Understanding Society funds doctorates on families, pregnancy and early childhood, and survey methods.
New research compares pre-pandemic data with 2020 lockdowns
Research using Understanding Society investigates long-term health outcomes
The Understanding Society Fellowship programme enables researchers to devote time to projects that directly impact on the Study - apply now!
Proteomic panels and epigenetic clocks have been added to our nurse collected health assessment data.
Use our new code creator to extract data from the main Understanding Society dataset.
The 2022 Good Childhood Report shows a continuing decline in children's wellbeing.
Our funders, the Economic and Social Research Council, have published an independent review of Understanding Society.
The increase in the state pension age hasn't changed the age that people plan to retire.
The Academy of Social Sciences confers Fellowship to 40 outstanding social scientists, including our Professor Michaela Benzeval, Professor of Longitudinal Research and the Director and Principal Investigator of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
Transitioning from having a mortgage to outright ownership is associated with the biggest improvement in reported mental health that increases in magnitude over time.
Our Annual Report shows how Understanding Society grew in 2021.
Data from the Innovation Panel Life Events survey is now available
The poorest parents in Britain must spend three times as much of their income on childcare as the richest households, a think-tank has highlighted.
Download Study data from 2020 in our new calendar year dataset.
New analysis has shown that there has been no decline in some rates of social mobility for decades, and the UK has good rates when compared internationally.
New project to encourage the use of data to evaluate policy
New research finds a direct two-way link between the impacts of loneliness and greater mental health distress.
Analysis from the think tank the Social Market Foundation has found that women who have a child lose a significant amount of income over the following decade.
Lower levels of neighbourhood trust can mean people produce fewer antibodies in response to vaccine
New research has found the adverse effects of thyroid dysfunction on productivity at work could be a contributing factor to why women earn less than men.
...but results vary by age and sex
Apply now to be considered for our latest Fellowship programme.
Workers exposed to workplace digitalisation become more supportive of the Conservatives and of the incumbent government.
Course in July for business, trade unions and regulators on using the Study to examine changing lives
With energy bills reaching a record high in the UK, studies such as Understanding Society can be used to analyse how the crisis is affecting the population.
The Understanding Society data from the Harmonized Histories international comparative dataset is now available to download from the UK Data Service.
We’re reviewing questionnaire content on green behaviour and attitudes and have opened a consultation for researchers and policymakers who would like to give feedback and suggestions.
Using data collected from more than 2,000 people aged between 50-75 years old, research has shown that outgoing people have more trouble retiring.
Our new Moodle course offers guidance for researchers interested in creating their own tailored weights for Understanding Society.
A new study has found that opportunities for UK migrants are highly gendered, with migrant women experiencing lower employment rates after becoming a parent.
We are looking for proposals for the content and design of the 2023 Innovation Panel survey.
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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.
