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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.

Fieldwork outcomes at recruitment wave for Understanding Society’s second general population sample (GPS2)

  1. Joel Williams
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-08 - June 18, 2025 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Poverty
  5. Area Effects
  6. Living Standards
  7. Geography

Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex (PPCM0023) [House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee. Pensioner poverty: challenges and mitigations inquiry]

Parliamentary Paper - February 5, 2025
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Older People
  3. Pensions
  4. Household Economics
  5. Poverty
  6. Welfare Benefits
  7. Finance
  8. Living Standards

Housing adaptations and older adults’ health trajectories by level of initial health: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

  1. Jiawei Wu
  2. Emily Grundy
Journal Article - February 1, 2025
  1. Older People
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Psychology
  4. Health
  5. Living Standards
  6. Well Being
  7. Housing Market
  8. Disability

Written evidence submitted by The Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (TH0005) [House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts. Tackling homelessness inquiry]

Parliamentary Paper - December 19, 2024
  1. Households
  2. Poverty
  3. Public Policy
  4. Demography
  5. Living Standards
  6. Housing Market
  7. Migration
  8. Ethnic Groups

Universal free school meals and children’s bodyweight. Impacts by age and duration of exposure

  1. Angus Holford
  2. Birgitta Rabe
Journal Article - December 1, 2024
  1. Health
  2. Public Policy
  3. Area Effects
  4. Living Standards
  5. Education
  6. Geography
  7. Child Development

Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for pensioners: panel data analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999–2002

  1. Heather Brown
  2. Viviana Albani
  3. Luke Munford
  4. Matt Sutton
  5. Fiona McHardy
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Journal Article - February 17, 2024
  1. Households
  2. Income Dynamics
  3. Older People
  4. Welfare Benefits
  5. Demography
  6. Living Standards

Universal Free School Meals reduce child obesity and improve children’s reading scores

  1. Angus Holford
  2. Birgitta Rabe
Report, MiSoC Explainers - February 15, 2024
  1. Households
  2. Health
  3. Public Policy
  4. Living Standards
  5. Education
  6. Child Development

The impacts of Universal Free School Meal schemes in England

  1. Angus Holford
  2. Birgitta Rabe
Report - February 15, 2024
  1. Households
  2. Health
  3. Public Policy
  4. Living Standards
  5. Education
  6. Child Development

Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?

  1. Amy Clair
  2. Emma Baker
  3. Meena Kumari
Journal Article - February 8, 2024
  1. Health
  2. Living Standards
  3. Debt: Indebtedness
  4. Housing Market
  5. Biology
  6. Genetics

Housing tenure and disability in the UK: trends and projections 2004–2030

  1. Michael Murphy
  2. Emily Grundy
Journal Article - January 4, 2024
  1. Households
  2. Health
  3. Public Policy
  4. Living Standards
  5. Housing Market
  6. Social Change
  7. Social Stratification
  8. Disability

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