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Professor Susan Harkness, Understanding Society Topic Champion for Social Policy, has been working with the Cabinet Office in a project looking at what happens to women's jobs when they come back from maternity leave.
New labour market histories that span the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society help researchers track changes in working lives.
Which households lose or gain the most under universal credit? And are the effects short-lived or persistent?
But the Low Pay Commission finds women are more likely to be trapped in low paid work.
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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.
Understanding Society Impact Fellow Raj Patel on the action needed to tackle the gender pay gap.
The UK's biggest celebration of social science returns this November with the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science.
The Social Metrics Commission use Understanding Society to show who is poor now and how that has changed over time.
The UK’s gender pay gap is gradually narrowing - but women still have some way to go to match the earning level of their male counterparts, according to a new report published by the Department for Education.
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.
Impact Fellow Raj Patel on the discussion from Insights 2017 on how should we tackle low pay and insecure work.
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.
Around one in four retirees in the UK return to work or ‘unretire’, mostly within five years of retiring, according to research that uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society.
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