ISER Director Professor Peter Lynn appointed to Government’s Court Reform Evaluation Advisory Panel
Professor Lynn will advise the Ministry of Justice on the evaluation of the £1billion policy to modernise courts and tribunals
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ISER’s role in new international community of researchers working on major new European survey of children’s wellbeing
Interdisciplinary social scientist Dr Gundi Knies, social epidemiologist Dr Cara Booker and survey methodologist Professor Peter Lynn, join the international research team implementing the first Europe-wide longitudinal study to track the wellbeing of children aged 0-25
Basic income in the UK – modelling the trade-offs with our microsimulation model UKMOD
The Women’s Budget Group and our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis host an online discussion event on 30 April on Basic Income & UKMOD – Modelling Trade-Offs.
Changing Families Conference – featuring new research from Understanding Society over 4 days of online sessions
How families are changing - the impact of the pandemic, insecure work, different family structures, providing care and gender equalities - new research from the UK Household Longitudinal Study led by ISER
MiSoC Gender Pay Gap Research Workshop – featuring two days of new research presented by international experts
Online event on April 15-16 with 11 presentations and a panel discussion on future research priorities and opportunities for impact
New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard
Emotional and behavioural problems increased significantly after the first round of school closures - prompting fears that the latest school closures will have caused further damage
The impact of reversing Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit uplifts
New research by our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis for the Greater London Authority finds prolonging the £20 a week uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax credit would keep 780,000 people out of poverty this year
Dr Alita Nandi presents the Essex Explores open lecture on the prevalence of ethnic and racial harassment in Britain
ISER Senior Research Fellow Dr Nandi presents the open lecture online on Wednesday 24 February at 6pm
New research finds dramatic increase in poverty in Covid-stricken Ecuador
ISER research looks at the role of the emergency tax and benefit policies during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ecuador
Why does the UK still have a gender pay gap? Well-educated women are still paid less than men – new research project looks for reasons why
New ESRC-funded project will look at the role of employer wage-setting power in driving the gender pay gap
British BAME men’s mental health suffers most in Covid crisis
New study using Understanding Society data finds BAME men reported 14% deterioration in mental health while white males reported 6.5%
Mandatory remote teaching could reduce inequality during the pandemic – but delivering it will be difficult
Dr Ayse Guveli from our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change describes her findings on the impact of periods of home schooling on inequalities in this article for The Conversation