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Online advertising could target someone, whom the advertiser believes to be in an extroverted state of mind, with an offer to invest. The consumer might well believe that this is a good moment to invest, even if the investment is overpriced. Credit: Shutt

Profiling by powerful tech firms risks undermining consumer choice - Oxford research

Language skills are also critical for children’s social and emotional development, and their ability to make friends

Thousands of primaries benefit from Oxford oral language programme

Concerns over missed education for young people have spread around the world with schools and colleges firmly shut for long stretches because of COVID-19.  In England, the Government has announced large-scale funding to help education recover from the devastation of the pandemic.
We have described a potential role for general anaesthesia in end-of-life care. This has, in reality, been available to UK patients since the 1990s, but is not commonly discussed or provided

General anaesthesia should be available for dying patients - medical and ethical experts

Credit: Shutterstock. Using cutting-edge methodology, in which the daily movements of more than 100,000 maritime vessels were tracked, the team was able to identify global maritime trade collapse by as much as 10% in the first eight months of 2020 – leadi

Tracking the economic impacts of COVID-19 one ship at a time

Young girl learning remotely at a lap top

Children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning

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Researchers find climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay pandemic debts

Most of the original participants are still with the researchers, although they are all now young adults. The remarkably high retention rate, has meant husbands, wives and children have joined the project, as the researchers build a picture of their lives

20-year Oxford study follows 12,000 Young Lives in developing world

  • Ground-breaking research project follows 12,000 from infancy to adulthood
  • Across four countries and three continents
  • Findings reveal huge changes in poverty, education and expectations
  • Study has led to changes in law, and policy
  • Massive open access data source for international rese
Credit: Shutterstock. 'Margaret Thatcher’s relatively poor economic performance in terms of unemployment did not prevent her from getting re-elected multiple times.'

Voters back incumbents who back their economic interests

It has generally been accepted that economic competence is a core  concern of all voters. But new research, published recently in Politics and Society, shows this is not always the case.
Net zero targets now cover two thirds of the global economy, according to a report today from Oxford Net Zero and the ECIU – even though it was only a decade ago that Oxford climate scientists first showed the need to reach net zero emissions

Net Zero pledges go global, now action needs to follow words - Oxford-ECIU report

Credit: Shutterstock. One in five children in low-income countries lives in extreme poverty, while declining living standards over the last decade has resulted in a quarter of children in the UK now being affected by poverty.

Oxford awarded major funding to probe childhood poverty and social inequalities

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