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European Social Survey wins prestigious 2024 Infrastructure Prize for Sociology
Professor Peter Lynn leads ISER’s part in the huge social survey across 30 countries
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Eliciting and Shaping Beliefs About Shared Parental Leave: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Despite the growing availability of paternity leave policies across the world, most fathers do not take any leave at all or only a small proportion of what they are eligible for. This could be driven by families only marginally valuing the time that fathers spend with their newborn children. Using...
Presented by: Laura Fumagalli (ISER)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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ISER’s role in £35 million investment to improve population-wide health
Professor Matteo Richiardi joins new national network to boost research into sustainable and equitable population health improvement
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An introduction to longitudinal child and youth data analysis using cohort and panel data – online
Presented by: Dr Cara Booker
Venue: Online
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Genetics and occupational status: gene-environment interplay, intergenerational transmission, careers and health
Socioeconomic status (SES) impacts health and life course outcomes. This GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study) on sociologically-informed occupational status measures (ISEI, SIOPS, and CAMSIS) using the UKBiobank (N=273,157) identified 106 independent SNPs of which 8 are novel to the study of SES. Genetic correlation analyses point to a common genetic factor...
Presented by: Professor Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)