Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Trials, tribulations and triumphs: trying to prevent child abuse in low and middle income countries
  Prof. Lucie Cluver (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Using anthropological approaches to inform and analyse policies
  Dr Rachel Bray (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Accumulation or absorption? Household non-employment before and after the Great Recession
  Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford), Dr Thomas Biegert (WZB Berlin Social Science Centre)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Comparing regression coefficients between different groups – problem or non-problem?
  Dr Jouni Kuha (London School of Economics)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why should we have trust in numbers? Making evidence more reliable, and empowering people to check it
  Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)
  Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture series

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Political philosophy and social policy: the concept of poverty
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Deindustrialisation, state responses and social democracy
  Professor Jane Gingrich (DPIR)
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Social Policy, Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Oxford University: lessons from the study of Japan
  Prof Roger Goodman (Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford)
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Opportunities and challenges in using research to influence policy on childhood poverty in low- and middle-income countries
  Professor Jo Boyden (Director, Young Lives Study, Oxford Department of International Development)
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Social impact bonds: the role of private capital in outcomes based commissioning
  Cancelled due to strike action.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alex Nicholls (Said Business School, University of Oxford)
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What should we do about social care, and why?
  Sir Andrew Dilnot (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: a human rights approach
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Sandy Fredman
  Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Reforming Poland’s Social Market Economy in the Age of Populism
  Dr Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - When and why do (survey) experimental treatment effects generalise?
  Dr Thomas Leeper (LSE)
  MethodsHub Seminars

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Migrant workers in the home care sector: What can we learn from the Israeli experience?
  Dr Ohad Green (Bar-Ilan, Israel)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Leave or Remain: Is there still a place for Qualitative Evidence Syntheses in the Systematic Reviews "family"?
  Dr Andrew Booth (University of Sheffield)
  MethodsHub Seminars

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Is early intervention better? Findings from two meta-analyses of parenting interventions for reducing child behaviour problems
  Professor Frances Gardner (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - A manifesto for trustworthy social science (and why it’s needed)
  Dr Ben Baumberg Geiger (University of Kent)
  MethodsHub Seminars

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Food bank usage and the roll-out of Universal Credit in the United Kingdom
  Dr Aaron Reeves (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Replication and Reproducibility in the Social Sciences
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Nicole Janz (University of Nottingham)
  MethodsHub Seminars

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Where next for Social Policy?
  TBA
  Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture series

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Robust Research - A practical guide
  TBA
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Results from the INCLUSIVE trial of a whole-school health intervention: outcomes, mediators and processes
  TBA
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Advances in methods for identifying causal effects from observational data
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Effects of the Perceived Sustainability of Public Pension Systems on Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Germany, Spain and the United States
  Dr Jonas Radl (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Colonialism and social policy in the Global South - CHANGE OF SPEAKER
  Amanda Shriwise (University of Oxford/ University of Bremen)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Critical policy analysis and social protection in the Global South: A view from the MENA region
  Dr Rana Jawad (University of Bath)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Social inequality and social mobility: is there an inverse relation?
  Dr Erzsébet Bukodi (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The origins of social security in India
  Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Insecurity, the welfare state and far right party support in Europe
  Dr Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Opting out of the social contract: Tax morale and evasion in Latin America
  Dr David Doyle (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian civil service
  Dr Martin Williams (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Revisiting social concertation in Europe: A fsQCA-comparison of social partner involvement since the 2008 crisis
  Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford), Benedikt Bender (University of Mannheim)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Activating the youth in post-industrial Japan and Korea
  Dr Sophia Seung-yoon Lee (Ewha Womans University, Seoul)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Where next for research on social policy in the Global South?
  Dr Rebecca Surender (University of Oxford), Dr Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester), Dr Alexandra Kaasch (University of Bremen)
  Social Policy beyond the West

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Large Family, Poor Family? Household Incomes and Child Poverty in Large Families in the US, UK and Ireland
  Dr Tony Fahey (University College Dublin), Megan Curran (University College Dublin)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Poverty in all its Dimensions: Participatory Research with a Social Movement
  Fran Bennett (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Bray (University of Oxford )
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescents: The GCRF Hub
  Prof. Lucie Cluver (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Street Sense: Capturing How Cities Make Us Feel - DATE CHANGED TO 13 JUNE
  Dr Ben Chrisinger (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Divorces by fact proven over the past half century in England and Wales: the historical context; statistical trends, and future prospects
  John Haskey (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:00 - Changing places: the science and art of new urban planning
  TBA
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Economic uncertainty and labour market change: Challenges for public policy from income volatility
  TBA
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Universal Credit In-Work Progression Randomised Control Trial
  TBA
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Flexible intervention and rigorous evaluation in complex contexts: tough learning through action research with the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP)
  Prof James Copestake (University of Bath)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Private Health Insurance and the European Union
  Cyril Benoît (OXPO Sciences Po Paris/Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:30 - Chess, not chequers: the need for a complex systems approach to public health
  Professor Harry Rutter (University of Bath)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Great Leap Backwards: What is happening with social policy for child health and wellbeing?
  TBA
  Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture series

