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The eight new Fellows come from across the Social Sciences division and include economics experts as well as researchers in Law, International Development, the Schools of Geography and the Department of Social Policy

Eight Oxford academics named new Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Social Sciences
• Two-thirds of multidimensionally poor households have no females who have completed primary education

Women in many poor households excluded from education– report

Social Sciences
In sub-Saharan Africa - the setting of this study - women’s participation in health decision-making is among the lowest in the world, and women commonly report that their husbands make decisions about their own health without their participation

Education and urbanisation boost women’s control over health shows sub-Saharan Africa study

Social Sciences
inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low and lower-middle income countries unless there is urgent action to make vaccines affordable and accessible to everyone

Urgent need for COVID-19 vaccine equity: UN-Oxford research

Coronavirus
Economics
Social Sciences
If the proposed policy were adopted, emitters would be subject to a ‘Carbon Removal Obligation’. Interest could be added, establishing a legal responsibility for carbon debt repayment. CROs would be tradeable, by treating carbon debt like financial debt,

Future generations will face crippling costs without action now on carbon debt

Research
Environment
Climate change
Social Sciences
Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Hubert Keller, Co-Senior Partner of the banking group Lombard Odier have officially signed a multi-year partnership to foster sustainable finance and investment research, with a

Lombard Odier and Oxford in landmark research collaboration on sustainable finance and investment

Environment
Research
Social Sciences
Is simply planting more trees the easy way out? The answers do not look straightforward. It is all about right trees, right spots, and the right science. Credit: Shutterstock.

Rewilding cities: grow back greener, cleaner and healthier

Expert opinion
Environment
Medical Sciences
Social Sciences
It is exciting that the genetics underlying these reproductive behaviours may help us understand later life disease

Genetics plays important role in age at first sex and birth with links to dis-inhibition, longevity and disease

Research
Social Sciences
cutting-edge, peer-reviewed attribution would allow lawyers to ascertain the prospects of successful litigation before cases reach court

Poor use of science jeopardises climate lawsuits, finds Oxford research

Social Sciences
Environment
Research
Losing work can scar a person’s trust in the political system. But if you lose your job and almost everyone else around you is in work, your self-confidence takes a big knock. You consider yourself more alone and withdraw from the collective electoral pro

Previous unemployment influences voter turnout, says Oxford study

Social Sciences
Research

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