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Children in poverty due to UK government’s ‘dysfunctional system’
News
It finds that changes by central government to immigration and welfare benefits under the ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy have left local authorities with a duty of care to safeguard children when their parents are precluded from working or accessing benefits.
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Professor Alison Etheridge
Randomness and order
![GENEVA - NOVEMBER 30: Antoine Marguier conducts the United Nations Orchestra rehearsal at the Victoria Hall November 30, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. The concert supports PVA-Geneva work in Cameroon.](https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/styles/ow_content_medium/s3/field/field_image_main/shutterstock_177445016%20copy.jpg?itok=TDDbGvba)
Professor Jonathan Cross
Randomness and order
This series grew out of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) conference ‘Randomness and Order’, at which academics in the fields of quantum physics, music, probability
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Professor Chris Wickham
Randomness and order
What does randomness and order mean in a historical context?In the Randomness and Order conference, I interpreted the randomness question in terms of the historical past and how you turn it into history by ordering it.
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Robert MacLaren and Nightstar
Entrepreneurial academics
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Mina Bekheet and Oxford Biotech
Entrepreneurial academics
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Husayn Kassai and Onfido
Entrepreneurial academics
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Taxes on goods and services 'linked with increased infant mortality'
News
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Claims about the decline of the West are ‘exaggerated’
News
The publication in the journal, Population Studies, by Professor David Coleman and Associate Professor Stuart Basten, provides a more optimistic demographic picture of the future in the West, in contrast to the commonly accepted narrative.
Early humans adapted to living in rainforests much sooner than thought
News
This study, published in the early online edition of the journal, Science, shows that early modern humans adapted to living in the rainforest for long periods of time.
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Professor Graham Ward
Being human
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Professor Harvey Whitehouse
Being human
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The Internet Institute
Manuscript to megabyte
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The Ruskin School of Art
Manuscript to megabyte
![Ancient Greek writing chiseled on stone](https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/styles/ow_content_medium/s3/field/field_image_main/shutterstock_92164762.jpg?itok=2KSBMhwZ)
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Manuscript to megabyte
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Caitlin Black
Making sense of the numbers
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Professor Paul Newman
Making sense of the numbers
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Professor Alain Goriely
Making sense of the numbers
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Mike Mason
Making sense of the numbers
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