Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study: Waves 9-11
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 which addresses the 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 enables researchers to explore the experience, causes and consequences of changes in people's lives - their family structure, health, income, expenditure, employment and housing - key issues for policy makers today. The Study also has additional samples that allow 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. Additionally, the Study invests in innovative ways of collecting data to continually improve the content and quality of data available. Overall, therefore, the Study enables the production of research to inform policy and practice.
The Study was inaugurated in 2008 with an Innovation Panel to test methods and the first main wave of fieldwork in 2009. To date four waves of the main study and six waves of the Innovation Panel, as well as data collected from a nurse visit and derived from blood samples, are deposited in the UK Data Service. Data collection and planning are ongoing for Waves 5-8; this bid covers the costs of data collection for Waves 9-11 and associated activities.
Based on careful experimental research and evaluation, in Waves 9-11 the Study will move to mixed mode data collection - meaning people will be able to complete the questionnaire face-to-face or online. This maximises flexibility for respondents, but given people may answer questions differently, depending on whether an interviewer is asking them or not, it creates complexities for data users. Crucial to our work will be to support data users to ensure they are able to use such complex data effectively.
Policy and research agendas are constantly evolving, and it is important in a longitudinal study to balance creating long series of the same questions with including questions that address emerging topics and make effective use of new approaches to data collection. In this funding period, we will undertake a programme of innovation to bring in new technologies, enabling us to collect better data to address critical social science and policy issues. We will also work with Topic Champions to improve the content of the survey and the way we present the data to users.
Supporting researchers in universities, government, third sector and businesses to use the data effectively is fundamental to the success of the Study. We will therefore invest in improving our user support for the Study and sharing the data in different ways to make them easier for different kind of users to analyse. We also have a Policy Unit that directly works with government departments and third sector organisations to ensure that they are fully aware of how Understanding Society data can be used to address their policy concerns and to help them do so where appropriate, and an Impact Fellow who supports both policy users and researchers to work effectively together to generate impact.
During this funding period, as more waves of the Study are released to data users, the value of the study will increase significantly as it can be used to answer more questions about the effect of different kinds of changes on people's lives. We will create a wide range of opportunities for users to share their findings - for example at conferences and workshops, through Insights, by promoting publications and case studies on the website and through social media - and by creating an online community of users so that they can engage with each other.
The Study was inaugurated in 2008 with an Innovation Panel to test methods and the first main wave of fieldwork in 2009. To date four waves of the main study and six waves of the Innovation Panel, as well as data collected from a nurse visit and derived from blood samples, are deposited in the UK Data Service. Data collection and planning are ongoing for Waves 5-8; this bid covers the costs of data collection for Waves 9-11 and associated activities.
Based on careful experimental research and evaluation, in Waves 9-11 the Study will move to mixed mode data collection - meaning people will be able to complete the questionnaire face-to-face or online. This maximises flexibility for respondents, but given people may answer questions differently, depending on whether an interviewer is asking them or not, it creates complexities for data users. Crucial to our work will be to support data users to ensure they are able to use such complex data effectively.
Policy and research agendas are constantly evolving, and it is important in a longitudinal study to balance creating long series of the same questions with including questions that address emerging topics and make effective use of new approaches to data collection. In this funding period, we will undertake a programme of innovation to bring in new technologies, enabling us to collect better data to address critical social science and policy issues. We will also work with Topic Champions to improve the content of the survey and the way we present the data to users.
Supporting researchers in universities, government, third sector and businesses to use the data effectively is fundamental to the success of the Study. We will therefore invest in improving our user support for the Study and sharing the data in different ways to make them easier for different kind of users to analyse. We also have a Policy Unit that directly works with government departments and third sector organisations to ensure that they are fully aware of how Understanding Society data can be used to address their policy concerns and to help them do so where appropriate, and an Impact Fellow who supports both policy users and researchers to work effectively together to generate impact.
During this funding period, as more waves of the Study are released to data users, the value of the study will increase significantly as it can be used to answer more questions about the effect of different kinds of changes on people's lives. We will create a wide range of opportunities for users to share their findings - for example at conferences and workshops, through Insights, by promoting publications and case studies on the website and through social media - and by creating an online community of users so that they can engage with each other.
Planned Impact
Understanding Society is a valuable longitudinal resource that addresses key social and policy issues. The Study is beneficial to academic researchers 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, households, 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 data analysis methods, and as a result the Study is at the cutting edge of methodological advancement in longitudinal studies, which benefits researchers, survey organisations and funders of surveys and research.
Non-academic beneficiaries include a wide range of organisations and stakeholders. The Impact Fellow and Policy Unit work directly with different organisations to raise awareness and capacity to use the data, as well as to generate research that will lead directly to policy impact.
* Government researchers, politicians and policy makers. The data will support important research in a broad set of policy areas. Key areas where important impacts are expected include the responsibilities of the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and North Ireland as well as Whitehall departments such as DH, DWP, DfE, DECC, DfT, DCLG, DEFRA, Home Office and BIS.
* Government executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies, parliamentary select committees, and supported research centres will use the Study's data and findings, e.g. What works centres, the Low Pay Commission, the Homes and Communities Agency, the Environmental Audit Committee, the Behavioural Insights Team.
* 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.
* 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 new potential powers with increasing devolution.
* 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, Institute for Public Policy Research, Age UK, the Child Poverty Action Group, and Demos are employing data from the Study in their work. In a number of cases we are working collaboratively with them to coproduce such research.
* 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, new product development, location strategies and corporate responsibility plans. We have made a start with some joint workshops and projects with the financial sector. Equally, methodological challenges the Study faces are relevant to commercial market research and data analytic companies, and shared projects and learning are planned.
* General public. Members of the general public will have an interest in Study findings. We expect findings to be reported in news media, to be covered in interest blogs and to stimulate public debate.
The direct impacts on many of these beneficiaries could be rapid, with evidence from the Study incorporated rapidly into policy debates, although impacts on policy itself will take longer to filter through the policy process. The indirect impacts on society as a whole (via the effect of research influence on policy and practice) will accrue in the long-term, perhaps after decades, and is often difficult to measure.
Non-academic beneficiaries include a wide range of organisations and stakeholders. The Impact Fellow and Policy Unit work directly with different organisations to raise awareness and capacity to use the data, as well as to generate research that will lead directly to policy impact.
* Government researchers, politicians and policy makers. The data will support important research in a broad set of policy areas. Key areas where important impacts are expected include the responsibilities of the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and North Ireland as well as Whitehall departments such as DH, DWP, DfE, DECC, DfT, DCLG, DEFRA, Home Office and BIS.
* Government executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies, parliamentary select committees, and supported research centres will use the Study's data and findings, e.g. What works centres, the Low Pay Commission, the Homes and Communities Agency, the Environmental Audit Committee, the Behavioural Insights Team.
* 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.
* 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 new potential powers with increasing devolution.
* 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, Institute for Public Policy Research, Age UK, the Child Poverty Action Group, and Demos are employing data from the Study in their work. In a number of cases we are working collaboratively with them to coproduce such research.
* 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, new product development, location strategies and corporate responsibility plans. We have made a start with some joint workshops and projects with the financial sector. Equally, methodological challenges the Study faces are relevant to commercial market research and data analytic companies, and shared projects and learning are planned.
* General public. Members of the general public will have an interest in Study findings. We expect findings to be reported in news media, to be covered in interest blogs and to stimulate public debate.
The direct impacts on many of these beneficiaries could be rapid, with evidence from the Study incorporated rapidly into policy debates, although impacts on policy itself will take longer to filter through the policy process. The indirect impacts on society as a whole (via the effect of research influence on policy and practice) will accrue in the long-term, perhaps after decades, and is often difficult to measure.
Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- Government of the United States of America (Collaboration)
- Kantar Group (Collaboration)
- Government of Canada (Collaboration)
- University of Michigan (Collaboration)
- European University Institute (Collaboration)
- UK Data Service (Collaboration)
- Australian Government (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- TNS BMRB (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- German Institute for Economic Research (Collaboration)
- University of Mannheim (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (Collaboration)
- Transport for West Midlands (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Royal Free Hospital (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- Dresden Lab Services (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of the West of England (Collaboration)
- Ipsos MORI (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Research Methods (Project Partner)
- Demos (Project Partner)
- Institute for Public Policy Research (Project Partner)
- University College London (Project Partner)
- CENMAP (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
Al Baghal T
(2017)
The Effect of Online and Mixed-Mode Measurement of Cognitive Ability
in Social Science Computer Review
Al Baghal T
(2019)
Linking Survey and Social Media Data
Al Baghal T
(2019)
Linking Twitter and Survey Data: The Impact of Survey Mode and Demographics on Consent Rates Across Three UK Studies
in Social Science Computer Review
Albert Arcarons
(2017)
Unequal after all? Non-ethnic explanations of ethnic penalties in the labour market
Apostolos Davillas
(2018)
Parametric Models for Biomarkers Based on Flexible Size Distributions
Apostolos Davillas
(2018)
Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers
Avram S
(2019)
Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017
Bao Y
(2022)
Social mobility across the lifecourse and DNA methylation age acceleration in adults in the UK.
in Scientific reports
Benzeval M
(2023)
Does the feedback of blood results in observational studies influence response and consent? A randomised study of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel.
in BMC medical research methodology
Benzeval M
(2020)
The Representativeness of Understanding Society
Benzeval M
(2020)
Covid-19 Survey Briefing Note: Health and Caring
Benzeval M
(2020)
Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse
Benzeval M
(2020)
Integrated data: research potential and data quality
Benzeval M.
