Social Sciences

Terracotta in the first emperor mausoleum china

Horse Power: €10 million for project in which Terracotta warriors meet the ancient Mongolian state

Remote work flows to urban centres. These are the places where highly skilled labour is concentrated. The economic tale of the ’booming metropolis’ and the ’broken provincial city’ plays out fully in the platform economy. Credit: Shutterstock

Remote digital platform working is great, if you live in a city - Oxford study

Radcliffe Square, Oxford. Credit: Shutterstock

Four Oxford researchers win £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes

Girls in India: The report shows there were major reductions in poverty in India. In 15 years, the numbers of MPI poor reduced from 55% of the population to some 16%. Credit: Shutterstock.

Poverty rate in India was slashed, says report, but globally 1.2bn still poor

The scale of life expectancy losses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe were akin to those last seen at the break-up of the Soviet Union, according to the research

COVID-19 continued to hit life expectancy in 2021 in unvaccinated populations and Eastern Europe

Saïd Business School marks Black History Month 2022 by unveiling new scholarships

Saïd Business School marks Black History Month 2022 by unveiling new scholarships

Professor Luciano Floridi received Italy's highest honour today [12 October] at Quirinal Palace in Rome. Photo: Arthur Bullard

Oxford Professor, Luciano Floridi, wins Italy's highest award

the study will follow the lives of individual drivers and explore the experiences of workers living away from home for protracted periods.

Driving change: Oxford academic awarded £700k-plus for project to improve working lives in logistics

This new research reveals for-profit children’s homes, on average, receive worse Ofsted ratings than Local Authority homes in all inspection domains. Credit: Shutterstock

Outsourced children’s care homes provide poorer quality care – Oxford study

Said Business School Dean Soumitra Dutta

New Saïd Dean Soumitra Dutta highlights international innovation

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