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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
Pardogatto progressivism

Substack post by Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

05/2026
  • Paper
In the Metaverse, politicians can hear you scream: Corporate scandals, Big Tech regulation, and the microfoundations of focusing events

Paper in Perspectives on Politics by Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper, Taeku Lee and Ryan Shandler

05/2026
  • Paper
Enabling secure discovery in trusted research environments with improved tooling

Paper in Nature Medicine by Vincent Straub and Nuffield Fellow Melinda Mills, introducing a new toolkit to process and quality-control phenotypic data within the Our Future Health Trusted Research Environment

05/2026
  • News & Media
Billionaire backlash: Can it help save democracy?

Episode of the Democracy Dialogues podcast featuring Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper

05/2026
  • Paper
The curse of the beauty spot: Governing the commons of tourist destinations

Paper in The Political Quarterly by Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni and Waltraud Schelkle

05/2026
  • Paper
Electoral rules, programmatic competition, and redistribution: Evidence from interwar France

Paper in Comparative Political Studies by Isabela Mares and Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Alexander Trubowitz