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Congratulations to Dr Tobias Schillings on being awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for ‘Reforming Solidarity: Healthcare Expansion and Welfare Legitimacy in the Global South' which explores how healthcare reform reshapes solidarity, state responsibility, and inequality across societies.

❓Why does knowing who is likely to vote for a political party often tells us little about that party’s overall electoral success?  New research from DSPI's Professor Tim Vlandas and @University of York’s @Professor Daphne Halikiopoulou explores this key challenge in contemporary political analysis.

ICYMI >> Research published in the BMJ Global Health shows that parenting programmes delivered at scale can dramatically reduce violence against adolescent girls. Click link below to find out more.

How are digital care platforms reshaping how migrant care work is organised? New research from @elifcan.bsky.social, published in the Journal of Social Policy, explores how migrant care workers in Turkey are represented on care platforms.

🙌 Congratulations to Dr Roselinde Janowski, DSPI Research Affiliate, and colleagues on their new publication in Annals of Behavioral Medicine which examined whether caregiver characteristics influenced the effectiveness of different design and delivery strategies for supporting engagement.

How is grey power tilting government priorities towards preservation over progress? Is this undermining the investment needed to tackle the negative consequences of ageing populations?  Great to Prof Tim Vlandas’ research, ‘Aging Advanced Capitalist Democracies’, cited again in recent weeks.

How can we give babies a voice before they can speak? New research from DSPI's Professor Jane Barlow and the Institute of Health Visiting shows that an innovative observational tool could transform how health visitors identify babies experiencing early psychological distress.

As the UK enters another period of extreme heat, @chlobrim.bsky.social , a climate scientist at DSPI whose research focuses on extreme heat, comments in @theguardian.com on the policy choices that heatwaves are forcing us to confront.

🎉Congratulations to DSPI’s @amiyabhatia.bsky.socialand @mnaczyk.bsky.social who have received the University of Oxford’s @socsci.ox.ac.ukTeaching Excellence Awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions to teaching at DSPI.

In his article for Die Welt discussing why young people emigrate, Jens Ulrich Eckhard draws on research from DSPI's Professor Tim Vlandas’s research on how grey power is influencing government priorities.

The SAFERCHILD project, led by DSPI’s Professor LucieCluver, has been awarded a €150,000 grant from the @erc.europa.eu  to turn groundbreaking research into a scalable child protection innovation.

🙌 Congratulations to Charlène Calderaro, postdoctoral fellow at DSPI, who has been named as joint winner of Politics & Gender's Best Article Prize 2026 for her article ‘Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France’.

As the UK's heatwave continues, Dr Chloe Brimicombe, postdoctoral researcher at DSPI, explains how people can stay safe during heatwaves and why policies must go further to prepare for rising temperatures. Read her Expert Comment 👇 @chlobrim.bsky.social

Interviewed in Handelsblatt, DSPI’s Professor Tim Vlandas and University of York’s @dafnoukos.bsky.social drew on their report ‘Understanding Right-Wing Populism and What to Do About it’, to discuss the drivers of #FarRight support and the implications for democratic politics and public policy.

With the UK government’s announcement on social media restrictions for under 16s, evidence-informed policymaking is more important than ever. DSPI's EBSIPE students recently put their policy analysis skills to the test by examining the question: should social media be banned for U16s in the UK?

💡New research on #Ageing What happens when a country ages rapidly in the context of deep social and territorial #inequalities?  Read research on Peru co-authored by DSPI’s @ishmamunoz.bsky.social :

🙌Congratulations to DSPI’s @ishmamunoz.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 IPUMS Research Award for outstanding published research using @ipums.bsky.social Global Health data.

DSPI’s Dr Ismael G. Muñoz receives international research award for study on grandparents’ role in child nutritionResearch reveals how the benefits of grandparental co-residence vary across Africa’s demographic and health contextswww.spi.ox.ac.uk

Research by DSPI’s Professor Tim Vlandas is cited in the latest HM Treasury guidance on policy evaluation, contributing to a framework for applying open science principles in government evaluation ▶️Research in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ▶️HM Treasury’s guidelines: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Estimating the extent and sources of model uncertainty in political science | PNASAssessing model uncertainty is crucial to quantitative political science. Yet, most available sensitivity analyses focus only on a few modeling cho...www.pnas.org

ICYMI 👇 The last seminar of Trinity term is tomorrow: 'Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics’ Non-DSPI members need to book via this link: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

ICYMI ⤵️ What is David Attenborough’s legacy on climate communication as he turned 100? In an article in @theconversation.com, DSPI’s Dr @chlobrim.bsky.social explores how David Attenborough's work has helped shape real policy discussions and changes around climate change.