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Bullying and mental health: can virtual reality help?
  Dr Lucy Bowes (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Trends in hospital admissions for mental health disorders in England, 1999–2018
  TBA
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:00 - School-based mental health interventions: promise and pitfalls
  Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Longitudinal research: innovations in wearable technology and biomeasure collection
  TBA
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Hidden asymmetries in explaining intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Europe: set analytic comparison
  Dr Triin Lauri (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Austerity and the Reconfiguration of the Welfare State
  TBA
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Neo-liberalism and the Political Economy of Austerity
  TBA
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Mental health and adherence to antiretroviral medication in a cohort of South African adolescents (title updated)
  Dr Yulia Shenderovich (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - How Policies & Institutions Shaped Welfare Consequences of the Great Recession in Europe
  Professor Stefán Ólafsson (University of Iceland)
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - A Critical Review of English Reforms in Support Services for Children, Parents and Families during Austerity
  Dr Harriet Churchill (University of Sheffield)
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Realist Review and Realist Evaluation: Why Bother?
  Dr Geoff Wong (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Lived Experiences of People at the Margins in Times of Austerity
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE)
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The Evolution of Growth and Welfare Regimes in the Knowledge Economy
  Professor Bruno Palier (Sciences Po, Paris)
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Power at work: inequality by social class and gender across countries and policy contexts
  Dr Marii Paskov (Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:15 - Basic Income and Austerity
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Low-income America and the Delegated State
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Margaret Weir (Brown University)
  Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Universal Credit: Couples balancing work, care and finances
  Fran Bennett (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:00 - Sex, gender and COVID-19: evidence, equality and inexplicable absences
  Sarah Hawkes (UCL)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Pandemics and urban planning: COVID-19 illuminates why urban planners should have listened to community advocates all along
  Samina Raja (University of Buffalo)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Ownership variation in violated regulations and national care standards: Evidence from social care providers
  Dr Anders Bach-Mortensen (Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:00 - Measuring population-level mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Elizabeth Stuart (University at Buffalo)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The unequal impact of COVID-19 on the labour market
  Abigail Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford), Marta Golin (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Protest and social policies for outsiders: The expansion of social pensions in Latin America", Rossella Ciccia and Cesar Guzman-Concha
  Dr Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:00 - Annual Sidney Ball Lecture - COVID-19 and the UK Welfare State: where next for post-pandemic welfare provision?
  Peter Taylor-Gooby (University of Kent)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Constructing the story of 2020 - myths, miasma, messaging and models - from Cholera to COVID-19
  Danny Dorling (Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford University )
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 26 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Linking National and Regional Income Inequality: Cross-Country Data Harmonization and Analysis
  Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
  Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
• 16:00 - Politics, post-truth science and COVID-19
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes in the UK
  Mike Brewer (The Resolution Foundation)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Regimes of inequality and Covid-19: How the welfare states of the past affect health inequalities in the pandemic
  Please be advised, registration will close on 19th January.
  Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Locally Controlled Minimum Wages Are No Closer to Public Preferences
  Please note that registration will close on 25 January.
  Gabor Simonovits (CEU), Julia Payson (NYU)
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Fairwork in an Unfair World: Resisting Platform Capitalism
  Please note that registration will close on Feb 1, 2021.
  Matthew Cole (University of Oxford)
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Family changes and incipient political responses in a context of high inequalities: Latin America before and since COVID
  Please note registration closes on 8 Feb, 2021
  Merike Blofield (GIGA)
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Is Universal Basic Income (UBI) the one size-fits-all social policy of the post-pandemic era? / Employment and well-being effects of basic income: evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment
  Please note that registration will close on 15 Feb.
  Lena Lavinas, Olli Kangas
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Taking back control: What will Brexit mean for UK social policy?
  Please note that registration closes on 22 Feb.
  Kitty Stewart
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe
  Please note that registration ends on 1 Mar
  Kimberly Morgan
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Climate change: the myopia of social policy
  Please note that registration closes on 8 March
  Ian Gough (Visiting Professor, LSE; Emeritus Professor, U of Bath)
  OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Synthetic control methods: introduction & overview of recent developments
  Please note that registration closes on 27 April
  Dr Carl Bonander (University of Gothenburg)
  Modern methods in social policy and intervention research

