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The latest wave of the Understanding Society main survey is available from the UK Data Service.
Religious people coped better mentally than non-religious people during the UK COVID-19 lockdowns.
Home working and hybrid working became the norm during the Covid pandemic. Did the extra flexibility to work remotely help, or hinder, our mental health?
The latest wave of Understanding Society is now available
The new funding will support a further six waves of data collection, extending the Study to the year 2032
We have a range of resources to help you (or your students) get started with using our longitudinal data
Read the latest report, summarising our work in 2022.
11-13 July - book you place at our three-day conference to explore the latest research using longitudinal panel data.
The latest wave of the UKHLS dataset can be downloaded from the UK Data Service
Using Understanding Society to look at the impact of the pandemic on children's wellbeing - and how economics helps us understanding family life
New Understanding Society resource for methods teachers
New research compares pre-pandemic data with 2020 lockdowns
Research using Understanding Society investigates long-term health outcomes
Our Annual Report shows how Understanding Society grew in 2021.
Lower levels of neighbourhood trust can mean people produce fewer antibodies in response to vaccine
...but results vary by age and sex
Understanding Society launches 11th annual Insights report, showcasing Covid research.
How was children’s education impacted by the Covid-19 school closures? New research explores how the move to remote learning affected children during the pandemic period.
New study finds we did become a little bit more egalitarian during the first lockdown, but many women ended up doing more than their fair share again once restrictions eased.
The final wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study has been released.
Survey methods specialist, Dr Tarek Al Baghal will be helping to lead the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
24-28 January – join Understanding Society for a week of online policy debates
The latest wave of the main survey is now available to download from the UK Data Service.
There’s been a huge increase in the number of people working at home during the Covid pandemic and most want to keep doing it ‘at least sometimes’
As furlough ends in the UK, new research looks at the impact it had on household spending and on financial distress.
New research from the Centre for Population Change shows that life satisfaction was consistently lower for everyone in 2020-2021 compared to 2018-2019. But people with jobs, partners, and degrees did better than those without.
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Participants from our coronavirus study gave blood samples to test for Covid antibodies.
How schools, parents and children coped with the biggest challenge in the history of modern education
A new study has found that the mental health of home-carers deteriorated more during the lockdown than non-carers.
The latest wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study is now available.
One in nine adults had consistently very poor or deteriorating mental health during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research.
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The Economic and Social Research Council is the primary funder of the study The Study is led by a team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.
