Blog

ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.

Understanding Brexit

  1. Nicole Martin

Dr Nicole Martin describes research projects planned using unique new data on attitudes to the UK leaving the European Union

Impactful Social Science – How Social Science is helping to tackle global grand challenges

  1. Shamit Saggar

Shamit Saggar, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at ISER spoke at the ESRC’s launch of the Festival of Social Science at the Royal Society on 7 November. Hosted by Springer Nature partnered with the Economic and Social Research Council, Professor Saggar joined Laurie Taylor of Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Professor Felicity Callard, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.

Sticking with the job – the benefits of in-work credits

  1. Mike Brewer

In new work funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Mike Brewer, Professor of Economics at ISER and Director of the ESRC- funded Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, together with Jonathan Cribb from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, come to a positive conclusion on the advantages of time-limited in-work benefits

Why mixed modes are here to stay

In a blog for CLOSER, Annette Jäckle explores the benefits of mixed mode data collection for longitudinal studies in addressing the triple challenges of falling response rates, increasing fieldwork costs, and a squeeze on the budgets available for long-term surveys.

The effect of policy reforms on wellbeing

Dr H. Xavier Jara with Professor Erik Schokkaert from the University of Leuven investigates the importance of taking into consideration a broader range of wellbeing indicators to assess the potential effect of policy reforms

What makes children happy?

  1. Gundi Knies

Dr Gundi Knies looks at the impact of family incomes in a new blog for What Works Wellbeing