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The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has opened applications for its Parliamentary Academic Fellowships Scheme.
The latest Wave of Understanding Society has been released and is available to researchers via the UK Data Service.
Our participants are involved in the development of new ways to gather health data through an innovative pilot project that aims to find out whether people can collect their own blood and hair samples.
Research using Understanding Society shows that our self-rated health is linked to objective measures of our health - and that the link varies according to people's age, gender and social class.
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Taking part in arts and cultural activities or sport makes us happier.
New research from UCL shows that women who work more than 55 hours a week are at a higher risk of depression.
Finding out about the impact of diet on mental health.
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Discovering data and how to use it.
And working flexibly or from home doesn't help.
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).
The UK's biggest celebration of social science returns this November with the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science.
The three new projects will focus on policy-relevant research.
A new edition of the Understanding Society Waves 1 - 7 dataset has been released today.
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