Nuffield College Library

19/10/2026

How is social status distributed? A conjoint experiment on social status judgements in Great Britain
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rvsyn_v1
SocArXiv preprint by Nuffield College Alumnus Jonathan Mellon, Jack Bailey and Nuffield Fellow Geoffrey Evans

19/10/2026

Global progress in preventing violence against children through data and evidence for action
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108368
Paper in Child Abuse & Neglect by Greta M. Massetti, Madison T. Little, Sabine Rakotomalala, Daniela Ligiero and Nuffield College Fellow Lucie Cluver

16/10/2026

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

Including:

Russland: eine deutsche Erfindung: warum so viele bei uns Putin falsch einschätzen by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Gwendolyn Sasse

The analytic history of American politics by Nuffield Emeritus Fellow Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner

Democratizing AI by Nuffield alumna Annette Zimmermann

16/10/2026

Prosecuting corruption: drivers, dilemmas, and consequences
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-042224-085729
Paper in Annual Review of Law and Social Science by Nuffield College Fellow Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos

This article examines why high-profile corruption prosecutions often deepen political conflict rather than restore trust in democracy. Drawing on examples from democracies and dictatorships worldwide, it argues that anticorruption efforts, although normatively desirable, face three interrelated dile...

15/10/2026

After the Aberfan Disaster
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/after-aberfan-disaster
Article in History Today by Martin Johnes and Nuffield College Emeritus Fellow Iain McLean

NB, Iain McLean will also appear in the documentary Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back on BBC2 at 21:00 Monday 19 October
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003375t

It has been 60 years since the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but memories of corporate failings and injustice persist.

15/10/2026

Interpreting the lifetime risk of maternal near miss
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(26)00269-X/fulltext
Correspondence in The Lancet Global Health by Nuffield College Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Ursula Gazeley, Alumnus Antonino Polizzi, Julio Romero Prieto, Associate Member José Manuel Aburto, Georges Reniers and Veronique Filippi

Maternal near miss (MNM) events, during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, are life-threatening complications in which a woman almost dies but survives.1 WHO identifies MNM cases based on clinical, laboratory, and management-based indicators of organ dysfunction.1 Quantifying the burd...

14/10/2026

Introduction to the special issue “Mafiosi, drug traffickers, and money launderers: a critical appreciation of the work of Peter Reuter”
https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2026.2745795
Paper in Global Crime by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese, who is guest editing the forthcoming special issue

Published in Global Crime (Ahead of Print, 2026)

14/10/2026

Does it matter how we measure family complexity? Sequence-based indices and children's educational outcomes
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103445
Paper in Social Science Research by Nuffield Alumna Carla Rowold, Nuffield Student Martin Gädecke and Associate Member Zachary Van Winkle

13/10/2026

More on standards in sociology: Replies to Barbera, Przepiorka, Skardhamar, Wang, and Zeng
https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631261492661
Paper in Rationality and Society by Nuffield College Fellow Ozan Aksoy, Gianluca Manzo, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Werner Raub. This paper replies to comments on the authors' recent paper Standards in sociology: A position statement at the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology
https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631261444988

We respond to five comments on our position statement, published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology, in which we propo...

13/10/2026

Privacy-preserving, decentralised inference of epidemic transmission dynamics from digital exposure histories
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.05.26364757
medRxiv preprint by Younjung Kim, Ben Lambert, Luca Ferretti, Michelle Kendall, Robert Hinch, Jamie Webb, Nuffield College Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Thomas Rawson, Lucie Abeler-Doerner, Peter Horby, Michael Parker, Nuffield Fellow Melinda C. Mills, Christophe Fraser, Moritz U.G. Kraemer and Christl A. Donnelly