This report describes the findings of the first two waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on the website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to examine the ways in […]
This summary report provides an overview of the key results from three waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on our website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to examine […]
This report describes the key results from three waves of research assessing the impact of participation in the People’s Health Trust’s Local Conversations and Active Communities programmes. More about this research is on our website, http://www.social-life. co/project/peoples_health_trust/ The research was commissioned by People’s Health Trust. The aim was to examine the ways in which […]
SOM has today released the first in-depth study into the impact of ill-health on the UK’s working population, “Understanding Recent Trends in Ill-Health Driven Fallout from the UK Job Market”. Launched following Occupational Health Awareness Week (18-24th September), the report analyses data trends – providing a comprehensive picture of the current health challenges experienced […]
[…] to account for time-invariant confounders and reverse causality—two issues that have haunted earlier research. We find that frequency of religious service attendance on average has a positive impact on generalized trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness. Other indicators of religious involvement have weaker effects. We also find variation across religious traditions: the effects of religious […]
[…] reverse causality as two issues that have haunted earlier research. We find that religious involvement, measured by frequency of religious service attendance, on average has a positive impact on generalized trust, volunteering, and cooperation. Compared with religious attendance, other indicators of religious involvement, such as subjective importance of religion or whether one is religiously […]
We study the impacts of providing Universal Free School Meals (UFSM), as opposed to means-tested Free School Meals (FSM), on primary school children’s take-up of school meals, educational attainment, health and household finances. We focus on four London local authorities that rolled out UFSM to all primary-age children: Newham (from academic year-ending 2010), Islington (2011), […]
This is groundbreaking new research lays out the public health impact of a Basic Income – and how much it could save our NHS. Researchers at the Universities of Northumbria, York, Bath and Strathclyde, in collaboration ourselves and Autonomy, have presented groundbreaking evidence on the role that Basic Income can play in dealing with […]
[…] book demonstrates how COVID-19 has impacted the country unequally in terms of mortality, mental health and the economy. The book provides a striking empirical overview of the impact of the pandemic on regional inequalities and explores why the North fared worse. It sets out what needs to be learnt from the pandemic to prevent […]