How has children’s wellbeing changed? Reviewing the evidence from the Good Childhood research programme
Report - February 10, 2026
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Adolescent social capital as a source of resilience against emotional and behavioural difficulties in times of crisis: longitudinal evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal Article - December 4, 2025
Spatial immobility and the dynamics of loneliness, social capital, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal Article - December 1, 2025
The association between mental health and cognitive ability: evidence from the Understanding Society survey
Journal Article - October 8, 2025
Did social capital protect mental health from social mixing restrictions and spatial immobility during the COVID-19 pandemic? A longitudinal analysis of individual- and contextual-level local social capital
Journal Article - October 5, 2025
Life satisfaction, loneliness, and routine health check-ups: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Journal Article - August 1, 2025
Access to transport, life satisfaction and the mental wellbeing of rural older people in England under austerity
Journal Article - July 1, 2025
Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions
Journal Article - May 15, 2025
The role of loneliness in mediating the relationship between financial strain and mental health: exploring gender differences in a UK longitudinal study
Journal Article - May 1, 2025
Deprivation’s role in adolescent social media use and its links to life satisfaction
Journal Article - April 15, 2025
Friends make us happy: evidence from three European panel studies
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
The co-occurrence of social adversities in early adolescence and their relationship to cognitive outcomes later in development
Journal Article - March 28, 2025
Adolescents with fewer resources use social media more, yet their well-being remains unaffected, research shows
Media - March 28, 2025
Social capital 2025: reinforcing the bedrock of the nation’s health
Report - February 13, 2025
Neighbourhood social cohesion, loneliness and multimorbidity: evidence from a UK longitudinal panel study
Journal Article - January 1, 2025
A panel analysis of change in personal air travel behaviour in England between 2012 and 2019
Journal Article - December 31, 2024
A review of studies on the mechanisms of cultural heritage influencing subjective well-being
Journal Article - December 13, 2024
From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy
Media - November 24, 2024
Victimization experiences, internalizing problems and family bonds among adolescents from the UK: multi-group structural equation modeling using an intersectionality informed approach
Journal Article - November 20, 2024
How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education
Media - November 13, 2024