Latest news, updates and announcements from the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Meeting at POST for parliamentary staff and researchers showcasing new studies using biomarkers to examine differences in health among the employed and unemployed
Maternal depression, making an impact on public policy debate on child poverty, unpaid internships, obesity, and understanding Brexit feature in this year's edition.
Professor Grundy, currently Professor of Demography at the London School of Economics, will join ISER as Director and Professor of Population Science in October
"It is hard to think of another academic in the UK today who more effectively combines a commitment to understanding poverty issues through robust research in order to influence policy with a similarly high commitment to methodological rigour."
Awards for Shamit Saggar, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at ISER, and Professor Jonathan Gershuny, former ISER Director
Growing family diversity, and its increasing polarization along class lines, is of policy and scholarly concern - new opportunity for research funded by an Understanding Society studentship
New EUROMOD comparative analysis of the distributional effects on household incomes of tax-benefit policy changes between 2015 and 2016
New research, led by Professor Meena Kumari, may partly explain the pattern of widening social inequalities in health in early old age
A new study led by Professor Meena Kumari has found that those at the top of the ladder experience less stress than their workforce
Monograph papers will be presented at the conference at the University of Essex in July 2018 and published by Wiley in their survey methodology series.
Dr H Xavier Jara Tamayo has been in Ecuador training government departments and national institutions to use the new microsimulation model, one of several created for developing countries based on EUROMOD
The ESRC announce shortlist for the prestigious Impact Awards 2017 for social science researchers who have achieved impact through outstanding research, collaborative partnerships, engagement or knowledge exchange activities.