Dr Ester Lazzari, University of Vienna
The influence of chronic stress-related biomarkers on the fertility trajectories of men and women
Understanding Society Fellows
Our Fellowship Programme enables researchers to devote time to focus on projects based on Understanding Society data or methodological challenges. We open a call for new Fellows at least once per year. To find out when the next call opens, please sign up to our mailing list.
Professor Tak Wing Chan, University College London
Assessing free school meals eligibility as measure of social disadvantage with linked Understanding Society/NPD data
Zhaotian Chi, University of Cambridge
Understanding mental health dynamics within households with an extended psychopathology network perspective
Dr Cigdem Gedikli, Swansea University
Retirement, family transfers, and future generations: new insights into intergenerational effects with causal machine learning
Dr Sînziana-Ioana Oncioiu, University of Oxford
Fertility Histories, Social Capital, and Physiological Health: Unravelling the Long-Term Health Impacts of Reproductive Choices
Dr Saoirse Finn, University College London
Does arts and cultural engagement get under the skin? Examining epigenetic and physiological markers of ageing in Understanding Society
Dr Laia Becares, King’s College London
Social and biological pathways of cardiovascular risk for LGBQ+ populations
Dr Gergo Baranyi, University College London
External exposome, social disadvantage and biological ageing
Dr Jiyeon Kang, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Investigating Quality of Life in UK Cancer Survivors: Insights from Understanding Society data
Dr Chia Liu, University of St Andrews
Ethnic Diversity in Digital Experiences among Youth
Dr Darja Reushcke, University of Birmingham
Workplace location and employee well-being
Dr Jonathan James, University of Bath
The drivers and consequences of school absences
Dr Anna Leyland, University of Sheffield
Childhood development, household circumstances and school attendance trajectories
Dr Ursula Henz, LSE
Understanding the effects of health and caregiving dynamics on credit usage and financial distress
Dr Eliud Kibuchi, University of Glasgow
Causal effect of debt on mental and physical health
Dr Greta Morando, University of Sheffield
Widening Participation in HE: A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Impact on Pre- and Post-16 Outcomes
Dr Liam Wright, University College London
Genetic insights into regional economic inequality and the obesity epidemic
Dr Rosie Cornish, University of Bristol
Investigating and allowing for non-response among young people in Understanding Society
Dr Camilla Salvatore, Utrecht University
Investigating the causes and strategies to prevent youth non-response
Dr Jane Maddock, UCL
Retirement and mental health: heterogeneity and cross-country comparisons
Dr Baowen Xue, UCL
Does the ‘right to request’ flexible working policy improve couples’ well-being and reduce gender inequality?
Dr Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, University of Bath
The effect of shared parental leave rollout on maternity leave decisions and labour market outcomes of mothers and fathers in the UK
Dr Richard Shaw, University of Glasgow
The wellbeing and personal consequences of changing support and funding for students in post-16 education
Dr Daniel Kopasker, University of Glasgow
Addressing the health and wellbeing effects of unemployment: cross-country comparative analysis of welfare state contexts
Dr Emily Murray, UCL
Which place-based policies would be most effective in levelling up the life chances of young people living in coastal towns, to the rest of the UK?
Professor Joe Sakshaug, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremburg
Nurse and Interviewer Effects on Biological Survey Measurements
Dr Alexander O'Donnell, University of Tasmania
Children as independent agents in financially strained households: A longitudinal and cross-cultural test of the family stress model
Dr Alessandro Di Nallo, Bocconi University
The scarring effect of pregnancy loss on the life course
Dr Gretta Mohan, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
Comparing alcohol behaviours in Scotland and Northern Ireland to evaluate an alcohol minimum unit pricing policy
Dr Peter Levell, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Children of the property boom: house price increases and the intergenerational transmission of wealth
Dr Kishan Patel, UCL
Quantifying the longitudinal impacts of primary and vicarious racial discrimination on the mental health of ethnic minority young people in UK households
Dr Alina Pelikh, UCL
The role of early adolescent experiences in explaining differences in school-to-work trajectories between siblings
Dr Gabriele Mari, Erasmus University
UNPAID – UNcovering PArenting and Income Dynamics
Dr Sue Easton, University of Lincoln
Do health outcomes for adults with chronic illness vary with different geographical access to healthcare services in rural, coastal and urban locations?
Dr Eleni Karagiannaki, LSE
Transition to adulthood in the UK in an intergenerational context
Dr Jennifer Smith, University of Warwick
Labour Market Flows (LAMAFLO): Individual labour market flows, transition rates and spell durations constructed from UKHLS/BHPS work life history data files
Professor Catherine Harnois, Wake Forest University
Assessing Intersectional Interviewer and Mode Effects in Reports of Discrimination
Dr Marion Lieutaud, LSE
Migrant Lives: Migration, gender and the unfurling of inequalities over the lifecourse.
Dr Kate Mason, University of Liverpool
Assessing the impact of forced residential moves on health, and the modifying role of local housing services.
Dr Alex Cernat, University of Manchester
Understanding mode switching and non-response patterns
Dr Jamie Moore, formerly Southampton University, now University of Essex
Using representativeness indicators to evaluate Understanding Society dataset representativeness given sample attrition across waves and non-response during data collection periods.
Dr Aja Murray, The University of Edinburgh
Dynamic predictors of and corrections for attrition in Understanding Society
Dr Katie Saunders, University of Cambridge
Is Understanding Society attrition related to dynamic processes of substantive interest to survey users and can weighting adjust for this? A focus on health and healthcare utilisation
Professor Steve McKay, University of Lincoln
Can machine learning (ML) improve our understanding of non-response in Understanding Society and means of tackling it?
Dr Thijs van den Broek, formerly LSE, now Erasmus University Rotterdam
Adverse childhood circumstances, life course trajectories and allostatic load in later life
Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem, University of Exeter
The role of lifestyle factors in explaining fertility variation among couples in the UK
Dr Anthony Laverty, Imperial College London
Active travel and cardio-metabolic health in Understanding Society
Dr Mark Green, University of Liverpool
Evaluating the performance of personal, social, health-related, biomarker and genetic data for predicting an individual’s future health using machine learning
Dr Mónica Hernández Alava, The University of Sheffield
Couples health states and future health-related outcomes
Dr Rebecca Richmond, University of Bristol
Investigating epigenetic changes in shift work – a possible mechanism for its impact on health and the body clock
Professor Andrew Przybylski, University of Oxford
Building robust evidence-based policy for children in the digital age
Dr Heather Brown, Lancaster University
The Intergenerational Persistence of Inequalities in Health and Income: Where can we target policy to best reduce inequalities?