News
Understanding the links between intrahousehold dynamics and individual and household debt: New funded PhD opportunity
Includes a placement with the Money and Pensions Service to see how they use research evidence for policy making
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New research project investigates impact of menopause and access to HRT on women’s lives
New Nuffield Foundation project with UCL looks at menopause care and impact on women from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Event
Policy event: Housing at the heart: creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities
Venue: The British Academy
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Policy event: Housing at the heart: creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities
One-day conference at the British Academy in London on 26 February and launch of Insights 2025 Report on housing related research using Understanding Society
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Fees paid and living costs grant for next PhD intake: Apply by 22 Jan for ESRC studentship for October start
PhD programmes in Economics, Survey Methodology, Health Research or Applied Social and Economic Research available for full or part-time study
Podcast
Job mobility and the gender pay gap
In this episode, we discuss the effects of parenthood on job mobility and what this means for the gender pay gap with ISER’s Dr Silvia Avram, Senior Research Fellow, and Alesha De Freitas, Head of Policy, Research and Advocacy (at time of recording) at the Fawcett Society.
Event
From Parents’ Cradle to Children’s Career: Intergenerational Birth Order Effects
Although numerous studies investigate how childhood experiences shape adult success, there is limited understanding of their impact on future generations. We study the intergenerational consequences of birth order, an aspect of childhood that affects a large part of the population and can be identified with relatively mild assumptions. Using cousin...
Presented by: Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Venue: 2N2.4.16