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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

05/2026
  • News & Media
To reverse the ‘greenlash’, Europe’s Green parties should embrace Polanski’s boldness

Opinion piece in The Guardian by Nuffield Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi

05/2026
  • News & Media
The cancer vaccine we already have

Substack post by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd

05/2026
  • Paper
Peer influence and use of force: The role of social networks in explaining police behavior

Paper in Journal of Quantitative Criminology by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow David S. Kirk, former Research Fellow Alexandra Ciomek and Ethan Doshi

05/2026
  • Report
Teufelskreis. Wie Parteien der demokratischen Mitte auf radikal rechte Parteien reagieren

Freidrich Ebert Stiftung report by Nuffield Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi

05/2026
  • Paper
Countervailing powers: Labor unions against the buyer power of Walmart Supercenters

Paper in the American Sociological Review by Joshua Choper, Lukas Lehner and Nuffield Fellow Zachary Parolin

05/2026
  • News & Media
Die Selbstbestörung der Sozialdemokratie

Episode of the Gilda con Arne podcast including comment from Nuffield Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi