New analysis from Dr Ricky Kanabar and Professor Paul Gregg from @casp_bath BathUni SPS suggests parental background matters more for explaining differences in wealth in Britain today than it ever has before. Here's the full story >> bath.ac.uk/announcements/…

Here's your three and a bit minute guide to the Labour manifesto. Charts aplenty👇

Two decades ago, a household with the median income could afford to buy an average-priced house in England. Now, they can afford only the cheapest 10% of properties Help to buy increased house prices in London by 8% & boosted developers’ revenues by 57% theguardian.com/society/ng-int…

Our Fellowship Programme, which enables researchers to take time out to focus on research projects based on our data, is open. Deadline: 22 August. Find out more and apply…understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/06/2…

Research from Understanding Society has been used by SIPHER Consortium to create a dataset that mimics the adult population in England, Scotland, and Wales, allowing researchers to model the potential impact of health policies. This dataset is now available in our collection: buff.ly/4cYoq65

We have a new (free!) online course where you can learn how to assemble a multifunctional longitudinal data spine. This is a very efficient way of working with UKHLS data as it can be adapted to answer a wide range of longitudinal research questions. understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/08/1…

2 new jobs! Web Developer to join our comms team & Senior Research Officer to work on Understanding Society Understanding Society University of Essex please share! iser.essex.ac.uk/jobs

Book launch today! Exciting!! See you there if you can make it. 😃 eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-… policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/women-and-welf…

A new (positive!) ISER blog post from me about the role of good statistics in the war against disinformation. There are some glimmers of hope (at least in the UK) iser.essex.ac.uk/blog/2024/10/2… Essex Social Science University of Essex

Very exciting to see HM Treasury has published its Areas of Research Interest - this should help researchers outside govt identify the questions policymakers most need answers to, to help inform fiscal and economic policy and help target research funding assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67320709…

Some great insights into family change and why we need family oriented thinking at the heart of government understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2024/12/0…

The triple lock is a wasteful, unfair and outdated policy. So why the hysteria when politicians even gesture towards questioning it? Thread, with charts and data and stuff. (1/?)

A great opportunity to make a difference on tackling health inequalities! The ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity are looking for an Impact Manager for their new research programme from 2024 to 2029: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

New podcast! Are the arts good for our mental health, or are happier people more likely to engage in the arts? With Hei Wan (Karen) Mak Social Biobehavioural Research Group Behavioural Science & Health UCL and Nicky Goulder MBE Create understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/arts-…

Exciting opportunity at the Resolution Foundation for an independent and free-thinking senior researcher or analyst to work on housing research and policy (deadline 17 April 2025): resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/oppor…

We are looking for new members to join our Policy and Partnerships Forum! You will help advise Understanding Society on data and knowledge mobilisation, engaging new audiences, and optimising the Study's impact across government, business and charities: understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/03/2…

Registration for our #conference is now open! Join us in July for 3 days of #longitudinal & household panel #research in sunny #Essex 25 sessions include #health, education, families, inequality, fertility, politics & ethnicity understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/04/1… understandingsocietyconference.co.uk

When political narrative doesn’t line up with actual facts! Independent high quality data/infrastructure is vital for economic and social development.

Watching Labour and the Tories take on Reform is like the battle between traditional and digital banks or traditional and social media. In the business world corporate culture eats strategy for breakfast. Time to fight a culture war with very different weapons?

Israel has killed more than one Palestinian child per hour, 24 hours a day, for 23 months. They want you to believe this staggering number of children slaughtered is an accident.