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.
A new study has found that opportunities for UK migrants are highly gendered, with migrant women experiencing lower employment rates after becoming a parent.
People in England’s most deprived neighbourhoods work longer hours than those in the rest of the country but live shorter lives with more years in ill health costing an estimated £29.8bn a year to the economy in lost productivity.
Programme provides funding for 12-month projects using our data – and further resources for dissemination and impact
Find out what life is like for young people now and what’s changed over time by visiting Understanding Society’s new youth website.
The rapidly increasing price of fuel could be making people’s physical and mental health worse.
New body will help to optimise Study’s policy engagement and impact
Two in five (40%) pensioners spent at least one year of the last decade in poverty according to new research from national charity, Independent Age.
Understanding Society launches 11th annual Insights report, showcasing Covid research.
How information from Understanding Society help us better understand the role of this vital hormone.
How was children’s education impacted by the Covid-19 school closures? New research explores how the move to remote learning affected children during the pandemic period.
New study finds we did become a little bit more egalitarian during the first lockdown, but many women ended up doing more than their fair share again once restrictions eased.
Submit your abstract to present at our People and Places mini-conference taking place online 4-7 April 2022.
Survey methods specialist, Dr Tarek Al Baghal will be helping to lead the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
24-28 January – join Understanding Society for a week of online policy debates
Men are more sensitive to losing jobs, but moving into poverty has a larger impact on women.
Education data from the Scottish Government has been linked to Understanding Society and is now available for researchers to use.
New research shows that unemployment increases the risk of separation and that partnerships are equally affected by men and women's unemployment.
Understanding Society is welcoming suggestions for content to include in its future main questionnaires about Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships.
Download the PEACH (Pregnancy and Early Childhood) dataset - designed for researchers working in child development.
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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.
