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Pregnancy as a period of change for household nutrition
Pregnancy is a time in which individuals change their health behaviours, bolstered by extensive public health guidance and growing evidence that a healthy prenatal environment fosters child development with lifelong benefits. We provide evidence on the dynamics of food purchases and nutritional quality during pregnancy and immediately after childbirth. Using...
Presented by: Professor Melanie Lührmann
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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MiSoC policy fellowships bring government researchers in to work with our academic experts to investigate evidence gaps
Sharing MiSoC’s expertise in policy-relevant research and analysis of large data sets, with individual government researchers working in a similar area
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European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) Conference 2024
Venue: Erasamus University, Rotterdam
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CALL FOR PAPERS – Society For Longitudinal And Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) – Inequalities across life courses and generations: Interdisiplinary perspectives
Venue: Institute for Social and Economic Research
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Research shows 2 million people in London and South East will be pushed into paying more tax
Analysis by the House of Commons Library using UKMOD finds that 1.1 million in London and South East will end up in the 40p rate of tax by 2027, and almost 1 million of the lowest paid moving into the 20p rate.
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CBE for Professor Michaela Benzeval in King’s New Years Honours List
Professor of Longitudinal Research at ISER and Director of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, receives ”much-deserved recognition” for her outstanding contribution to world-leading social science.
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Children’s nutrition in the Cost of Living Crisis – new research evidence and policy discussion
Presented by: Dr Angus Holford and Professor Birgitta Rabe
Venue: Nuffield Foundation, 100 St John Street, London EC1M 4EH and online. Register for the link.
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Children’s nutrition and the Cost of Living Crisis: Policy discussion event presenting new research evidence
Event on 8 February presents our new evidence and discusses which policies best support improving children’s nutrition
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Intergenerational and intersectional life course effects: Evidence from Romanian abortion ban.
How did the abortion ban enacted in 1966 in Romania shape the life-course transitions of the significantly larger cohort born as a consequence? To answer this question, we build on different theoretical strands, and we conceptualize how gender and parental socio-economic status intersect with relative cohort size changes in affecting...
Presented by: Dr Selin Köksal (ISER, Essex)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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Political Engagement in the UK. Taking back control? Westminster policy conference on 14 February
MiSoC’s Professor Renee Luthra among experts presenting new research using Understanding Society data