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World’s first universal jobs guarantee experiment starts in Austria

Poverty and inequality will potentially increase right across Europe, with poor workers losing as much as 16% of income and social cohesion between countries also being damaged by pandemic lockdown measures

Poverty and inequality surge across Europe in the wake of COVID-19

Professor Nick Eyre, of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, has been appointed as Oxford City Council’s first scientific adviser

Professor Nick Eyre appointed Oxford City Council scientific adviser

It worries me what all this says about our valuing of older and vulnerable people. I fear they are seen as acceptable casualties

Short term failures, long term fault line: Covid earthquake hits social care

COVID-19 hit England’s social care sector like an ‘earthquake’, according to Oxford Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Mary Daly, and revealed a sector in crisis and a worrying attitude towards older and vulnerable people.
the bonds between mothers, who had shared traumatic birth experiences, resembled those of soldiers who had fought together on the front lines

Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience – Oxford research

work has already improved water security for more than two million people, working with UNICEF and in partnership with government, private sector and academia in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya

New funding to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia

Three Oxford academics win prestigious UKRI fellowships

Three Oxford researchers win top UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

We have not all been in this together, according to research from Oxford, which shows the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in aggravated economic and mental health inequality

COVID-19 inequality: poorest workers hit by worse outcomes

NASA approach should be adopted to behavioural science

NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy

The Rothermere American Institute is holding a series of events: America Decide 2020

America Decides 2020: Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute series

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