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The Innovation Panel develops and tests leading-edge survey methods for longitudinal survey research and informs the main Understanding Society parent survey.
Participants from our coronavirus study gave blood samples to test for Covid antibodies.
New research compares teachers to other occupations using biomarker data
New research shows negative effects of ethnic diversity on wellbeing dissipate with time
Join Understanding Society for a week of online debates exploring policy in a 'post-Covid' world.
Understanding Society has reached the milestone of 10 waves of data!
New data from Understanding Society shows the impact of the coronavirus on NHS treatment for people with long-term health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
We've expanded and refreshed the User Guide for the Understanding Society main survey.
The Economic and Social Research Council has announced new support for Understanding Society, taking data collection for the Study up to the end of 2025.
How inequality really can get 'under our skin'
Important information for participants on Understanding Society interviews during the coronavirus outbreak
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
Our participants are involved in the development of new ways to gather health data through an innovative pilot project that aims to find out whether people can collect their own blood and hair samples.
Research using Understanding Society shows that our self-rated health is linked to objective measures of our health - and that the link varies according to people's age, gender and social class.
We presented four prizes at the Understanding Society Scientific Conference at the beginning of July
And working flexibly or from home doesn't help.
The latest wave of data is now available to researchers.
If you have created syntax for the Understanding Society dataset you can now share it with other data users through our website.
Funded PhD Studentships working with the Understanding Society team are now open for applications.
6 December 2018 - registration is now open.
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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.
