Understanding Society – new data from the Innovation Panel offer exciting research opportunities
Data from waves 3 and 4 of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel are now available to download.
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Damage of race abuse evident in reception class
The UK’s first ever study of the impact of racist abuse on families finds that by the age of five, their children are more likely to struggle with cognitive tests and face more socio-emotional problems than their peers.
Biomarkers in Understanding Society: the policy potential
ISER will host an ESRC Festival of Social Science event, on the policy potential of biomarker data, at the British Academy in London, on November 8th.
New 27 country EUROMOD announced
All 27 European Union member states are now included in the microsimulation model, EUROMOD, designed to simulate tax and benefit policies.
White people paid more and ethnic pay gap widening
New research from ISER and the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex finds Britian's white workers are paid more than ethnic minorities and the hourly pay gap has more than doubled in the 15 years to 2008.
ISER advises CSJ investigation into worklessness
Professor Mike Brewer joins the Centre for Social Justice working group looking at Economic Dependency and Worklessness.
Working late in pregnancy could be as harmful as smoking
New research by ISER and the University of Essex finds that babies born to mothers who carry on working later into their pregnancy are most likely to be a lower birth weight - increasing the risks of health and development difficulties.
Programme announced for EUROMOD Bucharest microsimulation workshop
The 2nd Microsimulation Workshop to be hosted by ISER in Bucharest on October 11-12, will allow policy makers and academics to simulate the impact of policy reforms on income distribution, poverty and inequality figures in Europe.
New RNIB research from Understanding Society on experiences of sight loss
New research for the RNIB on the experiences of sight loss, using Understanding Society, the largest household panel survey in the world, and the Life Opportunities study, paints a worrying picture of the visually impaired in Britain.
Improving UK skill levels would lift 1.5 million out of poverty
New research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by ISER's Mark Taylor and Stephen Pudney with Tina Haux from Queen's University, finds improving UK skill levels would dramatically reduce poverty by 2020.
ISER to advise Government on evaluating Universal Credit
Professor Stephen Pudney joins the Department for Work and Pensions' External Advisory Group for the Evaluation of Universal Credit
Future Research Leaders awards win for ISER
ISER celebrates after winning two prestigious Future Research Leader awards from the ESRC.