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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.

Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland

  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Claire Cameron
  5. Sam Whewall
  6. , et al
Journal Article - December 1, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Demography
  6. Area Effects
  7. Well Being
  8. Geography
  9. Social Stratification
  10. Young People

Future expectations amongst young people in the United Kingdom: prevalence and patterns across generations and socioeconomic groups

  1. Alexander W. O'Donnell
  2. Alexandra Wake
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-04 - October 20, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Household Economics
  6. Unemployment
  7. Family Formation And Dissolution
  8. Childbearing: Fertility
  9. Education
  10. Social Stratification
  11. Young People
  12. Higher Education

Free school meals, diet quality and food insecurity in secondary school students: protocol for a multiple-methods study – the CANTEEN study

  1. Emma Alving-Jessep
  2. Miranda Pallan
  3. Ellie Ansell
  4. Lesley Hamill
  5. Cara McConnell
  6. , et al
Journal Article - October 20, 2025
  1. Health
  2. Poverty
  3. Welfare Benefits
  4. Economics
  5. Public Policy
  6. Living Standards
  7. Education
  8. Young People

Risk of diagnosed and undiagnosed mental distress in coastal and inland English residents: a pooled cross-sectional analysis of adult UKHLS respondents

  1. Claire Wicks
  2. Susan McPherson
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Antonella Trotta
  5. Meena Kumari
  6. , et al
Journal Article - September 1, 2025
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Poverty
  4. Demography
  5. Area Effects
  6. Well Being
  7. Geography
  8. Young People

Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior

  1. Adeline Delavande
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Angus Holford
Journal Article - August 1, 2025
  1. Social Attitudes
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Economics
  5. Young People

Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition

  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Claire Cameron
  5. Sam Whewall
  6. , et al
Media - July 7, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Demography
  6. Area Effects
  7. Well Being
  8. Geography
  9. Social Stratification
  10. Young People

Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland

  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Claire Cameron
  5. Sam Whewall
  6. , et al
Journal Article - June 26, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Demography
  6. Area Effects
  7. Well Being
  8. Geography
  9. Social Stratification
  10. Young People

Quarter of children in special schools not taking up their free school meals

  1. Rebecca O'Connell
  2. Lauren Denyer
  3. Angus Holford
  4. Laura Hamilton
  5. C. O’Brien
  6. , et al
Media - June 17, 2025
  1. Health
  2. Well Being
  3. Education
  4. Young People
  5. Child Development
  6. Disability

Investigate ‘shocking’ special school free meal take-up, DfE told

  1. Rebecca O'Connell
  2. Lauren Denyer
  3. Angus Holford
  4. Laura Hamilton
  5. C. O’Brien
  6. , et al
Media - June 17, 2025
  1. Health
  2. Well Being
  3. Education
  4. Young People
  5. Child Development
  6. Disability

Report on free school meals in specialist schools

  1. Rebecca O'Connell
  2. Lauren Denyer
  3. Angus Holford
  4. Laura Hamilton
  5. C. O’Brien
  6. , et al
Media - June 17, 2025
  1. Health
  2. Well Being
  3. Education
  4. Young People
  5. Child Development
  6. Disability

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