Understanding Society and the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Inst for Social and Economic Research
Abstract
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Publications
Wolke D
(2012)
Bullying among siblings.
in International journal of adolescent medicine and health
Wain LV
(2017)
Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney.
in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
Vimaleswaran KS
(2014)
Association of vitamin D status with arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk: a mendelian randomisation study.
in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
Vannieuwenhuyze, J
(2014)
Measurement effects between CAPI and Web questionnaires in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Vannieuwenhuyze J
(2014)
Evaluating Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Survey Data Using Covariate Adjustment Models
in Journal of Official Statistics
Vannieuwenhuyze J
(2012)
Evaluating Relative Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Surveys: Three Methods to Disentangle Selection and Measurement Effects
in Sociological Methods & Research
Vannieuwenhuyze J
(2012)
A Method to Evaluate Mode Effects on the Mean and Variance of a Continuous Variable in Mixed-Mode Surveys
in International Statistical Review
| Description | Understanding Society is an infrastructure project; thousands of users from academia, government, third sector and commercial organisations have downloaded the data and a wide range of publications have been produced, covering genetics to poverty, politics to intergenerational transmission of wealth, health behaviours to commuting, environmental behaviours to survey methods, employment and education to family change, harassment and discrimination to health and disability, expenditure to gender roles and attitudes. Research based on the data not only contributes to scientific knowledge, but also policy development and monitoring among statutory and third sector agencies. Specifically, under this award, Understanding Society was funded to produce genome wide sequence data and a range of biomarkers. These data are increasingly being used in social sciences and have expanded the study's user base to clinical and biological disciplines. Understanding Society is a continuous ongoing project, see information under subsequent awards. |
| Exploitation Route | The data from the study is already being used by a wide range of other researchers, and is the basis of a wide range of under and post graduate taught courses, used by a significant number of PhD and other students, and used in a wide range of short statistical courses. A key feature of this award was the enhancement funds to create a biosocial resource. Blood analyte data are now available under EUL in UKDS, genome wide scan and epigenetic data are at EGA and access to combined genotype-phenotype data is based on applications made directly to the Study team. These data are increasingly becoming widely known and used in social-genome research. Evidence based on our and others' analysis of the data are being used to progress scientific knowledge, improve the design of other surveys, and to inform policy and practice. Researchers do not necessarily inform us of their publications or impact. We therefore do not know of all the ways they use the data. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Transport,Other |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Data from Understanding Society are directly used by a number of Government Departments for policy monitoring, policy development and evaluation. . For example, the Welsh Government has a legal requirement to report on child wellbeing as a part of The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, for which it employs Understanding Society. In addition, the Scottish Government uses environmental behaviour measures in Understanding Society in their regular reports as part of the Low Carbon Scotland: A behaviours Framework. Further, DWP uses Understanding Society data on children living with both parents as part of their family stability indicator in the Social Justice Outcomes Framework. DWP use the data from the Study in their income dynamics report, which is an offical statistic for them. The DWP will also use Understanding Society to monitor the progress of their 2017 policy designed to tackle the disadvantaged faces by workless families; two indicators (parental conflict and parental mental health) will use the Study. ONS use Understanding Society data in a wide range of their statutory monitoring reports. Evidence from Understanding Society has also been used in a wide range of Gov policy developments, from evidence to the Taylor review to the Airports Commission report on air capacity to DfE review of special educational needs to PHE work on youth smoking to mention a few. The Understanding Society Policy Unit work directly with Government cofunders to support their use of data in a wide range of ways on an ongoing basis. Understanding Society is also extensively used by the third sector, for example AgeUK produced a wellbeing index which it used to inform its own investments as well as promote issues about older people more generally. The Children's Society use it in their annual report on wellbeing. Understanding Society data is used in the Homelessness Monitor, a longitudinal study of homelessness across the UK (with separate reports for each devolved administration), funded by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Findings from the Homelessness Monitor England 2016, including findings on hidden homelessness from Understanding Society specifically, were included in a House of Commons Library (2016) briefing paper on the Homelessness Reduction Bill 2016-17. This Bill received Royal Assent and is now the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. Data from the study is also used by academics to evaluate government policies in ways that may lead to their reassessment. Recent evaluations included benefits for those out of work due to illness, national minimum wage, introduction of plastic bag charges, and neighbourhood renewal. Methodological research from the study informs the design of a wide range of other surveys internationally, including those by governments. For example, we recently advised ONS on their plans going forward. Researchers do not necessarily inform us of their publications or impact. We therefore do not know how much evidence of impact we capture. Understanding Society is an ongoing continuous project please see subsequent awards for more details. |
