The Transformation of British Welfare Policy: Politics, discourse and public opinion

Since 2010 the UK has embarked on a series of radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European countries experiencing similar economic and social trends, who have not enacted such dramatic cuts and reforms. Until recently, however, the changes proved very popular with the public, who increasingly hated the welfare system and viewed its users as lazy, undeserving and likely to be cheating.

Mixed Methods: crossing the qual-quant divide

How do you actually ‘do’ mixed methods research in the social sciences? How can primarily qualitative researchers think about quantitative methods, and vice versa? Do qual and quant simply co-exist within research, or can they be coherently integrated? What does this mean in particular disciplines? In this session Prof Leigh Payne of Sociology and the Latin American Studies Centre, Prof Heather Hamill from Sociology, and Dr Olivier Sterck, an economist within the Department of International Development will share their perspectives.

On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online, with a possibility for members of the University of Oxford to join in person in Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB. Registration on: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TlQxhGKwSgm4F9awBon5wg

British-German relations after Brexit and the German elections

Speakers: Andreas Michaelis (German Ambassador to the UK); Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford); Christiane Hoffmann (der Spiegel); David Lidington (Koenigswinter)
Chair: Hartmut Mayer (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Convenors: Andrew Hurrell (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford) and Alasdair MacDonald (Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership)
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European Studies Seminar

Towards a Normative Theory of Just Riots

In light of many mass uprisings over the last decade political theorists are increasingly questioning the illegitimacy of the riot. In this discussion, Jonathan Havercroft asks a more fundamental question: how did rioting become illegitimate? Using a genealogical approach, he traces the emergence of what he calls the riot taboo—the idea that riots, because they are violent protests, are illegitimate—from 16th century England to the present. He focuses on four discrete moments: 1. Early articulations of riot in English common law from 1500-1700; 2. The passage of the Riot Act in 1715 3.

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 - Unmasking Disparities: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online, with a possibility for members of the University of Oxford to join in person in Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB.

Registration for online participation: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gQzgoZ34RvaJe7zlReQJEQ
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