Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study extension for Wave 12
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Inst for Social and Economic Research
Abstract
Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study is the largest household panel study in the world, designed to address key scientific and policy questions of the 21st century. It collects high quality annual longitudinal data on individuals of all ages in households representative of the UK population. Such data enable researchers to explore the experiences, causes and consequences of changes in people's lives - their family structure, health, income, expenditure, employment and housing. The Study has additional samples for the detailed exploration of the circumstances of key immigrant and ethnic minority groups; and collects data on cognition, objective measures of health and genetics to understand how people's health and wider circumstances interact. Increasingly we have been able to secure linkage to contextual information for places and organisations, and with consent, to individual level data including administrative records, social media and commercial information. Additionally, the Study experiments with innovative ways of collecting data to continually improve the content and quality of data available. Finally, we invest in supporting researchers and working with policy makers to ensure the research based on these data is used to inform policy and practice.
The Study began in 2008 with the Innovation Panel (IP), which tests methods, and the first main wave of fieldwork started in 2009. It builds on and incorporates the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which means for some families we have annual information from 1991. To date, seven waves of the main Study and nine waves of the IP, as well as data collected from a nurse visit, are deposited in the UK Data Service. Data collection and planning are ongoing for Waves 9-11 and IP11-12; IP10 and Wave 8 data will be released in 2018. This bid covers the costs of data collection for Wave 12 of the main Study and IP13 and 14, and associated activities.
In Wave 12 we will continue to push web-first data collection within our mixed mode framework to reduce costs while maintaining response rates and data quality. We are funding Methodological Fellowships to support this. Additionally, in IP13 and 14 we will experiment with other ways of collecting and harvesting data - for example between-wave surveys, apps, scanning till receipts - to expand the research opportunities available. We are also reaching out to other potential respondents: those whom we lost in BHPS where we can find them, and the partners of people in the Study who do not live in the same households. Finally, we will be trying to understand why people who emigrant do so by interviewing such groups as they leave the Study, and also we will interview family members when a respondent moves into a care home.
Policy and research agendas are constantly evolving, and it is important in a longitudinal study to balance creating long series of the same data with including new questions that address emerging topics. For Wave 12 we are reviewing whether our survey adequately captures the way in which technology impacts on different aspects of our lives. We have appointed a number of experts - Topic Champions - to improve the content of the survey and the way we present the data to users. We also aim to focus on developing our content in childhood, which is limited at present.
Supporting researchers in universities, government, third sector and businesses to use the data effectively is fundamental to the success of the Study. We have a Policy Unit that directly works with government departments and third sector organisations to help them use Understanding Society data, and we undertake a wide range of activities to promote findings based on the Study to policy users. We are planning a range of international events to promote effective comparative research, especially in relation to policy analysis using the Study. We are also funding Policy Fellowships to promote the policy impact of the Study.
The Study began in 2008 with the Innovation Panel (IP), which tests methods, and the first main wave of fieldwork started in 2009. It builds on and incorporates the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which means for some families we have annual information from 1991. To date, seven waves of the main Study and nine waves of the IP, as well as data collected from a nurse visit, are deposited in the UK Data Service. Data collection and planning are ongoing for Waves 9-11 and IP11-12; IP10 and Wave 8 data will be released in 2018. This bid covers the costs of data collection for Wave 12 of the main Study and IP13 and 14, and associated activities.
In Wave 12 we will continue to push web-first data collection within our mixed mode framework to reduce costs while maintaining response rates and data quality. We are funding Methodological Fellowships to support this. Additionally, in IP13 and 14 we will experiment with other ways of collecting and harvesting data - for example between-wave surveys, apps, scanning till receipts - to expand the research opportunities available. We are also reaching out to other potential respondents: those whom we lost in BHPS where we can find them, and the partners of people in the Study who do not live in the same households. Finally, we will be trying to understand why people who emigrant do so by interviewing such groups as they leave the Study, and also we will interview family members when a respondent moves into a care home.
Policy and research agendas are constantly evolving, and it is important in a longitudinal study to balance creating long series of the same data with including new questions that address emerging topics. For Wave 12 we are reviewing whether our survey adequately captures the way in which technology impacts on different aspects of our lives. We have appointed a number of experts - Topic Champions - to improve the content of the survey and the way we present the data to users. We also aim to focus on developing our content in childhood, which is limited at present.
Supporting researchers in universities, government, third sector and businesses to use the data effectively is fundamental to the success of the Study. We have a Policy Unit that directly works with government departments and third sector organisations to help them use Understanding Society data, and we undertake a wide range of activities to promote findings based on the Study to policy users. We are planning a range of international events to promote effective comparative research, especially in relation to policy analysis using the Study. We are also funding Policy Fellowships to promote the policy impact of the Study.
Planned Impact
Understanding Society is a valuable longitudinal resource that addresses key social and policy issues. The Study is beneficial to academic staff and students in the UK and abroad in three ways. First it is a unique resource for investigating the short and long run causes and consequences of changes in individuals' and families' income, education, housing, employment, behaviour and health. Second, findings from the data contribute to knowledge in ways that inspire new lines of research. Third, there is a strong focus in Understanding Society on the need for rigour in survey design and methods, and as a result the Study is at the cutting edge of methodological advancement in longitudinal studies, which benefits survey organisations and funders of surveys and research.
Non-academic beneficiaries include a wide range of organisations and stakeholders listed below; the Impact Fellow and Policy Unit work directly with them to raise awareness and capacity to use the data, as well as to generate research that leads to policy impact, and to promote impact.
o Government researchers, politicians and policy makers. The data supports important research in a broad set of policy areas, and is used for statutory reporting by a number of government departments. Key areas where important impacts are emerging include the responsibilities of the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales, as well as Whitehall departments such as DH, DWP, DfE, DfT, MHCLG, DEFRA, Home Office and BEIS. Co-Funding Government departments are directed supported in their use of the Study.
o Government executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies, parliamentary select committees, and supported research centres also use the Study's data and findings, e.g. ONS, Public Health England, Financial Conduct Authority, Bank of England, What Works centres, the Low Pay Commission, etc.
o EU policy-makers and the international policy community. Findings will be relevant to other countries, either directly, if generalisability can be assumed, or indirectly by inspiring new lines of thought and comparative investigation.
o Local government officers, councillors and consortia are responsible for different services that are addressed by the Study - such as public health, social housing, social care, education, policing, recreation and recycling - and have influence over others through local development frameworks, transport plans, planning decisions and potential new powers with increasing devolution.
o Third sector organisations, think tanks, charities and independent and private research organisations. Many organisations of this type, such as the Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, MIND, AgeUK, the Children's Society, are employing data from the Study in their work. Our Research Voucher scheme is expanding use in this sector.
o Private sector businesses. Findings on a range of aspects of individual behaviour and decision making and changes in societal outcomes will be relevant to market research, evaluating initiatives, location strategies and corporate responsibility plans. We have held joint workshops and projects with the financial sector, and two large businesses use Understanding Society data as benchmarks to compare their achievements with (housing and wellbeing). Equally, methodological challenges the Study faces are relevant to commercial market research and data analytic companies, and shared projects and learning are planned.
o General public. Members of the general public will have an interest in Study findings. We are planning a number of public engagement activities and media collaborations to promote public understanding of social science drawing on the data and findings from the Study.
Policy impacts have already occurred on the Study and will continue to develop with evidence from the Study increasingly incorporated into policy debates, although impacts on policy and practice will take longer to filter through the policy process.
Non-academic beneficiaries include a wide range of organisations and stakeholders listed below; the Impact Fellow and Policy Unit work directly with them to raise awareness and capacity to use the data, as well as to generate research that leads to policy impact, and to promote impact.
o Government researchers, politicians and policy makers. The data supports important research in a broad set of policy areas, and is used for statutory reporting by a number of government departments. Key areas where important impacts are emerging include the responsibilities of the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales, as well as Whitehall departments such as DH, DWP, DfE, DfT, MHCLG, DEFRA, Home Office and BEIS. Co-Funding Government departments are directed supported in their use of the Study.
o Government executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies, parliamentary select committees, and supported research centres also use the Study's data and findings, e.g. ONS, Public Health England, Financial Conduct Authority, Bank of England, What Works centres, the Low Pay Commission, etc.
o EU policy-makers and the international policy community. Findings will be relevant to other countries, either directly, if generalisability can be assumed, or indirectly by inspiring new lines of thought and comparative investigation.
o Local government officers, councillors and consortia are responsible for different services that are addressed by the Study - such as public health, social housing, social care, education, policing, recreation and recycling - and have influence over others through local development frameworks, transport plans, planning decisions and potential new powers with increasing devolution.
o Third sector organisations, think tanks, charities and independent and private research organisations. Many organisations of this type, such as the Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, MIND, AgeUK, the Children's Society, are employing data from the Study in their work. Our Research Voucher scheme is expanding use in this sector.
o Private sector businesses. Findings on a range of aspects of individual behaviour and decision making and changes in societal outcomes will be relevant to market research, evaluating initiatives, location strategies and corporate responsibility plans. We have held joint workshops and projects with the financial sector, and two large businesses use Understanding Society data as benchmarks to compare their achievements with (housing and wellbeing). Equally, methodological challenges the Study faces are relevant to commercial market research and data analytic companies, and shared projects and learning are planned.
o General public. Members of the general public will have an interest in Study findings. We are planning a number of public engagement activities and media collaborations to promote public understanding of social science drawing on the data and findings from the Study.
Policy impacts have already occurred on the Study and will continue to develop with evidence from the Study increasingly incorporated into policy debates, although impacts on policy and practice will take longer to filter through the policy process.
Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- Olink Bioscience (Collaboration)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Kantar Group (Collaboration)
- Welsh Assembly (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- Department for Work and Pensions (Collaboration)
- Office for National Statistics (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Collaboration)
- Department for Education (Collaboration)
- Department of Transport (Collaboration)
- University of St Andrews (Collaboration)
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- Bocconi University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Working Families (Collaboration)
- University of Tasmania (Collaboration)
- Wake Forest University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Collaboration)
- University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Project Partner)
- Financial Conduct Authority (Project Partner)
Publications
Aksoy O
(2022)
Religiosity and Mental Wellbeing Among Members of Majority and Minority Religions: Findings From Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
in American journal of epidemiology
Avram S
(2021)
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009-2017
in The Journal of Economic Inequality
Blanden, J
(2021)
School closures and parents' mental health
Bloom, A.
(2021)
The NCRM wayfinder guide to Covid-19 secondary data resources
Cabrera Alvarez P
(2021)
COVID-19 and mode selection effects in Understanding Society
Chandola T
(2022)
The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related stressors among adults in the UK.
in Psychological medicine
Crossley T
(2021)
MPCs in an economic crisis: Spending, saving and private transfers
in Journal of Public Economics Plus
Del Bono E
(2021)
Coping with school closures: changes in home-schooling during COVID-19
Flynn R
(2022)
Evaluation of nanopore sequencing for epigenetic epidemiology: a comparison with DNA methylation microarrays.
in Human molecular genetics
Fumagalli E
(2022)
Subjective well-being and the gender composition of the reference group: Evidence from a survey experiment
in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Gagné T
(2021)
Time trend analysis of social inequalities in psychological distress among young adults before and during the pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study COVID-19 waves.
