Latest news, updates and announcements from the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Understanding Society new data integrate with 18 years of data from the British Household Panel Survey and offer the opportunity for analysis of decades of evidence about the changing nature of society
A new study by ISER and LSE using EUROMOD finds the poor did lose the most under the Coalition policies on tax and benefits while the top 5% gained and the deficit remained undented.
New data combined with Understanding Society's existing social and economic data will combine to provide very rich research opportunities
A new study by Professor Michaela Benzeval with the University of Glasgow finds a dramatic drop in teen smoking revealed in data from the British Household Panel Survey
Understanding Society’s latest findings report presents a collection of research that depicts the changing lives of individuals and households in the UK
New studies with IFS, Institute of Education and University of Surrey presented to the House of Lords Select Committee on Affordable Childcare
New data from Understanding Society in ONS release on children's wellbeing
A panel debate chaired by Mark Easton, Home Editor at the BBC with experts including Nick Pearce from the Institute for Public Policy Research and Paul Johnson the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The ESRC-funded Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) based at ISER begins a new five year cycle of work this week, dedicated to research on the process of social change.
Peter Lynn, ISER's Professor of Survey Methodology, examines new developments such as online surveying and collecting bio indicators, alongside other world experts in survey methods.
Study for the Nuffield Foundation finds women and children hit hardest by relationship breakdown - with 15 to 20 per cent falling into relative poverty.
Two day workshop hosted by the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social change and EUROMOD, the tax benefit microsimulation model, opens at the University of Essex