(2020)
Briefing note COVID-19 survey: home schooling
Benzeval, M
(2017)
Insights 2017 - Findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
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 | Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Energy Environment Financial Services and Management Consultancy Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Transport Other |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/ |
Description | Data from Understanding Society are directly used by a number of Government Departments for policy monitoring, policy development and evaluation. .Researchers do not necessarily inform us of their publications or impact. We therefore do not know how much evidence of impact we capture. Understanding Society is an ongoing continuous project please see other awards for more details. Below we list impacts from the Study we are aware of. We provide this list with links to relevant reports/evidence to ESRC as part of our annual benefits report. Informs the development of new policy over time Broadly defined, but where the outcome is to develop new policy, or enhance existing policy. 1. The homeless monitor, funded by Crisis and JRF used Study data in the 2015 and 2016 monitors of England, Wales and Scotland. Evidence from the monitor has been used to change policy. Findings from the monitor for England were included in the House of Commons Library briefing paper The Homelessness Reduction Bill 2016-17. This Bill received Royal Assent and is not the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. Shelter is referring to the Act as "the first major piece of homelessness legislation for 15 years". The academic team (from Heriot-Watt University) who carry out the analysis were awarded runner up in The Guardian research impact awards for this work. 2. The DWP policy paper Improving lives: Helping Workless Families used linked Understanding Society and National Pupil Database data (with the analysis carried out by the Understanding Society Policy Unit via the Direct Access arrangements). 3. The Demos report Rising to the top submitted evidence to the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee inquiry Employment opportunities for Muslims in the UK and was included in the session report. The research was also referenced in The Casey Review: a review into opportunity and integration. 4. A research paper Re-employment, job quality, health and allostatic load biomarkers: prospective evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study challenged the assumption that any job is good for health, compared to unemployment. The findings influenced the narrative of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. 5. The DWP uses the British Household Panel Survey in its dynamic microsimulation model Pensim2. The DWP designed Pensim2 to estimate the incomes of future pensioners; samples are 'grown' through time and the life events relevant to each family and individual. Pensim2 therefore allows the DWP to analyse the long-term implications of existing and proposed pension policies. Recently, the DWP used Pensim2 in the development of Automatic Enrolment into workplace pensions, which has led to 6.87 million workers being automatically enrolled into a workplace pension. 6. Evidence from two studies using the British Household Panel Survey (now succeeded by Understanding Society) data contributed (were referenced) to the independent review 'Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices'. The first of these included studies was the Department for Education report 'Young people's education and labour market choices aged 16/17 to 18/19'. The second study was an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report 'The Gender Wage Gap'. The Government accepted the majority of the recommendations of the Taylor Review. Following further consultation with stakeholders, the Government produced a policy paper 'The Good Work Plan' that outlines its future plans. Alongside this policy paper, the Government has made a public statement that it intends to introduce new legislation with new rights for flexible workers. The Government is positioning the proposed reforms as a key element of its Industrial Strategy, which aims to boost productivity throughout the UK. 7. The Scottish Government use Study data to report on child poverty, as required by The Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017. The Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan for 2018-22 sets out new policies and proposals to help meet the child poverty reduction targets. 8. Two research papers (article 1, article 2) have explored the relationship between social media use and wellbeing among young people. The findings have provided much needed evidence on this new topic and the authors have submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on children and young people's mental health - the role of education. The findings have also contributed to public debate on young people's screen and social media use through media reports and interviews. (Note: No change to policy or advice yet, but possible). 9. A research paper from the IFS examined wage progression and the gender wage gap. This research was references by a House of Commons Library briefing paper 'The gender pay gap'. This research was also included in the Insights 2018-19 report. 10. The House of Lords Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Select Committee used evidence from the Study on whether people who stay in work after the State Pension age are relatively less well-off than those who retire. The research quoted shows that "decisions to continue working after State Pension age 'were not strongly associated with financial difficulty'" The report is currently awaiting Government response and debate. 11. Home Office Indicators of Integration Framework 2019 uses Understanding Society as one of its key data sources. The Framework provides practical support for developing strategies, monitoring services and evaluating integration interventions. UKHLS was used for interactions with health services, life satisfaction, access to local services and facilities, GP visits, language spoken in the home and whether people like their neighbourhood. 12. Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2019 to 2020, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Home Office, July 2019 13. COVID-19: Preparing for a challenging winter 2020/21, Paper prepared by the Academy of Medical Sciences for Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, July 2020 14. Impact of COVID-19 on working household incomes: distributional analysis as of May 2020, HM Treasury, July 2020 15. A Plan for Jobs, HM Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer policy paper, July 2020 Informing policy implementation/practice, improvements to existing policy 16. The Commission on Local Tax Reform report (Study referenced in the technical annex and compendium of evidence) for Scottish Government - the recommendations from the report were acted upon and changed existing policy. 17. A research paper Selective schooling systems increase inequality appeared in media reports and was referenced by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology in a POSTbrief Academic Evidence on Selective Secondary Education. This POSTbrief including this research was then referenced in a House of Commons Library briefing paper Grammar Schools in England. This briefing was accompanied by a discussion of the policy background relating to grammar schools in England including the recent confirmation that a ban on new grammar schools will remain. 18. PHE and NICE commissioned research to examine geographical variation in youth smoking across England. The small area estimates on youth smoking have been incorporated into PHE's Local Health tool, which aims to improve availability and accessibility for health and health-related information in England. The estimates have also been included in PHE's Local Tobacco Control Profiles, designed to help local government and health services to assess the effect of tobacco use on their local populations. More information in the impact case study. 19. Public Health England draws on research, included research using the Study (notably by Emerson and colleagues - link 1, link 2), to produce their People with Learning Disabilities reports. These reports provide concise and high quality information about the health and healthcare of people with learning disabilities to inform healthcare delivery. 20. The Children's Society uses Study data in reports for their 'Seriously Awkward' Campaign (seriously awkward report, crumbling futures report). The campaign focuses on 16 and 17 year olds and the transition to adulthood. The campaign resulted in revised Department for Education guidance around the need to support 16 and 17 year olds in their adulthood transitions (Working Together to safeguard children). 21. The mental health charity Mind hosted a parliamentary event at Westminster to discuss the impact of housing on mental health, based on research they carried out using Understanding Society. The event involved people with mental health problems, MPs, Mind volunteers and social housing representatives from around the country. The theme of the event was 'Beyond Bricks' and aimed to kick-start discussion in Westminster on ensuring that the rights of people with mental health problems are considered in the housing agenda. The event was based on research carried out by Mind using Understanding Society data to explore the links between housing and mental health. 22. The Social Mobility Commission used the Study for the report on Adult skills gap and the falling investment in adults with low qualifications. The report found that disadvantaged adults with the lowest qualifications are the least likely to access adult training despite being the group who would benefit most and that graduates are 3 times more likely to receive training than those with no qualifications, while professionals and managers are about twice as likely to receive training as lower-skilled workers. 23. The IFS used UKHLS in their report on Universal Credit and its impact on household incomes. The report looked at look at the effects of universal credit on people's incomes over eight years of their lives and the impact on those that are persistently, rather than temporarily, low income. 24. An intergenerational audit for the UK, Resolution Foundation, June 2019 25. How can the scale and nature of labour market non-compliance in the UK best be assessed? Final report of a scoping study for the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, July 2019 (feeds into Labour Market Enforcement Strategy, July 2019 - see above) 26. Taking stock: report for the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Commission, Resolution Foundation, July 2019 27. Gender equality at work: research on the barriers to women's progression, Government Equalities Office, October 2019 28. Gender and Work in Scotland, Analyses data from Understanding Society on mothers returning to work and gender roles and attitudes, Scottish Government research, December 2019 29. Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On. Institute of Health Equity, February 2020 30. The Full Monty. Facing up to the challenge of the coronavirus labour market crisis. Resolution Foundation, June 2020 31. Teacher Labour Market in England Annual Report 2020, National Foundation for Educational Research, June 2020 32. The Living Standards Audit 2020, Resolution Foundation, July 2020 33. The truth will out, Understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis, Resolution Foundation July 2020 34. Home learning during Covid-19: Findings from the Understanding Society Longitudinal Study, National Foundation for Educational Research, July 2020 35. The Effect of the Great Lockdown on Homeworking in the United Kingdom, WISERD (Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods) report, July 2020 36. Balancing the Risks of Pupils Returning to Schools, Royal Society DELVE Initiative report, July 2020 37. Homeworking in the UK: Before and During the 2020 Lockdown, WISERD (Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods) report, August 2020 38. Childhood in the time of Covid, Children's Commissioner, September 2020 39. All together now? The impacts of the Government's coronavirus income support schemes across the age distribution, Resolution Foundation, September 2020 40. Low Pay Britain 2020, Resolution Foundation, September 2020 41. An intergenerational audit for the UK, Resolution Foundation, October 2020 42. COVID-19 National Core Studies, Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing, Health Data Research UK 43. House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee, Oral evidence: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact, HC 385 (see Qs 107, 121, 137), October 2020 44. Vittal Katikireddi, Understanding Society Topic Champion for Public Health, is on the ethnic minorities sub group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and presented UKHLS vaccine data to SAGE on 17 December as part of their review of vaccine hesitancy and policies to address it. [paper to follow] 45. Why have Black and South Asian people been hit hardest by COVID-19? ONS, December 2020 46. Coronavirus and the social impacts on different ethnic groups in the UK: 2020, ONS, December 2020 47. Methods used to develop the Health Index for England: 2015 to 2018, ONS December 2020 48. Factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups, 17 December 2020, Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), January 2021 49. 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 50. Our written evidence to its inquiry, Covid-19: Supporting the vulnerable during lockdown, published by the Public Accounts Committee, February 2021 51. The Economic Impact of Covid-19 across Different Households, Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell, Hamish Low, presentation to HM Treasury, February 2021 52. Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Budget 2021, HM Treasury, March 2021 53. Our written evidence (COE0027) to its inquiry into COVID-19 and education published by the Public Accounts Committee's inquiry, March 2021 54. 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 55. 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 56. Our written evidence (CYP0023) to its inquiry Children and young people's mental health published by the Health and Social Care Committee, June 2021 57. 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) 58. 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 Alliance - which used our data Enacting statutory requirements 59. Welsh Government used Study data on child mental health as part of the National Indicators requirement of The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. 60. The DWP use Study data on low-income as part of their statutory reporting of child poverty/persistent low income for children of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016. 61. DLCG use Study data as underlying evidence in their reporting of the Troubled Families Programme; this is a legal requirement under Section (3) 6 of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016. 62. Public Health England used UKHLS for its 2019 update of the official statistics of children living with a parent in emotional distress. The data taken from Understanding Society showed that mothers were more likely to report symptoms of emotional distress, with one in five children living in a household where the mother was suffering. This compares to around one in eight children living in households where it was the father who was distressed. 63. State of the nation 2019: children and young people's wellbeing, Department for Education, October 2019 64. National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission report 2019. The Low Pay Commission's 2019 report on the National Minimum Wage, including the analysis and evidence underpinning its recommendations to Government, January 2020 65. The employment of disabled people 2019, DWP official statistics, March 2020 66. 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.] 67. 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. Monitoring (not a statutory requirement) 68. The ONS use Study data as part of their biannual Measuring National Well-being programme. 69. The Scottish Government use environmental behaviour measures in the Study in their regular reports as part of the Low Carbon Scotland: A behaviours Framework. 70. DWP use Study data on children living with both parents as part of their family stability indicator in the Social Justice Outcomes Framework. 71. HM Revenue & Customs uses Study data in its annual publication series 'Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit Take-up rates' (e.g. see 2016-2017), along with administrative data and The Family Resources Survey. 72. The Low Pay Commission used the Study in an interim report on the National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage and progression out of minimum wage jobs in the UK. 73. The DWP used Understanding Society as a comparable data source when drawing up the Estimates of the separated family population statistics. 74. ONS uses our data in its Persistent poverty in the UK and EU 75. Total Reward and Pensions in the UK by Occupation in the Public and Private Sectors, Office of Manpower Economics, October 2019 76. The Bank of England uses our data in its Bank of England Financial Stability Report, July 2019, December 2019 77. The financial position of British households, Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, December 2019 78. Interim financial stability report, Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee report, May 2020 79. Monetary Policy Report and Financial Stability Report, Bank of England August 2020 80. Financial stability report, Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee report, August 2020 81. Could Covid-19 lead to higher bank losses on unsecured debt? Bank Overground, Bank of England, September 2020 82. ONS uses our data to measure Time taken to travel to visit relatives, by regions in England: 2017 to 2018. 83. More information on data sources related to coronavirus (COVID-19), ONS, December 2020 84. DWP uses our data to produce official Income Dynamics statistics, looking at persistent low income and changes in household income 2010-2019, March 2021 85. 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 86. 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 87. 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 88. 