Event at the Oxford Literary Festival, featuring Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese and Nick Harkaway
Impact
March 2026
Oxford Debate: Is Democracy under Threat from Oligarchs and Corporate Capture?
Event at the Oxford Literary Festival, featuring Taeku Lee, Oliver Bullough, Sarah Stein Lubrano and Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper, chaired by Stephen Law
Paper
February 2026
Temperature and sex ratios at birth
Paper in PNAS by Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Jasmin Abdel Ghany, Associate Member Joshua Wilde, Anna Dimitrova, Nuffield Fellow Ridhi Kashyap and Raya Muttarak. Read a summary from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
Blog
February 2026
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Or I how I learned to start worrying and love Claude Code
Event at the Oxford Literary Festival, featuring Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese and Nick Harkaway
03/2026
Impact
Oxford Debate: Is Democracy under Threat from Oligarchs and Corporate Capture?
Event at the Oxford Literary Festival, featuring Taeku Lee, Oliver Bullough, Sarah Stein Lubrano and Nuffield Fellow Pepper Culpepper, chaired by Stephen Law
02/2026
Award
Outstanding thesis prizes from the Department for Politics and International Relations
Nuffield Alumni John de Bhal and Sam Holcroft and Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Elsa Kugelberg won outstanding thesis prizes from the Department for Politics and International Relations for 2023-24 or 2024-25.
02/2026
News & Media
The market shapes our most intimate relationships (Marknaden formar våra mest intima relationer)
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Elsa Kugelberg’s research is cited in this article on Swedish-language EFN
02/2026
Impact
Spotlight on Belarus
Senior Research Fellow Gwendolyn Sasse moderated a panel at the Munich Security Conference on 14 February (video available)
02/2026
Impact
The governance of macroprudential policy in South Africa
A paper by Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer and Associate Member Janine Aron was presented to the South African Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance