Research Digest

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  • Impact
March 2026
Tradecraft: Writers on John Le Carr?

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

Substack post by Nuffield Fellow Ben Ansell

02/2026
  • Preprint
GLP1R expression protects against 58 diseases but raises risk for 34 diseases and neonatal health

Preprint by Robert H. Campbell and Nuffield Fellow Melinda Mills. Read a summary from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

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
  • 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
  • Review
Poverty and public policy in the context of crisis

Review article in the Annual Review of Sociology by Nuffield Fellow Zachary Parolin

02/2026
  • Paper
Stratification of post-birth labour supply in a high- and low- maternal employment regime

Paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility by Andreas Filser, Pascal Achard, Corinna Frodermann, Dana Müller and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Sander Wagner. Read a summary from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

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