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 89. Scottish Government uses our data and ISER research in Coronavirus (COVID-19): children, young people and families - evidence summary - June 2021 90. 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 91. Financial stability report, Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee report, July 2021 92. Wales Fiscal Analysis/Wales Governance Centre uses our data in Covid-19 in Wales: the mental health and wellbeing impact, July 2021 93. 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 94. Financial Stability Report, Bank of England Financial Policy Committee, December 2021 Exploring policy options 95. Microsimulation: Pensim2. The DWP uses the British Household Panel Survey in its dynamic microsimulation model Pensim2. The DWP designed Pensim2 to estimate the incomes of future pensioners; samples are 'grown' through time and the life events relevant to each family and individual. Pensim2 therefore allows the DWP to analyse the long-term implications of existing and proposed pension policies. 96. The Scottish Government conducted a policy evaluation of early learning and childcare in Scotland - see the Financial Review of early learning and childcare in Scotland: the current landscape report. 97. Forecasting: The Scottish Fiscal Commission use Study data to underpin their forecasts of Funeral Expenses Payment benefit; part of their wider Scotland's Economic and Fiscal Forecasts. The Scottish Fiscal Commission is an independent, non-Ministerial Department producing biannual forecasts to time with the Scottish Government's Draft Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy to the Scottish Parliament. 98. Academics part of the 'Improving Dementia Care' project (funded by ESRC and NIHR) have created the Population Ageing and Care Simulation model (PACSim). PACSim is an epidemiological microsimulation model of population health and care with the aim to produce projections of health and associated care needs of the older English population. The model is based on three data sources - Understanding Society, ELSA and the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II. The research team has produced two academic papers using the model: 'Forecasting the care needs of the older population in England over the next 20 years' and 'Projections of multi-morbidity in the older population in England to 2035'. 99. Active travel: increasing levels of walking and cycling in England. Eleventh report of session 2017-19, House of Commons Transport Select Committee on Active Travel 100. Access to Transport and Life Opportunities, Department for Transport, October 2019 101. Unresolved public policy challenges. Joint report and event, ONS, Understanding Society and NatCen, February 2020 102. Can training help workers change their stripes? Retraining and career change in the UK, Resolution Foundation, August 2020 103. State of our Social Fabric, Will Tanner, James O'Shaughnessy, Fjolla Krasniqi and James Blagden, Onward, September 2020 104. Changing gears: understanding downward social mobility, Social Mobility Commission, November 2020 105. Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe): an alternative measure of social progress, Jennifer Wallace, Hannah Ormston, Ben Thurman, Mark Diffley, Mhairi McFarlane and Sanah Zubairi, Carnegie UK Trust, December 2020 106. Inheritances and inequality over the life cycle: what will they mean for younger generations? Pascale Bourquin, Robert Joyce and David Sturrock, IFS, April 2021 107. 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 108. 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 109. 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 110. 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 111. 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 112. Bank of England Monetary Policy Report, November 2021 - refers to our data showing productivity gains among people working at home 113. 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 Policy evaluation 114. London Economics examined the impact of national minimum wage on young people and remaining in education and training for the Pay Commission. They found a greater gap between average adult wage in the local area and the adult national minimum wage, the higher the probability of young people being in full-time education at 18. 115. Curnock and colleagues examined changes in disability benefits (alongside moves to unemployment benefits and employment) on health. They found no health differences in those moving from current disability benefits to new out-of-work disability benefits. Whilst it is uncommon for disability benefit claimants to return to the labour market (unemployment or employment), those who did had improved mental health. 116. Thomas and colleagues exploited a staged rollout to compare between population sub-groups. Their research on the impact of the plastic carrier bag charge suggested that people used their own shopping bags more often where the charge existed (Wales, compared to England and Scotland), but that this positive environmental behaviour did not encourage the adoption of further sustainable behaviours 117. Mohan and colleagues exploited a natural control group in their evaluation of Neighbourhood Renewal in Northern Ireland on health. They found limited evidence of the effect of the neighbourhood renewal programme on health improvements, but suggested this approach could protect areas from widening health inequalities. 118. IPSOS MORI uses the Study data in their National evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme. The data is used as a national comparator to a primary survey carried out with clients of the programme. 119. Katikireddi and colleagues examined the successive restrictions to Income Support for lone parents on their mental health. They found declines in the mental health of lone mothers in the intervention group, compared to the control. 120. The IFS, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, reported on the health effects of Sure Start. UKHLS was used to study one mechanism by which Sure Start might have achieved health impacts - maternal mental health. 121. The Runnymede Trust used the Study to examine ethnic minority participation in the 2017 General Election. 122. Measuring Poverty 2019, Social Metrics Commission, July 2019 123. Should I Care or Should I Work? The Impact of Working in Older Age on Caregiving, Ludovico Carrino; Vahé Nafilyan & Mauricio Avendaño Pabon - assesses the effects of raising the retirement age on women in the UK 124. Gibbons and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of the 'bedroom tax' on achieving its policy aims. They found that 'this type of policy has limited power to change housing consumption or employment in the short term'. 125. Measuring Poverty 2020, Social Metrics Commission, July 2020 126. NatCen uses our data in Exploring the relationship between economic security, furlough and mental distress, November 2020 127. Teacher Labour Market in England, Jack Worth and Henry Faulkner-Ellis, National Foundation for Educational Research, March 2021 128. London coronavirus economy tracker, Amy Norman, Scott Corfe, Social Market Foundation, April 2021 129. Unemployment and mental health, Heather Wilson, David Finch, The Health Foundation, April 2021 130. Benefit to all? Financial experience of Universal Credit claimants during the pandemic, Anvar Sarygulov, Bright Blue, June 2021 131. Labour Market Outlook Q2 2021, Hannah Slaughter, Resolution Foundation, June 2021 132. Everybody hurts: self-employment, financial concerns, mental distress, and well-being during COVID-19, Marcus T. Wolfe and Pankaj C. Patel, June 2021 133. 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 134. 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 135. Institute for Fiscal Studies uses our data for Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2021, July 2021 136. Beyond the safety net? Informal sources of support for Universal Credit claimants during the COVID-19 pandemic, Anvar Sarygulov, Bright Blue, October 2021 137. 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 Informs development of business practice in private and Civil Society sectors Broadly defined, but where the benefit is to commercial and third sector groups. In turn, this may influence policy development. 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 6. The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) commissioned research, undertaken by the consultancy Tooley Street Research and sponsored by the John Lewis Partnership, into barriers to pay progression for low-paid workers. The research was commissioned to inform the CIPD's public policy work and increase the evidence base on progression from low-paid work. The CIPD have cited the findings from this research in their engagement with policymakers and other key stakeholders. The findings from the report attracted significant media coverage, including an article in the Financial Times and in the management trade press. 7. Sainsbury's have commissioned NatCen to evaluate their 'living well' campaign via a survey; NatCen plan to use Understanding Society as a national benchmark. 8. The PwC report Quality of life: leisure impacts, commissioned by the Airports Authority, examined the impacts of leisure travel on own wellbeing. This research was used in the Airport Commission's final report, which recommended the expansion of aviation capacity by building a new runway at Heathrow airport. 9. The Shelter and National Housing Federation research briefing 'Stop DSS Discrimination' highlighted the extent of discrimination in the private rented sector. The report used Study data in setting the context for of the likely scale of discrimination against disabled Housing Benefit claimants. This research has led to a campaign by Shelter to end Housing Benefit discrimination in the private rented sector by targeting the policies and practices of letting agents, landlords and mortgage providers. 10. The Resolution Foundation set up the 'Intergenerational Commission' with policymakers, academics and business leaders with the aim of 'repairing the social contract between generations'. This was a major workstream for the Resolution Foundation across 2017-2018. Some of the research project under this umbrella used Study data (such as 'Home affairs: Options for reforming property taxation' and 'The million dollar be-question: Inheritances, gifts, and their implications for generational living standards'). 11. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation commissioned research into destitution in the UK. This research involved a primary survey of destitution and used Study data as a national comparator for those deemed to be living in 'severe poverty'. This report series has been influential, and was referenced in the statement on the visit to the UK by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. 12. The Bank of England has used Study data on mortgages in the Inflation report series (August 2018 and November 2017) and the Financial Stability report series (November 2017 and June 2017). 13. The Children's Society uses Study data in reports for their 'Seriously Awkward' Campaign (seriously awkward report, crumbling futures report). The campaign focuses on 16 and 17 year olds and the transition to adulthood. The campaign resulted in revised Department for Education guidance around the need to support 16 and 17 year olds in their adulthood transitions (Working Together to safeguard children). 14. The Social Market Foundation, supported by Vodafone UK, produced a report about parents and work. Vodafone runs schemes to help parents return to work after career breaks and has worked with the Women's Business Council and the Government Equalities Office to produce a Toolkit of best practice in this aim. The report provides policy recommendations on how policymakers and business leaders can support parents to return to work. 15. Living lagom - challenging perceptions of wealth, Barclays, June 2019 16. Briefing: how many people need a social rented home? National Housing Federation, September 2019 17. What influences mothers' decisions about returning to work after having a baby? Understanding the role of childcare in returning to employment, Coram Family and Childcare briefing, October 2019 18. AGE UK analysis finds our over 80s save Government £23 billion a year through the unpaid care they give loved ones, December 2019 19. The Homelessness Monitor: Northern Ireland 2020 - third annual report of an independent study, funded by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in Northern Ireland 20. Migration Observatory briefing January 2020 - examines migrants' experiences of discrimination due to their ethnicity, nationality, religion, language or accent. It also presents experimental data on labour market discrimination against migrants and children of migrants 21. What the quality of work means for our health - Adam Tinson, The Health Foundation, February 2020 22. In focus: experiences of older people, Independent Age report exploring the experiences of specific groups of older people, April 2020 23. Living in poverty was bad for your health long before COVID-19 - Adam Tinson, The Health Foundation, July 2020 24. The Children's Society use Study data in their annual reporting of child wellbeing The Good Childhood Report. The Children's Society is guided by the principle that "Children's well-being is crucial, not just for their own lives, but for society as a whole. That's why each year we produce our well-being report". Most recent: August 2020 25. Parents in lockdown - Why have cohabiting mums suffered so much? Marriage Foundation, September 2020 26. Reforms for a Revolutionary Post-16 White Paper, Campaign for Learning, September 2020 27. The State of our Social Fabric: measuring the changing nature of community over time and geography, Onward (think tank) report, September 2020 28. Local indicators of child poverty after housing costs, 2018/19, End Child Poverty, October 2020 29. Monitoring socioeconomic and mental health trajectories through the COVID-19 pandemic, NatCen, November 2020 30. No place like home - Poverty and Furnished Tenancy Provision in Social Housing, Adam Nichols, Claire Donovan, End Furniture Poverty, January 2021 31. 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 |
First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Transport |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | "The Impact of Language Ability on Longitudinal Data Quality |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Conference presentation |
Description | Advice on design of EU-MIDIS II |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://fra.europa.eu/en/project/2015/eu-midis-ii-second-european-union-minorities-and-discriminatio... |
Description | Advice provided to Government Statistical Service regarding Mental Health Harmonisation Guidance |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/mental-health-harmonisation-guidance/ |
Description | Advice to the Japan Household Panel Survey |
Geographic Reach | Asia |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Advised Joseph Rowntree Foundation on methodological aspects of poverty estimates based on Understanding Society data |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Analysis and break downs of the number of disabled people in employment |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/the-employment-of-disabled-people-2019 |
Description | Australian Centre for Social Research and Methods: Scientific Advisory Board |
Geographic Reach | Australia |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Bank of England: Financial Policy Committee's report on financial stability presented by the to parliament |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/financial-stability-report/2020/august-2020 |
Description | Bank of England: The impact unsecured household debt on bank losses |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The internal analysis in this briefing was prepared by Bank of England analysts for the Financial Policy Committee in July 2020. Bite-sized summaries of internal analysis that support a policy or operational decision are published for wider access. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020/could-covid-19-lead-to-higher-bank-losses-on-unsecured-debt |
URL | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020/could-covid-19-lead-to-higher-bank-losses-on-un... |
Description | Briefing and advice provided on the Brexit competition dataset to researchers |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Building Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age, Andrew Przybylski, Policy Fellow |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | The policy-oriented version of the research/ paper, delivered directly to the Chief Medical Officers (England, Wales and Scotland) and advice given to England's CMO shaped the government's advice on screen time as well as their call for new research. The work was also shared with the director of the PSHE, Ofcom regulators, the DCMS select committee as well as the policy arm of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Specific publications/outputs can be seen here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/777026/UK_CMO_commentary_on_screentime_and_social_media_map_of_reviews.pdf https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/experts-respond-to-cmo-report-on-screen-time-and-social-media/ Science media centre press briefing coordinated with the launch of the research/paper, widely covered in the UK by health and science editors. Editorial in broadsheet: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/07/too-much-screen-time-hurts-kids-where-is-evidence |
Description | CURE talk on "Studying Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours using Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study" |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Campaign for Learning: Reforms for a Revolutionary Post-16 White Paper |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=f7b361a0-5a8e-40c5-8523-6ea96db... |
Description | Child Poverty Estimates produced for the Scottish Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Children's Commissioner: Childhood in the time of Covid |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cco-childhood-in-the-time-of-cov... |
Description | Comparing resposne rate maximization to alternative allocation criteria in adaptive design for panel surveys |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | saving costs on data collection |
Description | Consultancy project for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on the indicators of integration and social cohesion in the UK based Understanding Society |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Contributed to the Home Office guidance on Indicators of integration |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8355... |
