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The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has opened applications for its Parliamentary Academic Fellowships Scheme.
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
New research shows longer commute times are associated with lower job and leisure time satisfaction.
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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.
Understanding Society's annual review, showingcasing research that uses the Study, is published today.
People act less ‘green’ when they feel they don’t have a good work-life balance, according to new research using Understanding Society data.
Young adults in the UK are now driving less than their counterparts in the early 1990s, according to a report commissioned by the Department for Transport.
For the first time in the Study’s history, data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) has been harmonised with Understanding Society to create 25 years of longitudinal data.
Adding 20 minutes more commuting time each day has the same effect on job satisfaction as taking a 19% pay cut, according to a new study using data from Understanding Society.
Feeling ‘green’ seems to make people happy, but doesn’t necessarily translate into positive, environmentally friendly, actions according to new research which uses longitudinal data.
A forecasting tool which can predict an individual’s, or an entire city’s energy needs up to ten years in advance has been developed to help planners meet environmental targets.
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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.
