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News

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

Publication

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

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 29 - August 26, 2026 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Psychology

Publication

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

Publication

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 impact of digital infrastructure development on residents’ mental health: evidence from the UK’s working-age population

Journal Article - August 1, 2026

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Information And Communication Technologies
4. Health
5. Area Effects
6. Well Being
7. Geography
8. Computing
9. Science And Technology

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

News

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

Publication

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

Publication

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