Social Sciences

active mobility significantly lower carbon footprints, even in urban European contexts with a high incidence of walking and cycling

Get on your bike: Active transport makes a significant impact on carbon emissions

Around the world, there has been ‘a rising trend in violence towards environmental activists....Specifically, the killing of activists connected to natural resource activity’

Murder is bad for business - Oxford economics study

Oxford study shows deaths of environmental activists affect companies' share prices.

An estimated 62,750 excess deaths resulted in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales

63,000 extra deaths and a year off life expectancy: COVID in 2020 in England & Wales

Greger Larson stands next to a white board on which Angela Perri and David Meltzer mapped archaeological sites and populations of dogs and people. The two day effort resulted in new insights into the close relationships and joint histories of the two spec

America’s very special relationship - with dogs.

Twenty three thousand years ago, canines travelled to the New World with the First Americans

The survey shows the internationalist outlook of Europeans

EU not worth having without free movement: say 74% of Europeans in Oxford survey

Many internationally-funded projects aimed at combating the impacts of climate change can make things worse

Why projects to adapt to climate change backfire

The old model of ‘macroeconomics’ was built for a stable world free from large economic shocks. If we ever lived in such a world, we no longer do

21st century crises demand new economic understanding, say top economists

the level of social media manipulation has soared, with governments and political parties spending millions on private sector ‘cyber troops’, who drown out other voices on social media

Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem - Oxford report

Supermarket visits have been relatively unaffected according to the Monitor which recorded national visits to large food shops of 4% more than pre-pandemic levels

UK population movement falls 59%, compared to -89% in March - Oxford COVID-19 Monitor

The researchers found support for right-wing parties is strongly linked to scepticism on climate issues and opposition to climate-friendly policies

Link between climate scepticism and support for right-wing populists – study

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