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science
  Please note that registrations close on 4 May, 2021
  Dr Tasha Fairfield (London School of Economics & Political Science)
  Modern methods in social policy and intervention research

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Indigent Defense, Social Workers and Suicidality in Jail: Evidence from Randomized Clinicians and Instrumental Variables
  ***Please note that registration closes on 11 May 2021***
  Scott Cunningham (Baylor)
  Modern methods in social policy and intervention research

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Can qualitative longitudinal research offer a window into the ‘shared typical’? Aggregating lived experiences of punitive welfare conditionality
  ***Please note registration closes on 18 May***
  Prof Sharon Wright (School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow)
  Modern methods in social policy and intervention research

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Principles and Application
  ***Please note that registration closes on 25 May ***
  Dr Eva Thomann (Department of Politics and Public Administration University of Konstanz)
  Modern methods in social policy and intervention research

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - An introduction to the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST): Opportunities for Intervention Science
  ***Please note that registration closes on 1st June***
  Dr Kate Guastaferro (Pennsylvania State University)
  Modern methods in social policy and intervention research

Saturday 24 July 2021 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Shadow Pandemic: Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria
  Please register via the booking URL below; on opening the URL, click on 'Zoom Registration' to complete registration and receive joining instructions.
  Dame Pauline Tallen (Ministry of Women Affairs & Social Development, Nigeria), Dr Oby Ezekwesili (Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative), Aisha Yesufu (Bring Back Our Girls)

Wednesday 6 October 2021 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Webinar on Global COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood and Caregiver Deaths
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Refining paradigms to integrate health equity into implementation science
  Ana A. Baumann (Washington University School of Medicine), Dr Prajakta Adsul (University of New Mexico)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Epidemic illusions: on the coloniality of global public health
  Dr Eugene Richardson (Harvard University)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The rehabilitative prison: challenging practices in prison design in order to challenge attitudes to prisoners
  Professor Yvonne Jewkes (University of Bath)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Integrating culture, science, and social justice: a 12-year program of prevention parenting research with Latina/o immigrants in the US, and Latina/o populations in Latin America
  Professor Ruben Parra-Cardona (University of Texas-Austin)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sidney Ball Lecture 2021
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Baroness Minouche Shafik (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Moving anti-racism in implementation science from the margins to the center
  Professor Derek Griffith (Georgetown University)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Racism in the time of COVID-19: reflections on theory, data, and action
  Dr Sharrelle Barber (Drexel University)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods: a new concept for an age of complexity
  Professor Jenny Phillimore (University of Birmingham)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - (Over) population, people, & climate emergency: reproductive justice as a paradigm shift
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Rishita Nandagiri (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The next welfare state? UK welfare after COVID-19
  ONLINE ONLY- Please register to recieve the Zoom link on the day of the event.
  Prof Chris Pierson (University of Nottingham)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Why do labour platforms negotiate? Platform strategies towards collective bargaining in tax-based welfare states
  Joining link to be sent to DSPI Members- all others, please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-do-labour-platforms-negotiate-platform-strategies-tickets-247306810327
  Anna Ilsøe (University of Copenhagen)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The social bureaucrat: How social proximity among bureaucrats affects local governance
  HYBRID EVENT. DSPI Members will be sent joining link on the day of the event, all others, please register. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-social-bureaucrat-how-social-proximity-among-bureaucrats-tickets-244461570137
  Prof Tuğba Bozçağa (King’s College London)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Family policies and fertility: What do we know from longitudinal research?
  DSPI Members to be sent joining link on the day of the event, all others, please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-policies-and-fertility-what-do-we-know-from-longitudinal-research-tickets-247327221377
  Prof Michaela Kreyenfeld (Hertie School of Government)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Benevolent Policies
  DSPI Members will be sent the joining link on the day of the event- All others, please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carmen-jacqueline-ho-benevolent-policies-tickets-247323590517
  Prof Carmen Jacqueline Ho (University of Guelph)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Participatory possibilities: reflections from research with families on a low-income during the pandemic
  HYBRID Event. DSPI members will be sent joining link for online viewing prior to the event, all others please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/participatory-possibilities-reflections-from-research-with-families-tickets-244457176997
  Dr Ruth Patrick (University of York)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Digitalization and the welfare state: Contours of a research agenda
  DSPI Members will be sent joining link prior to the event, all others, please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digitalization-and-the-welfare-state-contours-of-a-research-agenda-tickets-247329076927
  Prof Marius Busemeyer (University of Konstanz)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 24 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Flexibility Paradox: Why flexible working leads to more work, and what social policy can do about that
  DSPI Members will be sent joining link prior to the day of the event, all others please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-flexibility-paradox-why-flexible-working-leads-to-more-work-tickets-244459363537
  Prof Heejung Chung (University of Kent)
  OISP Seminar Series

