ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change

Welcome to the website of MISOC, the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change. Together with our sister centre, the ESRC United Kingdom Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC), we comprise the Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER), a department of the University of Essex .

MISOC is an interdisciplinary research centre based at the University of Essex. Our staff come from a range of social science disciplines, including economics, sociology, demography, geography and statistics.

The central focus of our research is the life-course of the individual and the changing nature of society. Main areas of research include the family; labour markets; income and poverty; social disadvantage; and public policy.