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A new report from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), produced in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Understanding Society, reveals that inequalities between families and between generations are increasingly embedded in society.
Understanding Society invites proposals for the content and design of the 2021 Innovation Panel survey.
The launch of Understanding Society's Insights 2020 report see experts discuss how to bring the country together.
Understanding Society has launched its ninth Insights report. This year we focus on three areas of research: social integration, work and health, and geographical mobility. .
Workers are often told that volunteering can increase employment opportunities and give people an overall economic benefit, but according to new research this financial gain depends on the level of work people do.
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has opened applications for its Parliamentary Academic Fellowships Scheme.
Register now for a place at the launch of Insights 2020
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
London Plus use Understanding Society to see whether volunteers reflect the diversity of the city.
We presented four prizes at the Understanding Society Scientific Conference at the beginning of July
We can already see the gap between boys and girls when they're 15
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Fathers are less likely to hold traditional attitudes towards gender roles if they have a school-aged daughter.
Have you used household panel data in your research? Understanding Society is accepting abstracts for its Scientific Conference which will be held on 2-4 July 2019.
The latest wave of data is now available to researchers.
If you have created syntax for the Understanding Society dataset you can now share it with other data users through our website.
Funded PhD Studentships working with the Understanding Society team are now open for applications.
Understanding Society's annual review, showingcasing research that uses the Study, is published today.
Research on ethnicity and immigration using Understanding Society data is the focus of a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).
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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.
