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Social cohesion after lockdown - Dr Magda Borkowska joins debate to discuss her recent research

Cumberland Lodge Debate and Dialogue with Jo Broadwood, Chief Executive of Belong, The Cohesion and Integration Network, and Professor David Halpern, Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team, will discuss how communities rebuild and recover

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New research on reducing obesity to be presented at Industry and Parliament Trust event

Dr Birgitta Rabe presents her recent studies at Appetite for Action - Reducing Obesity - online event chaired by Shadow Minister for Food, Farming, and Fisheries, Daniel Zeichner

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ISER Director Professor Peter Lynn appointed to Government's Court Reform Evaluation Advisory Panel

Professor Lynn will advise the Ministry of Justice on the evaluation of the £1billion policy to modernise courts and tribunals

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ISER's role in new international community of researchers working on major new European survey of children's wellbeing

Interdisciplinary social scientist Dr Gundi Knies, social epidemiologist Dr Cara Booker and survey methodologist Professor Peter Lynn, join the international research team implementing the first Europe-wide longitudinal study to track the wellbeing of children aged 0-25

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Basic income in the UK - modelling the trade-offs with our microsimulation model UKMOD

The Women’s Budget Group and our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis host an online discussion event on 30 April on Basic Income & UKMOD – Modelling Trade-Offs.

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Changing Families Conference - featuring new research from Understanding Society over 4 days of online sessions

How families are changing - the impact of the pandemic, insecure work, different family structures, providing care and gender equalities - new research from the UK Household Longitudinal Study led by ISER

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Latest working papers

ISER

  1. Methodological lessons from the pilot longitudinal survey on debt advice

    Oriol Bosch and Peter Lynn

    1. Survey Methodology
    2. Debt: Indebtedness
    3. Surveys

  2. Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, and Ben Etheridge

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  3. Peer groups, social support, and well-being: evidence from a large online maternity community

    Lingqing Jiang and Zhen Zhu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

Understanding Society

  1. High frequency online data collection in an annual household panel study: some evidence on bias prevention and bias adjustment

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health
    4. Covid 19

  2. Experiments on multiple requests for consent to data linkage in surveys

    Sandra Walzenbach, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Surveys

  3. Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys

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

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

EUROMOD

  1. Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD

    Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, and Sara Reis

  2. Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: impact on public finance and household incomes

    Olga Cantó Sánchez, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  3. Universal Independence Income. A EUROMOD Utopian Simulation in the UK

    Franco Bonomi Bezzo

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