Understanding Society funds doctorates on families, pregnancy and early childhood, and survey methods.
New research compares pre-pandemic data with 2020 lockdowns
Research using Understanding Society investigates long-term health outcomes
The Understanding Society Fellowship programme enables researchers to devote time to projects that directly impact on the Study - apply now!
Proteomic panels and epigenetic clocks have been added to our nurse collected health assessment data.
Use our new code creator to extract data from the main Understanding Society dataset.
The 2022 Good Childhood Report shows a continuing decline in children's wellbeing.
Our funders, the Economic and Social Research Council, have published an independent review of Understanding Society.
The increase in the state pension age hasn't changed the age that people plan to retire.
The Academy of Social Sciences confers Fellowship to 40 outstanding social scientists, including our Professor Michaela Benzeval, Professor of Longitudinal Research and the Director and Principal Investigator of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
Transitioning from having a mortgage to outright ownership is associated with the biggest improvement in reported mental health that increases in magnitude over time.
Our Annual Report shows how Understanding Society grew in 2021.
Data from the Innovation Panel Life Events survey is now available
The poorest parents in Britain must spend three times as much of their income on childcare as the richest households, a think-tank has highlighted.
Download Study data from 2020 in our new calendar year dataset.
New analysis has shown that there has been no decline in some rates of social mobility for decades, and the UK has good rates when compared internationally.
New project to encourage the use of data to evaluate policy
New research finds a direct two-way link between the impacts of loneliness and greater mental health distress.
Analysis from the think tank the Social Market Foundation has found that women who have a child lose a significant amount of income over the following decade.
Lower levels of neighbourhood trust can mean people produce fewer antibodies in response to vaccine
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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.
