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There’s been a huge increase in the number of people working at home during the Covid pandemic and most want to keep doing it ‘at least sometimes’
As furlough ends in the UK, new research looks at the impact it had on household spending and on financial distress.
The link between lifestyle and wellbeing has been well documented, but this is the first study to prove that what you eat and the exercise you do affects life satisfaction.
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The Good Childhood Report explores trends in children's wellbeing and happiness over time.
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How schools, parents and children coped with the biggest challenge in the history of modern education
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A new study has found that the mental health of home-carers deteriorated more during the lockdown than non-carers.
School closures were responsible for around half the decline in mental health experienced by mothers during the coronavirus pandemic
Connecting Understanding Society family members over time and across households.
Researchers have found that a person’s personality can change significantly over our life course, with significant life events making us more outgoing or conscientious. Earlier in life, starting work and first serious romantic relationships have been identified as events that can lead to our personalities changing.
New research comparing the experiences of informal care givers in the UK and the Netherlands has found that providing care can lead to lower mental health.
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The Office for National Statistics has found that children in Asian households are 2.5 times more likely to live in a household which earns £12k or less before bills.
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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.
