Social Sciences

Three Portrait Girls smiling in school 1st January 2000, Medinipur, West bengal, India

Doctoral winners announced as innovation in education debated at major Yidan Prize Foundation conference

Large organisations, which are often users of these services, can make a difference by signing the Fairwork pledge and promoting better practices in the platform economy. Credit: Shutterstock.

Nul points: gig economy companies fail to score for Oxford Fairwork principles

According to the report, Europe Today and Tomorrow: What Europeans Want, based on a March 2021 poll of 13,601 people, conducted in the 27 member states and the UK, it provides ‘mixed reading’ for the EU.

Concerns over European Union in Oxford EU-wide survey

Oxford’s professor of Environmental Economics comes across more like...well an economist or a successful entrepreneur (he laughs) rather than a clichéd protestor

Cameron Hepburn: Putting the eco into economics, going from gasoline to green

Cameron Hepburn is not an environmentalist from central casting.

Credit: Shutterstock. True Planet: The world is in a climate crisis, and Oxford researchers are at the forefront of trying to find solutions in adaptation and resilience, nature, energy transition, clean road transport and green finance.

Nature-based solutions highly effective in long term - Oxford research

Finding and understanding this network of coordinated accounts was a seven-month-long challenge which required a mix of methodological innovation and creativity

Fanatic fans or fake followers? Chinese diplomats and their social media networks

Credit: Shutterstock. The argument that fast-paced changes to social media platforms and devices have made them more harmful for adolescent mental health is not strongly supported by current data.

Relief for parents? No hard evidence of link between tech and teenage mental health

Parents will worry, that is what parents do. But, according to Oxford Internet Institute researcher, Dr Matti Vuorre, the evidence base suggesting a negative impact of the use of technology on teenagers’ mental health is thin - at best.

Credit: Shutterstock. People may work with beavers on the restoration, rather than controlling them. The beavers, who are best placed to deliver sustainable results, are left to make positive changes in the landscape.

Nature must be a partner, not just a provider of services – Oxford report

highly bonded fans were particularly likely get tied up in aggressive behaviours – especially if they used cocaine

Cocaine drives supporters’ aggression in football - study

Among OECD countries, liberties were most severely impacted in those that chose mitigation, whereas swift lockdown measures - in line with elimination - were less strict and of shorter duration

Policies for COVID-19 elimination, not mitigation, best for health, economy and civil liberties

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