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
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
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
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
Economic trends in Qing China: a response to Rawski’s bold claims
Paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review by Nuffield Fellow Stephen Broadberry with Hanhui Guan and David Daokui Li
12/2025
Award
New Statesman: Books of the year 2025
The making of a sociologist: between being and knowing by Emeritus Fellow John H. Goldthorpe was selected by Margaret Drabble as one of her books of the year for the New Statesman
12/2025
Blog
Coughing so hard you vomit: Whooping Cough is no joke
Data for Health Substack post by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jenn Dowd