Research Digest

03/2026
  • Impact
Tradecraft: Writers on John Le Carr?

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
  • Paper
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.

02/2026
  • Blog
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Or I how I learned to start worrying and love Claude Code

Substack post by Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

02/2026
  • Preprint
Firm-Specific Motherhood Penalties

Preprint by Pascal Achard and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Sander Wagner

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.