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Spatial Dynamics of Benefit Spending following the Philadelphia Sugary Drink Tax: A Synthetic Controls Evaluation
  The link for the online version will be sent the day before the event.
  Dr Ben Chrisinger (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Using Computational Text Analysis to study the Politics of Social Policy
  DSPI Members will be sent a joining link prior to the event, people outside of DSPI need to register for the link
  Dr Tom O'Grady (UCL)
  Modern Methods in Social Policy & Intervention Research

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Winds of Change: a mixed methods quasi-experimental evaluation of a transport Intervention to improve equity and health
  DSPI Members will be sent a joining link prior to the event, people outside of DSPI need to register for the link
  Professor Olga Lucia Sarmiento (Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes)
  Modern Methods in Social Policy & Intervention Research

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - The WiSDOM Health Professional Cohort Study in South Africa: Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities
  The link for the online version will be sent the day before the event.
  Laetitia Rispel (Professor of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Academic Visitor at DSPI)
• 16:00 - Collaborating on Covid Realities: reflections on undertaking participatory online research in a pandemic
  DSPI Members will be sent a joining link prior to the event, people outside of DSPI need to register for the link
  Dr Ruth Patrick (University of York)
  Modern Methods in Social Policy & Intervention Research

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - When complexity matters: considerations beyond evidence of effectiveness in public health guideline development
  DSPI Members will be sent a joining link prior to the event, people outside of DSPI need to register for the link
  Dr Ani Movsisyan (Pettenkofer School of Public Health, LMU Munich)
  Modern Methods in Social Policy & Intervention Research

Thursday 26 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Child-related and Family Policy During Covid-19: Analysing Developments and Constructing a Database
  The link for the online version will be sent the day before the event.
  Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford), Ertu Polat (DPhil Student and Barnett Scholar), Sunwoo Ryu (DPhil Student, University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Inequality of Opportunity in Educational Achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels
  The link for the online version will be sent the day before the event.
  Gabriela Sicilia (Research Fellow at the Universidad de La Laguna)

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Reviewing the evidence-to-policy-gap for gender-responsive COVID-19 policies
  In-person and online
  Sarah Hawkes (UCL)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Tackling UK health inequalities: If ‘evidence-based policy’ was not enough, can public engagement help?
  In-person and online
  Professor Kat Smith (University of Strathclyde)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Learning about Learning from Learning about Learning
  In-person and online
  Lant Pritchett (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Using data and voice to improve policy and practice
  In-person and online
  Professor Leon Feinstein (University of Oxford)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Policy responses to the United States overdose crisis: successes and unintended challenges
  In-person and online
  Dr Magdalena Cerdá (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2022: Professor Ann Phoenix, 'Who are we? Contesting and transforming racialised histories and futures in the Carolean era'
  Professor Ann Phoenix (Professor of Psychosocial studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education.)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Priorities for children and young people’s mental health research: where we have got to and where we need to go (lessons from the Emerging Minds Network)
  In-person and online
  Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - LEAPS: A 2-Generation Approach for Early Childhood and Youth Development
  In-person and online
  Dr Aisha K. Yousafzai (Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University)
  Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Who’s governing the market? Bringing the individual back in to the developmental state
  Hybrid Event
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
  Hilary Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Why the future of work is not remote
  Hybrid Event
  Dr Fabian Braesemann (Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Hilary Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Hybrid Event
  Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan (Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Hilary Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Politics of Urban-Rural Divides in the Knowledge Economy
  Hybrid Event
  Professor Jane Gingrich (University of Oxford)
  Hilary Term Seminar Series 2023

