News

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Future expectations amongst young people in the United Kingdom: prevalence and patterns across generations and socioeconomic groups

ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-04 - October 20, 2025 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Life Course Analysis
4. Psychology
5. Household Economics
6. Unemployment
7. Family Formation And Dissolution
8. Childbearing: Fertility
9. Education
10. Social Stratification
11. Young People
12. Higher Education

News

Professor Peter Lynn gives expert view to BBC Radio 4 on the issues at the Office for National Statistics with the Labour Force Survey

Survey expert Professor Peter Lynn appeared on BBC Radio 4 programme The Briefing Room this week.

Event

The Survey Futures Conference

Venue: City St Georges, University of London

News

Dr Silvia Avram joins Professor Kristian Gleditsch for Regius Lecture on demographic change

This year’s prestigious lecture brings together experts to examine the potential social, economic and political challenges arising from a future with lower fertility and ageing populations

News

Professor Annette Jäckle on BBC Radio 4 More or Less on trusting headline statistics

Unpicking the flaws in the methods of recent survey quoted in the media, claiming 77 per cent of Gen-Z took their parents to job interviews

Publication

Tobacco smoking and the risk of Long COVID: a prospective cohort study with mediation analysis

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Health
3. Covid-19
4. Drug/alcohol Abuse
5. Disability

Publication

Revaluation and reform of council tax in Scotland: design considerations and potential impacts

Report, Social Research series - October 27, 2025

1. Households
2. Household Economics
3. Taxation
4. Public Policy
5. Government
6. Savings And Assets
7. Housing Market

Publication

Taking stock: counting the economic costs of alcohol harm

Report - October 8, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Health
3. Economics
4. Demography
5. Labour Economics
6. Drug/alcohol Abuse

Publication

Estimating population mental health effects of the rollout of Universal Credit in the UK using standard and novel difference-in-differences analysis, 2009–2019

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Poverty
6. Welfare Benefits
7. Public Policy
8. Area Effects
9. Unemployment
10. Well Being
11. Geography

Publication

A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case–control classification and trans-ancestry comparison

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Well Being
4. Biology
5. Genetics
6. Medicine
7. Psychiatry

Publication

A pecking order of household finance

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Households
2. Income Dynamics
3. Life Course Analysis
4. Household Economics
5. Health
6. Covid-19
7. Finance
8. Savings And Assets
9. Debt: Indebtedness

Publication

Tax reforms vs benefit enhancement to address mental health inequalities: a microsimulation study -conference paper abstract-

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Income Dynamics
2. Microsimulation
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Poverty
6. Taxation
7. Welfare Benefits
8. Economics
9. Public Policy
10. Well Being

Publication

Do high minimum wages harm the progression of minimum wage workers? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Economics
3. Public Policy
4. Wages And Earnings
5. Labour Economics

Publication

Still the gold standard in survey research? Comparing face-to-face and self-completion data collection in a repeat cross-sectional general social survey in Great Britain

Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 6 - October 15, 2025 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology

Publication

The local environment and subjective well-being

Research Paper, ESCoE Discussion Papers, 2025-14 - October 1, 2025

1. Income Dynamics
2. Psychology
3. Environmental Sociology
4. Health
5. Economics
6. Area Effects
7. Well Being
8. Geography

Publication

Is workplace flexibility penalised? The gendered consequences of working from home for the wages of parents and childless employees in the UK

Journal Article - October 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Wages And Earnings
4. Childbearing: Fertility
5. Sociology Of Labour
6. Sociology Of Households

Event

Ethnic minority and immigrant pupils in Secondary Schools: New and Future Research from the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change

Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, Westminster

News

Field an experiment or suggest questionnaire content for the next wave of the Innovation Panel for Understanding Society

Competition gives researchers access to the rich household data in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel, and the benefit of testing new ideas with the support of the Understanding Society team

Publication

Reexamining the impact of locations on leaving the parental home and choosing new locations: evidence from a new joint choice model

Journal Article - November 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Life Course Analysis
4. Psychology
5. Economics
6. Demography
7. Area Effects
8. Housing Market
9. Geography
10. Migration
11. Social Stratification
12. Young People
13. Higher Education
14. Sociology Of Households

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The effects of parental unemployment on children’s wellbeing – results from Switzerland and the United Kingdom

Journal Article - November 1, 2025

1. Labour Market
2. Households
3. Life Course Analysis
4. Psychology
5. Health
6. Welfare Benefits
7. Unemployment
8. Savings And Assets
9. Well Being
10. Young People
11. Child Development
12. Sociology Of Households
13. Social Psychology