Description | Crisis: The Homelessness Monitor for Northern Ireland |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.crisis.org.uk/media/241613/the_homelessness_monitor_northern_ireland_2020.pdf |
Description | DCMS Community Life Survey Methodology Advisory Group |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Do Interviewers' attitudes towards sharing personal information affect the consent rate they achieve? |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Conference presentation |
Description | Does right-wing electoral success cause more everyday harassment and discrimination toward ethnic minorities? Evidence from the UK. Presentation 12th January 2020 - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 13th-15th September 2019. University of Strathclyde. 'Does Competition over Public Services Decrease Support for Residency Rights of Immigrants?' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 13th-15th September 2019. University of Strathclyde. 'Does Gender Matter for the Political Behaviour of Ethnic Minorities in Britain?' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | End Child Poverty: Child poverty in your area 2014/15 - 2018/19 |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/child-poverty-in-your-area-201415-201819/ |
Description | Estimates of the employment trends in Scotland produced for the Scottish Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Estimates of the trends of mothers' employment trajectories in Scotland produced for the Scottish Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Estimating the benefits of financial interventions that affect consumer behaviour |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | Many of the problems observed in retail financial markets are often underpinned by "suboptimal" consumer behaviour. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is keen to ensure regulation and interventions can more effectively identify and reduce consumer harm in these markets. Rapid advice was provided to the FCA in drafting new guidance on estimating and assigning monetary values to the benefits resulting from regulatory interventions aimed at addressing behavioural change or tackle lack of transparency. As a result of the guidance, policy makers are able to explore available cost-benefit techniques, data availability such as Understanding Society, and resourcing issues, improving the regulatory environment. |
URL | https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/occasional-papers/occasional-paper-39-estimating-benefits-interv... |
Description | European Political Science Association. 21st June 2019. Belfast. 'Does Competition over Public Services Decrease Support for Residency Rights of Immigrants?' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | European Political Science Association. 22nd June 2019. Belfast. 'The broken link? Examining young people's partisan socialisation within the home'. - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | European Social Survey Sampling and Weighting Expert Panel (Chair) |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Multiple and complex. See report at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/findings/ESS-Impact-study-Final-report.pdf |
URL | http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/findings/ESS-Impact-study-Final-report.pdf |
Description | European Workshop on Empirical Political Science. 27th-28th June. Copenhagen. 'Does right-wing electoral success cause more everyday harassment and discrimination toward ethnic minorities? Evidence from the UK' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Evidence from the research project on housing and mental health outcomes (Mind Charity) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/impact/mind-event-explores-the-links-between-housing-and-ment... |
Description | Evidence from the research project on mothers' employment outcomes after childbirth (Coram Charity) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/sites/default/files/Resource%20Library/Coram_UnderstandingSo... |
Description | Evidence-based early-years intervention inquiry: Science and Technology Committee |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-c... |
Description | GESIS Panel Scientific Quality Assurance Board |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Gender Equality at Work: research on the barriers to women's progression |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8400... |
Description | Gender Equality: The Pay Gap and Beyond event and launch of Insights 2018-19 (Raj Patel, Nov 2018) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Emerging evidence is contributing to a shift in thinking and policy, beyond the traditional focus on the FTSE 350, executives, women on boards "to part time work, women from all parts of the UK, low paid women, women with multiple barriers to reaching their full potential, older women, financially fragile women, women who aren't easy to reach, or measure, or sometimes even to see". See URL below. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/bright-blues-women-in-work-conference-speech |
Description | Generating policy impact from bio-social research (Raj Patel and Meena Kumari, Dec 2018) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Developed the knowledge and skills of researchers in generating impact, with contributions from the Department for Work and Pensions, Age Uk and Public Health England. |
Description | Government Equalities Office WAGE Programme - Covid-19 Equalities Observatory |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Description | HM Treasury 2020 Budget statement |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | This analysis by HM Treasury set out the impact of government support on working households' incomes against the impact of earnings and job losses, comparing incomes in May 2020 to what they were in February this year. The data was used to monitor the impact of policy (rather than shape it), with the analysis showing that government interventions since March 2020 due to the pandemic have: - supported the poorest working households the most (as a proportion of February income) - been worth around a fifth of incomes for working households (on average) - reduced the scale of losses for working households by up to two-thirds. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/impact-of-covid-19-on-working-household-incomes-distribut... |
Description | HM Treasury Covid-19 response: Plan for Jobs 2020 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The Plan for Jobs sets out the second phase of the Government's response to Covid-19. The report cites analysis carried out using Understanding Society data which examined the distributional impact of government economic measures on household incomes. The Plan for Jobs was designed to support the UK's economic recovery while continuing to prioritise people's health by: - introducing a new Job Retention Bonus to encourage firms to keep on furloughed workers - supporting jobs with direct help to find work and to gain the skills people need to get a job - protecting jobs in the hard-hit hospitality and accommodation sectors and at attractions by supporting demand for these businesses, giving them confidence to reopen - creating jobs with action to get the property market moving, to increase and bring forward infrastructure investment, and to make homes greener, warmer and cheaper to heat. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-plan-for-jobs-documents/a-plan-for-jobs-2020 |
Description | Health Foundation: Youth People's Future Health Inquiry (Raj Patel, Oct 2018) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | The Inquiry is still in progress and further impacts are expected. Two initial reports have been published by the Inquiry which point to effective solutions for improving young people's health. These identify foru assets as vital to young peoples health: - appropriate skills and qualifications - personal connections - financial and practical support - emotional support. |
URL | https://www.health.org.uk/what-we-do/a-healthier-uk-population/young-peoples-future-health-inquiry |
Description | Health equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/marmot-review-10-years-on |
Description | House of Lords Citizenship and Civic Engagement Inquiry |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | http://www.parliament.uk/citizenship-civic-engagement |
Description | Independent Age: Experiences of older age in England |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://independent-age-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2020-03/Report_vF_0.pdf?uvSO_Q... |
Description | Industrial Strategy Roundtable |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Intergenerational inequalities in health and wages, January 2020 (Heather Brown, Policy Fellow) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The director of public health for Gateshead aiming to use statistics from the findings to make a case for projects that they would like to develop in Gateshead. Other policy influencing activities included: Policy Briefing (with specific recommendations) Poster at Annual Public Health England Conference (2019) Two policy workshops: Newcastle (May 2019) and London (June 2019) Expert panel member at the All Party Parliamentary Group Meeting on Health (July 2019) |
Description | Interviewer and respondent behaviours when measuring change with dependent interviewing |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Conference presentation |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society Training for Government Analysts using SAS, September 2019 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Invitation to be part of the advisory board for a grant application |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | L Patt Member of SOEP Survey Committee |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Linking Social Media to Survey Responses: Possible Issues and Potential Uses |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Conference presentation |
Description | Low Pay Commission Report 2019 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-pay-commission-report-2019 |
Description | Marriage Foundation: Parents in lockdown - why have cohabiting mums suffered so much? |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MF-paper-Parents-in-lockdown-FINAL-1.pd... |
Description | Methodological Advice to European Fundamental Rights Agency |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://fra.europa.eu/en/project/2018/roma-and-travellers-survey-2018 |
Description | NCRM training videos |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Two 15 minute training videos hosted on utube by NCRM on how to use biomarker data |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/user/NCRMUK/videos?disable_polymer=1 |
Description | NFER: Home learning during Covid-19 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.nfer.ac.uk/home-learning-during-covid-19-findings-from-the-understanding-society-longitu... |
Description | NFER: Teacher Labour Market in England |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.nfer.ac.uk/teacher-labour-market-in-england-annual-report-2020/ |
Description | NatCen: the impact of Covid-19 on people's mental health and financial situation, and how this differs among different groups in the UK |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://natcen.ac.uk/media/1977786/Exploring-the-relationship-between-economic-security-furlough-and... |
Description | ONS: Coronavirus and the social impacts on different ethnic groups in the UK |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/coronavirusa... |
Description | ONS: Health Index for England Methods Paper |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/methodolo... |
Description | ONS: The impact of Covid-19 on Black and South Asian People |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articl... |
Description | ONS: Time taken to travel to visit relatives |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/adhocs/12685ti... |
Description | Onward: The State of our Social Fabric |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | While the language of "left behind communities" and "forgotten towns" has become commonplace, data to explain the politics of belonging - in particular as asocial, and not simply economic, phenomenon - has been lacking. This analysis fills that gap. This research on the state of the social fabric of many places in Britain is supported by a cross-party group. In June 2020 the Prime Minister asked Danny Kruger MP for proposals to sustain the community spirit seen during the lockdown. "Levelling up our communities: proposals for a new social covenant", sets out a vision for a more local, more human, less bureaucratic, less centralised society in which people are supported and empowered to play an active role in their neighbourhoods. These proposals draw on Onward's state of the social fabric report. https://www.dannykruger.org.uk/sites/www.dannykruger.org.uk/files/2020-09/Kruger%202.0%20Levelling%20Up%20Our%20Communities.pdf |
URL | https://www.ukonward.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-State-of-our-Social-Fabric.pdf |
Description | Oral evidence to Women and Equalities Committee |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1079/pdf/ |
Description | Participation in Goverment Statisical Service Hamonisation network |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/about-us/champion-networks/harmonisation-champions/#list-of-champion... |
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 | Political Studies Association. 14th April 2019. Nottingham. 'Does Gender Matter for the Political Behaviour of Ethnic Minorities in Britain?' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Political Studies Association. 15th April 2019. Nottingham. Roundtable Discussion: Britain's Ethnic Minorities' Political Participation and Representation. - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Poster on "Racial and ethnic harassment and its association with mental health and wellbeing for ethnic minorities in the UK" at PAA 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation - Biomarkers as precursors of disability. European Association of Health Economics, Maastricht 2018 |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation - House Price Shocks and Borrowing to Invest - Bank of Italy, 26 November 2019 (Tom Crossley) |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation - House Price Shocks and Borrowing to Invest - Bundesbank 19 September 2019 (Tom Crossley) |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation at "Embedding ethnicity and migration within applied public health research: Exploring quantitative data opportunities, challenges and priorities" |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation at "Precarity, Inequality and Social Mobility: A Work- and Inequality-focused Symposium reservation" |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation at Royal Statistical Society |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.statslife.org.uk/members-area/member-news/sections-and-local-group-meeting-reports/3645-... |
Description | Presentation of my research using understanding society - La Thuile (ITA) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation of my research using understanding society - Lisbon (PT) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation of my research using understanding society - Milan (ITA) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation of my research using understanding society - Utrecht (NL) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Ethnic and racial harassment and mental health: Identifying sources of resilience" at IMISCOE 2018 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Racial and ethnic harassment and its association with mental health and wellbeing for ethnic minorities in the UK" at BSPS 2016 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Racial and ethnic harassment and its association with mental health and wellbeing for ethnic minorities in the UK" at EALE 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Racial and ethnic harassment and its association with mental health and wellbeing for ethnic minorities in the UK" at ESA Conference 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Racial and ethnic harassment and its association with mental health and wellbeing for ethnic minorities in the UK" at ESPE 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Transitions from Full-time education to employment: the role of wellbeing" at EALE 2018 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Understanding the role of contextual factors for the salience of ethnic identity" at ISA RC28 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presentation on "Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing" at NIBS conference |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Presernation on "Ethnic identity in context: the influence of forms of contact on majority and minority social identities" at UNU-WIDER |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Produced estimates of alcohol consumption at regional level with a follow up concusltation regrading parental conflicts and parental drinking |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Produced statistics on fuel poverty for the Scottish Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Project with Coram Families and Childcare used at APPG on Early Years |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/sites/default/files/Resource%20Library/Coram_UnderstandingSo... |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "An adaptive design approach to web fieldwork on the UK Household Longitudinal Study". Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-21, 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Do Interviewers' attitudes towards sharing personal information affect the consent rate they achieve?", presented at the International Panel Survey Methods Workshop. Berlin, Germany, 20-21 June, 2016. |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Fieldwork experiments to boost web response". Paper presented at the CLOSER Mixing modes and measurement methods in longitudinal studies workshop, London, 3rd November 2016 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Full house: Trying to encourage whole-household web-completion", at the International Field Directors and Technologies Conference. Austin, Texas. 15-18 May, 2016. |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Moving Understanding Society to Mixed Mode: Effects on Response and Attrition". Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-21, 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Moving Understanding Society to Mixed Mode: Effects on Response and Attrition". Paper presented at the Understanding Society Conference July 2017, Colchester |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Overview of open access European survey data 3: the UK Household Longitudinal Study". Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-21, 2017 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Results for Web/Face-to-Face Linkage Consent Questions in the Innovation Panel". Paper presented at the Presented at the Mixing Modes and Measurement Methods in Longitudinal Studies Workshop, London |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: "Understanding Society", Keynote Speaker at Annual meeting of the Dutch Platform for Survey Research, "Survey research into trends over time: a longitudinal panel", 8th September 2016, Amsterdam. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Promotion of data through presentation of research: Paper presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research 72nd Annual Conference, May 18-21, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Provided Labour and Conservative campaigners with information about ethnic minority voters in 2017 when Understanding Society data became available |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Provided statistics on children on school trips for the Department for Education |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Provided statistics on council tax bands for Scottish Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Provided statistics on job satisfaction in Scotland for the Scottish Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Provided updated statistics on SDQ scores for Wales for the Welsh Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Reports by policy organisations that use UKHLS data (c. 40) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Description | Research on housing and mental health for the Mind Charity (Third Sector Voucher Scheme) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/illnesstreatments/opinion/mind/101672/its-no-br... |
