Social Sciences

Credit: Shutterstock. The effects of this loss of contact and disruption to family relationships [between prisoners and their children] are likely to be long term and will affect family reunification and resettlement after imprisonment.

Thousands of children have not seen parents for a year: hidden impact of COVID on prisoners’ families

Building back better after COVID-19 is about just that - better. Better for populations. Better for economies. Better for the world. A tomorrow better than yesterday

Building a tomorrow better than yesterday?

Building back better after COVID-19 is about just that - better. Better for populations. Better for economies. Better for the world. A tomorrow better than yesterday.

Credit: Shutterstock. In Sub-Saharan Africa many twins will lose their co-twin in the first year of life. That represents two to three hundred thousand lost twins, each one a personal tragedy - Professor Christiaan Monden.

Twin Peaks: Record international number of twin births

Credit: Shutterstock. Governments have a unique chance to put their countries on sustainable trajectories that prioritise economic opportunity, poverty reduction and planetary health at once - Inger Andersen, UNEP's executive director.

Are we on track for a green recovery? Not Yet. Hundreds attend Oxford-UN eco event.

“L.Slater, 1-2 Feb 2018”

Major floods increased in temperate climates but decreased elsewhere: Oxford study

Maxilla and mandible assemblage of a late Neanderthal from Spy cave Illustration by Patrick Semal © RBINS (co-author on this paper)

Neanderthals disappeared from North West Europe earlier than thought

The Facebook survey revealed people holding incorrect beliefs were unwilling to change their minds, even when given accurate information.

COVID-19: Inside the info wars

Reliance on scientists and experts during an epidemic: evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy

Pietro Battiston, Ridhi Kashyap, and Valentina Rotondi

Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty and transitions to adulthood, following the lives of 12,000 children in four countries Ethiopia, India (Telangana and Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam since 2001

COVID-19: Inequalities widen for poorest young people in developing countries

no evidence of protection, and increases in homicide for States where ‘stand your ground’ was enacted

US Stand Your Ground laws do not cut crime but risk public health and safety

all age groups showed significantly increased support for taking the vaccine

Major rise in public support for COVID vaccine – Oxford study

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