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| Established | 1914 |
|---|---|
Academic staff | 40 |
| Postgraduates | 35 CSP, 30 EBSIPE |
| 55 | |
| Location | Oxford ,England |
| Head of Department | Jane Barlow |
| Affiliations | University of Oxford |
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TheDepartment of Social Policy and Intervention is an academic department at theSocial Sciences Division at theUniversity of Oxford inOxford, England, United Kingdom.
It focuses on the research and teaching insocial policy and the systematic evaluation ofsocial intervention. It dates back to Barnett House, a social reform initiative founded in 1914 by areform movement clergyman,Samuel Barnett (known as Canon Barnett), becoming a department of Oxford in 1961.[1]
The department hosts two main research units: the Oxford Institute of Social Policy (OISP) and the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention (CEBI).
In 2021 Professor Jane Barlow followed ProfessorBernhard Ebbinghaus as head of department.[2]
The department was ranked first among all social policy departments in the Research Excellence Framework 2014, which assess the research performance of institutions of higher education in the UK, with 79% of its research classified as world-leading.[3] The Department of Social Policy and Intervention is a multidisciplinary centre of excellence for research in social policy and the development and systematic evaluation of social interventions.[4] Within the department, research is organised around two main units:
Whilst the majority of work is focused onOECD countries, faculty members also address important social policy issues in developing countries. The academic backgrounds of members of staff in the department include anthropology, demography, economics, health services research, political science, psychology, social policy, social work and sociology. The substantive focus of research in the department covers a wide range of policy areas including; Children and Families, Family Policies,Health Policy,Education Policy andSocial Policy,Pensions, Poverty and Social Exclusion, Welfare and Work, Demographic and Population based problems and a wide range of social and psycho-social interventions. Whilst the majority of work is focused onOECD countries, faculty members also address important social policy issues in developing countries.[citation needed]
The department offers teaching on two core graduate study tracts:Comparative Social Policy (MSc and MPhil) andEvidence Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation (MSc and MPhil). Research courses are offered in Social Policy and Social Intervention (DPhil). Additionally the department provides teaching on the undergraduatePolitics, Philosophy and Economics course.[7]
Notable former heads of department have includedLeonard Barnes,A. H. Halsey,Stein Ringen,Martin Seeleib-Kaiser andBernhard Ebbinghaus.
TheBarnett Professor of Social Policy is based in the department. Notable academics have included:
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