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Longitudinal survey following 40,000 UK households annually. Enormous research opportunities. Based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/
@usociety.bsky.socialPlus, of course, last week’s thread of highlights is still up...
@usociety.bsky.social...and more about charities, think tanks, and others using Understanding Society on our impact pages
@usociety.bsky.socialYou’ll find all the papers using our data since 2009 on our website
@usociety.bsky.social...and perhaps surprisingly, Lieke Voorintholt @unitrier.bsky.social, Gerard van den Berg, and @asoetevent.bsky.social @rug.nl “find no empirical support for a relationship between grandparental status and concerns about climate change”
@usociety.bsky.socialFranz Fuerst and Gabriel Hollis @landeconomy.bsky.social found that “Health returns to education are largest in deprived neighbourhoods and diminish as deprivation decreases. Educational attainment and neighbourhood advantage buffer the absence of one another...”
@usociety.bsky.socialHeather Brown at Lancaster and Sophie Guthmuller @wuvienna.bsky.social looked at how socioeconomic and regional factors affect people’s access to IVF, and say: “Lack of individual resources in conjunction with regional difference in IVF funding contribute to inequalities...”
@usociety.bsky.socialThat paper shows that “financial hardship showed no consistent association with remittance sending across waves, suggesting that migrants do not simply send money when they can afford to and stop when they cannot”
@usociety.bsky.socialCornelius König asked whether the ‘big five’ personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) affect which migrants to the UK send money home...
@usociety.bsky.socialIn case you’re looking for something to read on a Friday afternoon, here’s a round-up of recent papers using our data... Ruijuan Hu, Jason Li Chen, Gang Li, and Yuan Qin found that “...tourism development can improve residents’ quality of life across multiple domains and regions...”
@cpc-cg.bsky.socialReposted by @usociety.bsky.social📍 Save the date- #CPCCGWebinar with Susan Harkness @uob-policystudies.bsky.social
Using @usociety.bsky.social, Susan examines non-resident fathers' involvement in their children's lives, focusing on child maintenance, contact & shared care
Register www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @bspsuk.bsky.social
@usociety.bsky.social...and our latest podcast came out just this week—on how Understanding Society’s biological data can show how some genes work differently in different people
@usociety.bsky.social...and:
@usociety.bsky.socialWe’ve also published two blogs on young people being NEET (not in employment, education, or training): this one...
@usociety.bsky.socialThe Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social used our data in Options for reforming personal independence payment (part of its Green Budget 2026)
@usociety.bsky.socialThe Mental Health Foundation used our data in its report , Employment and mental health inequality
@usociety.bsky.socialIn case anyone is new to us and our work, or just wants to know what Understanding Society has been used for recently, here’s a round-up of highlights. @ippr.org used our data in its report The loneliest generation: What it is like to grow up in England today
@cpc-cg.bsky.socialReposted by @usociety.bsky.socialA new paper by CPC's Athina Vlachantoni and team uses @usociety.bsky.social to assess the importance of ethnicity & gender, alongside other factors, in explaining whether people save for retirement through a private pension or other savings and investments, finding persistent ethnic & gender gaps.
@usociety.bsky.socialThank you for pointing it out. Will make sure it's changed in future!
@raduzabet.bsky.socialReposted by @usociety.bsky.socialThank you Chris and @usociety.bsky.social for doing this podcast on our recent work on inter individual variation of DNA methylation in the British population link.springer.com/article/10.1.... This was my first podcast and really enjoyed the experience.
@usociety.bsky.socialYou can also find our podcasts wherever you get podcasts, including Spotify:
