ISER Podcast Series

In ISER’s Research Podcast Series, you can listen to researchers talk about their latest projects and findings. In audio interviews lasting around 5 minutes they explain the background to their work, discuss the data they have used and share and analyse their results and conclusions.

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How green are we?

Dr Simonetta Longhi talks about a new research project examining the environmental attitudes and behaviours of people living in te UK.

Who does the recycling at home?

Hazel Pettifor tests the hypothesis put forward in two recent studies that waste separation in the home is carried out, mostly by women.

Innovation Panel data release: Waves 3 and 4

Annette Jäckle talks about newly available data from the Understanding Society Innovation Panel and the wide ranging and exciting research opportunities it offers.

How British is the UK?

Alita Nandi talks about recent research making use of Understanding Society data showing that people from ethnic minority backgrounds feel more British than their white counterparts.

Measuring living standards with income and consumption

Mike Brewer talks about recent research, Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK, explaining how we see a different picture of inequality when we use consumption rather than income as the measure.

Inequality in achievements in adolescence

A new study finds that parents’ own academic achievements will impact significantly on their children’s chances of success at secondary school. Emila Del Bono talks to Christine Garrington about the research.

Islam moves West

David Voas talks about new research published in the Annual Review of Sociology Islam Moves West: Religious Change in the First and Second Generations looking at whether Muslims arriving in the West (and their children and grandchildren) remain as religious as they were in their home country, or become more religious or less over time.

Scheduled versus demand feeding

Maria Iacovou shares new research from the ISER breastfeeding project looking at the effects of scheduled versus demand feeding and the effects on mothers and their children.

Who saves for retirement?

Mark Bryan talks about Who saves for retirement? – new research from ISER and the Strategic Society Centre about our pension saving habits.

Episode 2011-19

Lucinda Platt talks about the unprecedented research opportunities provided by the Ethnicity Boost Sample in Understanding Society.

Episode 2011-18

Survey Manager, Jon Burton, talks about Understanding Society, how it works, why it’s important that people take part and how researchers can now access this world-class resource to examine and analyse a host of important social and economic issues.

Episode 2011-17

Cara Booker talks about new research using Understanding Society that shows that people with a physical illness may nevertheless be mentally resilient.

Episode 2011-16

Children and healthcare expert Dr Miriam Stoppard talks about ISER breastfeeding research at a special event hosted at the British Academy on October 12.

Episode 2011-15

Annette Jäckle talks about the Understanding Society Innovation Panel and exciting new data that’s now available for researchers to use.

Episode 2011-14

Dean Lillard from Cornell University talks about his recent research using smoking to see if a move abroad makes us healthier.

Episode 2011-13

Frank Stafford from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan talks about what panel studies have done for social research with particular reference to the long-running Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the more recent UK Household Panel Study, Understanding Society. Life course panels: progress and promise was the keynote address at the Understanding Society/BHPS Conference 2011