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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 4h

🎈🎉 We recently celebrated our fifth birthday and took the opportunity to discuss our exciting future with experts across academia and government in our latest video. Have a look! 🎂🥳

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network: Five Years of Impact

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 1d

Are you an @ox.ac.uk researcher or staff? Interested in exploring and informing the policy world? Want your research to have more policy impact?

Watch out for OPEN's upcoming learning opportunities. We strengthen links between researchers and policy professionals for rich, meaningful engagement.

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 2d

Taking turns as mentor and mentee, participants act as a sounding board, confidant(e), motivator, and source of challenge and feedback—helping clarify the culture, politics, and values of their respective environments. @annfielding.bsky.social

Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 7d

You'll hear some fantastic insights from OPEN's José Rojas Alvarado and the Oxford Department of Education's policy engager extraordinaire @sararatner.bsky.social!

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 7d

🧐 Are you a researcher or DPhil student @ox.ac.uk? Unsure about your first steps in the policy world? Want to hear from academics who've successfully had policy impact?

Join us for our first learning & development session of the new academic year on on 7 October!

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 9d

Our Peer Mentoring Scheme, supported by the UK Civil Service Policy Profession is open for applications!

Since 2021, it has brought together nearly 200 @ox.ac.uk researchers and policy professionals from across UK give and local authorities. Apply and share!

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 16d

As Jan Royall, Leon Feinstein, & Marian Knight MBE step back from their roles on our Steering Group, we're really looking forward to working with our new members, Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Hogben and Emily Jones !

www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 27d

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 28d

Want to keep up-to-date on new policy-relevant research from @ox.ac.uk ? Want to know about the latest opportunities to engage with our researchers on policy-academic collaborations?

✍️ Sign up to The Oxford Briefing, a monthly personalised policy round-up from across Oxford.

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NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Earlier this year, policy leaders. researchers and experts from across the UK came together to address children and young people’s #mentalhealth challenges.

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 29d

Out now: our new study shows that climate change caused nearly 1,700 heat-related deaths in Zürich over 50 years.

We assessed the effects of changing vulnerability to heat, heat-mortality within and outside of heatwaves, and the contribution of individual companies' emissions to heat deaths.

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Overton @overton.io · Sep 5

Are you a researcher or professional staff member who studies the use of evidence in policy?

Fund your research with Overton’s policy impact grant!

Applications are open to all and must be received by December 12, 2025 - click the link for more information…

Apply to Overton's Policy Impact Grant 2024

Get information about applying to Overton's Policy Impact Grant

www.overton.io

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · Sep 8

Better data from policy-making; Including research from Michael Biggs @sociologyoxford.bsky.social on discrepancies in data on on the UK’s LGBT+ population.

Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excellent piece by @jamesrball.com for @prospectmagazine.co.uk arguing for better data for policy making. We should all be extremely concerned by the many examples collected here.

A must-read for fans of Bad Data.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/busine...

Why the data driving government could be wrong

Government decisions are led by statistics—on the economy, employment, housing and more. But what if the numbers are unreliable?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Aug 31

Could you lead a scientific meeting dedicated to your area of research?
Fast-forward scientific progress in your field by assembling global scientists for two days of discussion and collaboration. Proposals are considered twice a year.
Submit by 24 September 2025: royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · Sep 1

John Muellbauer's w/e opinion for @financialtimes.com has generated 1K comments

🡂 Replace top 2 council tax bands with annual wealth tax of 0.5%

🡂 1% tax on agricultural &unoccupied land valued above £40K p/ha

@oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @econchange.bsky.social @neonuk.bsky.social

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · Aug 29

Are you a policy professional interested in our Visiting Policy Fellowships at @ox.ac.uk ?

Find out more about what our current fellows are up to and watch our new video here:

And if you're a @ox.ac.uk department, consider hosting a policy fellow! #policyengagement

www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

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INET Complexity Economics @inet-complexity.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interested in climate change and the UK #CarbonBudget? Watch this space! @doynefarmer.bsky.social is heading up our latest project to fill evidence gaps ahead of the UK Government setting its Seventh Carbon Budget next year
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Sprint to Seventh Carbon Budget Commences

A project to fill macroeconomic and distributional analysis evidence gaps has started at INET Oxford this summer.

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · Aug 22

Want to keep up-to-date on new policy-relevant research from @ox.ac.uk ?

Want to know about the latest opportunities to engage with Oxford researchers on #policy-academic collaborations?

The Oxford Briefing offers all this and more!

Subscribe here: lnkd.in/eWy88agr

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do you work on immigrant integration or well-being? At this @compasoxford.bsky.social hybrid seminar on 19 Sep, Adam Komisarof (Keio, Japan) and I will each share work on migration attitudes, with commentary from the brilliant @sbvanoosten.bsky.social! www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/promot... #migcitsky

A flier advertising a free seminar titled 'Promoting Immigrant Belonging and Well-Being Across National and Cultural Contexts' hosted by Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society on 19 September at 11.00, both in-person and on Zoom. There is a QR code image in the lower righthand corner which leads to the registration page.

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · Aug 6

Are you an academic working on UK economic crime? Into money laundering, fraud, corruption?!

The new Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) from the National Economic Crime Centre & Home Office flags current specific research needs. 113 questions are included!

Search 'economic crime' at
ari.org.uk

Search, browse or analyse Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) from UK governmental bodies.

Where can research make a difference? See how your research could help solve problems and inform government policy.

ari.org.uk

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Pete Barbrook-Johnson @bapeterj.bsky.social · Jul 30

Fed up with economists using inappropriate methods to study climate change and net zero?

Here is a paper for you, "Economic models and frameworks to guide climate policy"!

We speak to governments about what they need, and show which economic methods can deliver.

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Economic models and frameworks to guide climate policy

Abstract. Reaching net-zero emissions will involve a structural transformation of the global economy. The transition is complicated by deep uncertainty abo

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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · Jul 31

More reforms are needed to the UK’s Cold Weather Payment system ASAP - highlights @tinafawcett.bsky.social from the @ecioxford.bsky.social along with co-authors.

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jul 31

The cold weather payment is important but needs to be made in advance of freezing temperatures.

How the UK’s cold weather payments need to change to help prevent people freezing in winter

The cold weather payment is important but needs to be made in advance of freezing temperatures.

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MPLS Division, University of Oxford @mplsoxford.bsky.social · Jun 16

🦔 @drhedgehog.bsky.social 's work on European hedgehogs conservation work has led to their status being heightened to 'near threatened', through policy and media engagement.

Find out more about Sophie's impact in a OPEN Researchers Story from @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social

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Sophie Lund Rasmussen: Hedgehog Conservation

YouTube video by University of Oxford

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CO₂RE – The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub @co2rehub.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 New report! The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal in the UK is out now. What does the current UK CDR landscape look like, and what needs to happen for CDR to scale up sustainably so it helps us reach net zero by 2050?

Download the report here: co2re.org/wp-content/u...

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