Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... Paper in World Development by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @alexyeandle.bsky.social and Associate Member David Doyle

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

NEW! You can find the latest research papers, media appearances etc by Nuffield members on the College homepage www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk (scroll down) powered by the Library's weekly Research Digest email. Thank you to the Nuffield Comms Team for making this happen!

Practice-dependent governance of AI doi.org/10.1007/s105... Paper in Journal of Business Ethics by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Associate Member @henrikdku.bsky.social

I got asked by a reporter how long Trump might live for his 80th birthday, which sent me down a life table rabbit hole, like any good demographer :). jenndowd.substack.com/p/how-much-l...

We caught up with James Tilley about the lessons learned in his new co-authored book Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain, marking 10 years since the Brexit vote. Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/nrckpzttfo

A paper based on my master's thesis is out this morning in PDR! It offers a new way of theorising and estimating "demographic memory". In a week of heatwaves and political instability in the UK, these toy examples work as a nice graphical abstract 🌡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This paper is obviously relevant today, as we mark the 10th anniversary of Brexit, but I don't want to add to the plethora of takes on current events. Instead, let me zoom out and disucss the (fairly nuanced) implications of our analysis both for understanding British politics over the last decade

The new face of cybercrime: Scam factories and polycriminality doi.org/10.1080/0307... Paper in The @rusi.bsky.social Journal by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @federicofeoxparis.bsky.social

@britishelectionstudy.com Director Prof Ed Fieldhouse here explaining the Brexit realignment with insights from our new forthcoming book … please check it out! blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Congratulations to @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumnus Henrik-Alexander Schubert! You can read his prize-winning DPhil thesis here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

Glad to have contributed to this piece on the decline of Labour under Starmer. We have plenty of evidence on why Starmer's strategy failed. Yet, social democrats still remain convinced that they can only win elections when they moderate and when they appeal to workers with social conservatism.

Professor of Political Science and British Politics  @profjanegreen.bsky.social joined @itvnews.bsky.social to discuss the state of British politics following the PM's resignation and what is happening to make things so volatile: https://f.mtr.cool/ypujrxaigh

Congratulations to Nuffield College Professorial Fellows Barbara Petrongolo and Martin Weidner on being awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. #nuffsky #NuffieldCollege #EconomicsResearch Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... (1/3)

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

In this now published paper @henrikdku.bsky.social and I argue for domain-specific theorising, and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are more like participants in the institution of traffic and less like trolleys, for example. 🚗🫧 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Congratulations to Nuffield Fellows Barbara Petrongolo and @weidnerecon.bsky.social on their ERC Advanced Grants!

📯 Four Oxford social scientists have been awarded prestigious @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants. Congratulations to Robert Klassen @education.ox.ac.uk, Rick Schulting @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social, Barbara Petrongolo and Martin Weidner @oxfordecondept.bsky.social! socsci.site.ox.ac.uk/articles/fou...

Watch Prof. Jane Green's interview with Bloomberg following Andy Burnham's win in the Makerfield by-election

We are celebrating LCDS prizes at #EPC2026: huge congratulations to @ridhikashyap.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural EAPS Early Career Award, and to our Best Poster Award team. Also @melindacmills.bsky.social contributed to a very special SDT panel. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lcds-re...

We caught up with Professor James Tilley about his new co-authored book Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain, marking 10 years since the Brexit vote. He explained to us how the referendum acted as a pivotal moment, triggering the formation of new, remarkably resilient, political identities.

“Energetic leaders of the centre-left [around the world] all have very different politics, but you have to be able to communicate a vision and why you’re doing it. Starmer could not do that.” DPIR'S @benansell.bsky.social comments on the PM's resignation in the FT: https://f.mtr.cool/jwlhcohans

Violence victimisation and mental health distress among adolescent girls living with HIV in Southern Africa: Does social protection help? doi.org/10.1007/s104... Paper in AIDS and Behavior co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Lucie Cluver

Congratulations to Ridhi Kashyap, Professorial Fellow at Nuffield, on receiving the inaugural Early Career Award from the European Association for Population Studies @eaps-pop.bsky.social, which recognises outstanding contributions to demography and population studies. 🔗 buff.ly/AdsEymh

Harmonising French and German administrative DADS-EDP and SIAB data: A practical guide on how to create comparable data sets on maternal employment doi.org/10.1186/s126... Paper in Journal for Labour Market Research by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @sanderwagner.bsky.social et al.