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
Grant OA
(2022)
Characterising sex differences of autosomal DNA methylation in whole blood using the Illumina EPIC array.
in Clinical epigenetics
Hernández Alava M
(2023)
Estimating the Relationship Between EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L: Results from a UK Population Study.
in PharmacoEconomics
Jackle A
(2021)
Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys
Kanoni S
(2022)
Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis.
in Genome biology
Lammi V
(2023)
Genome-wide Association Study of Long COVID
Lynn P
(2021)
Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology
Lynn P
(2021)
Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology
Martin N
(2023)
How Does the Strength of the Far Right Affect Ethnic Minority Political Behaviour?
in Parliamentary Affairs
Miall N
(2023)
Inequalities in children's mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Moore J
(2021)
Do Coefficients of Variation of Response Propensities Approximate Non-Response Biases During Survey Data Collection?
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Nandi A
(2021)
The EU Referendum and Experiences and Fear of Ethnic and Racial Harassment: Variation Across Individuals and Communities in England.
in Frontiers in sociology
Niedzwiedz CL
(2021)
Psychological distress among people with probable COVID-19 infection: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
in BJPsych open
Ramdas S
(2022)
A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids.
in American journal of human genetics
Robertson E
(2021)
Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK household longitudinal study.
in Brain, behavior, and immunity
Rouxel P
(2021)
Biological costs and benefits of social relationships for men and women in adulthood: The role of partner, family and friends
in Sociology of Health & Illness
Saunders CL
(2021)
Healthcare utilization among migrants to the UK: cross-sectional analysis of two national surveys.
in Journal of health services research & policy
Saunders CL
(2021)
Sociodemographic inequalities in patients' experiences of primary care: an analysis of the General Practice Patient Survey in England between 2011 and 2017.
in Journal of health services research & policy
Walzenbach S
(2021)
Experiments on multiple requests for consent to data linkage in surveys
Wang Y
(2021)
DNA methylation-based sex classifier to predict sex and identify sex chromosome aneuploidy.
in BMC genomics
Watson N
(2021)
Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology
Whitley E
(2023)
Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey.
in Psychological medicine
Yengo L
(2022)
A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height.
in Nature
| Description | Understanding Society is an infrastructure project; we share our data via UKDS and ONS SRS. Metadata from the Study are available via CLOSER DISCOVERY and internationally the Cross National Equivalence File in USA. 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, poverty, politics, intergenerational transmission of wealth, health behaviours, commuting, environmental behaviours, survey methods, employment ,education, family change, harassment and discrimination, health and disability, expenditure, gender roles and attitudes, ethnic minorities, identity, harassment. Research based on the data not only contributes to scientific knowledge, but also policy development and monitoring among statutory and third sector agencies. In 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched a regular survey of people's experiences of COVID and associated social restrictions and the impact these were having on the lives of UK families. Over 4700 people have downloaded the data to date, and we have identified over 260 publications based on it focusing on the economic impact, experience of COVID-19 itself, disruption to health care, vaccine hesitancy, family relations within households and beyond households, childcare, homeschooling, social cohesion and inequalities. Mental health has been a key issue for the pandemic and use of the data - there has been research on education and children's mental health, mental health in general as the pandemic and lockdowns have progressed, as well as for specific groups such as carers, those shielding, those with long COVID and ethnic minorities. Understanding Society is a continuous ongoing project, see information under previous and subsequent awards. |
| Exploitation Route | Study data is used by a wide range of external researchers, and is employed in under and post graduate taught courses, used by a significant number of PhD students and in a wide range of short statistical courses. We provide different data products to facilitate users use of the data, from simple online tools to produce tables to harmonised international versions of the data to facilitate comparative research. We also provide a wide range of online and in person training and supporting materials as well as one-to-one user support, training and undertake projects for cofunding government departments and selected charities. There is substantial evidence of government departments analysing the data in their policy developments, monitoring and evaluations. We work with UKDS, NCRM, CLOSER and others on a wide range of webinars to increase awareness and use of Study data. We are working with Q-step universities to use the study to support the development of quantitative skills. We have awarded a series of fellowships to support academics in other institutions to undertake key projects with the data. 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. We encourage users to deposit their code for others to use and have launched a working paper series with which individuals can deposit their code. Researchers do not necessarily inform us of their publications or impact; we therefore do not know all of the ways in which they use the data. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Informing policy implementation/practice, improvements to existing policy - 2021 1. Factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups, 17 December 2020, Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), January 2021 2. Our written evidence submitted to its inquiry into the government's COVID-19 Free School Meals Voucher Scheme published by the Public Accounts Committee, February 2021 3. Our written evidence to its inquiry, Covid-19: Supporting the vulnerable during lockdown, published by the Public Accounts Committee, February 2021 4. The Economic Impact of Covid-19 across Different Households, Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell, Hamish Low, presentation to HM Treasury, February 2021 5. Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Budget 2021, HM Treasury, March 2021 6. Our written evidence (COE0027) to its inquiry into COVID-19 and education published by the Public Accounts Committee's inquiry, March 2021 7. House of Lords COVID-19 Committee report Beyond Digital: Planning for a Hybrid World uses evidence from the What Works Centre for Wellbeing on loneliness (paragraph 209) based on our data, April 2021 8. Race Disparity Unit, Cabinet Office, uses our data on virus acceptance in its quarterly report on progress to address COVID-19 health inequalities, May 2021 9. Our written evidence (CYP0023) to its inquiry Children and young people's mental health published by the Health and Social Care Committee, June 2021 10. School Closures and Children's Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (authors include Birgitta Rabe and Laura Fumagalli at the Institute for Social and Economic Research) cited in Chief Medical Officer's advice to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on vaccination of children aged 12-15, September 2021 (listed in key published inputs to advice) 11. Direct and Indirect health impacts of COVID-19 in England - short paper, 9 September 2021 - paper prepared by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Office for National Statistics (ONS) for Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), using our data to examine individual-level behaviour changes; changes in health-seeking behaviour; impact of COVID-19 on patient wait times; impact on healthcare activity; impact on the care of specific conditions: mental health; impacts on the wider population through changes to employment and the wider economic fallout; impacts from the loss of education 12. Regulation of private renting, National Audit Office, December 2021 - refers to research from Shelter - Denied the right to a safe home - and the National Housing Federation - Renting at Local Housing Allowance - which used our data Informing policy implementation/practice, improvements to existing policy - 2022 13. Our evidence to the House of Lords Built Environment Committee published with their Meeting housing demand report, and cited (paragraph 45, p.27), 10 January 2022 14. Office of Manpower Economics publishes What teachers do after leaving & implications for pay-setting, research and analysis by the National Foundation for Educational Research aimed to inform the setting of teacher pay over the next few years, 11 January 2022. On p.30, it cites research using Understanding Society 15. Sustained pressure, analysis by think tank Bright Blue, shows benefit claimants experienced poorer financial, mental and social wellbeing than the rest of the population in 2019-20, 9 February 2022 16. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy cites research using Understanding Society in its Consumer protection study 2022 research and analysis (note 49, p.25), 20 April 2022 17. Department for Transport cites research using Understanding Society in its Agglomeration in transport appraisal: the effect of COVID-19 (p.15), 29 April 2022 18. Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport cites research using our data in its written evidence (p.3) to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry Reimagining where we live: cultural placemaking and the levelling up agenda, June 2022 19. The Social Mobility Commission's State of the Nation 2022: A fresh approach to social mobility, uses our data throughout, 23 June 2022 20. The Children's Society uses Understanding Society in its Good Childhood Report 2022, September 2022 21. The Children's Commissioner's office uses Understanding Society in Family and its protective effect: part 1 of the independent family review, September 2022 22. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions) cites research using our data in its COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts report, published by Department of Health & Social Care, 16 November 2022 Enacting statutory requirements - 2021 23. COVID-19: mental health and wellbeing surveillance report, Public Health England, September 2020, updated April 2021. [This PHE report was itself used in the Department of Health and Social Care's Analysis of the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19 and the approach to tiering in November 2020.] 24. The Scottish Government uses Study data to report regularly on poverty persistence; this includes child poverty, as required by The Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017. Latest report published March 2021. Enacting statutory requirements - 2022 25. Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) official statistics on Income Dynamics: 2010 to 2020 uses our data to look at persistent low income and changes in household income, 31 March 2022 26. Scottish Government uses Understanding Society to calculate statistics on Persistent Poverty in Scotland 2010-2020, 31 March 2022 27. Office for National Statistics used our data in Socio-demographic differences in use of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, England: April 2017 to March 2018, 17 June 2022 28. Office for National Statistics cites Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Anxiety nation? Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain in its Cost of living and depression in adults, Great Britain: 29 September to 23 October 2022, 6 December 2022 Monitoring (not a statutory requirement) - 2021 29. DWP uses our data to produce official Income Dynamics statistics, looking at persistent low income and changes in household income 2010-2019, March 2021 30. ONS uses BHPS and Understanding Society for data on bullying in schools, as part of its Improved methods for total public service productivity: total, UK, 2018, last updated April 2021 31. The impact of remote and flexible working arrangements, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology Horizon Scanning, references Homeworking in the UK: before and during the 2020 lockdown, Alan Felstead and Darja Reuschke and Employee satisfaction and use of flexible working arrangements, Daniel Wheatley, April 2021 32. ONS uses our data to calculate the numbers of 'Older workers with higher socio-economic classification were more likely to work from home' in its Living longer: older workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, May 2021 33. Race Disparity Unit, Government Equalities Office, Equality Hub, and Minister for Equalities use our data in Quarterly reports on progress to address COVID-19 health inequalities, most recent: May 2021 34. Scottish Government uses our data and ISER research in Coronavirus (COVID-19): children, young people and families - evidence summary - June 2021 35. Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care use our data in A study of work and health transitions: analysis of Understanding Society, July 2021 36. Financial stability report, Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee report, July 2021 37. Wales Fiscal Analysis/Wales Governance Centre uses our data in Covid-19 in Wales: the mental health and wellbeing impact, July 2021 38. Ofqual uses our data in three of its five Learning during the pandemic reports (1: The context for assessments in summer 2021, p31, footnote 11; 2: Quantifying lost time, p47, p50; 4: Review of research from England, p13, p19, pp26-8, p49, p53), July 2021 39. Financial Stability Report, Bank of England Financial Policy Committee, December 2021 Monitoring (not a statutory requirement) - 2022 40. Health and Care Research Wales cites research using Understanding Society in its Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and access to health care of disabled people: a rapid review (pp.10, 13, 19, 41), March 2022 41. Office for National Statistics uses Understanding Society for Public services productivity estimates, and gives further details/methodology in Sources and methods for public service productivity estimates, 11 May 2022 42. DWP uses Understanding Society for national Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2021 statistics, and gives further detail/methodology in Technical report: assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the HBAI statistics for FYE2021, 24 May 2022 43. The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee uses our data in its Bank of England Financial Stability Report, July 2022 44. The Department for Communities of the Northern Ireland Executive mentions research using our data on pensions/ethnicity in The Pensions Dashboards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (p.27), 8 December 2022 Exploring policy options - 2021 45. Inheritances and inequality over the life cycle: what will they mean for younger generations? Pascale Bourquin, Robert Joyce and David Sturrock, IFS, April 2021 46. Beyond Digital: Planning for a Hybrid World, House of Lords COVID-19 Committee, references Understanding Society data showing that 8.5% of people in the UK are 'always or often lonely', in What Works Centre for Wellbeing, How has Covid-19 and associated lockdown measures affected loneliness in the UK, April 2021 47. Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, Elaine Robertson, Kelly Reeve, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Jamie Moore, Margaret Blake, Michael Green, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi and Michaela Benzeval, May 2021 48. Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study, G. David Batty, Ian J. Deary, Chloe Fawns-Ritchie, Catharine R. Gale and Drew Altschul, May 2021 49. Hybrid and remote working in the north of England: Impact and future prospects, Heather Taylor, Laurence Vigneau, Rebecca Florisson, Muhammad Khan, Newcastle University Business School/Work Foundation, July 2021 50. Flexible working: Remote and hybrid work, House of Commons Library, references Homeworking in the UK: before and during the 2020 lockdown, Alan Felstead and Darja Reuschke; Working from home during the COVID-19 lockdown: Changing preferences and the future of work Authors: Heejung Chung, Hyojin Seo, Sarah Forbes, and Holly Birkett; Employee satisfaction and use of flexible working arrangements, Daniel Wheatley; Autonomy in Paid Work and Employee Subjective Well-Being, Daniel Wheatley, November 2021 51. Bank of England Monetary Policy Report, November 2021 - refers to our data showing productivity gains among people working at home 52. Upskilling and retraining the adult workforce, POSTnote, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, references IFS working paper on labour market inequalities during COVID-19 (Crossley et al), December 2021 Exploring policy options - 2022 53. