We've moved up to 31st in the UK in this year’s Complete University Guide league table! We've ranked 3rd for spending on our facilities and 4th for academic services. Thank you to our whole Essex community for helping us achieve this success. brnw.ch/21wJKKY

New study on gender divide on housework & childcare by Prof. Heejung Chung Dr Cara Booker 🧜🏽‍♀️ MiSoC Understanding Society nominated for the prestigious Rosabeth Moss Kanter International Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family iser.essex.ac.uk/research/news/…

Join our Economic and Social Research Council MiSoC methods experts for Essex Summer School - Social Science Data Analysis in August for Machine learning for estimating treatment effects from observational data iser.essex.ac.uk/research/news/…

I've been involved in the European Social Survey since it was a twinkle in the eye of the ESF in mid-1990s. Delighted this fantastic collaboration between hundreds of researchers in dozens of countries has received this recognition: iser.essex.ac.uk/research/news/… ISER Research at Essex

We are delighted to announce Professor Maria Fasli has been appointed as the University’s Acting Vice-Chancellor. Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health and Essex graduate, Maria Fasli's appointment marks an exciting new chapter for Essex. brnw.ch/21wK1CS

Celebrating excellence the Garry Mills way with an impact award. More than one cause for celebration today! ISER MiSoC

Is competitiveness malleable in young adults? Our new WP shows living with more female flatmates lead to a decrease in competitiveness in men. No effect for women. ssrn.com/abstract=48337… #EconTwitter Emilia Del Bono Angus Holford ISER UTS Economics

Registration is now open for the SLLS Annual Conference workshops, hosted here at ISER. 23 Sept: - secondary data analysis across studies - social to biological research - intro to household panel studies slls.org.uk/events/slls-pr…

One week left to register to vote in the general election! Do it now so you don't forget: gov.uk/register-to-vo… Not sure where you're going to be? Students can register at home and at a term-time address, but you can only vote at one.

👩‍🔬 "Every country wants to be the location of the next successful high-tech start-up...However, there is a global war for talent" 🆕Angus Holford, Peter Jelfs & Tommaso Sartori on whether the UK should be more like the US in attracting STEMM PhD holders. ukandeu.ac.uk/attracting-ent…

How can the UK attract and retain scientific talent and prospective entrepreneurs? My blog with Peter Jelfs and Tommaso Sartori for UK in a Changing Europe shows the extent of the problem and has some ideas...

Just out! New analysis from colleagues MiSoC and @UKandEUI on the outcomes for PhD students and implications for visa routes for foreign-borns. A great example of how policies should always be informed by evidence.

Emilia Del Bono kicking off this year’s #ESPE conference in Rotterdam. First session on child development was great, looking forward to the next few days! ⁦MiSoC⁩

Did you miss the European Social Science Genetics Network ESSGN Conference held in Rotterdam this year? I've summarised the sessions I attended in this ISER blog post! iser.essex.ac.uk/blog/2024/07/0… Cc MiSoC Dilnoza Muslimova Louise Cullen

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 Our paper 'Gender segregation: analysis across sectoral dominance in the UK labour market' is now publicly available in Empirical Economics. ✨📈 Info and overview of results below👇 MiSoC ISER IADS Uni Essex Economics Dept Postgrads_Essex

I really like this paper, it is an important contribution to the understanding of managerial skills, something that it is really hard to define. Very happy that MiSoC has been able to support this research.

✨Excited to share that I’ve been awarded the The British Academy Postdocoral Fellowship for the project #DoubleML for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects📚 Thanks to the support of MiSoC ISER 👥🌟 👉 thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti… IADS Uni Essex Economics Dept Postgrads_Essex

The Essex Summer School - Social Science Data Analysis course on #CausalML has come to an end, and what an incredible journey it's been! 🚀✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us! 📚

Our research featured in The Guardian Male UK university students are ‘less macho’ when sharing flats with women theguardian.com/education/arti… Link to the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… UTS Economics UTS ISER NovaSBE Emilia Del Bono Angus Holford MiSoC

Pleased to have joined BBC Essex this morning to talk about my and Birgitta Rabe's evidence on impacts of Universal Free School Meals bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j… Scroll to 1hr 7min. Research at Essex ISER MiSoC Nuffield Foundation