Description | Research on the effects of childcare cost and availability on employment outcomes of mothers for the Coram Family and Childcare Trust (Third Sector Voucher Scheme) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Resolution Founation: An intergenerational audit for the UK |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/intergenerational-audit-uk-2020/ |
Description | Resolution Foundation: Annual Living Standards Audit |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/the-living-standards-audit-2020/ |
Description | Resolution Foundation: Low Pay Britain 2020 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/low-pay-britain-2020/ |
Description | Resolution Foundation: Report on challenges of the coronavirus labour market crisis |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/the-full-monty/ |
Description | Resolution Foundation: Retraining and career change in the UK |
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 | Resolution Foundation: The impacts of the Government's coronavirus income support schemes across the age distribution |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/all-together-now/ |
Description | Resolution Foundation: Understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/the-truth-will-out/ |
Description | Routine reporting about population mental health and wellbeing in England during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The purpose of the COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing surveillance report is to inform policy, planning and commissioning in health and social care and is designed to assist stakeholders at both national and local level. The evidence was subsequently quoted in a paper by DHSC which set out some of the learning as well as the evidence and rationale behind the tiered approach to lockdown: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/944823/Analysis_of_the_health_economic_and_social_effects_of_COVID-19_and_the_approach_to_tiering_FINAL_-_accessible_v2.pdf |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report/... |
Description | Royal Society DELVE Initiative (Covid-19): Balancing the Risks of Pupils Returning to Schools |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
URL | https://rs-delve.github.io/reports/2020/07/24/balancing-the-risk-of-pupils-returning-to-schools.html |
Description | Runnymede Trust briefing paper - Nicole Martin (with Omar Khan) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/26/loss-of-minority-ethnic-support-threatens-tory-powe... |
Description | SAS based Understanding Society training for Government analysts |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Health, Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Arts Council staff took part in this training course which provided hands-on data training on how to use Understanding Society data. In addition to providing a grounding on foundational analysis, the training also provided insights into policy applications of the Study. As a result participants acquired the following skillsfor application in their workplaces: • the way Understanding Society and its sample is designed • which data are collected and how the data are structured and stored • how to find variables using the interactive online documentation • how to access the data and prepare the data files for analysis • how to use weights for producing population estimates |
Description | SS&M paper cited by a systematic review |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
URL | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Almudena_Claassen/publication/326551325_A_Systematic_Review_of_... |
Description | Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE): Factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
Impact | Paper by the ethnicity sub-group on factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups. This was considered at SAGE 73 on 17 December 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/factors-influencing-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-among-minority-ethnic-groups-17-december-2020 |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9527... |
Description | Scottish Carer's Assistance Discussion Event |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Scottish Government Evidence into Policy Event and launch of Insights 2018-19 in Scotland - covering social exclusion and health in older age, environment behaviour and the Industrial Strategy (Raj Patel and Magda Borkowska, Nov 2018) |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Scottish Government Evidence into Policy, Nov 2019 |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Scottish Government consultation on obesity |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.healtheconomics.org/resource/resmgr/EOSIG/EOSIG_response_to_Scottish_C.pdf |
Description | Social Metrics Commission: Measuring Poverty |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | As a result of the work of the Social Metrics Commission, the Department for Work and Pensions is now progressing work on producing a new statistical measure on child poverty |
URL | https://socialmetricscommission.org.uk/measuring-poverty-2020/ |
Description | Social Mobility Commission: Understanding downward social mobility |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9360... |
Description | Stakeholder engagement panel to develop a social capital harmonised standard |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/social-capital/ |
Description | Support government departments (DWP, DfT, Scottish Government, DfE, MHCLG, HO) in their use of Understanding Society data |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | The Children's Society: The Good Childhood Report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood |
Description | The Health Foundation: the effects of quality of work on health |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/the-quality-of-work-and-what-it-means-for-health |
Description | The Health Foundation: the impact on health of living in poverty |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/living-in-poverty-was-bad-for-your-health-long-bef... |
Description | The Migration Observatory: Briefing on migrants and discrimination in the UK |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Briefing-Migrants-and-Discriminatio... |
Description | The NICE methods of health technology evaluation: the case for change (Steve Pudney) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | TBC |
Description | Tom Crossley - discussions with ONS re labour market release |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Train the Trainer: A workshop to explore longitudinal data to inform your teaching in quantitative social science subjects |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Training on Generating Research Impact |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | This training workshop on impact generation focused on the contribution of longitudinal research to social policy. The training was aimed at PhD Students from the UCL Biosocial Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). One of four workshops over the course of the whole PhD, it looked at the impact process from start to finish, illustrated with actual case studies of where longitudinal research has made a difference. This opening session provided an overview of what impact is, why researchers should care about it, why it is important to build engagement, communications and influencing skills and what the main challenges are in achieving impact. Students were provided an opportunity to put this learning into practice and asked to come up with an 'impact plan' for a piece of research (drawn from real examples) - with feedback and recommendations provided. The event helped build capacity for impact amongst the next generation of researchers, and in particular how their biosocial research could make a difference through engagement with stakeholders. |
Description | UK All Party Parliamentary Group |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.healtheconomics.org/resource/resmgr/EOSIG/APPG_final.pdf |
Description | Understanding Society Scientific Conference. 3rd June 2019. University of Essex. 'Left out of the left-behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Understanding Society Scientific Conference. 3rd June 2019. University of Essex. 'The broken link? Examining young people's partisan socialisation within the home' - Nicole Martin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Using big data to analyse crime victims' experiences and (dis)satisfaction |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Volunteering and Wellbeing: A Briefing Note for the Welsh Government |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | As part of its wellbeing agenda, and in the context of an ageing society, the Welsh government is keen to develop volunteering opportunities that also help improve wellbeing. This briefing note set out the latest evidence on the relationship between volunteering and wellbeing to inform the design of a volunteering initiative. |
Description | Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data: The Effect of the Great Lockdown on Homeworking in the United Kingdom |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://wiserd.ac.uk/publications/effect-great-lockdown-homeworking-united-kingdom |
Description | Written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Active Travel, written by Hamilton on behalf of UKHLS, October 2018 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/transport-committee... |
Description | Written evidence submitted to the House of Lords Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision, written by Hamilton on behalf of UKHLS, September 2018 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/intergenerational-f... |
Description | Written evidence submitted to the Work and Pensions Select Committee Welfare Safety Net inquiry, written by Hamilton on behalf of UKHLS, December 2018 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/work-and-pensions-c... |
Description | Written evidence to Public Accounts Committee on free school meals scheme |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18864/html/ |
Description | Written submission to Women and Equalities Select Committee's Race Disparity Audit inquiry |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | (COORDINATE) - COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe |
Amount | € 4,988,915 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 101008589 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2021 |
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 | 05/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | Development of a longitudinal survey of indebted people |
Amount | £16,360 (GBP) |
Organisation | Money Advice Service |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2016 |
End | 05/2018 |
Description | ESRC Strategic Investments - International Networking Competition |
Amount | £35,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for 5 additional analytes |
Amount | £552,641 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for EU Referendum Research Programme |
Amount | £125,198 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for Health Innovation Panel (IP12) |
Amount | £1,502,793 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for consents interviews; review of cognitive scales; biomarker/ survey weights; NCMP linkage demo project; incentives |
Amount | £123,086 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for families beyond households; household finance; RA for linkage; Colectica |
Amount | £120,480 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | Ethnic minority voters in 2019: Brexitland, or business as usual? (Nicole Martin) |
Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2019 |
End | 06/2020 |
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 | 03/2021 |
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 | Third network for the analysis of EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) |
Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | Eurostat |
Sector | Public |
Country | Luxembourg |
Start | 05/2016 |
End | 10/2019 |
Description | UK POPULATION LAB INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT GRANT |
Amount | £300,882 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/S016651/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2018 |
End | 06/2019 |
Description | Understanding Household Finance through Better Measurement |
Amount | £249,999 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N006534/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 03/2019 |
Description | Understanding Household Finance through Better Measurement |
Amount | £499,999 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N006534/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | Understanding Society COVID-19 Study - Health Foundation grant |
Amount | £207,874 (GBP) |
Organisation | Health Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Understanding Society: 2019 General and European Elections Research Programme |
Amount | £37,828 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study extension for Wave 12 |
Amount | £16,042,995 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/S007253/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study: Waves 9-11 - enhancement funding - IP12 extension |
Amount | £330,925 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study: Waves 9-11 - enhancement funding - epigenetics, proteomics, methodological fellows, event histories development work, public engagement activities, data infrastructure developments |
Amount | £1,729,626 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Survey Waves 13-15 |
Amount | £53,434,506 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/T002611/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 04/2027 |
Description | Understanding [Offline/Online] Society: Linking Surveys with Twitter Data |
Amount | £891,501 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/S015175/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys |
Amount | £328,163 (GBP) |
Funding ID | OSP/43279 |
Organisation | Nuffield Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
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: The UK Household Longitudinal Study. Biomarker User Guide and Glossary |
Description | This document contains an overview of the biomarker data available in Understanding Society. The glossary provides key information for each biomarker to help users with their analysis and provide relevant information to be considered when biomarker data are used for publications. For each biomarker the user guide and glossary outline: - the clinical significance of each biomarker, - a description of the role of the biomarker in the body; - laboratory methods and procedures used to measure the analyte; - guidance on factors to consider when analysing the biomarker; - distributions for each biomarker and where available, these distributions are compared to equivalent data available from the HSE or ELSA. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This user guide and glossary has been cited by 19 research papers, helping researchers on how to construct biomarker research and make biomarker data easy to use even without prior experience in this field. |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/legacy/7251-UnderstandingSociet... |
Title | European Social Survey (Round 8) Sample Design Data File |
Description | File containing standardised sample design indicators and weights for all respondent cases across 23 countries that participated in ESS8. This enables researchers to produce design-unbiased estimates of population parameters and precision and to carry out unbiased hypothesis testing and model fitting. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Improvement in the quality of research carried out using the ESS8 data. |
URL | http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/alerts/alert0160.html |
Title | Genetics and epigenetics datasets - combined genotype phenotype data |
Description | Set of genetics or and/or epigenetics datasets provided to different groups of researchers, via Metadac. To March 2018, 20 datasets have been supplied with a further 4 in progress. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Further research combining genetics/ epigenetics data and UKHLS data. |
