The role of area-based interventions in tackling child poverty. Poverty in the UK has increased significantly over the past decade. This talk examined the importance of a child’s early years, focusing on the role of parenting, and ask how we can break cycles of disadvantage. Professor Barlow discusses A Better Start - a new, innovative intervention for families in deprived areas. She is leading the national evaluation of this programme. This lecture was given as part of the University of Oxford's Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend in 2017.

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Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage

The family is often seen as one unit, sharing resources equally, with money being neutral whatever its origin or purpose. But research by Fran Bennett suggests this is too simple.

Inside the 'Black Box' of the Family

Mary McKay, Professor and Director, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University, delivered the Astor Visiting Lecture on 21 May 2015.

It takes a village: Meeting the complex needs of poverty-impacted youth and their families, locally and globally

Part four of the 'Interventional Perspectives on Substance Use and Misuse' seminar series which took place in Hilary Term 2014.

Research, Policy, and Societal Perspectives on New Psychoactive Substances

Part three of the 'Interventional Perspectives on Substance Use and Misuse' seminar series which took place in Hilary Term 2014.

Alcohol Policy and Its Societal impact

Part two of the 'Interventional Perspectives on Substance Use and Misuse' seminar series which took place in Hilary Term 2014.

Adolescent Substance Use: What Do We Think We Know, Should We Intervene and if so, When?

Part one of the 'Interventional Perspectives on Substance Use and Misuse' seminar series which took place in Hilary Term 2014.

Drug Control, Human Rights and Bridging 'Parallel Universes'

Prof Laurence Moore, Director of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement gives a talk for the Graduate Student Research Conference on 19 October 2012.

Department of Social Policy and Intervention Graduate Research Student Conference Keynote Speech 2

Dr Philip Davies, Deputy Director at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, gives a keynote talk for the Department of Social Policy and Intervention Graduate Research Student Conference on October 19 2012.

Department of Social Policy and Intervention Graduate Research Student Conference Keynote Speech 1

Mark Heywood reflects on the impact of HIV and AIDS for the 4th Annual HIV / AIDS Student Research day.

HIV and AIDS - Special lecture for Oxford AIDS Research Day 2012

Theda Skocpol delivers a talk at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy, based in part on her new book with Larry Jacobs, "Health Care Reform and American Politics".

Will the U.S. Health Reform Survive and Flourish?

The department hosts a range of conferences, lectures, workshops and other events, some of which are featured on this page, including our graduate research students’ conference which provides students with an opportunity to present their research findings, and an HIV/AIDS day. 

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