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Stimulus payments and private transfers working paper, 17 February 2022 54. Behavioural Insights Team (aka The Nudge Unit) cites research using Understanding Society in its Understanding the barriers and enablers for women's progression from low-paid and low-skill work literature review (n.173, p.34), 26 April 2022 55. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion uses Understanding Society in its Annual Report 2021, covering subjects such as inequalities, poverty, social security, neighbourhood composition and housing, 31 May 2022 56. Spirit of 2012 uses Understanding Society in its Volunteering Together: Inclusive Volunteering and Disabled People report, June 2022 57. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in the Families and inequalities chapter of its Inequality, The IFS Deaton Review, 23 June 2022 58. Gingerbread uses Understanding Society and cites research using our data in its The Invisible Family: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on single parents living in London report, 27 June 2022 59. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK, 6 July 2022 60. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022 report, 14 July 2022 61. Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), with the northern National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs), used Understanding Society in chapters 2 and 3 of The Parallel Pandemic - COVID-19 and Mental Health, 25 July 2022 62. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Long COVID and the labour market report, 27 July 2022 63. RSA uses Understanding Society in How a universal basic income can address the crisis in anxiety and depression (interim report), 28 July 2022 64. Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (LSE) evidence to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee cites research using Understanding Society on the scale of 'hidden caring', published September 2022 65. OECD mentions research on wellbeing/cultural participation in Culture and the creative economy in Glasgow city region, Scotland, United Kingdom (p.44), 5 October 2022 66. Nuffield Trust uses our data in Falling short: How far have we come in improving support for unpaid carers in England?, 10 October 2022 67. House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes written evidence submitted by Sport for Development Coalition which cites research on Covid/mental health using our data as part of its Grassroots participation in sport and physical activity, 1 November 2022 68. Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data for the "core analysis" in chapters 4 and 5 of its Anxiety nation? Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain report, 10 November 2022 69. House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee publishes our evidence with its A "gloriously ordinary life'': spotlight on adult social care report, and evidence from Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (LSE) which cites UKHLS, 8 December 2022 Policy evaluation - 2021 70. Teacher Labour Market in England, Jack Worth and Henry Faulkner-Ellis, National Foundation for Educational Research, March 2021 71. London coronavirus economy tracker, Amy Norman, Scott Corfe, Social Market Foundation, April 2021 72. Unemployment and mental health, Heather Wilson, David Finch, The Health Foundation, April 2021 73. Benefit to all? Financial experience of Universal Credit claimants during the pandemic, Anvar Sarygulov, Bright Blue, June 2021 74. Labour Market Outlook Q2 2021, Hannah Slaughter, Resolution Foundation, June 2021 75. Everybody hurts: self-employment, financial concerns, mental distress, and well-being during COVID-19, Marcus T. Wolfe and Pankaj C. Patel, June 2021 76. Learning inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic, A longitudinal analysis using the UK Understanding Society 2020 and 2021 data, Nic Pensiero, Tony Kelly and Christian Bokhove, [July] 2021 77. Prevalence and changes in food-related hardships by socioeconomic and demographic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a longitudinal panel study, Jonathan Koltai, Veronica Toffolutti, Martin McKee and David Stuckler, July 2021 78. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data for Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2021, July 2021 79. Beyond the safety net? Informal sources of support for Universal Credit claimants during the COVID-19 pandemic, Anvar Sarygulov, Bright Blue, October 2021 80. A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis, Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell and Hamish Low, IFS Working Paper, November 2021 Informing the design or delivery of products and services 1. Age UK created an Index of Wellbeing in Later Life using data from Understanding Society. Age UK intend to update the Index over time. Age UK is using the Index to inform their policy and practical work. Local Age UK branches are using early insights to think about how to target their support services at people at risk of low wellbeing. The Index has already been used successfully to inform a funding bid for services to offer creative and cultural activities to older people in Oxfordshire. There is also interest from local councils who want to understand wellbeing amongst older people in their area. The charity has engaged members of the House of Lords keen to champion evidence-based actions to target resources and effort effectively. 2. Berkeley group commissioned a report, conducted by researchers from academia and a social enterprise, Creating strong communities: How to measure the social sustainability of new housing developments. A measure of social sustainability was developed, which the Berkeley group use as a benchmark for testing their new developments with the aim of demonstrating good practice and learning lessons. 3. CACI uses data from Understanding Society on health behaviours and lifestyle, benefits and environmental groups to enhance its Acorn classification system. CACI use the Acorn classification system for its own services and provides the compiled codes to Understanding Society for linking in the Understanding Society Acorn dataset (SN 7453) available to researchers via Special Licence. 4. The Social Market Foundation, supported by Post Office Ltd, produced a report exploring familial financial support. Post Office Ltd states 'As a financial services provider we're committed to developing financial products that help solve real problems British consumers are having and are proud to work with the Social Market Foundation to examine the implications of our interconnected financial future'. 5. The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) has used UKHLS to develop PopNation, model which projects future demographic changes and the impact this will have on the size and composition of the population and households in the UK. The model will allow policymakers and planners to see where new developments and housing stock might be needed - no obvious impact yet, but will be rolled out to planners in the near future and feed into UN work. Designing strategies/approaches/campaigns - 2021 6. No place like home - Poverty and Furnished Tenancy Provision in Social Housing, Adam Nichols, Claire Donovan, End Furniture Poverty, January 2021 7. 1 in 4 (3.7 million) aged 60+ say that either they or others in their household have been unable to eat healthy and nutritious food, Age UK analysis, March 2021 Exploring policy options - 2022 8. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Stimulus payments and private transfers working paper, 17 February 2022 9. Behavioural Insights Team (aka The Nudge Unit) cites research using Understanding Society in its Understanding the barriers and enablers for women's progression from low-paid and low-skill work literature review (n.173, p.34), 26 April 2022 10. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion uses Understanding Society in its Annual Report 2021, covering subjects such as inequalities, poverty, social security, neighbourhood composition and housing, 31 May 2022 11. Spirit of 2012 uses Understanding Society in its Volunteering Together: Inclusive Volunteering and Disabled People report, June 2022 12. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in the Families and inequalities chapter of its Inequality, The IFS Deaton Review, 23 June 2022 13. Gingerbread uses Understanding Society and cites research using our data in its The Invisible Family: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on single parents living in London report, 27 June 2022 14. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK, 6 July 2022 15. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022 report, 14 July 2022 16. Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), with the northern National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs), used Understanding Society in chapters 2 and 3 of The Parallel Pandemic - COVID-19 and Mental Health, 25 July 2022 17. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses Understanding Society in its Long COVID and the labour market report, 27 July 2022 18. RSA uses Understanding Society in How a universal basic income can address the crisis in anxiety and depression (interim report), 28 July 2022 19. Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (LSE) evidence to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee cites research using Understanding Society on the scale of 'hidden caring', published September 2022 20. OECD mentions research on wellbeing/cultural participation in Culture and the creative economy in Glasgow city region, Scotland, United Kingdom (p.44), 5 October 2022 21. Nuffield Trust uses our data in Falling short: How far have we come in improving support for unpaid carers in England?, 10 October 2022 22. House of Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes written evidence submitted by Sport for Development Coalition which cites research on Covid/mental health using our data as part of its Grassroots participation in sport and physical activity, 1 November 2022 23. Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses our data for the "core analysis" in chapters 4 and 5 of its Anxiety nation? Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain report, 10 November 2022 24. House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee publishes our evidence with its A "gloriously ordinary life'': spotlight on adult social care report, and evidence from Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (LSE) which cites UKHLS, 8 December 2022 |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | (6th April 2021) Call with Open Innovation Team (Louis Coiffait) to share expert opinion on the education systems' recovery from C19 - how inputs from schools, parents, children interact; university applications (Birgita Rabe) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | 2021 Methods conference presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Participation in this conference has contributed to UKHLS potential users to open up to new ways of thinking about the pregnancy and early childhood data we collect. In additon, it has been an excelent channel to build networks with the research community working on child development topics. We have had several external requests to access the PEACH file-beta version, receiving encouraging comments as an extremely useful dataset. |
| URL | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS007253%2F1 |
| Description | 6 April 2021: Call with Open Innovation Team (Louis Coiffait) to share expert opinion on the education systems' recovery from C19 - focus on child wellbeing, among others |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Bright Blue think tank uses our data in report on Covid and Universal Credit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.brightblue.org.uk/beyond-the-safety-net/ |
| Description | Bright Blue think tank uses our data in report on Universal Credit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.brightblue.org.uk/benefit-to-all/ |
| Description | CITATION (26th august 2021): 'Children's well-being during COVID' The Children's Society's: The Good Childhood Report 2021 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/professionals/resources/good-childhood-report-2021 |
| Guideline Title | Universal vaccination of children and young people aged 12 to 15 years against COVID-19 |
| Description | Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty cites ISER research in recommendation to introduce vaccines for 12-15 year olds (Blanden J, Crawford C, Rabe B, Fumagalli L) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical guidelines |
| Impact | Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty cites ISER research in recommendation to introduce vaccines for 12-15 year olds https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people-aged-12-to-15-years-against-covid-19/key-published-inputs-to-the-uk-cmos-advice-on-universal-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people-aged-12-to-15-years-against-covid-19 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people-aged-1... |
| Description | Citation in Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology briefing on skills and training |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0659/POST-PN-0659.pdf |
| Description | Department for Education research on parental working patterns |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Expectations of Welsh young adults (16 to 21) pertaining to their future |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Findings of paper on UK COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy (Behaviour, Brain & Immunity, 2021), influencing government policy on topic. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The research in our paper, on the correlates of vaccine hesitancy among the UK population, influenced government SAGE committee deliberations on the topic during the early roll out of the vaccines (graph from mentioned paper included). |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9527... |
| Description | Health and Social Care Committee inquiry: Children and young people's mental health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1001/children-and-young-peoples-mental-health/publications/ |
| Description | House of Commons Public Accounts Committee inquiry: COVID-19: Free School Meals Voucher Scheme |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/848/covid19-free-school-meals-voucher-scheme/publications/ |
| Description | House of Commons Public Accounts Committee inquiry: COVID-19: Supporting the vulnerable during lockdown |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1003/covid19-supporting-the-vulnerable-during-lockdown/publica... |
| Description | House of Commons Research Briefing on Flexible Working |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Two related briefing were produced for parliamentarians: one by the House of Commons Library and one by the Parlimantary Office for Science and Technology. The Government is currently consulting on changing to flexible working regulations. See: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9391/ https://post.parliament.uk/the-impact-of-remote-and-flexible-working-arrangements/ |
| URL | https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9391/ |
| Description | House of Commons Treasury Committee inquiry: An Equal Recovery |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1218/an-equal-recovery/publications/ |
| Description | House of Lords Built Environment Committee inquiry: Meeting the UK's housing demand |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1328/meeting-the-uks-housing-demand/publications/ |
| Description | House of Lords COVID-19 Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/5537/documents/56741/default/ |
| Description | House of Lords COVID-19 Committee inquiry: The long-term impact of the pandemic on towns and cities |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1229/the-longterm-impact-of-the-pandemic-on-towns-and-cities/p... |
| Description | House of Lords COVID-19 Committee, references What Works Centre for Wellbeing publication using our data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5801/ldselect/ldcvd19/263/263.pdf |
| Description | House of Lords Economic Committee report on Employment and COVID-19 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/480/employment-and-covid19/publications/ |
| Description | House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee inquiry: Mobilising action on climate change and environment: behaviour change |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1621/mobilising-action-on-climate-change-and-environment-behav... |
