The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex wishes to appoint a talented and ambitious quantitative researcher as a Senior Research Officer to examine methodological aspects of the Understanding Society Study, in particular in relation to health and biomarker data collection.
Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) is a major household panel survey funded by the Economic and Social Research Council with co-funding from some government departments. It began in 2009 and incorporated its predecessor the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and includes a test bed sample, the ‘Innovation Panel’ (IP). At waves 2 and 3 (2010-2012) of the main survey, clinical and biological data were collected by a nurse visit to the participants’ home. Experiments to examine mode effects on biomarker collection were implemented in IP12 (2019). A new biomarker wave is currently in field (2024-2026) using remote collection protocols and an experiment to examine response rates for microbiome collection is in preparation to be collected in IP18 (2025). The study is multi-topic and designed to meet the research needs of a range of disciplines across the social and bio-medical sciences.
Understanding Society is seen as world-leading in its survey design, provides unique longitudinal data on within household dynamics for the UK and has a high international profile.
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REEQ10117