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Impact Case Study
06 March 2025

Urban transformation and gendered violence in India

Engaging directly with women in modern urban India, this project used film to explore and highlight how women themselves understand and experience violence in both public and private as part of daily life.

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Impact Case Study
04 January 2024

Informing legislative change to prohibit child marriage in Peru

In Peru, longitudinal evidence and policy influencing by Young Lives have directly informed legislative change to prohibit and eliminate marriage with minors under the age of 18.

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Impact Case Study
31 July 2023

Providing evidence on the crimes of Operation Condor

Departmental Lecturer Francesca Lessa has provided expertise and resources that are proving crucial in efforts to bring to justice those responsible for Operation Condor, a campaign of persecution of opponents in exile by authoritarian regimes in Latin America in the 1970s.

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Impact Case Study
05 October 2022

Shining a light on ‘under the radar’ innovation in low income countries

Research has highlighted how businesses in low-income countries innovate to survive and grow, despite constraints.

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Impact Case Study
05 October 2022

Transforming the role of refugees in host economies

Research by the Refugee Studies Centre in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia has led to a radical reframing of assumptions held by aid agencies about the economic lives of refugees. 

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Impact Case Study
22 November 2021

Promoting understanding of humanitarian nutrition and shelter

Engagement work by Associate Professor Tom Scott-Smith has helped enrich understanding of the complexities of emergency refugee accommodation and humanitarian nutrition.

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Impact Case Study
25 August 2021

Understanding India’s emerging ‘rurbans’

Research led by Dr Indrajit Roy has explored the lives of internal migrants in India, shedding light on their motives for migrating and examining their social and political rights as they move around the country.

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Impact Case Study
25 August 2021

Informing policy on early childhood education in Ethiopia

Young Lives advised on the roll-out of a new ‘zero grade’ before the start of primary school in Ethiopia, providing evidence on both supply- and demand-side constraints on good-quality early childhood development.

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Impact Case Study
06 April 2021

Advising on the use of digital diplomacy

ODID researchers have advised diplomats and foreign ministry officials on how to optimise their use of digital diplomacy.

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Impact Case Study
01 November 2017

Influencing policy on early marriage in India

Young Lives supported state-level approaches to early marriage and the development of sexual and reproductive health care policies in India.

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Impact Case Study
01 November 2017

Helping job seekers in Ethiopia

Research exploring the effects of two interventions to help young urban-dwellers find jobs is impacting policy in Ethiopia.

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Impact Case Study
01 November 2017

Improving the work of labour courts in Mexico

Research by Professor Chris Woodruff and colleagues is helping to improve the functioning of the Mexico City Labour Court.

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Impact Case Study
28 March 2017

Teaching maths using real world data

Young Lives have worked with Oxfam to produce an engaging new resource for UK schoolchildren.

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Impact Case Study
18 October 2016

Teaming research and theatre to create dialogues on migration

A series of immersive performances aim to open a dialogue with audiences on what it is to be a migrant.

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Impact Case Study
11 August 2016

Survival migration: refugee or voluntary migrant?

There are few more challenging questions in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies than where and how we draw the line between ‘refugee’ and ‘voluntary migrant’.

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Impact Case Study
06 July 2016

Broadening the global understanding of poverty

Research by OPHI has contributed to a growing number of international and regional agencies adding a multidimensional perspective to their view of and their work on poverty.

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Impact Case Study
23 June 2016

Refugee youth: agency and aspiration

Today, the notion of agency among refugee youth is almost taken for granted but this attitudinal shift and its consequent impact on policy and practice have only recently come about.

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Impact Case Study
21 June 2016

Informing Nigerian policy towards Boko Haram

Research carried out by the Nigeria Research Network at ODID is helping to shape a new policy approach to the Islamist insurgency in northern Nigeria.

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Impact Case Study
21 June 2016

Supporting police reform in Nigeria

Research by Oliver Owen is providing evidence for change in the Nigerian Police Force.

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Impact Case Study
26 May 2016

From a global measure to South-South collaboration on poverty measurement

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network allows policy makers to share experiences and build their collective knowledge on non-monetary measures of deprivation.

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Impact Case Study
17 May 2016

Artweeks 2016: a vivid portrait of ODID research in action

In May 2016, the department took its research to the public in a visually engaging way with an exhibition of fieldwork photos titled ‘Global Engagement’ as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks.

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