| Description | Joined the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network, which aims to bring together academics and non-academics who study the impact of the COVID crisis on children from a wide range of disciplines. (Birgitta Rabe) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://icwbn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ |
| Description | March 2021: Submission to call for evidence from the Public Accounts Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/401/ |
| Description | National consultation on gambling data and research gaps commissioned by Action Against Gambling Harm |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://actionagainstgamblingharms.org/ |
| Description | Our data used by Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy-report/2021/november-2021 |
| Description | Our data used for Resolution Foundation report on retraining and career change |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/can-training-help-workers-change-their-stripes/ |
| Description | Our data used for Social Mobility Commission poverty report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://socialmetricscommission.org.uk/measuring-poverty-2020/ |
| Description | Our data used in Carnegie UK report on gross domestic wellbeing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/publications/gross-domestic-wellbeing-gdwe-an-alternative-measure... |
| Description | Our data used in End Furniture Poverty report on social housing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://endfurniturepoverty.org/research/no-place-like-home-download/ |
| Description | Our data used in Health Foundation report on Covid and employment |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/unemployment-and-mental-health |
| Description | Our data used in IFS report on Covid and inequality |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://ifs.org.uk/publications/15816 |
| Description | Our data used in IFS report on poverty and living standards |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://ifs.org.uk/publications/15512 |
| Description | Our data used in Institute for Fiscal Studies report on inheritances and social mobility |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://ifs.org.uk/publications/15407 |
| Description | Our data used in NatCen report on furlough and mental health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.natcen.ac.uk/our-research/research/exploring-the-relationship-between-economic-security,... |
| Description | Our data used in Resolution Foundation labour market report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/labour-market-outlook-q2-2021/ |
| Description | Our data used in Social Mobility Commission research on causes and impact of downward social mobility |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changing-gears-understanding-downward-social-mobility |
| Description | Our data used in Work Foundation report on hybrid and remote working |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/work-foundation... |
| Description | Our data used in report on COVID-19 and London economy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.smf.co.uk/publications/london-coronavirus-economy-tracker-april-2021/ |
| Description | Our data used in report on social fabric by Onward think tank |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.ukonward.com/reports/the-state-of-our-social-fabric/ |
| Description | Our data used in report on teaching labour market by industry body |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.nfer.ac.uk/teacher-labour-market-in-england-2021/ |
| Description | Paper referenced in DWP technical report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-resources-survey--2 |
| Description | Parliamentary briefing on flexible and hybrid working |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The UK government has issued new proposals for making changes to flexible working regulations A report was also commissioned by the Senedd's Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee's Inquiry into 'Remote Working: Implications for Wales. https://business.senedd.wales/documents/s500006852/Remote%20working%20report%20Professor%20Alan%20Felstead.pdf |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-flexible-working-the-default |
| Description | Participation in Goverment Statisical Service Hamonisation network |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/government-statistical-service-and-statistician-group/c... |
| Description | Politics, political engagement, political efficacy and general election analysis for Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Provide working from home analysis during the pandemic - by sector and region |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | The analysis was designed to inform new contractual arrangement between DfT and transport providers about the scale of service to provide. In terms of BEIS, there is a flexible working policy review currently going on. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/general/ukhls_briefingnote_covi... |
| Description | Public Accounts Committee inquiry: COVID-19: Education |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1032/covid19-education/publications/ |
| Description | Submitted evidence to UK Parliament committees: The impact of school closures on children's wellbeing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/23816/pdf/ |
| Description | Training for charities on how to use the Understanding Society study |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Researchers from around 30 charities took part in the course, provided training on: - different types of data and their respective strengths and weaknesses - how to access and manage secondary/open data in general, and privacy and governance - design of Understanding Society, what information is collected and from whom - what is panel data and what types of analysis can be done with it - how Understanding Society data is structured and stored, how to find variables using the interactive online documentation and access the data - how to prepare the data files for analysis, use weights and deal with complex survey design for producing population and group estimates. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2021/02/12/using-data-to-change-lives |
| Description | UK Data Service Advisory Committee |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Unresolved public policy challenges - joint report and event with ONS and NatCen, February 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/1862834/NatCen_Unresolved_Public_Policy_Challenges.pdf |
| 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 | (ECDP) - European Cohort Development Project |
| Amount | € 2,048,880 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 777449 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| 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 | CO Evaluation Task Force ESRC Policy Fellowship |
| Amount | £134,994 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/W008955/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| 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 | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Survey Waves 13-15 |
| Amount | £44,619,972 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T002611/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 04/2026 |
| Title | Creating tailored weights for UKHLS |
| Description | UKHLS data is very complex, and users now can create their own tailored weights, which reflect their analysis, combination of different instruments and waves. The online workshop teachers users when it is useful to create their own weights, and how to do it. This enabled many researchers and other users of the data to create a perfect weight for their (often complex) analysis. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Correct weighting is crucial in order to represent a population. Users now can create a tailored weight even if the use of instruments is very complex. The method is also suitable for longitudinal analysis of children, where data first comes from parents, and then follows from own responses. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/online/creating-tailored-weights |
| Title | Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study, 2020-2021 |
| Description | Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. 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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society COVID-19 Study, 2020-2021 is a regular survey of households in the UK. The aim of the study is to enable research on the socio-economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the short and long term. The surveys started in April 2020 and took place monthly until July 2020. From September 2020 onwards they take place every other month until March 2021 and the final wave was field in September 2021. They complement the annual interviews of the Understanding Society study. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous waves of the annual interviews (SN 6614) using the personal identifier pidp. However, the most recent pre-pandemic (2019) annual interviews for all respondents who have taken part in the COVID-19 Study are included as part of this data release. Please refer to the User Guide for further information on linking in this way and for geographical information options. Further information can be found on the Understanding Society COVID-19 website, including Data documentation. A list of Understanding Society COVID-19 Research Outputs (regularly updated) is also available. Latest edition information For the eleventh edition (December 2021), revised April, May, June, July, September, November 2020, January 2021 and March 2021 data files for the adult survey have been deposited. These files have been amended to address issues identified during ongoing quality assurance activities. All documentation has been updated to explain the revisions, and users are advised to consult the documentation for details. In addition new data from the September 2021 web survey have been deposited. MAIN TOPICS The survey contains information about mental and physical health, health behaviours, caring, housing, employment, job search, income, education, family relationships, return to school and children's strength and difficulties questionnaire, young adults' future intentions. The survey also includes data on COVID-19 antibodies analysed from blood samples. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Many publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8644 |
| Title | Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study, 2020: Special Licence Access, School Codes |
| Description | Understanding Society (the 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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society COVID-19 Study is a regular survey of households in the UK. The aim of the study is to enable research on the socio-economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the short and long term. The surveys started in April 2020 and took place monthly until July 2020. From September 2020 they take place every other month. They complement the annual interviews in the Understanding Society study.This dataset contains school code variables for the Understanding Society COVID-19 study (SN 8644).A file is provided for the fifth web wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study, the only one that school information has currently been gathered for. For each child it contains: state school code, country of state school, private school name and private school town variables for both mother and father responses. A child personal identification serial number (pidp_c) is also provided for matching to the main data in SN 8644.In addition, this dataset contains a file of school code variables that can be matched to a dataset released with the main Understanding Society COVID-19 study containing data taken from waves 10 and 11 of the main Understanding Society survey specifically for the respondents in the Understanding Society COVID-19 study. Child school codes are only available for Wave 11 as they are only collected in odd-numbered waves. For each child it contains the state school code and country of state school variables as well as a personal identification serial number (pidp) and a household identification serial number for wave 11 (jk_hidp). Further details on the files in this dataset can be found in the Understanding Society COVID-19 User Guide.Additional information can be found on the Understanding Society COVID-19 website, including Data documentation. A list of Understanding Society COVID-19 Research Outputs (regularly updated) is also available. New edition informationFor the second edition (January 2021), both previously deposited files have been revised to include a significant number of additional school codes resulting from manual coding. For further details please refer to the UKHLS COVID-19: Data Changes document, included in the main COVID-19 study (SN 8644). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=8730#2 |
| Title | Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020 |
| Description | The Understanding Society Innovation Panel Life Events Study, 2020, was a monthly survey of households from the Innovation Panel sample. The aim of the study was to test methods for collecting data about life events (such as new health conditions, pregnancy, job changes, residential moves, and partnership changes) close in time to when the events occur. The survey asked about the occurrence of events, details of the events, and implications for wellbeing, mental health, finances, and support networks. The survey started in February 2020 and was fielded monthly until January 2021. The recall period for each survey was the previous calendar month, that is, the survey collected data about life events from January to December 2020. Innovation Panel sample members in households that regularly used the internet were invited to a monthly web survey. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the annual Innovation Panel interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier pidp. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8990 |
| Title | Understanding Society: Innovation Panel Wellbeing App Study, 2020 |
| 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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Wellbeing app study was conducted in 2020 as part of the annual Innovation Panel (IP) Wave 13 interview. All adult respondents who had completed at least one previous IP interview were invited to download an app onto their smartphone or tablet. They were asked to use the app every evening for 14 days to report on their emotional state and self-regulation, external stressors, attachment, and interactions with loved ones. Participants were incentivised throughout the fieldwork period, with incentives being paid at the end of their two-week participation period. Of the 2,152 respondents who were invited to the app study, 967 completed the daily app questionnaire at least once. The Wellbeing app data were collected between 14 July and 26 November 2020. The protocols for the mobile app data collection included three experiments: i) varying the value of incentives for completing the study, ii) varying the length of the daily questionnaire, and iii) varying the placement of the invitation to the app study within the annual IP interview. The data deposited for the Wellbeing App Study include the survey and paradata collected with the app. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous and future waves of the annual IP interviews (SN 6849) using the personal identifier, pidp. The Wellbeing app was developed and implemented by Connect Internet Solutions Ltd. For more information about the main IP study, see SN 6849. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9065 |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012 |
| 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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society Wave 2 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2010-2012, was completed with 15,646 adult participants from the General Population component living in England, Scotland or Wales who completed a full Wave 2 interview. In addition, blood samples were obtained from 9,920 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 3,366 individuals. The Nurse Health Assessment, which included physical measures, such as height, weight, lung function, blood pressure and grip strength, as well as a range of blood samples, followed the main wave interview by approximately five months. As well as a range of blood analytes, two proteomic panels have been produced and a number of epigenetics clock variables have been derived. The physical measures, biomarkers and questionnaire data from the Nurse Health Assessment interview are available from the UK Data Service. Genetics and epigenetic information is also available, with and without survey data; see the Understanding Society website's health data section for more information - https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/health/data.For information on the main Understanding Society study, see SN 6614, Understanding Society and Harmonised BHPS. The Special Licence version of the Understanding Society: Nurse Health Assessment study is held under SN 7587. It contains variables covering prescription medication codes and associated usage questions, together with polygenic score variables, derived from analysis of the genetics data, that are not included in the standard End User Licence version (SN 7251). Users are advised to check that study first to see if the data are suitable for their needs before making an application for the Special Licence version. See documentation for further details.Latest edition information For the 4th edition (October 2022) Proteomics and Epigenetic Clock data files have both been added. For full details please refer to the user guides. Suitable data analysis software These data are provided by the depositor in Stata format. Users are strongly advised to analyse them in Stata. Transfer to other formats may result in unforeseen issues. Stata SE or MP software is needed to analyse the larger files, which contain over 2,047 variables. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The fourth edition adds proteomics variables and epigenetic clocks to the dataset. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=7251#3 |
