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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.

Paradata versus self-reports for the collection of technical data about smartphones: trade-offs between completeness and accuracy of data on smartphone operating system versions
  1. Jim Vine
  2. Jonathan Burton
  3. Mick P. Couper
  4. Annette Jäckle
Journal Article - August 30, 2026
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Science And Technology

How to prepare well for external science examinations: a sequential mixed methods study
  1. Fatema Sultana
  2. Olena Kaminska
  3. Richard Watkins
  4. J. Carl Hughes
Book Chapter, Handbook of mixed methods research in education, Ch. 14 - February 20, 2026
  1. Keith Morrison
  2. Beng Huat See
  1. Education
  2. Young People
  3. Science And Technology

Report on the UKHLS pilot for the activity / sleep / geolocation tracker study
  1. Owen Preston
  2. Magda Borkowska
  3. Annette Jäckle
  4. Jonathan Burton
  5. Giulia Poerio
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Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-17 - November 26, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Health
  5. Geography
  6. Science And Technology

Are we stepping into the future? Exploring the representativeness of web-only surveys of the general population
  1. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  2. Annette Jäckle
  3. Jamie Moore
  4. Gabriele Durrant
  5. Jonathan Burton
    6. , et al
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-16 - November 11, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Demography
  5. Social Change
  6. Science And Technology

Are we stepping into the future? Exploring the representativeness of web-only surveys of the general population
  1. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  2. Annette Jäckle
  3. Jamie Moore
  4. Gabriele Durrant
  5. Jonathan Burton
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 7 - November 9, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Demography
  5. Social Change
  6. Science And Technology

Selectivity of digital trace data: the case of the UK COVID-19 contact tracing apps
  1. Jim Vine
  2. Jonathan Burton
  3. Mick P. Couper
  4. Annette Jäckle
  5. Daniel Horn
    6. , et al
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2025-07 - June 13, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Psychology
  4. Information And Communication Technologies
  5. Health
  6. Covid-19
  7. Demography
  8. Science And Technology

The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous
  1. Michael J. Böhm
  2. Ben Etheridge
  3. Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17851 - April 15, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Wages And Earnings
  3. Science And Technology

An evaluation of secondary school students’ use and understanding of learning strategies to study and revise for science examinations
  1. Fatema Sultana
  2. Richard C. Watkins
  3. Tarek Al Baghal
  4. J. Carl Hughes
Journal Article - January 17, 2025
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Education
  4. Young People
  5. Science And Technology

Mixed methods study of the ‘green skills gap’ in the UK and its effect on the UK’s hydropower sector
  1. Eddy Sidebotham
Report, MiSoC Policy Fellowship Reports - September 15, 2024
  1. Labour Market
  2. Environmental Sociology
  3. Economics
  4. Public Policy
  5. Human Capital
  6. Science And Technology

Understanding Society: how does the study as data infrastructure generate benefits for science, policy, and society?
  1. Raj Patel
Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2023-06 - March 14, 2023 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Public Policy
  5. Societies
  6. Research
  7. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
  8. Science And Technology

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