Title | Understanding Society DNA methylation dataset |
Description | Genome-wide epigenetic profiling using the new Illumina Infinium methylationEpic BeadChip platform, which replaced the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450K BeadChip, will be described in 1190 individuals of European ancestry from the BHPS subsample of Understanding Society. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Publications from our own group and underway by others |
Title | Understanding Society Secure Access datasets |
Description | UKHLS mainstage and Innovation Panel secure access datasets, deposited with the UK Data Service |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053 |
Title | Understanding Society Special Licence datasets |
Description | UKHLS mainstage and Innovation Panel special licence datasets deposited with the UK Data Service. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | All UKHLS-generated impact is based on an UKHLS dataset such as this. Please refer to all other impact activity detailed in our ResearchFish submission. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000053 |
Title | Understanding Society: 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: Ethnicity and Health Teaching Dataset Wave 1, 2009-2010 |
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. This is a teaching resource for those who are new to data analysis. It is a step-by-step guide starting from exploring a survey, understanding the structure of the survey data and then using the data to do some simple exercises to measure differences in health and wellbeing across ethnic groups. The survey used here is Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study which interviews individuals in the sampled households every year. To make it easier to use the teaching dataset accompanying this teaching resource only includes responses given by adults (16+ year olds) during the first interview to questions about ethnicity, health and wellbeing and some key socio-demographic characteristics such as age, sex, education, income, labour market status etc. The statistical software used to construct the dataset is Stata, but it is also available to download in SPSS and tab-delimited text formats. Nandi, Alita and Wiltshire, Deborah. (2019). "Teaching Resource: Analysing ethnic differences in health using data from Understanding Society". For information on the main Understanding Society study, see SN 6614, Understanding Society and Harmonised BHPS. Latest edition information For the second edition (August 2020), updated data and documentation files were deposited. MAIN TOPICS Social behaviour and attitudes Minorities General health and well-being |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8465 |
Title | Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-11, 2008-2018 |
Description | The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | A large number of peer-reviewed papers; influence on the design of major government and public-sector surveys. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6849 |
Title | Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-13, 2008-2020 |
Description | The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. The experiments are described in the User Manual and in Understanding Society Working Papers. Wave 12 included an experiment involving the collection of biomeasures by nurses, interviewers and respondents themselves. The biomeasures included in the experiment were: height, weight, blood pressure, venous and dried blood samples and hair samples. Biomarkers have been derived from the different blood and hair samples to compare analytes across sample types. Due to COVID-19 Wave 13 was implemented using computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and web surveys. There are two primary versions of the Innovation Panel data. One is available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement, and the other is a Special Licence (SL) version (available under SN 7083). The SL version contains month and year of birth variables in addition to age, county variables, more detailed country and occupation coding for a number of variables; and various income variables have not been top-coded (see the documentation available with the SL version for more detail on the differences). In addition, there are a number of SL geographical datasets that are designed to be used in conjunction with the primary datasets. Low- and Medium-level geographical identifiers are also available subject to SL access conditions and fine detail geographic data are available under more restrictive Secure Access conditions that contains British National Grid postcode grid references (at 1m resolution) for the unit postcode of each household surveyed. Further information may be found on the Understanding Society main stage webpage and links to publications based on the study can be found on the Understanding Society Latest Research webpage. Latest edition information For the twelfth edition (October 2021), Wave 13 has been deposited with accompanying documentation, and Waves 10 to 12 redeposited with some value label changes only. See the documentation file '6849_ip_waves_1-12_changes_collated.pdf' for details of the changes. Co-funders In addition to the Economic and Social Research Council, co-funders for the study included the Department of Work and Pensions, the Department for Education, the Department for Transport, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Community and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Department of Environment and Rural Affairs, and the Food Standards Agency. MAIN TOPICS The survey instrument is constructed using modules. For a fuller listing of modules and questionnaire content see the ISER Innovation Panel Dataset Documentation webpage. Experiments are described in the User Manual for the Innovation Panel. The household questionnaire includes a composition listing of all household members and collects information about gender, date of birth, marital and employment status, and relationship to the household respondent. The household questionnaire also has questions about housing, mortgage or rent payments, material deprivation, and consumer durables and cars. The individual interview is asked of every person in the household aged 16 or over, and covers: demographics, baseline information, family background, ethnicity and national identity; religion; partnership and fertility histories; health, disability and caring; current employment and earnings; parenting and childcare arrangements; contact with non-resident children; benefit payments; and household finances. Some modules are carried in selective waves - see the User Manual. A proxy module, a much shortened version of the individual questionnaire, collects demographic, health, and employment information, as well as a summary income measure. The adult self-completion questionnaire was a pencil-and-paper instrument (PAPI) at Waves 1 and 3, and in Waves 4-7 included an experimental comparison with Computer Assisted Self-Completion (CASI). It includes subjective questions, particularly those which are potentially sensitive or require more privacy. It covers feelings of depression, sleep behaviour, neighbourhood participation and belonging, life satisfaction, and attributes of friends. There was no adult self-completion questionnaire at Wave 2. The youth self-completion questionnaire (also PAPI) is given to children aged 10-15 years in the household. It covers computer and technology use; relationships with parents; feelings about areas of life; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ); and educational plans. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | A large number of peer-reviewed papers; influence on the design of major government and public-sector surveys. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6849 |
Title | Understanding Society: Innovation Panel, Waves 1-9, 2008-2017 |
Description | The Innovation Panel is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal surveys. As far as practical its design, content, and data collection procedures are similar to the main stage Understanding Society survey. It is a multi-topic household survey representative of the population of Great Britain. Data collection takes place annually using computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer assisted web interviewing (CAWI). One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older answers the individual adult interview, including and self-completion questionnaire. Young people aged 10 to 15 years are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. The Innovation Panel has multiple experimental studies in which households are randomly assigned to a particular instrument or survey procedure. Experiments can relate to survey procedures, questionnaire design, or substantive social science questions. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | A wide range of peer-reviewed papers. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6849&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | Understanding Society: Longitudinal Teaching Dataset, Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 |
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: Longitudinal Teaching Dataset, Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 is a teaching resource using data from Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which interviews individuals in the sampled households every year. There are two target audiences - 1) lecturers who would like to use the data file provided for longitudinal methods teaching purposes, and 2) data users who are new to using longitudinal data and can get a better understanding of using longitudinal data by using the supplied analysis guidance which utilizes the data file. The statistical software used to construct the dataset is Stata and the analysis guidance provided is accompanied by Stata syntax only. The datafile is also available to download in SPSS and tab-delimited text formats. The User Guide includes guidance on how to convert the datafile in Stata format to R. A second teaching resource using the Understanding Society survey is also available, see SN 8465, Understanding Society: Ethnicity and Health Teaching Dataset. For information on the main Understanding Society study, see SN 6614, Understanding Society and Harmonised BHPS. MAIN TOPICS This study covers topics such as socio-demographic characteristics, education and labour market information, residential information, income, health and wellbeing, political behaviour and opinions, environmental attitudes and behaviours. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8715 |
Title | Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2015 |
Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The Understanding Society partnership history file, Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2015 contains information about the start and end dates of all cohabitation, marriage and civil partnerships reported by adult respondents in all Understanding Society (UKHLS) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) samples but excluding the Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Boost sample. This has been created from the following data: (i) Understanding Society: Waves 1-6, 2009-2015 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 (SN 6614) and (ii) British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories, 1991-2009 (SN 5629). See SN 6614 for full details of the Understanding Society main study. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Enables research in a wide range of fields. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8473 |
Title | Understanding Society: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2019 |
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: Marital and Cohabitation Histories, 1991-2018 contains information about the start and end dates of all partnerships, i.e., marriages, civil partnerships, cohabitations (living together as a couple) as reported by adult respondents in all Understanding Society (UKHLS) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) samples. This has been created from the following data: (i) Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 (SN 6614) and (ii) British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories, 1991-2009 (SN 5629). See SN 6614 for full details of the Understanding Society main study. For the third edition (July 2021), data from Wave 10 of the main Understanding Society study were added to the study and the documentation updated accordingly. Additional data cleaning and consistency checks were also conducted. Users have been made aware that the Stata format files contain additional Stata date variables that are not present in the SPSS and tab-delimited versions. This is due to differences between the available date variable formats in the Stata and SPSS software packages. MAIN TOPICS Adult cohabitation, marriage and civil partnerships dates. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8473 |
Title | Understanding Society: Spending Study 1, 2016-2017 |
Description | The Understanding Society Spending Study 1 was conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, in collaboration with Kantar Worldpanel. The purpose of the study was to test ways in which mobile technologies could improve the measurement of expenditure data in Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Adult sample members of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel (see SN 6849) were invited to download a spending app on their smartphone or tablet and to use that to scan shopping receipts or report spending directly in the app for one month. At the end of each week, sample members were invited to an end-of-week survey; at the end of the five weeks, they were invited to an end-of-project survey. Data were collected between October 2016 and January 2017. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Experimental research on protocols for implementing data collection using mobile applications has fed into the design of mobile applications for use by the European Statistical System |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8749 |
Title | Understanding Society: Spending Study 2, 2018-2019 |
Description | The Understanding Society Spending Study 2 was conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. The purpose of the study was to test ways to increase participation in mobile data collection. The study comprised two separate sample groups: adult sample members of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel (see SN 6849) and members of the Lightspeed UK Online Access Panel. Respondents in both sample groups were invited to download an app on their smartphone to provide daily updates on their spending for 31 days. Those who did not download the app were invited to complete a daily browser-based online diary. Data for the Innovation Panel sample were collected between May 2018 and February 2019. Data for the Lightspeed UK Online Access Panel sample were collected between July 2018 and January 2019. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Experimental research on protocols for implementing data collection using mobile applications has fed into the development of mobile applications for data collection in the European Statistical System |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8909 |
Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-10, 2009-2019 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 |
Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first 10 waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has five sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6), participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPSand BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000053#!/access-data |
Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-11, 2009-2020: 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: Special Licence Access, School Codes dataset contains school code variables for child respondents and adult respondents (all adults at Wave 1 and new entrants at subsequent waves) to Understanding Society. A household identification serial number is also included for file matching to the main data. See documentation for further details. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section below). Those users who wish to make an application for these data should contact the HelpDesk for further details. Latest edition information For the 8th edition (November 2021) Wave 11 data have been added. |
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=7182#7 |
Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-7, 2009-2016 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 |
Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first seven waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has five sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6), participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPSand BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=6614&type=Data%20catalogue |
Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-8, 2009-2017 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 |
Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first seven waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has five sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6), participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPSand BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6614 |
Title | Understanding Society: Waves 1-9, 2009-2018 and Harmonised BHPS: Waves 1-18, 1991-2009 |