| Title | Understanding Society: Waves 2-3 Nurse Health Assessment, 2010-2012: Special Licence Access |
| Description | Understanding Society (the 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 Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. Nurse Health Assessment The Wave 2 Nurse Health Assessment, conducted in 2010-2011 was completed with 15,591 adult participants from the General Population component 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; see the Understanding Society website's health data section for more information - https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/about/health/data. The standard End User Licence version of the Understanding Society: Nurse Health Assessment study is held under SN 7251. Users are advised to check that study first to see if the data are suitable for their needs before making an application for the Special Licence version. The Special Licence version contains variables covering prescription medication codes and associated usage questions that are not included in the End User Licence version. See documentation for further details. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This 2nd edition adds proteomics, epigenetic clocks, and polygenic score variables to the nurse dataset. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=7587#1 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Department for Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Department for Work and Pensions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department of Health and Social Care |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-funders' Group |
| Organisation | Welsh Assembly |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Understanding Society works closely with each department to ensure that their needs are met on a project basis as well as through an overarching governance mechanism. Some departments also fund the study and provide input into various decisions. The group was established in 2008, the membership for which has changed during this period. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Departments fund the study and provide input for various decisions. |
| Impact | See Direct Access entries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Establishment of the Understanding Society Policy and Partnerships Forum |
| Organisation | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This is a twice a year forum that will be hosted by the Policy and Partnerships Unit. The purpose of the forum is to strategically guide the Study's engagement, influencing and impact activities. The Forum's advisory role is designed to enable it to be flexible, creative, challenging and informal, and not be incumbered with formal governance and operational performance responsibilities that come with running a large, complex and long-term study such as Understanding Society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The forum members will:: - Advise on general strategy for knowledge exchange and opportunities for maximising the reach and impact of the Study - Provide a steer on knowledge exchange activities for each year - Provide specific advice on sectoral engagement and development and how to build capacity in data analysis and longitudinal research, particularly in business and third sector organisations - Share experiences and insights on trying to address more complex social and economic issues (i.e. so called 'wicked problems'), and how Understanding Society's multi-topic content could play a role here - Offer pathways and connections to potential individuals and audiences - Act as ambassadors on behalf of Understanding Society |
| Impact | At the first meeting of the Forum a range of short and long-term ideas were suggested to extend the research and potential impact of the Study. These provide a rich agenda item for future forum meeting. Each proposal will be reviewed in the coming months, with a view to further discussion with Forum members. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Member of the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network (https://icwbn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/), |
| Organisation | University of St Andrews |
| Department | School of Geography & Sustainable Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I became a member of the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network, presented at their workshop 'Studying the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on children in Ireland and the United Kingdom' and contributed to a policy brief http://www.cpc.ac.uk/docs/2022_PB67_Covid19_and_childrens_well-being.pdf |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organisation and coordination of the network, workshop and policy note |
| Impact | Workshop Policy note |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Missing Data in Longitudinal and Linked Surveys |
| Organisation | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Contribution (financial and in terms of human resources) to the organisation of four workshops (three held 07/05/2019, 18/09/2020, 11/12/2020, one forthcoming in Spring 2022) on missing data in longitudinal and linked surveys. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution (financial and in terms of human resources and provision of facilities) to the organisation of four workshops (three held 07/05/2019, 18/09/2020, 11/12/2020, one forthcoming in Spring 2022) on missing data in longitudinal and linked surveys. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary in that the IFS are economists, whereas Understanding Society has a more social science focus. In addition, the workshops attracted presenters and attendees from the health sciences. In total, 15 researchers have presented their work on missing data in longitudinal and linked surveys in the three workshops held so far. i (jcm) have given two presentations, one 'Utilising representativeness indicators to evaluate non-response and non-linkage biases' (07/05/2019), and the other 'Non-response bias prevention and adjustment in a national longitudinal COVID-19 survey' (11/12/2020; full details in 'engagement activities'). The outcome of these workshops, and therefore of our collaboration with the IFS, has been to increase workshop attendee understanding of the methods used to deal with missing survey data in different academic disciplines. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Proteomic data analysis by O-Link |
| Organisation | Olink Bioscience |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Providing Understanding Society blood samples to O-Link for analysis. Further analysis and preparation of data once returned. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Proteomic analysis and return of data. |
| Impact | Proteomic data for use in research. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding Society Event Histories Fellow (CH) |
| Organisation | Wake Forest University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Event Histories fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Assessing Intersectional Interviewer and Mode Effects in Reports of Discrimination |
| Impact | Research project leadign to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impact. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Event Histories Fellow (EK) |
| Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing & supporting the Understanding Society event histories fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the Fellow - Transition to adulthood in the UK in an intergenerational context |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Event Histories Fellow (JS) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Event histories fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Labour Market Flows (LAMAFLO): Individual labour market flows, transition rates and spell durations constructed from UKHLS/BHPS work life history data files |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Event Histories Fellow (KM) |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing & supporting the Understanding Society Event Histories fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the Fellow - Assessing the impact of forced residential moves on health, and the modifying role of local housing services. |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet complete |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Event Histories Fellow (ML) |
| Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Event Histories fellowship scheme - Migrant Lives: Migration, gender and the unfurling of inequalities over the life course. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the Fellow - |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Event Histories Fellow (SE) |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society event histories fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the Fellow - Do health outcomes for adults with chronic illness vary with different geographical access to healthcare services in rural, coastal and urban locations? |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Families Fellow (AP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society families fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - The role of early adolescent experiences in explaining differences in school-to-work trajectories between siblings |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Families Fellowship (AD) |
| Organisation | Bocconi University |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society families fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - The scarring effect of pregnancy loss on the life course |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Families Fellowship (GM) |
| Organisation | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Families fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - UNPAID - UNcovering PArenting and Income Dynamics |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Families Fellowship (KP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society families fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Quantifying the longitudinal impacts of primary and vicarious racial discrimination on the mental health of ethnic minority young people in UK households |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Families Fellowship (PL) |
| Organisation | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society families fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Children of the property boom: house price increases and the intergenerational transmission of wealth |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Impact Fellowship (AO) |
| Organisation | University of Tasmania |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Impact fellowship scheme - Children as independent agents in financially strained households: A longitudinal and cross-cultural test of the family stress model |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Children as independent agents in financially strained households: A longitudinal and cross-cultural test of the family stress model |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Impact Fellowship (JS) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Impact fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Nurse and Interviewer Effects on Biological Survey Measurements |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Linked Fellow (EM) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society linked fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society Policy Fellowship (GM) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society Policy fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research project undertaken by the fellow - Comparing alcohol behaviours in Scotland and Northern Ireland to evaluate an alcohol minimum unit pricing policy |
| Impact | Research project leading to potential working paper, papers, other outputs & impacts. Not yet complete. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding Society fieldwork - wave 12 - Kantar (2018 - Still Active) |
| Organisation | Kantar Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Management of the sub-contract with Kantar for the provision of fieldwork services for wave 12 of Understanding Society - partnership working (with NatCen as consortium partners) to deliver the survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of the fieldwork and associated activities for Understanding Society wave 12 |
| Impact | See all other outputs, which are dependent on the delivery of fieldwork by our partner agency. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society methods fellows |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society methods fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the methods fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society methods fellows |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society methods fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the methods fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society methods fellows |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society methods fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the methods fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society methods fellows |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society methods fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the methods fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society methods fellows |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society methods fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the methods fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society policy fellows |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society policy fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the policy fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society policy fellows |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society policy fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the policy fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society policy fellows |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Overseeing and supporting the Understanding Society policy fellowship scheme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research projects undertaken by each of the policy fellows. |
| Impact | Research projects leading to potential working papers, papers, other outputs and impact. Not yet completed. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | University of Exeter - epigenetics |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Leading the collaboration and providing the blood samples to Exeter. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Analysis of blood samples for epigenetics, return of data to the team. |
| Impact | Data returned to the team. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Working Families Academic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Working Families |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This is a collaboration with Working Families to: - share relevant research and signpost gaps in the evidence base - contribute insights to policy debates and government consultations - advise on Working Families' research, such as the Modern Families Index and Employers Benchmark - share opportunities for research collaboration - provide a conduit between academic research and policy and practice |
| Collaborator Contribution | Working Families provides a forum for researchers to translate their research into impact and policy work, and to network with each other and Working Families. |
