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In a blog to accompany the report, Professor Mary Daly delves into specific challenges for research and policy, including cumulation of risk and insecurity of welfare state provision.

The review from Dr Benjamin Goodair and Professor Aaron Reeves challenges the theory that privatisation can improve the quality of healthcare through increased market competition, and by enabling a more flexible and patient-centred approach.

The future is grim from the perspective of struggling British families, according to a new study by a team from the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, led by Professor Mary Daly.

Dr Dobrotić and her colleagues Olja Družić Ljubotina, Marijana Kleteči Radović and Anotnija Petričušić have been campaigning for this policy change since June 2020.

Professor Mary Daly, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, has led the development of a database analysing child and family policies during the first 'shock period' of the pandemic across 40 countries.

Work by doctoral researcher Lukas Lehner among four extraordinary Oxford projects to be shortlisted for the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Celebrating Impact Prize'

Doctoral researcher Michael Ganslmeier explains the effect of social policies on political behaviour

A deeper dive into the work of Laura Sochas, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, who researches the links between power, institutions, social policies and health

Doctoral researcher Ben Goodair's work evaluates the UK's increase in private healthcare provision and whether this is impacting the quality of care and the health of patients.

DSPI researchers Kathryn Steventon Roberts and Janina Jochim shed light on their research identifying the hurdles young South-African mothers face and how these can be overcome.

Street-connected young Africans face stigma and adversity. Doctoral researcher Kathleen Murphy discusses the education, healthcare and community support interventions needed to empower them. Via Democracy in Africa.

DSPI researchers discuss how for-profit outsourcing is connected to placement stability and distance for children in care - via The Conversation