Politics & Society

Democratic nations should rely on international law to tackle growing ‘hybrid’ and ‘grey zone’ security threats, research shows

Democratic countries should rely on international law and improve their legal resilience to tackle the grave security threats caused by...

Experts at the University of Exeter’s new Centre for Computational Social Science using data science to understand our world

Experts at the University of Exeter’s new Centre for Computational Social Science are using statistics AI, big data and machine...

Major new website launched to monitor the use of lethal force by the police around the world

A major new research project and website to monitor the use of lethal force by police officers around the world...

Areas with more illegal market opportunities more likely to be targeted by organised crime, study shows

Communities with higher-than-average illegal market opportunities (proxied by drug-related activities) are more likely to be targeted by organised crime groups,...

Number of male Oxbridge students from elite schools declined significantly in the middle of the twentieth century, study shows

The number of male students at the University of Oxford from elite schools declined significantly by the middle of the...

Esteemed research centre which predicts election results now part of the University of Exeter

The esteemed Elections Centre – known for predicting election results and providing crucial data on votes for the past four...

European Court of Human Rights is “backsliding” on legal protections for asylum seekers, study says

The European Court of Human Rights is “backsliding” by surreptitiously reversing its principles established to protect asylum seekers, a new...