| Impact | Development of the Modern Families Index Submission to the government's consultation on changes to flexible working policy |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | (19th May 2021): Open Innovation Team meeting, topic: piece of work for the DfE on how best to use time in the school day, including possibilities for an extended school day, and other catch-up measures. With Olivia O'Sullivan. (Birgitta Rabe) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Open Innovation Team: meeting 19.5.2021, topic: piece of work for the DfE on how best to use time in the school day, including possibilities for an extended school day, and other catch-up measures. Olivia O'Sullivan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | (5th May 2021): Education system recovery and resilience: a Nuffield Foundation roundtable for the Open Innovation Team (BIrgitta Rabe) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Education system recovery and resilience: a Nuffield Foundation roundtable for the Open Innovation Team |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Advice to HESA on analysis of the Graduate Outcomes Survey |
| 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 | Provided advice to the Higher Education Statistics Agency on estimation methods for the Graduate Outcomes Survey. The statistics are used to evaluate the HE sector as a whole and by individual HE institutions to influence marketing, targeting and practice. As a result, HESA decided to produce estimates in the way we recommended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.hesa.ac.uk/files/ISER-Graduate-Outcomes-weighting-report-20210720.pdf |
| Description | Advice to MoJ on Impact Feasibility for Digital Services Evaluation |
| 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 | A meeting on MS Teams to provide advice on Impact Feasibility for Digital Services Evaluation to the Ministry of Justice, with additional comments sent subsequently by email. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Article for WEF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article for World Economic Forum website 'Young and ethnic minority workers were hardest hit at the start of COVID, but not anymore'. Based on research using the UKHLS COVID-19 survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/young-ethnic-minority-workers-covid-gender-recovery/ |
| Description | BLOG (15th March 2021): Economics Observatory: How have school closures affected children's mental health? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog for Economics Observatory with JO BLANDEN, CLAIRE CRAWFORD, BIRGITTA RABE, LAURA FUMAGALLI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-have-school-closures-affected-childrens-mental-health |
| Description | COORDINATE Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The COORDINATE Summer Schol took place between the 20th and 24th of June 2022 at the University of Essex. The goals fo the summer school were: 1. To learn and practice longitudinal data analysis methods using Understanding Society: the UK Household Panel. 2. Provide opportunity to meet and work with other researchers with similar research interests. Each day followed the same structure with lectures in the morning and practical sessions in the afternoon as well as time for participants to work on their own research questions. Seventeen participants from eight European countries attended the summer school. Each session explored a different longitudinal data analytical method and examples were provided in STATA or R. Feedback from participants indicated that they were happy to spend time working on their own projects, however they would have liked to see more advanced analytical methods as part of the summer school. Due to the attendance of this summer school, there was increased interest in future visits to ISER through different visit schemes as well as interest in the Understanding Society Fellowship Scheme. The annoucement for this event can be found here: https://www.coordinate-network.eu/post/coordinate-summer-school-on-longitudinal-analysis-of-child-and-adolescent-data-20-24-june-2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.coordinate-network.eu/post/the-1st-summer-school-on-longitudinal-analysis |
| Description | COORDINATE Transnational Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | One post-graduate student visited ISER for one week to further explore the Understanding Society Data that she would be using for their thesis. There was discussion amongst the visitor and other PhD students and academic staff about there research topic and analytical methods. There was an increased interest in the data and research area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.coordinate-network.eu/post/d-counihan-in-essex-june-22 |
| Description | CRIS Scientific Seminar- Worlds Apart: Migration Journeys and Gender Inequalities (M Lieutaud, LSE - Research Fellow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation based on research, drawing on survey data from Understanding Society (UK, 2009-) and Trajectoires et Origines (France, 2008-2009, 2019-2020), this quantitative investigation employs sequence analysis to build a typology of union-migration trajectories and tests the association between these union-migration trajectories and different degrees of gender-specialisation in couples. It shows that, when it comes to gender dynamics around the distribution of unpaid housework, care work and paid work, how and when in the life-course women migrate often matters more than where they came from or who they partnered with. Discussion followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/content/worlds-apart-migration-journeys-and-gender-inequalities.htm... |
| Description | Conference presentation at the European Survey Research Association conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation on "How do survey respondents decide whether to consent to data linkage?" presented online to an international audience of survey researchers from the academic, private, government and third sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Correcting for mortality in UKHLS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference presentation on how mortality correction was implemented in UKHLS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Creating survey weights (as part of NCRM e-festival). |
| 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 | Introduction of survey weighting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Data4Good Festival - Using Understanding Society Data (led by Piotr Marzec and Catherine McDonald) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The presentation, part of a wider data festival provided participants an introduction to Understanding Society, including its new Covid-19 survey, with a view to raising awareness of the Study and encouraging its use amongst third sector organisations and local authorities. Participants were interested in whether Understanding Society data could be used for particular purposes, with this feedback provided during the event. The longer term impact of this type of outreach activity, e.g. participants becoming new users is likely to happen over a longer period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://data4goodfest.org.uk/ |
| Description | EVENT (14th October 2021): Participation at ESRC-GSR: Actionable Insights Seminar Series: Seminar 5 - Effective Public Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This seminar focused on: • Educational outcomes for different groups, such as socio-economic background, gender and ethnicity • Impacts of social distancing, home schooling and exam cancellations • Actionable insights on how to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 • Longer-term implications for social mobility |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://solace.org.uk/actionable-insights-policy-seminars/ |
| Description | EVENT (25 February 2021): Speaker at UCL/CEPEO (Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities seminar (Claire Crawford): Impact of school closures on parent and child wellbeing. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Claire Crawford presented a seminar at UCL/CEPEO (Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities) on 25.2.2021. Discussing Impact of school closures on parent and child wellbeing. About 100 attendees, including many policy makers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2021/feb/virtual-event-impact-school-closures-parent-and-child-well... |
| Description | EVENT (25th-29th October 2021): Presented at NCRM 2021 Research Methods e-Festival (Emilia Del Bono, Adeline Delavande, Meena Kumari, Anna Dearman) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MiSoC researchers, Emilia Del Bono, Adeline Delavande, Meena Kumari, Anna Dearman presented at the NCRM 2021 Research Methods e-Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMeF2021/home.php |
| Description | EVENT (26th October 2021): Presented at OIT organised seminar on mental health in the HMG C19 Seminar series. Presentation: School closures and family mental health and wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | OIT organised seminar on mental health in the HMG C19 Seminar series. Presentation: School closures and family mental health and wellbeing. Around 80 people attending Over a third of sign-ups were from DHSC. Over 20 different departments and bodies were represented including, but not limited to: DfE, BEIS, DLUHC, Scottish/Welsh Government, Cabinet Office, MoJ, UK HSA and the Government Equalities Office. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | EVENT (28th January 2022): Understanding Society Insights presentation 'The emotional and behavioural effects of school closures on children' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Birgitta Rabe Understanding Society Insights presentation: 'The emotional and behavioural effects of school closures on children ' - 90 attendees. On youtube: https://youtu.be/9NByQ7wyYrM Afterwards one of the delegates asked for slides for her to share in her team at Public Health Scotland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2022/01/28/understanding-society-insights-2022 |
| Description | EVENT (29th November 2021): Presentation at AERA-OECD webinar 'How education fared during the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns?' |
| 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 | On November 29, AERA and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held an international forum, "How Education Fared During the First Wave of COVID-19 Lockdowns? International Evidence," drawing an audience of more than 1,600 researchers, policy experts, and practitioners from 86 countries. Forum participants examined the findings and implications of a new OECD report, Schooling During a Pandemic. The report provides the first synthesis of high-quality studies on student learning and well-being during the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns (March-June 2020), coming mainly from France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Interview from IQ magazine afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.aera.net/Newsroom/AERA-Highlights-E-newsletter/AERA-Highlights-November-2021/AERA-and-OE... |
| Description | EVENT (8th September 2021): Participation at the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network workshop '"COVID-19 crisis and children's economic well-being, education and mental health in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (Birgitta Rabe) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network workshop on the COVID-19 crisis and children's economic well-being, education and mental health in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN8v2tvtuiYcHScJI2Jl9tw |
| Description | Event (1-2 September 2021): Presenter at 2nd Joint IZA & Jacobs Center Workshop: Consequences of Covid-19 for Child and Youth Development, "School Closures and Children's Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presenter at IZA/Jacobs Centre worshop: "School Closures and Children's Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://conference.iza.org/conference_files/covid_2021/invitation.html |
| Description | Event (22-24 September 2021): Panelist on the Policy Panel on Ways Out of the Education Crisis Triggered by School Closures during the Pandemic at the 6th IZA Workshop: The Economics of Education (Birgitta Rabe) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panelist on the Policy Panel on Ways Out of the Education Crisis Triggered by School Closures during the Pandemic at the 6th IZA Workshop: The Economics of Education 'Children's mental health and education recovery' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://conference.iza.org/conference_files/edu_2021/viewProgram?conf_id=3392 |
| Description | Event: Transport for West Midlands Cycling Charter Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To examine how further walking and cycling could be encouraged in Coventry and Warwickshire to tackle climate change and improve public health. This research was undertaken in collaboration with Transport for West Midlands and Coventry and Warwickshire Councils. As part of the government's active travel strategy, funding for local initiatives, and the planned creation of Active Travel England, the research will feed into local policy and initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Health studies users conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Understanding Society and example of research from the dataset. Event designed to promote the use of the dataset and build capacity in biosocial research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Highlight, magazine for youth participants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Print magazine for younger participants aged 10-14 years. Summarised key research using the Understanding Society youth data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | IFS / Understanding Society workshops on Missing Data in Longitudinal and Linked Surveys * 3 (07/05/2019, 18/09/2020, 11/12/2020) |
| 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 series of three workshops (one at the IFS, two online) on Missing Data in Longitudinal and Linked Surveys, at which 15 researchers from economics and the social and health sciences presented their work on the topic. Our intention was to improve understanding of missing data methods used in different disciplines. Following the workshops, a number of attendees reported that their views on handling missing data had been modified by the research presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Insights 2022 Report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Insights is an annual publication focusing on policy relevant research. The 2022 edition featured articles on the impact of the Covid pandemic - the economic effects, the impact on mental health and what happened to young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/insights/insights-2022.pdf |
| Description | Insights: children in the pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The online event focused on the impact of the Covid pandemic on children. The pandemic has seen disruption to children's education across the world, not simply in terms of loss of learning but also effects on children's emotional health and development. With variations in the level of home schooling and online learning, and disruption to family life, has educational inequality now become much harder to address? Schools have responded imaginatively. In September 2021 attendance was in the 90s, but some on-going disruption to education is continuing. With the pandemic expected to have long-term impacts on life-time earnings without sustained intervention, this event looked at what targeted learning support strategies are needed - and how can schools become better places for social justice, mental health and nutrition? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2022/01/28/understanding-society-insights-2022 |
| Description | Insights: did furlough help and protect? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This online event focused on policy relevant research on the theme of furlough and finances during the pandemic and afterwards. The introduction of 'furlough schemes' during the pandemic, such as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), has been one of the biggest innovations in UK policy - although short-time work schemes are common in Europe. Combined with the stabilising effects of tax and benefits, they proved vital in safeguarding jobs. But they also placed a heavy burden on public finances - by mid-September 2021 claims made on the CJRS scheme by employers amounted to £69.3 billion (HMRC). How should the legacy of furlough schemes be assessed? Beyond safeguarding jobs and partial incomes, what have been the financial and health effects of the scheme? With wide variations in which employees were put on furlough and their circumstances, how has the scheme affected different groups? This event discussed what we are learning about the experience of furlough. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2022/01/26/understanding-society-insights-2022 |