| Sector | Education,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Transport,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Comparing resposne rate maximization to alternative allocation criteria in adaptive design for panel surveys |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | saving costs on data collection |
| Description | Member of an advisory commitee of an application for the wellcome trust in humanities and social sciences fellowship |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Written evidence Select Committee Inquiry on Children and young peoples mental health - role of education (Dr Knies and Dr Booker) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | (COORDINATE) - COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe |
| Amount | € 4,988,915 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101008589 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | (MYWEB) - Measuring Youth Well-Being |
| Amount | € 1,671,591 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 613368 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2014 |
| End | 09/2016 |
| Description | Analysis of a feasibility study for a longitudinal survey of indebted people |
| Amount | £20,297 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Money Advice Service |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Development of a longitudinal survey of indebted people |
| Amount | £16,360 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Money Advice Service |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 05/2018 |
| Description | Exploration of Statistical Weighting in the Graduate Outcomes Survey |
| Amount | £26,748 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Statistical Agency |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Pilot Application in Urban Landscapes: Towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases (PAUL) |
| Amount | € 13,000,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Scoping of a longitudinal survey of indebted people |
| Amount | £4,695 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Money Advice Service |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 02/2016 |
| Description | The Distribution and Dynamics of UK Citizens' Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Actions |
| Amount | £134,141 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K002988/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 06/2014 |
| Description | Third network for the analysis of EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) |
| Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Eurostat |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Luxembourg |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Title | Harmonised BHPS-UKHLS file |
| Description | I was responsible for the harmonisation of the British Household Panel Survey into Understanding society |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | the dataset was released to beta users in UK, USA, Poland and Australia and will be released to the public in November 2017 |
| Title | Understanding Society EGA GWAS dataset |
| Description | Understanding Society EGA GWAS dataset - deposited in the European Genome Phenome Archive and accessed via the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. To January 2017, there have been 9 applications to access this dataset. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
| URL | https://ega-archive.org/studies/EGAS00001001232 |
| Title | Understanding Society Innovation Panel waves 1-6 |
| Description | UKHLS IP dataset for waves 1-6 (End User Licence) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2008 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6849&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society Interviewer Survey 2014 |
| Description | The Understanding Society Interviewer Survey 2014 data file is the output of a research project that collected information from interviewers who worked on the Understanding Society data collection for Great Britain in the first round of interviews, which took place over the course of the years 2009 and 2010. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Some scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals have used the data to extend knowledge of the role of interviewers in obtaining survey participation. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7615&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society Secure Access datasets |
| Description | UKHLS mainstage and Innovation Panel secure access datasets, deposited with the UK Data Service |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053 |
| Title | Understanding Society Special Licence datasets |
| Description | UKHLS mainstage and Innovation Panel special licence datasets deposited with the UK Data Service. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053 |
| Title | Understanding Society mainstage waves 1-5 |
| Description | Understanding Society mainstage waves 1-5 dataset (End User Licence) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2009 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6614&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-8, 2008-2015 |
| Description | The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | More than 30 peer-reviewed papers; influence on the design of major government and public-sector surveys. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6849&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Interviewer Survey 2014 |
| Description | The Understanding Society Interviewer Survey 2014 data file is the result of a project that collected information from interviewers who worked on the Understanding Society data collection for Great Britain in the first round of interviews, which took place over the course of the years 2009 and 2010. One of the specific aims of the data collection was to better understand the nature of bias in respondent consent to data linkage and, in particular, the role of interviewers in obtaining consent and in affecting consent bias. Hence, the interviewer survey includes a number of questions eliciting interviewer attitudes to consent to data linkage and their experiences with asking for consent during the fieldwork. There are, however, also a great deal of questions that will be of interest to a greater audience of researchers, such as interviewer attitudes to persuasion, measures of their personality traits and markers of general trust. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The data file is going to deposited with the UK Data Service for greatest level of accessibility in the research community. |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-3, 2009-2012: Special Licence Access, Geographical Accessibility |
