What shapes women’s choices about where they live? Professor Susan Harkness, Associate Director of Understanding Society’s Policy Unit, discusses the ‘best place to be a woman’.
Debating new evidence on the experiences of living and working in the UK at the launch of Understanding Society’s Insights 2017 as part of the Festival of Social Science
With contributions from OECD, the Resolution Foundation, HM Treasury and Gingerbead, researchers presented new evidence on work incentive policies in the UK and Europe
Public event in Westminster on 8th November will focus on new University of Essex research findings and debate how these might inform better policies to support mothers with the National Childbirth Trust, the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, Working Families and Barnardo’s
ISER’s Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Essex takes on the prestigious role.
The development of mobile technology has brought with it some exciting opportunities for those interested in collecting data from households about their finances. Funded by the NCRM, Dr Jäckle has been working to gain a better understanding of household finances through better measurement. See https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/podcast/?id_specific=46title=Using%20mobile%20devices%20to%20understand%20spending
London event showcasing three new research studies from the Universities of Essex and Manchester looking at ethnic minority voting in the last elections, the candidates at elections and how MPs respond to constituents
Household spending, sexual identity, successful ageing and the visual presentation of satisfaction scales among the themes and subjects for the latest data experiments
Meeting at POST for parliamentary staff and researchers showcasing new studies using biomarkers to examine differences in health among the employed and unemployed
Maternal depression, making an impact on public policy debate on child poverty, unpaid internships, obesity, and understanding Brexit feature in this year’s edition.
Professor Grundy, currently Professor of Demography at the London School of Economics, will join ISER as Director and Professor of Population Science in October
Growing family diversity, and its increasing polarization along class lines, is of policy and scholarly concern - new opportunity for research funded by an Understanding Society studentship
