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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Commuting and gender differences in job opportunities
  1. Silvia Avram
Journal Article - March 14, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Commuting
  3. Travel
  4. Demography
  5. Area Effects
  6. Regional Economics
  7. Wages And Earnings
  8. Geography
  9. Sociology

Life events and their association with changes in the frequency of transport use in a large UK sample
  1. Colin Whittle
  2. Lorraine Whitmarsh
  3. Nicholas Nash
  4. Wouter Poortinga
Journal Article - July 15, 2022
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Commuting
  3. Environmental Sociology
  4. Travel
  5. Transport

Review of environmental attitudes and behaviour questions in the Understanding Society survey
  1. Wouter Poortinga
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2022-03 - April 20, 2022 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Commuting
  7. Environmental Sociology
  8. Travel

Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey briefing note: working at home
  1. Piotr Marzec
  2. Alita Nandi
  3. Raj Patel
Research Paper, Understanding Society Briefing Notes - June 1, 2021
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Commuting
  5. Household Economics
  6. Health
  7. Covid-19
  8. Public Policy
  9. Demography
  10. Geography
  11. Sociology Of Labour
  12. Ethnic Groups
  13. Sociology Of Households

Most people working from home want to keep doing it, new analysis using Understanding Society data
  1. Piotr Marzec
  2. Alita Nandi
  3. Raj Patel
Media - October 28, 2021
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Commuting
  5. Household Economics
  6. Health
  7. Covid-19
  8. Public Policy
  9. Demography
  10. Geography
  11. Sociology Of Labour
  12. Ethnic Groups
  13. Sociology Of Households

Determinants of and barriers to active travel in Coventry and Warwickshire
  1. Sonkurt Sen
  2. Raj Patel
Report - June 1, 2021
  1. Households
  2. Commuting
  3. Travel
  4. Public Policy
  5. Demography
  6. Area Effects
  7. Geography

Educational differentials in key domains of physical activity by ethnicity, age and sex: a cross-sectional study of over 40 000 participants in the UK household longitudinal study (2013–2015)
  1. Meg E. Fluharty
  2. Snehal M. Pinto Pereira
  3. Michaela Benzeval
  4. Mark Hamer
  5. Barbara Jefferis
    6. , et al
Journal Article - January 20, 2020
  1. Commuting
  2. Travel
  3. Health
  4. Demography
  5. Education
  6. Sport

Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex) (ATR0040) [House of Commons Transport Select Committee on Active Travel]
  1. Charlotte Hamilton
Parliamentary Paper - October 22, 2018
  1. Commuting
  2. Travel
  3. Health
  4. Public Policy
  5. Well Being
  6. Research
  7. Transport

Devolution – a route to better policy making: case studies
  1. Raj Patel
Book Chapter, Insights 2016: findings from the largest longitudinal study of UK households, Ch. 4: Devolution - a route to better policy making - November 15, 2016
  1. Michaela Benzeval
  2. Ricky Kanabar
  3. Nicole Martin
  4. Victoria Nolan
  5. Raj Patel
    6. , et al
  1. Commuting
  2. Environmental Sociology
  3. Health
  4. Taxation
  5. Public Policy
  6. Government
  7. Area Effects
  8. Well Being
  9. Law And Legislation
  10. Politics

Life events and travel behavior: exploring the interrelationship using UK Household Longitudinal Study data
  1. Ben Clark
  2. Kiron Chatterjee
  3. Steve Melia
  4. Gundi Knies
  5. Heather Laurie
    6. , et al
Journal Article - September 15, 2014
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Commuting
  3. Travel

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