Social Sciences

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

Image credit: OU

'Must it be a man?' An examination of women's contribution to the University of Oxford

any passport should reveal if the holder is protected from illness and unable to transmit the virus. Passports would also need to show vaccine efficacy, international acceptance and if it is effective against new or emerging variants. And passports would

Vaccine passports can work but face 12 challenges

concerned members of the public who unknowingly ‘retweet’ anti-vaxx messages should not be criminalised, says Professor Mills

Deliberate vaccine misinformation should be held to account - but better information is essential

Credit: Shutterstock. Financial professionals are well informed – that’s what they do...People get misconceptions that they know something and can beat the index.

Retail investors are amateurs in a high-stakes market: they cannot win

The new UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI) will receive funding from the National Environment Research Council (NERC) and Innovate UK, both part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

UK launches new Oxford-led research centre to accelerate the ‘greening’ of the global financial system

Cooperación Suiza COSUDE

Severe flood threat caused by climate change – landmark Oxford study

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