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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.

Written evidence submitted by the Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (ASC0029) [House of Commons. Health and Social Care Committee. Adult social care reform: the cost of inaction inquiry]

Parliamentary Paper - January 29, 2025
  1. Health
  2. Public Policy
  3. Caregiving
  4. Unpaid Work

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

Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

  1. Elise Whitley
  2. Kelly Reeve
  3. Michaela Benzeval
Journal Article - February 15, 2023
  1. Households
  2. Older People
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Health
  6. Covid-19
  7. Public Policy
  8. Well Being
  9. Young People
  10. Disability
  11. Caregiving
  12. Unpaid Work

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

Home carers’ mental health worsened during lockdown

  1. Elise Whitley
  2. Kelly Reeve
  3. Michaela Benzeval
Media - June 14, 2021
  1. Households
  2. Older People
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Health
  6. Covid-19
  7. Public Policy
  8. Well Being
  9. Young People
  10. Disability
  11. Caregiving
  12. Unpaid Work

Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

  1. Elise Whitley
  2. Kelly Reeve
  3. Michaela Benzeval
Journal Article - January 25, 2021
  1. Households
  2. Older People
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Health
  6. Covid-19
  7. Public Policy
  8. Well Being
  9. Young People
  10. Disability
  11. Caregiving
  12. Unpaid Work

An analysis and monetary valuation of formal and informal voluntary work by gender and educational attainment

  1. Muriel Egerton
  2. Killian Mullan
ISER Working Paper Series, 2006-22 - May 1, 2006 - download  
  1. Unpaid Work

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