So proud to have been part of the conversation today with the House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee alongside Andy McGowan from Carers Trust & a brill young adult carer.
Recording of the session here:
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Our latest blog is live – Tarek Al Baghal and Paulo Serodio ISER on the NatCen project they’re working to see if the traces of ourselves which we leave online can be linked to survey data understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/2…

Informal #care rs are better identified when more clarification over care work is added to #survey questions

Read how #care questions can be improved in surveys...

Care UK Carers UK Carers Trust Family Carers Ireland

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Our latest podcast is out: Amy Clair Australian Centre for Housing Research Uni of Adelaide talks about how private renting can age you faster than being unemployed or smoking understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/housi…

Our latest blog is live – Tarek Al Baghal and Paulo Serodio ISER on the NatCen project they’re working to see if the traces of ourselves which we leave online can be linked to survey data understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/2…

🌍Unlock the power of geographical data linkage! Join me at Understanding Society on June 14.

Learn to seamlessly integrate #UnderstandingSociety data with UK open data sources. 🛠️💡

More info about this and other workshops: understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/

#learning #UKHLS #research #linkage

If you’re looking for a Friday lunchtime listen, try one of our quick one-to-one podcasts. All under ten minutes long, the latest is Amy Clair Australian Centre for Housing Research Uni of Adelaide telling us how private renting can age you faster than being unemployed or smoking understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/housi…

Great to speak at Understanding Society research springboard at University of Essex ISER on the Future of Children Challenge today - alongside the brilliant Alison Garnham from Child Poverty Action Group and Sarah Taylor from Children's Commissioner for England - poverty, children's voices, children's social care and childcare.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Adolescents in deprived coastal areas of England have worse health up to 11y later vs peers inland. Understanding Society data 2009-20.
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Link here: tinyurl.com/ydmfv44m
Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing UCL Global Youth University of Essex ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies SLLS

In-person training in June ISER, from beginner to advanced:
10-11 June - intro to UKHLS
12 June - linear panel data methods
13 June - using UKHLS child data
14 June - geographical data linkage
14 June - using weights

Booking now open!
understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/

New paper out with a news story! Full thread to follow

New paper!🚨w/ Dr Alina Pelikh in PSP. We look at the school-to-work trajectories of three cohorts of British young people using Understanding Society & found that most recent cohorts have experienced more complex & precarious trajectories and longer periods in educ.

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We're delighted to have a wide variety of fantastic contributors to our Poverty in Data event which takes place over three sessions next week, April 23-25! In our latest Data Impact blog post we introduce our speakers for each of the sessions: blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/poverty-in-dat…

Does training beget #training over the life course?

New #research uses our #data to look at cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training in Germany & the UK

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Sascha dos Santos WZB Universität Rostock Sociology FU Berlin Martin Ehlert HWR Berlin

🚨New measure 🚨finds households hit by the energy price crisis, using Understanding Society (Understanding Society) data - see👇for a rapid overview/links to the research! understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/04/1… Apostolos Davillas Centre for Competition Policy Sheffield Economics NBS @ UEA #energy #price #resilience #fuelpoverty

What is the evidence for a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion?
New paper with Tak Wing Chan in British Journal of Sociology
Data from Understanding Society survey
Paper➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New on our website today: research from Andrew Burlinson Sheffield Economics, Apostolos Davillas, Monica Giulietti Nottingham University Business School, Catherine Waddams Price Centre for Competition Policy shows which households most vulnerable to energy price crisis understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Delighted to share our latest article on the gender pay gap. Using UK (Understanding Society) data, we explore how job mobility affects wage growth for men and women, especially parents. Our findings show that family-related moves lead to a wage setback: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-art…