Description | Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations are Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. The latest release combines the first 9 waves of Understanding Society data with harmonised data from all eighteen waves of the BHPS. As multi-topic studies, the purpose of Understanding Society and BHPS is to understand short- and long-term effects of social and economic change in the UK at the household and individual levels. The study has a strong emphasis on domains of family and social ties, employment, education, financial resources, and health. Understanding Society is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of persons of all ages. The same individuals are re-interviewed in each wave approximately 12 months apart, along with other current household members. When individuals move they are followed within the UK . The study has five sample components: the general population sample (GPS), a boost sample of ethnic minority group members, an immigrant and ethnic minority boost sample (from wave 6), participants from the BHPS and the Innovation Panel (which is a separate standalone survey). The fieldwork period lasts 24 months for each wave. Data collection primarily uses computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), but includes a telephone mop up, and from Wave 7, web-based interviews. One person completes the household questionnaire. Each person aged 16 or older participates in the individual adult interview and self-completed questionnaire. Youths aged 10 to 15 are asked to respond to a paper self-completion questionnaire. For the GPSand BHPS samples biomarker, genetic and epigenetic data are also available. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Hundreds of publications of various kinds. Major impacts in several dimensions, documented elsewhere. |
URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=2000053#!/access-data |
Description | Academic collaboration with University of Botswana |
Organisation | University of Botswana |
Country | Botswana |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have set up a working collaboration with a member of the Dept of Statistics, University of Botswana with a view to exploring avenues for co-operating in research, education, and professional development. So far, the collaboration has resulted in a 1-week research visit, a successful application for initial funding, and joint consideration of other funding opportunities. |
Collaborator Contribution | The University of Botswana has provided staff time for the research visit and for discussions and has funded the local costs of the UB researcher involved. |
Impact | A successful GCRF fellowship application and a research visit. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Adaptive Survey Design Network |
Organisation | Government of Canada |
Department | Statistics Canada |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Impact | Influence on the design of scientific studies in three countries. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Adaptive Survey Design Network |
Organisation | Government of the United States of America |
Department | U.S. Census Bureau |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Impact | Influence on the design of scientific studies in three countries. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Adaptive Survey Design Network |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Impact | Influence on the design of scientific studies in three countries. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Adaptive Survey Design Network |
Organisation | University of Michigan |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Collaborator Contribution | Advice, discussion, participation in scientific debates. |
Impact | Influence on the design of scientific studies in three countries. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
Organisation | UK Data Service |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
Collaborator Contribution | as above |
Impact | range of training events held |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
Collaborator Contribution | as above |
Impact | range of training events held |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
Collaborator Contribution | as above |
Impact | range of training events held |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Department | Administrative Data Research Centre for England |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
Collaborator Contribution | as above |
Impact | range of training events held |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
Collaborator Contribution | as above |
Impact | range of training events held |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Determinants of Active Travel in Coventry and Warwickshire |
Organisation | Transport for West Midlands |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Understanding Society led the overall research design and project management, including all the data analysis and report writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Transport for West Midlands undertook additional convenience surveys in Coventry and Warwickshire Coverty and Warwichshire Councils provided medical interns interested in public health who undertook a literature review and conducted telephone interviews with local residents. |
Impact | The following outputs were delivered: A shared research work package and a literature review A report on the determinants of active travel in Coventry and Warwickshire A summary slide deck An event with local stakeholders and decision-makers in the West Midlands: Transport for West Midlands Cycling Charter Group An event with professional practitioners from Coventry Council |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Dresden Lab Services - analysis of hair samples for IP12 |
Organisation | Dresden Lab Services |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Leading the collaboration and providing the hair samples to the lab. |
Collaborator Contribution | Analysis of hair samples and return of data to the team. |
Impact | Data returned to the team. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Hernandez & Pudney - DHSC - EQ-5D health outcome measures |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | Department of Health and Social Care |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Hernandez & Pudney designed an Innovation Panel experiment comparing 2 versions of the EQ-5D health outcomes measure. The results of that experiment were used to design a much larger online survey, funded by DHSC through the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit at Sheffield. The data has been used by Hernandez, Pudney and Wailoo to construct a tool for "mapping" the EQ-5D-5L health outcome measure into EQ-5D-3L form. |
Collaborator Contribution | DHSC are updating their methods for conducting Policy Impact Assessments and they are using the new tool (source: email from David Vizer of DHSC who contacted us on 5 Jan 2021 to request the files to apply the mapping). |
Impact | Hernandez & Pudney designed an Innovation Panel experiment comparing 2 versions of the EQ-5D health outcomes measure. The results of that experiment were used to design a much larger online survey, funded by DHSC through the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit at Sheffield. The data has been used by Hernandez, Pudney and Wailoo to construct a tool for "mapping" the EQ-5D-5L health outcome measure into EQ-5D-3L form. DHSC are updating their methods for conducting Policy Impact Assessments and they are using the new tool (source: email from David Vizer of DHSC who contacted us on 5 Jan 2021to request the files to apply the mapping). |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Panel Survey Methods Network |
Organisation | Australian Government |
Department | Department of Social Services |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings. |
Collaborator Contribution | Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings. |
Impact | Improved research practice in various contexts. |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | Panel Survey Methods Network |
Organisation | German Institute for Economic Research |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings. |
Collaborator Contribution | Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings. |
Impact | Improved research practice in various contexts. |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | Panel Survey Methods Network |
Organisation | Government of the United States of America |
Department | U.S. Census Bureau |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings. |
Collaborator Contribution | Scientific leadership including organisation of biennial network meetings. |
Impact | Improved research practice in various contexts. |
Start Year | 2008 |
Description | Presented 4th SERISS training course on Cross-national Longitudinal Data Analysis |
Organisation | European Commission |
Department | Horizon 2020 |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS), aims to equip Europe's social science data infrastructures to play a major role in addressing the key societal challenges facing Europe today and ensure that national and European policymaking is built on a solid base of the highest-quality socio-economic evidence. The project brings together leading European Research Infrastructures in the social sciences - the European Social Survey (ESS ERIC), the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC) and Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA ERIC) - alongside organisations representing the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), European Values Study (EVS) and the WageIndicator Survey. It aims to exploit potential synergies and overcome existing fragmentation across infrastructures in order to enhance the key role played by these infrastructures, which form the bedrock of empirical social science in Europe. SERISS Work Package 5, Training and Dissemination, addresses specific training of staff working in cross-national social science research and infrastructures. The work package aims to design trainings and training materials for tools developed in SERISS and to provide training on data management, data handling and harmonisation, as well as on statistical analysis to a wider social science community. By sharing resources and skills training will have considerable value beyond infrastructure specific initiatives. The SERISS project therefore develops a programme of face-to-face training events and online resources to disseminate learning from the project among other researchers and social science infrastructures. I have presented the 4th and final training course in this programme, drawing on my extensive knowledge of the Understanding Society, SOEP and CNEF studies and my heavy involvement in developing and delivering hands-on training workshop. In the next couple of months there will be a webinar on the substantive content of the course. |
Collaborator Contribution | SERISS network organised the training course, advertised it, provided the facilities and hosted the hands-on training workshop. The course was well-received and reached a network of researchers to whom analysis of panel data is very new. (More than 120 analysts applied to attend the course of whom 25 were invited to participate). |
Impact | Five worksheets illustrating longitudinal analysis of panel data have been produced and were shared with the course participants. Syntax files to replicate the analysis has been shared also. A webinar will be recorded and posted on the SERISS website. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Royal Free Hospital - analysis of additional analytes |
Organisation | Royal Free Hospital |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Hospitals |
PI Contribution | Working with the Royal Free to agree analysis of additional analytes from the blood samples collected on UKHLS. |
Collaborator Contribution | Analysis of additional analytes and return of data to the team. |
Impact | Royal Free will deliver data from the additional analytes. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | TNS studentship collaboration |
Organisation | TNS BMRB |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | I supervise the PhD student whose fees are paid for by TNS BMRB. |
Collaborator Contribution | TNS BMRB pay the student's fees and also provide co-supervision and access to secure data that they hold. |
Impact | 6 conferences presentations (4 different papers, two repeated) were made. Two working papers have been published, one book chapter and one journal article. Furthermore, opportunities for additional collaboration outside of the immediate scope of the current partnership have been identified and are being pursued. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Understanding Society Associated Studies scheme |
Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | LSE is an example of an organisation that we have collaborated with for an Associated Study. We oversee the Study, approve it and work with the applicants on taking forward their study. |
Collaborator Contribution | Managing the associated study and agreeing to deposit data from the project at the UKDS, linked to UKHLS. |
Impact | Associated study projects, datasets, publications, etc. Multidisciplinary. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Innovation Panel - experiment proposers |
Organisation | Ipsos MORI |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Running the IP scheme and working with experiment proposers and sub-contractors to deliver their elements of the study. |
Collaborator Contribution | Proposing and agreeing experiments, working with the team to implement them. |
Impact | IP data, publications/ working papers, etc. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Innovation Panel - experiment proposers |
Organisation | University of Essex |
Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Running the IP scheme and working with experiment proposers and sub-contractors to deliver their elements of the study. |
Collaborator Contribution | Proposing and agreeing experiments, working with the team to implement them. |
Impact | IP data, publications/ working papers, etc. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Innovation Panel - experiment proposers |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Running the IP scheme and working with experiment proposers and sub-contractors to deliver their elements of the study. |
Collaborator Contribution | Proposing and agreeing experiments, working with the team to implement them. |
Impact | IP data, publications/ working papers, etc. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | European University Institute |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Leeds |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Sheffield |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society Topic Champions |
Organisation | University of the West of England |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Overseeing the UKHLS Topic Champions network, liaising with them on their input into the Study, and remunerating them via an honorarium. |
Collaborator Contribution | Input into questionnaire content and design, broader consultation on e.g. conference themes and speakers/ sessions, attendance at and contribution to UKHLS Scientific Group. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Understanding Society fieldwork - waves 9-11 - Kantar (2016) |
Organisation | Kantar Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Management of the sub-contract with Kantar for the provision of fieldwork services for waves 9-11 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 waves 9-11 |
Impact | See all other outputs, which are dependent on the delivery of fieldwork by our partner agency. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Cambridge - lab for analysis of IP12 blood and DBS samples |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Leading the collaboration and working with Cambridge lab to specify and monitor the analysis of blood and DBS samples. |
Collaborator Contribution | Analysis of blood and DBS samples; return of data to the team. |
Impact | Data returned to the team. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | University of Mannheim studentship collaboration |
Organisation | University of Mannheim |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I supervise the PhD student. |
Collaborator Contribution | The University of Mannheim provides a co-supervisor for the PhD student and access to their data collection facilities which allows the student to build-in her own studies and thereby collect unique data for use in her PhD research. |
Impact | Two PhD chapters and a research report. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Michigan research exchanges |
Organisation | University of Michigan |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We send our PhD Survey Methodology students on one-semester research visits to UMich, during which they engage in and contribute to all aspects of the scientific community at SRC. |
Collaborator Contribution | UMich host one-semester visits from our PhD students and have sent senior researchers on short research visits to Essex. |
Impact | Two co-authored journal papers and one co-authored book chapter; ongoing research collaborations; improved research skills of our students; offers to examine theses and to review articles; general networking |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | 2019 UK General Election - media correspondence - Nicole Martin |
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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | During the 2019 UK general election Nicole Martin continued to correspond with journalists from different publications, including the Economist (https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/11/30/britains-potential-prime-ministers-both-face-accusations-of-prejudice) and CNN. A figure from her research was republished by CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/25/uk/bjp-kashmir-tory-uk-election-ge19-intl-gbr/index.html) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | APHG/CLOSER Event: Tackling mental health problems in children and young people - the importance of early intervention |
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 event, hosted between CLOSER studies and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Health, examined policy on improving young people's mental health and the case for early intervention. A briefing on the latest research emerging from various longitudinal studies was provided to all the delegates. The event also included the ESRC Mental Health Leadership Fellow. As a result of the event, delegates had a better understanding of current policy, progress made so far on improving serivces and outstanding issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tackling-mental-health-problems-in-children-and-young-people-the-impo... |
Description | Advice on methods to measure financial inclusion in developing countries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Expert advice provided to a project developing methods for the Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) survey. The FII aims to measure and monitor financial inclusion in developing countries, and the effect on it of various interventions. Stakeholders include the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As a result of the advice, the survey has been redesigned and is now implemented in around 15 countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
