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

08/2026
  • Award
Dr Thomas Rawson named a JUNIPER Fellow

Nuffield Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Thomas Rawson has been appointed a Fellow of JUNIPER (the Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research network)

08/2026
  • Report
Taxing times: Policies, politics, and principles

IPPR discussion paper by Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

08/2026
  • News & Media
UK ‘needs new fiscal contract’ to manage ageing population

Coverage in The Times of the IPPR discussion paper, 'Taxing times: Policies, politics and principles' by Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

08/2026
  • Preprint
Classification testing: A new framework for drawing qualitative conclusions from quantitative estimates

SocArXiv preprint by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Andrew C. Eggers and recent Junior Visiting Scholar Zikai Li

08/2026
  • Paper
The comparative statics of dominance

Paper in Journal of Economic Theory by Nuffield Fellow Ludvig Sinander, Mark Whitmeyer and Gregorio Curello

08/2026
  • News & Media
The Tavis Smiley podcast

Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper appeared on The Tavis Smiley podcast to discuss his recent paper 'When populism can be good' and book Billionaire Backlash (segment runs 01:06:15 - 01:59:25)