| Description | Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), UKHLS-Accessibility data file provides user-friendly access to information about access to eight domains of public services in the immediate areas in which study members live. The information has been sourced from the Department for Transport (DfT)'s Accessibility Statistics and offers more than 600 unique data items relating to how easy or difficult it is for different types of people in the local area to access employment and town centers, primary and secondary schools, institutions for further education, General Practitioners, hospitals, and food stores. The data file covers waves 1-3 of Understanding Society and has been deposited with the UK Data Service to allow greatest possible distribution. Researchers can apply to obtain access to the UKHLS-Accessibility data file under study's Special License policy. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data offer information, for instance, on how many available jobs there are in the area and what proportion of them could be reached by somebody relying on public transport or walking, within a reasonable amount of time. It not only allows analysts to examine how much inequality there is in access to these services for different groups of people, such as people from different ethnic groups, and how has this changed over time, but also how these structural features impact people's lives. |
| URL | http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7533&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-5, 2009-2014 |
| Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first seven waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has four sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPS and BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6614&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-6, 2009-2015 |
| Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first seven waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has five sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6), participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPSand BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6614&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-7, 2009-2016 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 |
| Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first seven waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has five sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6), participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPSand BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6614&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012 |
| Description | The Wave 2 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2010-2011 was completed with 15,591 adult participants from the General Population component of Understanding Society living in England, Scotland or Wales who completed a full Wave 2 interview. In addition, blood samples were obtained from 10,175 individuals. The Wave 3 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2011-2012 was completed with the BHPS sample component. Assessments were conducted with 5,053 individuals and blood samples were obtained from 3,342 individuals. The Nurse Health Assessment followed the main wave interview by approximately five months. The physical measures, biomarkers and questionnaire data from the Nurse Health Assessment interview are available from the UK Data Service. Genetics information is also available. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A wide range of peer-reviewed papers to date. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7251&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012 |
| Description | Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012 - dataset deposited with the UK Data Service |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7251&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Description | Understanding Society - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - collaboration on genetics data and analysis |
| Organisation | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative work to share the genetics data from Understanding Society and use it for analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | See other outputs for: ES/H029745/1 and ES/M008592/1 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Understanding Society fieldwork - waves 1-5 - NatCen |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Management of the sub-contract with NatCen for the provision of fieldwork services for waves 1-5 of Understanding Society - partnership working with NatCen to deliver the survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of the fieldwork and associated services for Understanding Society waves 1-5 |
| Impact | See all other outputs, which are dependent on the delivery of fieldwork by our partner agency. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | "Understanding Society": A Unique Data Source for Studying Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invite presentation N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/2014/06/30/new-findings-from-our-study-of-uk-environmental-behaviours-a... |
| Description | 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens, Greece, August 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research findings were presented to an academic audience of sociologists. There were questions and discussions during and after the presentation. The conference was attended by over 500 people, but this specific session was attended by less than 10 people.This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://esa13thconference.eu/ |
| Description | 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a poster presentation which was attended conference participants who asked questions about the research and its findings. The conference itself was attended by over 1000 people from across the world. It is difficult to say how many people saw the poster so we have provided an estimate of the number of people this activity reached (51-100). This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.populationassociation.org/2017-annual-meeting-chicago-il/ |
