The University of Essex will host the Understanding Research Conference 2013 from 24-26 July.
Over 250 delegates from 35 research institutes worldwide will discuss new research using Understanding Society data over three days of the conference.
Research to be discussed includes
- Do the children of employed mothers eat fewer ‘family meals’?
- Gender differences in educational aspirations and attitudes
- Living alone and psychological well-being in late mid-life: does partnership history matter
The conference website will have regular updates and news, as well as interview podcasts with presenters and blogs from researchers. Research topics include immigration, wellbeing, health, poverty and the environment.
Key note speaker Maarten van Ham from the Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, discusses his his research on residential mobility, visualising complex data and the important role Understanding Society will play in future research for academics, policy makers and practitioners alike in a special Understanding Society podcast, Taking the Long View on Moving House recorded ahead of the conference.
Discussions from the conference can be followed on Twitter via the hashtag #usociety13.