Impact of racism on ethnic minority families and their children
Yvonne Kelly talks about the first ever UK analysis of the effect of racism on parents from ethnic minorities, and discusses the developmental impact on their children.
Podcasts
Researchers discuss their findings and what they mean for society.
Podcasts
Take up of free school meals: price effects and peer effects
Angus Holford talks about research on how peer group pressure might encourage more children to take up their entitlement to free school meals.
Innovation Panel data release: Waves 3 and 4
Annette Jäckle talks about newly available data from the Understanding Society Innovation Panel and the wide ranging and exciting research opportunities it offers.
How British is the UK?
Alita Nandi talks about recent research making use of Understanding Society data showing that people from ethnic minority backgrounds feel more British than their white counterparts.
Measuring living standards with income and consumption
Mike Brewer talks about recent research, Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK, explaining how we see a different picture of inequality when we use consumption rather than income as the measure.
Inequality in achievements in adolescence
A new study finds that parents’ own academic achievements will impact significantly on their children’s chances of success at secondary school. Emila Del Bono talks to Christine Garrington about the research.
Islam moves West
David Voas talks about new research published in the Annual Review of Sociology Islam Moves West: Religious Change in the First and Second Generations looking at whether Muslims arriving in the West (and their children and grandchildren) remain as religious as they were in their home country, or become more religious or less over time.
Scheduled versus demand feeding
Maria Iacovou shares new research from the ISER breastfeeding project looking at the effects of scheduled versus demand feeding and the effects on mothers and their children.
Who saves for retirement?
Mark Bryan talks about Who saves for retirement? – new research from ISER and the Strategic Society Centre about our pension saving habits.
Episode 2011-19
Lucinda Platt talks about the unprecedented research opportunities provided by the Ethnicity Boost Sample in Understanding Society.
Episode 2011-18
Survey Manager, Jon Burton, talks about Understanding Society, how it works, why it’s important that people take part and how researchers can now access this world-class resource to examine and analyse a host of important social and economic issues.
Episode 2011-17
Cara Booker talks about new research using Understanding Society that shows that people with a physical illness may nevertheless be mentally resilient.