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Global Dashboard on Vaccine Equity launched, featuring data from COVID-19 tracker

A new joint initiative from UNDP, the WHO and the University of Oxford illustrates why vaccine equity is key to saving lives and driving a fairer and faster recovery.

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Remembering Professor Benno Ndulu
Benno Ndulu at Pathways Commission launch
February 2021
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Preparing the UK for a new era of trade
Emily Jones
February 2021
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Supporting public leaders up to the most senior levels
AIG Public Leaders Programme
February 2021
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Admissions close this week for the MPP and DPhil – join us in 2021
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January 2021
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2020: a year like no other
MPP students during induction
December 2020
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New online course: Values and Public Policy
Tom Simpson
December 2020
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New £2m global policy project to address social impacts of COVID-19
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December 2020
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How the MPP community has adapted to changing restrictions this term
Three students sit socially distanced in a lecture theatre, facing the front where a screen displays other members of the class participating remotely
November 2020
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New DPhil scholarship to promote democracy and minority rights
Professor Jo Wolff delivering the inaugural Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture
October 2020

Research updates

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Anna Petherick awarded a Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations to Anna Petherick, who was awarded Teaching Excellence Award in the Early Career Stream by the University of Oxford Social Sciences Division.

16 July 2021
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DPhil student co-authors paper on ethical consumerism and social policy

Gauri Chandra, currently DPhil student at the Blavatnik School, recently published a paper entitled "Buying for good: Altruism, ethical consumerism and social policy" published by the international

14 July 2021
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New paper about government COVID-19 responses published in PLOS ONE

A new paper about government responses to COVID-19 and deaths has been published in PLOS ONE, a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science.

09 July 2021

In the media

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The metaphysics of regulatory capture

Karthik Ramanna responds to ProMarket’s Stigler 50 Years Later series

ProMarket
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Sale of semiconductor factory to Chinese-owned firm presents bigger UK risk than Huawei

Interview with Ciaran Martin in which he says that the sale of the UK's largest microchip factory to a Chinese-owned firm poses a bigger risk to Britain’s strategic interests than Huawei’s involvement in the 5G network

Daily Telegraph
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If this is a global pandemic, why aren’t we loosening our chains like the rest of the world?

Article mentions the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and its stringency index

Spectator (Australia)

Alumni news

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DPhil alumnus' paper on measuring growth in developing countries published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives
Noam Angrist
July 2021
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Alumnus becomes Slovenia's first digital transformation minister
Mark Boris Andrijanič
July 2021
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Alumnus named 'queer hero' for Cork
Padraig Rice
July 2021

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