Where Next for Social Policy? A Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture with Fiona Williams
‘We need a more integrated and critical approach to social policy’-Fiona Williams This Thursday the Oxford Institute of Social Policy...
Low Fertility in Korea: Situation Analysis and Policy Implications
Though still one of the youngest countries in OECD, Korea has experienced a rapid demographic transition to a ‘hyper-ageing society’. One...
A Case Against Termination of Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.
The United States is currently facing a rising wave of anti-immigrant sentiment under the growing Conservative surge within the federal...
The End of EMA: Evidence-Based and Economically Necessary or Simply Political?
“We act on the basis of evidence”, declared the Minister for Further Education John Haynes when justifying the government’s decision to...
Diversity, Populism and Threats to Social Cohesion
Threats to social cohesion posed by globalisation, immigration and economic inequality have been the source of much public discussion in...
UK Foodbank Use: Time for a Fresh Perspective
The UK is a country of inequalities. Central London is the richest region in Western Europe, yet nine of the ten poorest regions in...
Kilmer & Kind – Two U.S. Representatives in Conversation at Barnett House
“There was no Five Guys in Oxford back in my day.” – DSPI alumni Representative Derek Kilmer Graduate students in Oxford’s Department of...
What we should do about social care, and why?
This term, the Oxford Institute of Social Policy is hosting a seminar series on different perspectives on social policy within Oxford....
A Farce at the Expense of Germany’s Poor
In the farce that is German immigration policy, a recent episode puts the spotlight on the ensuing cutthroat competition at the bottom of...
The USS Strike in Context: The Marketisation of Education
The ongoing USS strike highlights the consequences of the marketisation of education. Neoliberalism has seeped into all layers of the...
