Research Digest

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
  • 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