| Description | Insights: the mental health legacy of Covid-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This online discussion event focused on policy relevant research on the theme of mental health and the Covid pandemic. The impact of the pandemic on mental health has been a matter of intense interest, with reports of improvements in some groups and deterioration in others. A huge range of factors, from being a keyworker, being infected, pressures of paying bills to shielding, being a carer, relationship quality and extent of social contact, have been driving people's mental health. This event discussed how the picture has been changing over time, what we are learning, and how we can get better at recovery and improving mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2022/01/24/understanding-society-insights-2022 |
| Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata/SPSS/R/SAS on 17-18 March 2021 |
| 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 | Understanding Society collects information about individuals and the households in which they live repeatedly at one year intervals. It includes new and innovative features to allow research across different social science disciplines. To achieve the main goals of this multipurpose survey Understanding Society has a complex sample design and consequently a complex data structure. Thus, analysing the data requires a good understanding of the general structure of the survey, the sample design and the data. Who is the course for? This course is aimed at new users of Understanding Society, as well as those who have so far only made use of simpler aspects of the data. It aims to guide the user through the complexities of using this data for cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, and ensure that they can make effective use of the data for their own research projects. The course was delivered online across four softwares - Stata, SPSS, R and SAS, by the study's training team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/11/23/introduction-to-understanding-societ... |
| Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata/SPSS/R/SAS on 17-18 November 2021 |
| 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 | Understanding Society collects information about individuals and the households in which they live repeatedly at one year intervals. It includes new and innovative features to allow research across different social science disciplines. To achieve the main goals of this multipurpose survey Understanding Society has a complex sample design and consequently a complex data structure. Thus, analysing the data requires a good understanding of the general structure of the survey, the sample design and the data. Who is the course for? This course is aimed at new users of Understanding Society, as well as those who have so far only made use of simpler aspects of the data. It aims to guide the user through the complexities of using this data for cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, and ensure that they can make effective use of the data for their own research projects. The course was delivered online across four softwares - Stata, SPSS, R and SAS, by the study's training team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/11/23/introduction-to-understanding-societ... |
| Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata/SPSS/R/SAS on 19-20 May 2021 |
| 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 | Understanding Society collects information about individuals and the households in which they live repeatedly at one year intervals. It includes new and innovative features to allow research across different social science disciplines. To achieve the main goals of this multipurpose survey Understanding Society has a complex sample design and consequently a complex data structure. Thus, analysing the data requires a good understanding of the general structure of the survey, the sample design and the data. Who is the course for? This course is aimed at new users of Understanding Society, as well as those who have so far only made use of simpler aspects of the data. It aims to guide the user through the complexities of using this data for cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis, and ensure that they can make effective use of the data for their own research projects. The course was delivered online across four softwares - Stata, SPSS, R and SAS, by the study's training team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/11/23/introduction-to-understanding-societ... |
| Description | Invited expert at a workshop organised by Statistics Austria to inform the design of a new household panel study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited as 'international expert' to contribute to a workshop on plans for a new household panel survey in Austria. The workshop was run by the Ministry for Education and Research in collaboration with Statistics Austria. The international experts were asked for input into the planned survey design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Key Stage 4 Teaching Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Understanding Society worked with Futurum Careers to develop this lesson plan and activities for school students aged 14-19. The resource introduces students to the basics of quantitative social science data, through the work of Understanding Society, and encourages students to think about the challenges of collecting and using longitudinal data. The lesson plan also features the career paths of two of the Understanding Society team - Dr Alita Nandi, Associate Director for Outreach, and Nicole James, Survey Data Officer and ISER PhD student. They highlight the different routes they have taken in to working with social science data and the skills that are useful for working in a study like Understanding Society. The lesson also reflects on the individual research that Alita and Nicole do and how their work impacts on the wider world. The pack of resources includes an article explaining Understanding Society and the work of Alita and Nicole, an activity sheet which provides talking points to prompt students to reflect on the research and challenge them to devise their own longitudinal survey, and a powerpoint to help structure the lesson and give further discussion questions. The lesson plan links to KS4 and KS5 Social Science, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science and Maths. It can also be used as a careers resource. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/quantitative-social-science-understanding-society-12542743 |
| Description | MEDIA (16th June 2021): Interview for verywellfamily 'Moms' Mental Health Suffered From Pandemic School Closures' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview talking about study by Birgitta Rabe. Findings include school closures also had an impact on mothers and their mental health. Moms experienced depression and unhappiness at higher levels when schools were closed. Those mental health challenges, however, were short-lived. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.verywellfamily.com/moms-depressed-due-to-pandemic-school-closures-5188771 |
| Description | MEDIA (1st January 2022): 'School closures hit children's mental health hard', Insights 2021-2022. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'School closures hit children's mental health hard ' p. 38-40, in: Insights 2021-2022. Findings from Understanding Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/insights/insights-2022.pdf |
| Description | MEDIA (20 September 2021): IFS Podcast 'how to fix the education system' with Paul Johnson and Luke Sibieta (BIrgitta Rabe) |
| 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 | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | recording of IFS podcast 'how to fix the education system' with Paul Johnson and Luke Sibieta. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://play.acast.com/s/7254eb54-5204-5553-bbb1-512e0f4731ef/6149f5a419a4970012825990 |
| Description | MEDIA (23 April 2021) Scuole chiuse: attenzione ai danni psicologici (B.Rabe, L.Fumagalli) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog for Lavoce.info |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lavoce.info/archives/73842/scuole-chiuse-attenzione-ai-danni-psicologici/ |
| Description | MEDIA (25th January 2021): Understanding Society Insights podcast 'How have the pandemic related school closures affected our children?' |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Understanding Society Insights podcast 'How have the pandemic related school closures affected our children?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/how-have-the-pandemic-related-school-closures-affect... |
| Description | MEDIA (29th November 2021): Article in Politics Home: Children are facing a 'double hit' from pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Birgitta's research with colleagues at the Universities of Surrey and Birmingham was funded by the Nuffield Foundation. They used Understanding Society's special COVID-19 Survey which ran between April 2020 and September 2021. Using the new data, they found "a significant rise in emotional and behavioural difficulties among primary school children following the 2020 spring and summer term school closures, a rise that was greater for the children who were not prioritised to return to school for seven weeks before the summer holiday". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/childrens-double-hit-from-pandemic |
| Description | MEDIA (March 2021) Press release for 'School closures and children's emotional and behavioural difficulties' briefing note - Media coverage in The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Times, BBC education website, The Scottish Sun, Colchester Gazette, Radio BBC Sussex and Surrey live interview, twitter coverage (B.Rabe) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press release for first briefing note |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/projects/school-closures/SDQnote2021_final.pdf |
| Description | Media: BBC, First day back at school has gone well, say heads |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC website article on the return to school, 'First day back at school has 'gone well', say heads, using research from Professor Birgitta Rabe, Dr Laura Fumagalli, Dr Jo Blandon and Dr Claire Crawford, base on the Covid-19 survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56293639 |
| Description | Media: The Daily Mail, Stressed pupils are more likely to bully and fight |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article in The Daily Mail, Stressed pupils 'are more likely to bully and fight': Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children's mental health, study warns, based on research from Professor Birgitta Rabe, Dr Laura Fumagalli, Dr Claire Crawford and Dr Jo Blandon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9336669/Teachers-face-increase-bad-behaviour-class-kids-pan... |
| Description | Media: The Guardian, Covid lockdown school closures hit mothers' mental heath but left fathers unaffected |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article in The Guardian, Covid lockdown school closures 'hit mothers' mental health but left fathers unaffected, based on research from Professor Birgitta Rabe and Dr Laura Fumagalli, using the Covid-19 survey data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/31/covid-lockdown-school-closures-hit-mothers-mental-he... |
| Description | NSS Methodology Group |
| 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 | Advice to the Office for Students' NSS Methodology Group on survey design, conceptualisation and analysis, delivered primarily through a half-day meeting of invited experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Online workshop on creating tailored weights in UKHLS |
| 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 | Users of the UKHLS data are now able to create their own weights tailored to very complex situations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/online/creating-tailored-weights |
| Description | Participant newsletter, summer 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Printed participant newsletter summarising key research using Understanding Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participant newsletter, winter 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Participant printed newsletter summarising key research using Understanding Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Podcast on 'Data linkage and sharing' recorded for the European Survey Research Association 2021 conference |
| 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 | A podcast recorded for the European Survey Research Association 2021 conference of Annette Jackle in discussion with Emanuela Sala and Florian Keusch, about what we have learnt in recent years about how to ask respondents to do more than answer survey questions, for example data linkage & using apps to collect data. The podcast was broadcast as part of the online conference programme and continues to be available on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Q-m2H-YOE&t=1s |
| Description | Podcast: Building Understanding Society - from survey to data |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | How do we turn survey responses into data for research? How do we select who takes part in the survey? And what makes household panel data so useful for researchers and policymakers? In this podcast we talk to the people who design and implement Understanding Society - taking the survey from methodological testing, through fieldwork and data processing, to ending with the anonymised dataset. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/building-understanding-society-from-survey-to-data |
| Description | Podcast: Does volunteering make young people more likely to vote? |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast we look take a look at the role of social action in civic participation. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Dr Stuart Fox from Brunel University about his research looking at whether volunteering makes young people more likely to vote in their first election. Catherine then moves on to talk to Victoria Harkness, Head of Research and Evaluation at the National Citizen Service Trust about the Trust's experience of young people and their levels of civic participation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/does-volunteering-make-young-people-more-likely-to-v... |
| Description | Podcast: How are relationships, between couples and within families, changing? |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast we look take a look at how relationships are changing. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Understanding Society's Topic Champion for Families, about her research using our main data set and our COVID19 survey. Catherine's second guest is Dee Holmes, Senior Practice Consultant from the relationship support charity, Relate, who assesses the extent to which Brienna's research is reflected in what she sees 'on the ground'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/how-are-relationships-between-couples-and-within-fam... |
| Description | Podcast: How have the pandemic related school closures affected our children? |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast we speak to Professor Birgitta Rabe from the Institute for Social and Economic Research about her work comparing the mental health of those children who were invited to return to school in June 2020 with those who weren't. Catherine's second guest is Tom McBride, Director of Evidence at the Early Intervention Foundation, who explains why research such as this is so important for policy and practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/how-have-the-pandemic-related-school-closures-affect... |
| Description | Podcast: Public health and the Covid-19 pandemic |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast we speak to Professor Meena Kumari, Understanding Society's Topic Champion for Health and Biomarker research and to David Finch, Assistant Director in the Healthy Lives directorate at The Health Foundation. Together they discuss Understanding Society's COVID-19 survey and The Health Foundation's COVID-19 Impact inquiry. They look at what the pandemic has highlighted with regard to the social determinants of health and they share their biggest fears as we move out of the initial clutches of COVID-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/public-health-and-the-covid-19-pandemic |
| Description | Podcast: Universal Credit, how is it faring as a benefit system? |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast, we hear from Tom Waters, Senior Research Economist from the Institute for Fiscal Studies about research that used Understanding Society data to take a longitudinal look at Universal Credit. With first-hand experience of supporting people on Universal Credit, Kayley Hignell, Head of Policy for Families, Welfare and Work at Citizens Advice, responds to the research and shares her view on how one of the biggest benefit reforms in UK history is playing out. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/universal-credit-how-is-it-faring-as-a-benefit-syste... |
