kashyap and Associate Member Douglas R. Leasure

06/2026
  • Paper
Drought exposure and the risk of sexual, emotional, and physical violence against adolescents in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Lesotho: An observational study

Paper in The Lancet Planetary Health by Bothaina Eltigani, Roman Hoffmann and Nuffield Fellow Lucie Cluver