Research

The project examining the levelling-up of Britain’s regions seeks to help address the problem of profound spatial inequality in the UK by drawing lessons from international success stories of cities that bounced back from decline.

Although empirical research has consistently confirmed the harmful implications of red tape on public organisations and officials, its impact on employees’ job stress and burnout remains elusive. Our findings expand the understanding of red tape implications in public service, especially in institutional settings different from those traditionally studied.

This article is a progress report on the theory and practice of managing multilevel cultural evolution, based on a grant awarded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council’s “Rebuilding Macroeconomics” programme.

Regions and nations of Britain have become still more economically divided in recent decades. This paper assesses the extent to which social and political attitudes in different regions and nations of Britain have indeed become more polarised, in line with regional economic divergence.

New paper by the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict describes the value that could be added to fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) programming by incorporating an atrocity prevention lens.

This report analyses the domestic regulations and policies of four focus countries – South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal – comparing their regulatory approaches to five policy issues: i) regulation of online transactions; ii) cross-border data flows, data localisation, and personal data protection; iii) access to source code and technology transfer; iv) intermediary liability; and v) customs duties on electronic transmissions.