The ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) is a multidisciplinary centre, promoting collaboration between economists, sociologists and other social scientists, and using quantitative social science to provide evidence with which to address key societal challenges. MiSoC has been based at ISER at the University of Essex since 1989, but it is a collaboration with specialists from universities around the world, and the current research programme is run jointly with researchers at the University of Bristol. Our research themes aim to address questions that reflect social inequalities: how and why are resources such as income, health and wellbeing distributed, how is technology changing the demand for skills in the labour market, and how can we help young people from all backgrounds have access to acquiring these skills? Our work also explores how families are changing, how society and the economy are affected by ageing and migration, and how behaviours, attitudes and outcomes are passed down from one generation to the next.
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Professor Emilia Del Bono talks about our latest research on how Gen Z - those under 24 - will be hit hardest by the financial impact of Covid-19
ISER's Sonkurt Sen co-authors new Royal Economics Society study of UK academia, published by MiSoC with the Institute for Fiscal Studies
A new report from the National Education Opportunities Network, launched at an event today with Shadow Universities Minister, Emma Hardy, argues for student focused approach to improving higher education outcomes
Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.
Lucinda Platt, Gundi Knies, Renee Reichl Luthra, et al.
Published in: European Sociological Review