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Lucy Hu and Shreyas Hallur win A.H. Halsey Prizes for MSc results

07 January 2026
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Criminal networks exploit legal trade systems to traffic fake medicines

11 December 2025
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Lower-income countries under-represented in migration research, study finds

10 December 2025
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Oxford Sociology launches Anthony Heath Scholarship for UK MSc students

19 November 2025
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Grace Cheong and Jiaxuan Li win A.H. Halsey Prizes for MPhil results

06 November 2025
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Oxford Sociology invites applications for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026

31 October 2025
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Surveillance cameras boost locals' sense of safety - but not migrants'

30 October 2025
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320 million fewer women than men have internet access worldwide, study finds

24 October 2025
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Globally, teenage girls do more domestic work than boys

23 September 2025
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Using computational social science to improve public safety: Zhuofei Lu shares research with policymakers

17 September 2025
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Study reveals how industrialised cybercrime recruits law-abiding citizens

10 September 2025
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Michael Biggs becomes Professor of Sociology

01 September 2025
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Global study uncovers common three-stage sequence in religious decline

22 August 2025
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MSc Student Spotlight: Maki Kumagai

06 August 2025
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Scottish attitudes on sexual violence evolved after #MeToo, but change was uneven

16 July 2025
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Oxford Sociology invites applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

10 July 2025
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Perceived social status and contextual inequality shape support for wealth redistribution

12 June 2025
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MPhil Student Spotlight: Qiuyue Lin

10 June 2025
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African Medicines Agency could be solution for epidemic of low-quality medicines

09 June 2025
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Congratulations to Matthew Tye and Ben Low on the successful completion of their DPhils

21 May 2025
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Oxford Sociology invites applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

16 May 2025
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Violence and COVID-19 drive decline in Mexico's life expectancy

17 April 2025
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New study shows Facebook ads offer affordable survey sampling in the Global South

15 April 2025
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Michael Biggs highly commended in Social Sciences Impact Awards 2025

27 March 2025