Podcast

Our future care needs

What does an ageing population mean for care, jobs, and communities?

A female carer in plastic gown and older male care recipient

In our first episode of 2025, we look at the future care needs of an aging population in the UK, with Taha Bokhari and Abby Jitendra from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who have written a report about what our ageing population means for care, work, our benefits system and our communities.

What else is Understanding Society doing?

Image of the front cover of Insights - Barriers to Opportunity

Barriers to opportunity for children and young people

Understanding Society’s Insights report for this year sets out what research using our data tells us about children’s development and young people’s life chances.

27 Apr 2026

Researcher explaining work at a public engagement event.

Call for new fellows open

We're now accepting applications for the Understanding Society fellowship programme

16 Apr 2026

Diversity or disadvantage? Families and employment of immigrants’ children in the UK

Children of immigrants from culturally similar countries have similar partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories to natives

13 Apr 2026

Laptop with screen showing the variable search

New variable search

We’ve improved the way you can search for variables!

13 Apr 2026

Email newsletter

ESRC Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex

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.

Visit our Bluesky Page