Insights 2014 highlights new research using the data from the UK largest household panel study with chapters including Living in Recession, A Diverse UK, and Family Ties and Social Connections, and commentary from the BBC’s Home editor, Mark Easton, Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, author of The Blunders of Our Governments and currently Master of University College, Oxford and David Goodhart, founder and former editor of Prospect magazine and Chair of Demos’s advisory group.
Insights 2014 was launched at a Westminster Event on 30th October with a panel discussion on the findings with Professor Ann Berrington from the University of Southampton, Nick Pearce, Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Professor Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Phillip Blond, Director of the thinktank ResPublica.
Understanding Society is designed and managed by a team of longitudinal survey experts at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and is a unique and valuable academic study that captures important information every year about the social and economic circumstances and attitudes of people living in 40,000 UK households.
Understanding Society is funded primarily by the Economic and Social Research Council. Significant additional funding has been provide by the government’s Large Facilities Capital Fund and a consortium of government departments.
Read Insights 2014 online.