Tuesday 28 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Multidimensional Child Poverty: New Approaches, Debates, and its Applications
  Enrique Delamónica (UNICEF), Oliver Fiala (Save the Children UK)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Discourse Network Analysis
  Hybrid event
  Professor Philip Leifeld (Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government, University of Essex)
  DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Process Tracing - Between Broadening and Deepening
  Hybrid event
  Professor Jeffrey T. Checkel (Chair in International Relations, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute)
  DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Do workers demand protection from digital transformations at work? Evidence from five European countries
  Hybrid event
  Dr Aina Gallego (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Barcelona)
  DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Embedding skill bias: Technological change, labour market institutions, and the skill bias in wages and benefits
  Hybrid event
  Dr Niccolo Durazzi (Lecturer in Political Economy of Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh)
  DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Engaging Policymakers: Translating your research into policy and practice
  Dr Isang Awah (University of Oxford), Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi (Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Nigeria), Dr John Ovuoraye (National Hospital, Abuja)
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Hybrid event
  Dr Margarita Gelepithis (University Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Cambridge)
  DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Trend of Education Technology Usage and Its Social Impacts
  Hybrid event
  Dr Lulu Shi (Oxford Internet Institute and Department of Education Oxford)
  DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2023

Thursday 21 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Oxford Inside Out 2023
  Dr Isang Awah (University of Oxford), Dr Aala El-Khani (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi (Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons), Mr Khayam Husain (Karachi Relief Trust), Dr. Chris Berry MBE (Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office)

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Commercial determinants of health: A primer - DSPI Seminar 1
  Hybrid event
  Dr Nason Maani (University of Edinburgh)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Shock Without Therapy: The Political Economy of the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis - DSPI Seminar 2
  Hybrid event
  Dr Gabor Scheiring (Georgetown University Qatar)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Food, education, and aspirations: An intra-household narrative analysis of the mid-day meal scheme in India - DSPI Seminar 3
  Hybrid Event
  Dr Swayamshree Mishra (University of Lancaster.)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - What did local government ever do for us? Assessing the public health and health inequalities impact of local government services - DSPI Seminar 4
  Hybrid Event
  Professor Ben Barr (University of Liverpool)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Better co-production for high quality research: learning from DEPTH - DSPI Seminar 5
  Hybrid Event
  Professor Cicely Marston (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 2023 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture
  Professor Silja Häusermann (University of Zurich)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage: From Children to Parents - DSPI Seminar 6
  Hybrid Event
  Dr Patrick Prag (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics/ ENSAE Paris)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The social determinants of social care - DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023 Seminar 7
  Hybrid Event
  Dr Tania Burchardt (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Unceasing Significance of Colorism: Empirical Consequences and Theoretical Implications
  Hybrid Event
  Professor Ellis Monk (Harvard University)
  DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Mental Load: Understanding Hidden Gender Gaps in Household Labour among Parents and their Political Consequences
  Dr Ana Weeks (University of Bath)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - **Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances** Family Matters: Family Ties Shape Support for Policies, with Political Implications
  Professor Jane Green (Nuffield College)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The politics of regulating low wages
  Professor Georg Picot (University of Bergen)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Social inequalities through a life course perspective: implications for health, work and careers
  Professor Ingrid Schoon (UCL)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Within-School Achievement Sorting in Comprehensive and Tracked Systems
  Per Engzell (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Social mobility and political (dis)content in Britain
  Dr Andrew McNeil (UCL)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Intergenerational transmission of poverty in Europe
  Professor Brian Nolan (DSPI, University of Oxford)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Carrying out High-Quality Qualitative Research: The Importance of Hard Choices - Methods in Social Policy and Intervention Research
  This is a hybrid event
  Professor Annette Lareau (University of Pennsylvania)
  DSPI Trinity Term 2024 Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Combining qualitative and small-n methodologies in impact evaluation designs: theoretical aspects and lessons from experience - Methods in Social Policy and Intervention Research
  This is a hybrid event
  Barbara Befani (National Centre for Social Research (NatCen))
  DSPI Trinity Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC - Methods in Social Policy and Intervention Research
  This is a hybrid event
  Abigail Gewirtz (Arizona State University)
  DSPI Trinity Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) Database: on the Dependent Variable Problem in Welfare State Research - Methods in Social Policy and Intervention Research
  Hybrid event
  Professor Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford), Jan Helmdag (Stockholm University), Mari Eneroth (Stockholm University), Sofie Burman (Stockholm University)
  DSPI Trinity Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Is Inequality the Problem? - DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 5
  Professor Lane Kenworthy (University of California San Diego)
  DSPI Hilary Term 2024 Seminar Series

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Social Justice and Health Equity
  Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL)
  DSPI Trinity Term 2024 Seminar Series