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The Deputy Director of Understanding Society, Professor Annette Jäckle, has featured on a BBC Radio 4 programme to unpick the reality behind a recent headline about young people.
Field an experiment or suggest questionnaire content for the next wave of the Innovation Panel.
New data from Understanding Society’s Innovation Panel is now available.
The latest Annual Report gives a summary of key data on the use of the Study, alongside a selection of research and impact from the year.
Join us on the 1-3 July for three days of longitudinal and household panel research.
Apply before the 19 March to become one of the next Understanding Society Fellows
Field an experiment or suggest questionnaire content for the next wave of the Innovation Panel
Read our latest Working Paper to find out about the experiments run on Wave 16 of the IP.
The latest data from the experimental panel is now available.
Understanding Society has been used to create a dataset that mimics the adult population in England, Scotland, and Wales.
The call for new Fellows is now open.
Our latest Annual Report highlights some of the achievements, research and policy impact from 2023.
Understanding Society is hosting the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, with pre-conference events that you can book a place on now.
Read the latest experiments that have used Innovation Panel data
Submit your ideas for methodological experiments or survey content to be added to the next wave of the Innovation Panel.
Understanding Society and ISER are hosting the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) annual conference in September 2024.
The latest wave of Understanding Society is now available
Latest waves can now be downloaded from the UK Data Service
The new funding will support a further six waves of data collection, extending the Study to the year 2032
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.
We're accepting proposals for the content for the next wave of the Innovation Panel.
The latest wave of the UKHLS dataset can be downloaded from the UK Data Service
Understanding Society funds doctorates on families, pregnancy and early childhood, and survey methods.
The Understanding Society Fellowship programme enables researchers to devote time to projects that directly impact on the Study - apply now!
Our Annual Report shows how Understanding Society grew in 2021.
Data from the Innovation Panel Life Events survey is now available
Download Study data from 2020 in our new calendar year dataset.
Apply now to be considered for our latest Fellowship programme.
Our new Moodle course offers guidance for researchers interested in creating their own tailored weights for Understanding Society.
We are looking for proposals for the content and design of the 2023 Innovation Panel survey.
Survey methods specialist, Dr Tarek Al Baghal will be helping to lead the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
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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.