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New research from the Health Foundation using Understanding Society also shows that people in low-quality jobs are more likely to report poor health.
Understanding Society has launched its ninth Insights report. This year we focus on three areas of research: social integration, work and health, and geographical mobility. .
New research from the University of Warwick found that human memory is significantly worse in parts of England with high levels of air pollution.
With over two million people now working as freelancers in the UK, researchers have been looking at whether freelance work has an impact on wellbeing.
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.
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.
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Taking part in arts and cultural activities or sport makes us happier.
New research from UCL shows that women who work more than 55 hours a week are at a higher risk of depression.
Finding out about the impact of diet on mental health.
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Have you used household panel data in your research? Understanding Society is accepting abstracts for its Scientific Conference which will be held on 2-4 July 2019.
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.
Research on ethnicity and immigration using Understanding Society data is the focus of a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).
The UK's biggest celebration of social science returns this November with the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science.
The three new projects will focus on policy-relevant research.
A new edition of the Understanding Society Waves 1 - 7 dataset has been released today.
Eight new research papers which used data from Understanding Society and the British Household Panel Survey were presented at the eighth Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) conference.
Two charities will receive support through Understanding Society’s Research Voucher Scheme, which provides research guidance for policy relevant projects that use the Study’s data.
A new report which was developed using data from Understanding Society has found that participating in creative and cultural activities maintains our wellbeing as we get older.
People act less ‘green’ when they feel they don’t have a good work-life balance, according to new research using Understanding Society data.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation used Understanding Society to measure poverty rates and trends across Wales.
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.
Understanding Society has published its sixth Insights report, providing new findings for researchers and policy makers on the changes and stability in the lives of people in the UK.
Meena Kumari, Professor of Biological and Social Epidemiology discusses her pioneering work combining biological markers from blood samples with the socio-economic longitudinal data collected from participants in Understanding Society, in a new podcast for The Guardian’s Science Weekly series.
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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.