| Description | 29th Annual Conference of EALE, St. Gallen, Switzerland, September 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research findings were presented to an academic audience of social scientists, primarily economists. There were questions and discussions during and after the presentation. The conference was attended by over 500 people, but this specific session was attended by 20-30 people. This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.eale.nl/impression-of-eale-2017-switzerland-st-gallen/ |
| Description | 30th Annual meeting of the British Society for Population Studies, Winchester, September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at this academic conference attended by social scientists and analysts from some third sector organisations. The specific session where this paper was presented was attended by around 20-30 people. This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/Researchcentresandgroups/BSPS/annualConference/2016-Conference-Win... |
| Description | 31st Annual Conference of the European Society of Population Economics, Glasgow, June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was attended by social scientists from across the world. The conference overall was attended by over 500 people. There were various questions and discussion during and following the presentation which was attended by around 20-30 people. This also helped in increasing the awareness of Understanding Society survey data and its usefulness for social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.sbs.strath.ac.uk/espe2017/ |
| Description | Advice to Cancer Reserach UK on changes in their data collection methods to measure cancer awareness in the GB population |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to advise Cancer Reserach UK on analyses of data they have collected, to examine the implications of changing their survey from a face-to-face survey to an online survey. As a result of the discussion they are reviewing their analysis plans and also their criteria for deciding which data collection model to choose in future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Advice to EU-FRS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advice given to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency regarding survey design issues in the context of a new international data collection exercise known as the EU Fundamental Rights Survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://fra.europa.eu/en/project/2015/fundamental-rights-survey |
| Description | Advisory Group Meeting - Poverty across ethnic groups through recession and austerity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Advisory Group Meeting, JRF - Gave a presentation on analysis from: Poverty across ethnic groups through recession and austerity n/a |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Article in professional newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Standardised survey design: are we missing a trick?" - article in "Research Matters", the quarterly magazine of the Social Research Association. The SRA is a professional association with over 800 members across government, the private sector and the third sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://the-sra.org.uk/whats-new/research-matters/ |
| Description | Article on "Innovations in measuring household finances" in the NCRM MethodsNews newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Newsletter article to diseminate current research in a way that is accessible to a general audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?article=5523 |
| Description | Article written for the Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | We wrote an article in the Conversation, based on the research conducted as part of the project, specifically, about the prevalence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on mental health. The title was "How ethnic and racial harassment damages mental health" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/how-ethnic-and-racial-harassment-damages-mental-health-73076 |
| Description | Ask a Silly Question and Get a Silly Answer? An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Survey Design on Measures and Models of Subjective Wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | ? N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2014conference/program/preliminary.php?search_string=Holford&search_type=... |
| Description | CONSENT TO DATA LINKAGE: A FOCUS ON THE INTERVIEWER RESPONDENT INTERACTION |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The research examines the behaviours displayed by interviewers and respondents while administering and answering a question asking for consent to DWP record linkage on the UK Innovation Panel. How do the behaviours contribute to whether or not respondents consent? N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/ |
| Description | Cardiovascular health and health behaviours - evidence from the Understanding Society study on untreated hypertension |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Poster session N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/heron/news/conference2014.aspx |
| Description | Discussion with ONS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with analysis professionals at the Office for National Statistics in January and February 2017 about the best way to construct estimates for the ONS annual publication on wellbeing indicators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bul... |
| Description | Distribution and dynamics of citizens' environmental attitudes, behaviours and actions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2014/home.php |
| Description | Driving social change: how can a longitudinal perspective help the third sector? Launch of Research Voucher Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Understanding Society will be launching its new research voucher scheme at an event which discusses how third sector organisations can enhance their research, policy and campaigning through a longitudinal perspective. The roundtable event aimed exclusively at third sector organisations will see the launch of the new scheme which will offer charities up to £5,000 for high quality research projects that use the study's rich social, economic, health and household data. Hosted in partnership with The Alliance for Useful Evidence, the event will be held on 18th July 2016 at Nesta, London between 4pm- 6.30pm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2016/06/02/driving-social-change |
