Join us for a one-day policy conference on how housing can influence health, wealth equality and carbon emissions.
Understanding Society calendar year datasets combine data collected in a specific year across multiple waves of the Study.
Read our latest Working Paper to find out about the experiments run on Wave 16 of the IP.
The latest wave of the Understanding Society main survey is available from the UK Data Service.
Our new 'gentle' training course is for researchers new to quantitative survey data.
The latest data from the experimental panel is now available.
Join an autumn training course from Understanding Society.
Registration is now open for this one-day event exploring how the UK tackles the long-term challenges facing families.
Our new webinar series introduces key topics in Understanding Society.
A new study has shed light on the challenges faced by single mothers and the potential benefits of forming new partnerships.
On our new course you'll learn about extracting a multifunctional longitudinal ‘data spine’ to answer research questions using Understanding Society.
A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the dynamics of poverty for people providing unpaid care.
Working from home has an impact on the unpaid work burden women have.
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.
Linked data on the financial products taken out by Understanding Society participants.
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.
Young people who spend more than seven hours a day on social media are eight times more likely to smoke than non-users, and four times more likely to vape, says new research.
Religious people coped better mentally than non-religious people during the UK COVID-19 lockdowns.
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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.
