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Helping inform Government’s new breakfast schemes in schools
New study will examine how existing schemes improve health, behaviour, attendance and attainment
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Judging the Paper by Its Cover: Affiliation Bias in Conference Admissions
Connections predict career success across many occupations. In academia, conference participation is essential to build and maintain a professional network, thus contributing to academic success. In this paper, we experimentally test whether and how academic affiliation affects conference acceptance. We run a stratified matched pair field experiment leveraging the reviewing...
Presented by: Dr Luca Favero (ISER, University of Essex)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
Podcast
Being part of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study
In this episode, one of our participants, Neil, talks about what it’s been like to be part of Understanding Society right from the beginning. What does it mean for him, and what changes has he seen in life and society since joining ISER’s predecessor study, the British Household Panel Survey, in 1991?
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Our policy evidence in new House of Lords plan to fix obesity and diet-related disease
Our research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that free school meals reduce children’s obesity rates
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The green skills gap – recommendations for the future of hydropower sector in the UK
New report from our MiSoC Policy Fellow, working alongside academics to investigate the evidence of a skills gap in the hydropower sector