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High-flying posts for our PhDs and Post-Docs

Prestigious new jobs for our recent graduates and post-doc researchers continue MiSoC’s tradition of growing the research experts of the future

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Rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research: MethodsCon 13/14 September

Manchester conference curated by our partners, National Centre for Research Methods, will be in person and free to attend

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How do social inequalities impact on young people and influence our health throughout our lives?

Dr Cara Booker discusses how COVID-19 has led to greater social inequality, less access to resources, jobs and education

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The impact of COVID-19, lockdown and school closures on children’s mental health

Professor Birgitta Rabe speaks to Professor Jules Pretty about her research and how she provided vital evidence which influenced UK Government policy

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Our partnership with Kyiv International Institute for Sociology - an important time for cooperation with our colleagues in Ukraine

Our Director, Professor Peter Lynn and the KIIS Director, Professor Volodymyr Paniotto, sign a five-year cooperation agreement

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ISER's research impact plays leading role in Essex's social sciences success at REF 2021

The contributions of our research teams lead to great results for the University of Essex in the Research Excellence Framework announced today

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ISER

  1. University Access: the Role of Background and COVID-19 Throughout the Application Process

    Emilia Del Bono, Laura Fumagalli, Angus Holford, et al.

  2. Single mothers’ income in twelve rich nations: differences in disadvantage across the distribution

    Susan Harkness

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Social Policy

  3. State Pension eligibility age and retirement behaviour: evidence from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study

    Adriaan Kalwij and Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis

Understanding Society

  1. Consent to data linkage: question wording and format experiments

    Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

  2. Review of environmental attitudes and behaviour questions in the Understanding Society survey

    Wouter Poortinga

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Psychology
    3. Households
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Surveys
    7. Commuting
    8. Travel

  3. Text messages to incentivise response in a web-first sequential mixed-mode survey

    Pablo Cabrera Alvarez and Peter Lynn

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

EUROMOD

  1. The short-term distributional impact of COVID-19 in Malawi

    Chimwemwe Magalasi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Household Economics
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Covid 19

  2. The income protection role of an EMU-wide unemployment insurance system: the case of atypical workers

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Agathe Simon

    1. Insurance
    2. Unemployment
    3. Microsimulation
    4. International Economic Relations

  3. Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD

    Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, and Sara Reis

CeMPA

  1. Two feasible Basic Income schemes for the UK, and a feasible pilot project for Scotland

    Malcolm Torry

  2. A basic income for France: ideas for a debate

    Matteo Richiardi

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  3. LABSim: a dynamic life course model of individual life course trajectories for Italy

    Matteo Richiardi and Patryk Bronka

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Life Course Analysis
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