| Description | Ethnicity, nationality and identity in the UK: the development of a comparative acculturation framework |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Comparing Scotland and the UK: Evidence from major UK surveys, Edinburgh - This paper looks at British and other competing cultural identities of UK residents across the four countries and across different ethnic groups. This conference was organised by AQMen to showcase some of the large data resources of the UK, this specific presentation was to showcase Understanding Society. n/a |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Exploring role of interviewers in collecting survey respondents' consent to link survey data to administrative records |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | ? N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://surveysandmanagement.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/2014-panel-survey-methodology-workshop-ann-arbo... |
| Description | Fisher BioServices Poster at biobank Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | To share information on good practice in extracting and sotring tissue samples safely and effectively, promoting knowledge about Understandign Society tissues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Five (Favourite) Anti-Poverty Related Policies: Sexual Orientation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | N/a |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | From BHPS to UKHLS and Beyond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invite presentation N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | From Face-To-Face to Mixed-Modes: Lessons from Experiments on the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AAPOR international conference N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.aapor.org/aapor_annual_conference.htm#.U7z9HLHwq80 |
| Description | Genome-wide association analysis of a panel of biomarkers in the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at Genomics of Common Diseases, 2-5 September 2015, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. Bram Prins, Lorraine Southam, Meena Kumari and Eleftheria Zeggini |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Genome-wide genotyping in the UKHLS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Understanding Society Scientific Conference, 21-23 July 2015, University of Essex, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | How do web respondents react to dependent interviewing? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Current research disseminated, ideas discussed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Impact of mode design on measurement errors and estimates of individual change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Mixed modes are receiving increased interest from survey methodologists as a possible solution to saving costs while retaining high quality data. In recent years this interest has extended also to panel studies which are looking to save costs by including a cheaper mode for some of their respondents. The current presentation aims to tackle some of the issues linked to such a design. First, I aim to see if using a mixed mode design will increase systematic and random error compared to a single mode CAPI survey by applying equivalence testing in a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Secondly, I aim to investigate if estimates of individual change are influenced by mode design by comparing latent growth models across the two designs. The first four waves of the Innovation Panel, part of Understanding Society (UKHLS), will be used for the analysis. The second wave of the data randomized respondents to either a single-mode CAPI design or to a CATI-CAPI sequential design. The SF12 health scale will be used to investigate both measurement equivalence and estimates of individual change. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Impact of mode design on measurement errors and estimates of individual change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Mixed modes (MM) are receiving increased interest as a possible solution for saving costs in panel surveys, although the lasting effects on data quality are unknown. To better understand the effects of MM on panel data I will examine its impact on random and systematic error and on estimates of change. The SF12, a health scale, in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel is used for the analysis. Results indicate that only one variable out of 12 has systematic differences due to MM. Also, three of the SF12 items overestimate variance of change in time in the MM design. I conclude that using a MM design leads to minor measurement differences but it can result in the overestimation of individual change compared to a single mode approach. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Instrument Length and Co-operation at Subsequent Panel Waves |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invite presentation N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://panelsurveymethods.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Is there a Healthy Immigrant Effect for mental health in the UK? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Background Evidence for a Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE), whereby immigrants are in better health than the native-born population, has been found with respect to physical health in immigrants in the United Kingdom (UK) but has not been investigated for mental health. There is variation in mental health status across ethnic groups in the UK and the country's ethnic minority population includes UK-born people as well as first generation immigrants. This study examines whether there is a HIE for mental health of immigrants in the UK. It compares the overall immigrant population to the UK population and additionally compares immigrants and UK-natives within ethnic groups. Methods Cross-sectional study using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-10) which oversamples some ethnic groups and has a sample of circa 46,000 adults aged 16+. Poor mental health outcomes are by a low score of SF-12 Mental Summary Component (MCS) and diagnosis of depression. Survey-weighted logistic regression models estimate the effect of migrant status and of length of residence (Years since