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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.

New study on division of housework and childcare in heterosexual dual-earning couples nominated for the prestigious Kanter Prize 2024

  1. Heejung Chung
  2. Cara Booker
Media - May 14, 2024
  1. Labour Market
  2. Social Stratification
  3. Time Use
  4. Sociology Of Households
  5. Caregiving
  6. Unpaid Work

Youth provision and life outcomes: a Youth Evidence Base report for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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Report - February 1, 2024
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Psychology
  4. Health
  5. Well Being
  6. Social Networks
  7. Education
  8. Young People
  9. Child Development
  10. Social Behaviour
  11. Time Use
  12. Drug/alcohol Abuse
  13. Crime And Justice

Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex. ST0007 [House of Commons. Education Committee. Screen time: impacts on education and wellbeing inquiry]

Parliamentary Paper - October 17, 2023
  1. Psychology
  2. Information And Communication Technologies
  3. Health
  4. Public Policy
  5. Well Being
  6. Social Networks
  7. Education
  8. Young People
  9. Child Development
  10. Social Behaviour
  11. Time Use

Inequalities in home learning and schools’ remote teaching provision during the COVID-19 school closure in the UK

  1. Sait Bayrakdar
  2. Ayse Guveli
Journal Article - August 15, 2023
  1. Households
  2. Lone Parents
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Covid-19
  6. Public Policy
  7. Education
  8. Social Stratification
  9. Social Groups
  10. Young People
  11. Child Development
  12. Time Use
  13. Ethnic Groups

Flexible working and the division of housework and childcare: examining divisions across arrangement and occupational lines

  1. Heejung Chung
  2. Cara Booker
Journal Article - February 1, 2023
  1. Labour Market
  2. Social Stratification
  3. Time Use
  4. Sociology Of Households
  5. Caregiving
  6. Unpaid Work

Working from home can lead to fathers doing less childcare and mothers doing more

  1. Heejung Chung
  2. Cara Booker
Media - September 1, 2022
  1. Labour Market
  2. Social Stratification
  3. Time Use
  4. Sociology Of Households
  5. Caregiving
  6. Unpaid Work

COVID-19 lockdowns saw couples share housework and childcare more evenly – but not for long

  1. Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez
  2. Anette Eva Fasang
  3. Susan Harkness
Media - January 25, 2022
  1. Households
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Covid-19
  5. Public Policy
  6. Demography
  7. Education
  8. Time Use
  9. Sociology Of Households
  10. Caregiving

Lockdown saw couples share housework and childcare more evenly – but these changes didn’t last

  1. Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez
  2. Anette Eva Fasang
  3. Susan Harkness
Media - January 20, 2022
  1. Households
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Covid-19
  5. Public Policy
  6. Demography
  7. Education
  8. Time Use
  9. Sociology Of Households
  10. Caregiving

Who did the housework in Lockdown Britain, and what happened next?

  1. Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez
  2. Anette Eva Fasang
  3. Susan Harkness
Media - December 20, 2021
  1. Households
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Covid-19
  5. Public Policy
  6. Demography
  7. Education
  8. Time Use
  9. Sociology Of Households
  10. Caregiving

Housework falls to mothers again after Covid lockdown respite

  1. Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez
  2. Anette Eva Fasang
  3. Susan Harkness
Media - December 19, 2021
  1. Households
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Covid-19
  5. Public Policy
  6. Demography
  7. Education
  8. Time Use
  9. Sociology Of Households
  10. Caregiving

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