Social Sciences

Refugees from Ukraine

Expert Comment: The UK is failing to meet its obligations to refugees from Ukraine

Yes, the question is little bit ‘how have we gotten here’ and how can it ever be morally permissible to threaten to do something, that it would never actually be morally permissible to do? That is the paradox that we have to grapple with. I think at the m

Moral questions - and answers - around helping Ukraine, nuclear deterrents and self-defence

The Oxford team, whose Covid parenting guidance was downloaded some 210 million during the pandemic, has been working with international partners to put together the help

Ukraine crisis: new research-led support for 'hero' parents and caregivers

Over the last 20 years, Young Lives has interviewed some 12,000 people, such as the young woman pictured, in four countries in the Global South, to record their lives

Two years on: Covid-19 threatens to derail the prospects for a generation in the global south - report

machine learning models aren’t autonomous. ‘They aren’t going to create new artistic movements on their own – those are PR stories

Art for our sake: artists cannot be replaced by machines – study

Technology does not have all the answers...you cannot find a technical solution to gender inequality, which is one of the drivers of vulnerability to climate change. This is why it is important to have diverse voices and different perspectives contributin

Too many words, too little action: climate justice is essential to limit climate change - IPCC chapter author

In Russia, the results in Figure 1 show a steady decline in Soviet identification, although in our latest survey in September 2021 a near majority of Russian citizens still express that identity. Might this uptick be a cause or result – it is hard to est

Competing identities of the past and future in Russia and Ukraine

The formation of the USSR was, in part, conditioned by the previous creation of these two independent Ukrainian Republics in the aftermath of the revolution and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. These republics stemmed directly from the 1

An analysis of Putin's imperial ambitions and Ukraine's 300-year road to statehood

By Olivia Durand

parent and baby separation, this can be life-changing - with many inherent and unresolved ethical and practice dilemmas.

New Oxford-Lancaster guidelines to improve practice when babies are separated from parents at birth

According to the research, Stand Your Ground laws were associated with 8% to 11% national increases in homicide and firearm homicide rates. Florida saw the highest increase with a 28% monthly rise in homicides. Credit: Shutterstock.

US Stand Your Ground laws are associated with 700 additional homicides every year

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