Two-sample IV: Efficient Two-step estimation and tests for overidentification and weak-instruments doi.org/10.48550/arX... @arxiv.bsky.social preprint by Fatima Kasenally, Ruoxi Guan and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Frank Windmeijer

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Could Andy Burnham really be Britain's next Prime Minister? Following Burnham's victory in the Makerfield by-election, Prof Jane Green joined the Talking Politics podcast today to discuss the result: 🎧

We argue that Burnham's victory shows what can happen when appeals aren't primarily about ideology, but 'valence'; bridging issues where left and right bloc voters both feel disillusioned (the economy). Burnham takes this 'valence' into Westminster but he'll have an uphill challenge to maintain it.

Giving Day is a brilliant occasion to come together and celebrate the College and the people who make it such a special place. This afternoon, those celebrating in the Upper Quad enjoyed tea, conversation and a welcome dose of sunshine. nuffieldcollege.givingday.co.uk #NuffGiving2026

Attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in early life: findings from the multi-country cross-sectional CANDOUR study doi.org/10.1093/heap... Paper in @healthpromint.bsky.social by G Porter, L Roope, M Violato, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Raymond Duch, P Clarke, M Knight & R Ramakrishnan

With less than 11 hours remaining, Giving Day has already raised over £72k thanks to the remarkable response of donors and friends around the world. Thank you to everyone who has supported Nuffield so far. Support Students. Nuff Said. nuffieldcollege.givingday.co.uk #NuffGiving2026

Did the iPhone *really* cause the baby bust? A more skeptical reading of the new viral study from LCDS Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bsky.social jenndowd.substack.com/p/did-the-ip...? #demography #econsky #causalsky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social

Jugglers assemble! Ten jugglers in the Dining Hall can mean only one thing: a challenge and £5,000 unlocked! Thank you to everyone who helped turn a juggling challenge into support for Nuffield students. nuffieldcollege.givingday.co.uk #NuffGiving2026

Unintended consequences of open datasets: is agent-driven secondary analysis publishable? @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Office for Open Research online event: Wednesday 01/07/26 11:00-12:00 Book now: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BOSE26_OpenD...

🎉 Congrats to Professor Ridhi Kashyap on winning the inaugural @eaps.bsky.social Early Career Award! 🏆 Her second major award of 2026! 👏 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

Jorge Padilla (DPhil Economics 1990), donor and alumnus, shares why he chose to support Nuffield. On Giving Day, join fellow alumni and friends in supporting the next generation of Nuffield students. Thank you Jorge! nuffieldcollege.givingday.co.uk #NuffGiving2026

🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…

Have a look at the @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Giving Day page: nuffieldcollege.givingday.co.uk You can see a running total of donations received and even scroll a map of the world to see where donors are based #NuffGiving2026

Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments doi.org/10.1017/S147... Paper in European Journal of Political Research by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @alexyeandle.bsky.social and Johan Ahlbäck

Nuffield’s Giving Day is officially underway! For the next 36 hours, alumni, students, Fellows, staff, and friends from around the world will come together to celebrate our remarkable community, and our Alumni & Development team will take over our social media feeds to share it all in real time.

Throwback to last week’s Stated Meeting Seminar, where College members were eagerly anticipating tomorrow’s Giving Day! Caught on camera showing their support are Honorary Fellow Jon Cruddas, some of our Economics Fellows, and students Sarah and Josh. #NuffGiving2026

Life expectancy in China and the contribution of regional dynamics doi.org/10.4054/DemR... Paper in @demresjournal.bsky.social by Mengxue Chen, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @wensu221.bsky.social and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

🎓 Marking the European Academy of Sociology’s 25th anniversary, sociologists propose 3 principles to advance disciplinary standards: 🔗 Theory–empirics integration 🔓 Open science 🌍 Careful public engagement Read more ⬇️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/soci...

Have you ever wondered why some people age better than others? In his latest Rethink podcast for BBC Radio 4, DPIR's @benansell.bsky.social  explores the science of ageing and the pursuit of longevity: https://f.mtr.cool/nyehwkvdnt

Congratulations to Zachary Parolin, Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, on receiving two major international early-career honours for his contributions to the understanding of poverty, inequality and social mobility. Read more: tinyurl.com/y54uyhyk

And if you want to dive deeper into the research, Journal of Democracy has ungated my article Taeku Lee on which the oped draws.

Befuddled by why Graham Platner's voters shrugged off allegations and massively supported him in Maine's primary? Or puzzled by why elites on this site spend all their time fulminating about his texts rather than his policies? Either way, this oped in today's Guardian will hopefully shed light.

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

“We show that temperature fundamentally shapes human reproduction.” ICYMI: @sociologyoxford.bsky.social research shows the relationship between extreme heat and sex ratios at birth. https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-research-shows-high-temperatures-affect-sex-ratios-at-birth #SSDCommunities