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Family influences on children’s mental health and well-being: Online seminar 30 September 1pm

Showcasing new research from University of Essex, King’s College London and University of Manchester, using Understanding Society data

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The effects of losing SEN support at educational transitions: Dr Angelina Nazarova awarded prestigious ADR UK research fellowship

Using linked administrative data to investigate which children are most likely to lose support and what happens afterwards

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Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 17: results from methodological experiments and new data

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2026-11 - August 19, 2026 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology

Publication

Is religious service attendance beneficial for mental health? Causal inference using structural nested mean models

Journal Article - October 1, 2026

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Well Being
5. Social Behaviour
6. Religion

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Increasing consent to data linkage in web and face-to-face surveys: testing interventions designed to increase respondents’ trust, cognitive effort, or understanding of the request

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2026-10 - August 17, 2026 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Psychology

Publication

The division of labour and female partners’ relative pay across phases of parenthood: evidence from UK dual-earner couples

Journal Article - December 1, 2026

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Income Dynamics
4. Life Course Analysis
5. Household Economics
6. Wages And Earnings
7. Childbearing: Fertility
8. Time Use
9. Sociology Of Households
10. Sociology

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Respondent-driven sampling with probability-based seeds: recruitment, super-seeds, and non-compliance

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 28 - August 13, 2026 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology

Publication

Local community identification improves wellbeing by reducing loneliness: longitudinal evidence from two studies

Journal Article - October 1, 2026

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Area Effects
5. Well Being
6. Social Networks
7. Geography
8. Social Psychology

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College, cognitive ability, and socioeconomic disadvantage: policy lessons from the U.K. in 1960–2004

Journal Article - August 7, 2026

1. Psychology
2. Economics
3. Public Policy
4. Wages And Earnings
5. Social Stratification
6. Higher Education
7. Human Capital

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Ethnic and gender disparities in pension receipts and savings in later life

Journal Article - August 6, 2026

1. Income Dynamics
2. Older People
3. Pensions
4. Finance
5. Savings And Assets
6. Migration
7. Ethnic Groups

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Time poverty undermines meaning in life: the mediating role of reduced intrinsic goal aspirations

Journal Article - August 1, 2026

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Well Being
4. Time Use

Publication

How does social capital shape trajectories of adolescent self-rated health in the United Kingdom?

Journal Article - September 1, 2026

1. Households
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Psychology
4. Area Effects
5. Social Networks
6. Geography
7. Young People
8. Child Development
9. Social Capital
10. Sociology Of Households
11. Social Psychology

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MiSoC Workshop – Mental Health and the Labour Market – September 22

Academic workshop showcasing the latest research from the UK on factors around mental health and labour market participation

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Mental health and firm pay premiums

ISER Working Paper Series, 2026-03 - August 4, 2026 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Income Dynamics
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Wages And Earnings
6. Well Being

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Experimental evidence on the effect of mixed-mode survey designs on item measurement and variable correlations

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 27 - August 1, 2026 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology

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Within-household clustering of attitudes and implications for survey sample design when only address-based frames are available

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 26 - July 31, 2026 - download  

1. Households
2. Surveys
3. Survey Methodology
4. Social Attitudes

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Evaluating a respondent-led look-up tool for occupation coding: evidence on feasibility, validity, and reliability

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 25 - July 30, 2026 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Surveys
3. Survey Methodology

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Industry and occupation coding: a comparison of office-based coding and a closed-list approach

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 24 - July 29, 2026 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Surveys
3. Survey Methodology

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The self-employed, financial distress, and material deprivation experienced by their children: panel data evidence from the UK

Journal Article - July 23, 2026

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Income Dynamics
4. Household Economics
5. Poverty
6. Wages And Earnings
7. Living Standards
8. Organizations And Firms
9. Child Development
10. Management: Business

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Collecting event-triggered data on relationship and family transitions in Understanding Society

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2026-09 - July 21, 2026 - download  

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Surveys
3. Survey Methodology
4. Family Formation And Dissolution
5. Childbearing: Fertility