Social Sciences

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

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

Debt

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

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