migration). Interactions allow for differential effects by gender. Models adjust for age and socio-economic status (education, material deprivation index, housing tenure). Results (preliminary) Immigrants have lower odds of depression (OR 0.35, 95% CI 0.22-0.57) and of low MCS score (0.77, 0.62-0.94), compared to native born. For each year spent in the UK, immigrants have higher odds of poor mental health, compared to natives (depression: 1.03, 1.01-1.04; low MCS score 1.01, 1.00-1.02), meaning they lose their initial health advantage. Stratified models show similar patterns for immigrants among Caribbean men, black African, Pakistani/Bangladeshi and Indian, though not all statistically significant at 10% level. Conclusion Recent immigrants show better mental health than their UK-born counterparts, and this is partly also seen within ethnic groups. With increasing time since migration, the health advantage decreases. Conflicts: none N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Issues of coverage, sampling and participation in mixed mode surveys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation. A video of the presentation is online at http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/video/RMF2014/filmed.php?id=a70f975 N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2014/home.php |
| Description | Life Satisfaction, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods: Is there an effect of the neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in England. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by less favourable individual and area contexts, but that living in areas with a larger proportion of own ethnic group promotes well-being. We find that satisfaction is lower among minorities, ceteris paribus, but area concentration is associated with higher life satisfaction for certain groups. We discuss the implications of our findings. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/ |
| Description | Measuring change using dependent interviewing - does it matter how questions are worded? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at seminar - stimulated discussion and shared information on current research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://panelsurveymethods.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | NCRM podcast on "Using mobile devices to understand spending" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Podcast to disseminate current research to a general audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/?id_specific=46&title=Using%20mobile%20devices%20to%20unde... |
| Description | Non-contact and refusal among immigrants: Wave 2 attrition in Understanding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Immigrants, as ethnic minorities in general, have a higher risk of nonresponse in many household surveys (Watson and Wooden 2009, Feskens 2009). This poses a problem, especially when maintaining a panel that should offer large enough sample size for subgroup analysis. Little is known about the mechanisms leading to nonresponse or attrition of migrants. The large number of migrants in Understanding Society-both due to its large sample size and the Ethnic Minority Boost sample-allows investigating in how far factors commonly associated with attrition as well as characteristics specific to migrants help understand their response behaviour. Using data from waves 1 and 2 of Understanding Society, I analyse attrition amongst migrants in the second wave. The nonresponse process is understood as sequential, consisting of non-contact and, for those contacted, refusal and different factors can affect each of the two stages. I first model household non-contact at wave 2 and then, conditional on contact, refusal to the individual interview. Both models control for small-area characteristics and survey paradata such as whether the interviewer changed between waves. I find that household non-contact amongst migrants is, similar to that of the UK-born population, determined by factors relating to at-home patterns and residential mobility. Immigrants' propensity to refuse is influenced by factors relating to nonresponse theories about social exchange and civic duty, but also by their cultural background (proxied by their ethnicity and religion). Even after accounting for these characteristics attrition both at the contact stage and at the cooperation stage is related to time since arrival in the UK. These findings shed light on which factors are important for retaining migrant sample members in a longitudinal study and have implications for fieldwork practitioners. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Plenary speaker at Workshop zur Nutzung des SOEP at DIW Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around 40 predominantly postgraduate students planning to undertake longitudinal research on the basis of the German household longitudinal study SOEP were introduced to the UK household longitudinal study Understanding Society. Whilst describing the commonalities and differences in the study design and content, the plenary talk also drew upon latest findings from the UK panel which could be analysed comparatively. The audience also included students from disciplines such as linguistics and researchers working in federal ministries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Poverty and Material well-being of LGBT elderS. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gaps in knowledge identified, plus ways to address those gaps. Brought together academics, policy-makers, service providers, third-sector organisations, LGBT activists and advocacy groups and older LGBT people themselves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation at a workhop organised by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, on behalf of the U.S. National Institute of Aging |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation on "Lessons learnt from the Understanding Society Innovation Panel" at a workshop organised by the National Academies of Sciences. Workshop participants included representatives of the National Acadmies of Sciences, the National Institute of Aging, researchers in private industry, national statistical agencies, and academics. The aim of the workshop was to indentify a programme of research the methodology of longituidnal surveys which the National Institute of Aging could fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation of latest research on childrens life satisfaction and material wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A mixed audience including teachers and representatives from Third Sector Organisations came along to a half-day workshop showcasing fascinating new research that tracks children's wellbeing over time. At the end of the workshop, the audience was invited to think about actions that they can take in their profesisonal environments and private lives to improve children's wellbeing. Some participants shared their action plan during the workshop and a number of participants have requested further information about specific research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on the new harmonised BHPS-UKHLS dataset |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation about the new BHPS-UKHLS dataset at the understanding Society conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to an international audience of research professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk to a workshop of survey professionals from USA, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, South Korea and UK regarding design and implementation issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to government research professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation as part of a one-day engagement workshop on 06-10-2017 with research professionals from ONS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Project findings presented at a one-day event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In November 2017, at the end of the ESRC funded project, Prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: A longitudinal analysis, the findings from this project were presented to an audience comprising of policy makers, IPCC, government departments, third sector organisations and general public. There were around 20-25 participants. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session. After lunch there was an open round-table discussion within the entire audience about the key findings, gaps in evidence, and the way forward, suggestions about further dissemination of these findings to specific audiences. A 3-page briefing report was also handed to the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-and-racial-harassment-and-its-impact-on-health-new-findings-ti... |
| Description | Propensity to Consent to Data Linkage: Experimental Evidence from the Innovation Panel on the Role of Three Survey Design Features |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | ? N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.aapor.org/aapor_annual_conference.htm#.U7z9HLHwq80 |
| Description | Redistributive effects of fiscal policies in the context of Italy's two recessions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Information sharing, knowledge exchange, stimulating debate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Seminar DIW, Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Questions and discusssion Increased awarenes of Understanding Society study |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Seminar at private sector fieldwork agency (Westat, USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 70 members of staff at Westat, a private sector fieldwork agency in the USA attended a research seminar on "Participation in a Mobile App survey to collect expenditure data as part of a large-scale probability household panel: response rates and response biases", followed by discussion and exchange of experiences. The paper was of interest to Westat as they are developing and testing similar methods, and they were interested in sharing the paper with one of their key clients, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Seminar on Understanding society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation about Understanding Society at Manchester University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Separating families - demographic context |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nuffield Foundation Research Seminar: Arrangements for Children following Relationship Breakdown - Descriptive statistics on different aspects of separating families, child maintenance payments and receipts, contact with non-resident children n/a |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Social Observatory Workshop, Muscat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion and report produced on feasibility of establishing a Social Observatory in Oman to monitor poverty, education, health and other social services. Following this workshop a Social Observatory was established in Oman. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012 |
| Description | To Defer or Not Defer? State Pension Deferral in a Lifecycle Model. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Academic working paper looking at how to model the effects of state pension deferral in a formal theoretical framework, and also consider a numerical simulation. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.netspar.nl/events/?v=4&id=155&cid=1 |
| Description | Using Understanding Society data to analyse energy expenditures and the uptake of domestic energy-generation technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a lunch seminar organised at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to discuss how Understanding Society can be used to analyse energy use and environmental behaviour N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2014 |
| Description | Work and Play Paves the Way: The Importance of Part Time Work in a Lifecycle Model. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper provides analytical solutions to a lifecycle model which has been commonly used in the literature. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Work and Play Paves the Way: The Importance of Part Time Work in a Lifecycle Model. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper provides analytical solutions to a lifecycle model which has been commonly used in the literature. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | joint workshop with Office for National Statistics and ISER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with ONS 7 researchers who lead the ONS transformation agenda and who lead surveys collecting household finance data. The aim was to share research findings related to the modes of survey data collection and the collection of financial data, and to identify potential collaborations in research and development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |