Political and ethnic identity
MiSoC's Dr Alita Nandi and Professor Lucinda Platt (LSE) investigate the relationship between people’s political and ethnic identities across different majority / minority ethnicities
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.
News
Professor Emilia Del Bono appointed to lead new era of our MiSoC research
First female leader of our prestigious research centre will lead new £6.2 million programme of policy-relevant research
Income inequality and the very rich
MiSoC research shows that data from household surveys may not give the whole picture of the UK's income inequality levels
Publications
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Youth employment, academic performance and labour market outcomes: production functions and policy effects
Published in: Labour Economics -
The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on health outcomes and behaviours
Sonia Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paul Fisher, et al.
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Social isolation and memory decline in later-life
Published in: Journals of Gerontology: Series B -
The association between parity, CVD mortality and CVD risk factors among Norwegian women and men
Published in: European Journal of Public Health -
Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom
Published in: Ageing and Society