| Description | Podcast: Who carried the work burden during Covid-19? |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast, Professors Tracey Warren from Nottingham University Business School and Clare Lyonette from Warwick Institute for Employment talked about their project Carrying the Work Burden of the COVID-19 pandemic: working class women in the UK. Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the Women's Budget Group and co-collaborator on the project also joins to explain the motivation for the research and the ways in which their findings are serving as vital evidence in the case of building back better with increased gender equality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/who-carried-the-work-burden-during-covid-19 |
| Description | Poster presentation for CLOSER conference: Preparing for the future III: tackling key challenges facing longitudinal population studies in a post-COVID world |
| 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 | Poster presentation on the "The impact of COVID-19 on Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study" for the CLOSER conference "Preparing for the future III: tackling key challenges facing longitudinal population studies in a post-COVID world", including an online virtual discussion table for people to ask questions and discuss the poster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/2022-conference/ |
| Description | Presentation at European Survey Research Association Conference, online, 25/06/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk titled ''Non-response bias prevention and adjustment in a national longitudinal COVID-19 survey", to increase understanding of the strategy for handling non-response in the Understanding Society Covid-19 survey. After the talk, several audience members asked for further information about the survey and our strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at European Survey Research Conference, Zagreb, July 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled 'Understanding Society survey dataset representativeness: Across waves and over data collection', to increase understanding of the evaluation of Understanding Society survey dataset quality. After the talk, I received several request for information from audience members seeking to use similar methods to evaluate other survey datasets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at IFS / Understanding Society workshop on Missing Data in Longitudinal and Linked Surveys, IFS, 07/05/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled 'Utilising representativeness indicators to evaluate non-response and non-linkage biases', to increase understanding of tools available for evaluating non-response and non-linkage biases in datasets. Several audience members requested further information after the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at IFS / Understanding Society workshop on Missing Data in Longitudinal and Linked Surveys, online, 11/12/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk titled ''Non-response bias prevention and adjustment in a national longitudinal COVID-19 survey", to increase understanding of the strategy for handling non-response in the Understanding Society Covid-19 survey. After the talk, several audience members asked for further information about the survey and our strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at International workshop on Total Survey Error (ITSEW), online, 24/09/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk titled ''Non-response bias prevention and adjustment in a national longitudinal COVID-19 survey", to increase understanding of the strategy for handling non-response in the Understanding Society Covid-19 survey. After the talk, several audience members asked for further information about the survey and our strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at Understanding Society conference, online, 27/09/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk titled ''Non-response bias prevention and adjustment in a national longitudinal COVID-19 survey", to increase understanding of the strategy for handling non-response in the Understanding Society Covid-19 survey. After the talk, several audience members asked for further information about the survey and our strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at the General Online Research conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on "Measuring smartphone operating system versions in surveys: How to identify who has devices compatible with survey apps" to an audience of survey researchers and practitioners from the academic, private, government and third sector that led to questions and discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at the General Online Research conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on "Participation of household panel members in daily burst measurement using a mobile app" presented to an international audience of survey researchers and practitioners from the academic, private, government and third sector that lead to discussion and questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at the Understanding Society Conference, University of Essex, June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled 'Understanding Society survey dataset representativeness: Across waves and over data collection', to increase understanding of the evaluation of Understanding Society survey dataset quality. After the talk, I received several requests for information from audience members seeking to use similar methods to evaluate other survey datasets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on consent to data linkage at the Understanding Society survey methods conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on how survey respondents decide whether to consent to their data being linked to administrative records. Conference held online with 150 registered participants from universities, government departments, private companies, third sector organisations, research institutes around the world. The presentation generated discussion and requests for follow-up information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2021/09/28/survey-methods-day-2-linking-survey-data |
| Description | Presentation on the use of biological data in social research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) 2021 Research Methods e-Festival, I gave two presentations during a session entitled "Genomics and proteomics for social scientists" delivered by Meena Kumari, Yanchun Bao and me. My presentations focussed on the use of biological data in social research, with an overview of relevant biology, a description of the Understanding Society biological datasets, and some examples of multi-omics approaches. The videos have been shared on the NCRM website at https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/all/?main&id=20783 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/all/?main&id=20783 |
| Description | Presentation to DC-AAPOR Book Club |
| 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 90 participants from government agencies, private research companies, survey centres and post-graduate students about longitudinal survey methods. Generated a lot of questions and discussion and a few subsequent follow-up messages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://dc-aapor.org/events/past-events/ |
| Description | Presentation to DHSC, policy & analysis staff - Ethnicity, socio-economic status and health outcomes (M.Hernandez, S.Pudney, A.Wailoo) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This work was to be referenced in a 2022 White Paper on Health Inequalities, but the White Paper was postponed during the government changes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to NESTA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A presentation provided to staff at NESTA on using Understanding Society to address their three innovation missions: a fairer start for every child; a healthy life for all, and a sustainable future where the economy works better for people and the planet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SLLS symposium: Over 10 years of Understanding Society. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | symposium presenting interdisciplinary research and findings using the Understanding Society data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SLLS symposium: Debate - what is the policy impact of genetic research in social science? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A number of social surveys have added genetic information. How have these data been used and what are the policy impacts of these data? Debate on the use and implications of the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SLLS: Social-to-Biological Transitions research: review of progress and development. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Overview and synthesis of social to biological research and discussion of next steps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-2022-annual-international-conference |
| Description | TCrossely ESCOE webninar: The Understanding Society Covid-19 web survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk to describe the design and implementation of the Understanding Society Covid-19 web survey. The second part of the talk discussed issues around ensuring reliable population inferences from these data. Thirdly, preliminary results from Wave 1 of the survey were presented, focusing on distributional aspects of the economic consequences of the pandemic and associated stay-at-home policy. The purpose for people to improve their data collection and/or use of the Study's data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.escoe.ac.uk/events/the-understanding-society-covid-19-web-survey/ |
| Description | TCrossley ONS Economics Expert Working Group (ONS Fellow) |
| 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 | The Economic Experts Working Group (EEWG) is a non-statutory body established by the National Statistician. It is a strategic, high-level advisory body offering independent advice from authoritative economic experts to the National Statistician and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on the measurement of the economy and the collection and presentation of economic data for the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/programmesandprojects/economicstatisticstransformation/engag... |
| Description | TCrossley Presentation for 88th East Jour Fixe of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An annual workshop hosted by the Austrian Central Bank, which took place on the 12th October 21, this year's theme was data collection during Covid. Tom provided a plenary talk 'A year of Covid-19: Tracking labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis with the Understanding Society Covid-19 Study'. The purpose, for people to improve their data collection and/or use of the Study's data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.oenb.at/en/Calendar/2021/2021-10-12-east-jour-fixe.html |
| Description | The House article: Community spirit in the age of Covid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article in Politics Home website and The House magazine, aimed at parliamentarians and civil service staff. The article 'Community spirit in the age of Covid' was based on research by Dr Magda Borkowska on neighbourhood cohesion during the Covid pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/community-spirit-in-the-age-of-covid |
| Description | The House article: How data can help us tackle deep-seated problems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article for the Politics Home website and The House magazine, How data can help us tackle deep-seated problems, based on research by Dr Alita Nandi using the Covid-19 survey data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.politicshome.com/members/article/how-can-data-help-address-the-inequalities-of-covid19 |
| Description | Two events: Transforming social policies: Bridgeheads for change (Parts 1 and 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The purpose was to explore public policy issues as the UK emerges from the pandemic and explore opportunities for change. Hosted in collaboration with the British Academy, and part of celebrating 10 years of Understanding Society, these two event build on Understanding Society's theme of Transforming Social Policies. Topics covered were: Event 1: Public health and mental wellbeing Improving working lives: job quality, mobility and flexibility Lifting families out of poverty Event 2: How has politics changed? Public attitudes to welfare and inequality The dynamics of power sharing: who should lead? Feedback from the event, collected via feeback forms, showed good policy learning as a result of the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZYQzqhFDBZof66luum6TKQ/featured?view_as=subscriber |
| Description | Understanding Society Climate Change data dive |
| 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 | Climate change and environmental degradation is the biggest challenge UK society and economy, and the wider world, faces today. Using Understanding Society data, this data dive brought together researchers and policy analysts to generate fresh insights into individual and household environmental behaviours and the constraints they face in transitioning to net zero. It was designed to stimulate the development of evidence informed policy and how policy makers, employers and communities could bring about a fair transition. The data dive offered a social learning lab, bringing together participants from different sectors, backgrounds and interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2022/01/17/getting-to-grips-with-climate-change-househol... |
| Description | Weights in UKHLS |
| 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 | The workshop teachers users to analyse UKHLS data correctly and to understand weighting in UKHLS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | Well-being, people and places event: Policies for immigration, diversity and better neighbourhoods (Nuffield Foundation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Based on research commissioned by the Nuffield Foundation which used Understanding Society data, the webinar focused on the concrete steps and well-being policies for integration, diversity and better neighbourhoods. I chaired the event, which was organised by the Nuffield Foundation, and included ISER research by Dr Gundi Knies, University of Essex and Professor Patricia Melo, Lisbon School of Economics and Management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/events/well-being-policies-for-immigration-diversity-better-neigh... |
| Description | What Works Centre for Wellbeing - impact and data gateway |
| 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 | To explore how third sector organisations, as part of the delivery of their programmes and services, could measure changes in wellbeing based on comparable data and questions. Could Understanding Society's developmental work on the Data Gateway be relevant? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop: Panel data econometrics using Understanding Society on 21 May 2021 |
| 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 | This introductory course will show what panel data CAN and CANNOT do to facilitate the study of causal effects. There is a strong emphasis on applied work using linear models and panel data econometrics methods will be illustrated using data from Understanding Society. The software used for the practical examples is Stata. Familiarity with the basic syntax and structure of Stata is required. This was delivered online by Dr. Laura Fumagali. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/11/23/workshop-panel-data-econometrics-usi... |
| Description | Workshop: Using weights in Understanding Society on 19 November 2021 |
| 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 | Understanding Society has a very complex survey structure and this needs to be taken into account in any analysis in order to infer results to a population. An easy way to take the structure into account correctly is by using weights alongside strata and clustering adjustments. This course aims to explain what weights take into account in Understanding Society. First, we will describe how weights are created. We will then provide guidance on how to select the best weight for a range of analyses. The course will then expand on how to create a tailored weight for a specific analysis, when this can make a difference and will be worth the effort, and will walk you step by step on creating such weights in a hands-on session. This was conducted online by the study's survey statistician, Dr. Kaminska. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/11/23/workshop-using-weights-in-understand... |