Education and skills

The returns to social skills in the labour market and the implications for employment and wage distribution, how young people acquire skills, and the role of the family in influencing gender differences in behaviours and outcomes

News - latest findings, new research, announcements

silence sign in school corridor

Schooling, Skills and Sanctions: Exploring our new evidence on how school policies work with policy experts

New project to examine stereotypes in schools secures €1.5m EU funding
multi-generational family group

Policy Conference: The Future of Families
Photograph of Dr Spiros Samothrakis

MiSoC’s Dr Spyros Samothrakis is new Chief Scientific Adviser to Essex County Council

Projects - new and ongoing research

The value of personal statements

Impact of school breakfast programmes

Exploration of statistical weighting for the Graduate Outcomes Survey (HESA Graduate Outcomes)

The impacts of Universal Free School Meals in England

Podcasts - audio interviews with our researchers

Studying for a PhD at ISER

Gender, housework and childcare

Being part of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Survey response rates during the Covid pandemic

Events

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