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
How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education
Media - November 13, 2024
The effects of youth clubs on education and crime
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, 24/51 - November 11, 2024
The impact of different types of social media use on the mental health of UK adults: longitudinal observational study
Journal Article - October 30, 2024
Childhood origins of social mobility: revised and updated
Report - October 15, 2024
Religious engagement and antibody response to the COVID-19 vaccine
Journal Article - October 1, 2024
The future of care needs: a whole systems approach
Report - August 22, 2024
Lonely nation. Part 2: ending loneliness among older people
Report - August 15, 2024
Linking survey and LinkedIn data: understanding usage and consent patterns
Journal Article - August 6, 2024
Navigating turbulence in the UK: how gender shapes self-employed social engagement during crises?
Journal Article - July 31, 2024
Mental health trajectories in adolescents during Covid-19: ‘Are we all in this together’?
Journal Article - June 15, 2024
Alleviating loneliness during COVID-19: the impact of neighbor cohesion and social connections in England
Journal Article - June 15, 2024
Augmenting surveys with social media data: a probabilistic framework for LinkedIn data linkage. -conference paper abstract-
Journal Article - June 10, 2024
Using social media metrics and linked survey data to understand survey behaviors -conference paper abstract-
Journal Article - June 10, 2024
Social media use increases smoking and vaping risks among youth
Media - May 21, 2024