Description | Advice to EU-FRS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Advice given to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency regarding survey design issues in the context of a new international data collection exercise known as the EU Fundamental Rights Survey. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://fra.europa.eu/en/project/2015/fundamental-rights-survey |
Description | 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 | Advised the Institute for Fiscal Studies on details of the UKHLS COVID survey |
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 Institute for Fiscal Studies are performing economic analysis of the UKHLS COVID data. They need to know detailed and specific information about the data to proceed. In particular, they are interested in issues around the quality of the income data and how the income variables fit together. We have advised them on the use and quality of the data on several occasions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Advised the Office for National Statistics on how they can weight their data collected during COVID |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Following a conversation at an "Office for National Statistics (ONS) Household Finance Statistics" event, we were invited by ONS to discuss with them the weighting strategy and tests we developed for the UKHLS COVID survey. ONS have conducted their own online surveys during the pandemic and wanted advice on how they should proceed with statistical weighting of their online surveys. We presented to a group of ONS experts an overview of the UKHLS COVID survey and its design. We then presented the details of the UKHLS COVID weighting strategy and the tests we have developed and applied to the UKHLS COVID survey. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Article in The Times: Becoming a mother makes career progression harder |
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 Times featuring research carried out by the Policy Unit for the Government Equalities Office on occupational downgrading for women. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/becoming-a-mother-makes-career-progression-harder-l2pkdcx2l |
Description | Article in professional newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Standardised survey design: are we missing a trick?" - article in "Research Matters", the quarterly magazine of the Social Research Association. The SRA is a professional association with over 800 members across government, the private sector and the third sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://the-sra.org.uk/whats-new/research-matters/ |
Description | Article in the Economics Observatory an online magazine published by LSE |
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 | Renee Luthra and Alita Nandi were invited to write an article about research conducted on hate crimes during the Covid19 pandemic. They wrote the article "Is hate crime rising during the covid-19 crisis" by drawing on our research on ethnic and racial harassment that was conducted in 2016-17 during the "Prevalence and Persistence of Ethnic and Racial Harassment and its impact on health: A longitudinal analysis" project and other studies conducted by other researchers on this topic. This is an online magazine managed and edited by the LSE which according to them, "bridges the gap between academic research, government policy and the general public." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/29/is-hate-crime-rising-during-the-covid-19-crisis |
Description | Article in the Social Research Association newsletter Research Matters |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Article in the SRA Research Matters newsletter that is distributed to all members of the Social Research Association, about the design of the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://the-sra.org.uk/SRA/Publications/Research_Matters/SRA/Publications/Research-Matters.aspx?hkey... |
Description | Article written for the Conversation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | We wrote an article in the Conversation, based on the research conducted as part of the project, specifically, about the prevalence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on mental health. The title was "How ethnic and racial harassment damages mental health" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/how-ethnic-and-racial-harassment-damages-mental-health-73076 |
Description | Attendance at workshop 'Understanding the causes of homelessness & rough sleeping workshop', organised by MHCLG and DWP (Hamilton, 04 Oct. 2018) |
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 | This workshop as a follow-up to one held in February 2018. The previous meeting included academics, third sector organisations and civil servants with an interest in homelessness attending the workshop 'Understanding the causes of homelessness and rough sleeping' jointly organised by MHCLG and DWP. The aim of the workshop was to explore the issues related to the feasibility of developing a model of homelessness and rough sleeping for policy development. Further research was commissioned as a result of the original workshop and the follow-up workshop in October 2018 was desinged to disseminate and discuss the findings and implications of this new research. I attended this workshop to represent Understanding Society and answer questions related to data availability and future possibilities for data linkage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Attended and actively participated in Wellbeing Economics All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children's Wellbeing |
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 | Attended the Wellbeing Economics All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting on children's wellbeing. During the roundtable discussion, there was an opportunity for the audience to comment and I highlighted the benefits of having a large longitudinal sample of children aged 10-15 interviewed in the Understanding Society study and advocated further investments in this, and/or in cross-nationally comparative longitudinal research on children's wellbeing (instead of an alternative suggestion to fund a new children's wellbeing study through an organisation that has a history of not making their data collections available to a wider research community). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | BBC local radio South Asian shows before and after the general election |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I appeared on Sunday afternoon BBC local radio shows in May and June discussing South Asian voters. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Blog: Budget 2020 - a different government? |
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 | This was a blog on government spending plans and the Treasury Red Book, including how research could help assess progress on outcomes. The purpose was to encourage the use of data to assess the long-term impact of spending plans. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2020/03/16/budget-2020-a-different-government |
Description | Brexit research event in London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event was held to communicate and discuss the body of research that came out of the Understanding Society Brexit competition, where researchers gained access to early data on Brexit from the study. I presented a summary of the findings from 18 papers that came from the project. This was followed by a panel discussion involving Catherine de Vries (University of Essex), John Curtice (University of Strathclyde), and Jill Rutter (Institute for Government). It was charged by Paul Whiteley (University of Essex). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/understanding-brexit-latest-research-eu-referendum |
Description | Brexit research programme - academic workshop 28 June 2017 |
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 | Meeting of project groups working with the UKHLS EU Referendum data - awareness raising about the data and the different research projects. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Brexit research programme: external event 7th December 2017 |
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 | Event to promote the findings from the Brexit research programme using UKHLS data on the EU Referendum. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Business in the Community |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The presentation was to senior staff at Business in the Community - The Prince's Responsible Business Network. This is a business-led membership organisation made up of progressive businesses of all sizes who aim to foster prosperity of business and society together. The presentation was on how to use Understanding Society, combining an introduction on using Understanding Society data and how to access research publications emerging from the Study. An important part was exploring ideas for collaboration or partnership development. As a result participants were well informed about the application of Understanding Society and options for joint working. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bitc.org.uk/ |
Description | CLOSER |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | CLOSER (UCL Institute of Education, University College London) has published a news story regarding Dr Davillas' research on the concordance of health states within couples. This news story has been read extensively and has sparked discussions regarding the need for a re-orientation of public health policy and the underlying research towards a family-centred focus. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/partners-health-inequalities/ |
Description | CLOSER new technologies workshop (non-health) |
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 | Capacity-building event and raising awareness of our methods research. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | COVID-19: mental health and wellbeing surveillance report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Mental Health Intelligence Unit within Public Health England have been compiling a 'tracker' of population mental health and wellbeing during the pandemic. This is essentially a resource to help local and national decision makers plan mental health policy and commission mental health services. This event included a presentation by Public Health England on what the reporting covers and early findings. The surveillance report is being updated regularly with near real time information and analysis about the impact of the pandemic on mental health and wellbeing. The event was by invitation only with department staff from the Understanding Society Co-Funding Group invited. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report |
Description | Calls and emails with Vidya Ram |
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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Repeated discussions and figures for a journalist Vidya Ram who writes often about ethnic minority voters. Here are two pieces in which I am quoted directly or my research is referenced. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/wooing-the-indian-vote/article18578490.ece and http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/will-indian-origin-voters-remain-with-labour/article18235467.ece |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Closed door discussion with HILDA team at MI 12 September |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Providing methodological advise to HILDA team |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Closed door discussion with selective members at MCRI - 11 September 2017 |
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 | Sharing of good practice in collecting BIomarker Data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Conference Presentation (EDDI, Tampere) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Approximately 50 individuals from universities, data archives, institutes and other statistical or data organisations attended the European DDI User Conference (EDDI) in Tampere, Finland. DDI is a standard for data documentation and we presented on adopting Colectica Designer for the Understanding Society questionnaire specification. The intended purpose of this presentation was to show our progress, challenges and future plans with this software and to receive feedback from other Colectica Designer/DDI users. We received positive feedback and suggestions, which has improved our knowledge about using Colectica for this specific purpose and how others use the software. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3601214#.XkPkFCPgphE |
Description | Conference Presentation (EDDI, Tampere) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Approximately 50 individuals from universities, data archives, institutes and other statistical or data organisations attended the European DDI User Conference (EDDI) in Tampere, Finland. DDI is a standard for data documentation and we presented on adopting Colectica Designer for the Understanding Society questionnaire specification. The intended purpose of this presentation was to show our progress, challenges and future plans with this software and to receive feedback from other Colectica Designer/DDI users. We received positive feedback and suggestions, which has improved our knowledge about using Colectica for this specific purpose and how others use the software. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3601214#.XkPgUGj7SUk |
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 | Consultation about research project on how the pandemic affected people's experiences of migration and integration in their local area with IPPR |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Based on the evidence from Understanding Society, we discussed issues around social cohesion, immigration, integration and the Covid-19 pandemic that could be addressed through the new IPPR research project |
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 | Corresponded with Stephen Bush - New Statesman - about the paper on ethnic minority voters in 2015. |
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 | Corresponded with Stephen Bush - New Statesman - about the paper on ethnic minority voters in 2015. This led to him chairing a related event on 25th February 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
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 | DCMS Methodological Advisory 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 | Attendance at meeting in Whitehall of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Community Life Survey Methodological Advisory Group, including discussion of a DCMS presentation on issues they face with the CLS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Department for Transport event on Understanding Society for Government Social Researchers, Nov 2019 |
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 | Researchers found the event useful and DfT have commissioned research into noise pollution around airports and wellbeing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Department for social security Australia - 6 september 2017 |
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 | Presentation to DSS Canberra Australia on examples of the use of longitudinal data in welfare policy in the UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Department of Health in Canberra - 6 September 2017 |
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 | Presentation and discussion to department of health Australia on the role of biomarkers in policy research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Developing methodology for the collection of health and biomarker data in social surveys (Health IP workshop), November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop with interested parties top promote the Health Innovation Panel to be run in 2019. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Discussion with South African visitors |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting (11-07-2016) with representatives from Statistics South Africa and Department for Home and Health to discuss survey design and implementation issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Discussions (multiple) with HM Treasury on use of COVID-19 data |
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 | HM Treausury wished to model the economic impacts of COVID-19 using the UKHLS COVID survey. Their analysis will feed into eg. the UK budget given by the Chancellor. We had multiple meetings with the treasury team during 2020 and 2021. The purpose of this activity was to support them in using the data and also advice on technical issues they were encountering. The nature of their work is detailed and requires deep understanding of the data. They very much relied on our advice and support in doing that. HMT have published one report that was informed by these dicsussion looking at the economic impacts of COVID. Internally, they continue to analysis UKHLS COVID data and we continue to advise them on technical issues around the data. For example, their ongoing analysis of UKHLS will inform the upcoming UK budget. HMT plan to continue to use the new waves of the UKHLS COVID survey once they become available. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8984... |
Description | Diving into Covid data, a collaborative data dive |
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 | Bringing together major social, economic and population studies in a single place, including Understanding Society, the Data Dive provided an opportunity for researchers, policy and charity experts to collaborate and draw out early critical questions about the impacts of the pandemic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/newsitem/?id=5693 |
Description | Economic Experts Working Group, Office of National Statistics |
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 will meet six times a year to help ONS set its development agenda as well as offering expert advice to help solve the difficulties of measuring the changing economy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/onsexpandsitseconomiccapabilityappointmentoftheneweconomicexpertswo... |
Description | Economics of Obesity Special Interest Group -iHEA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has served as a founder member of the Economics of Obesity Special Interest Group (EOSIG) within the iHEA. He has been successfully involved in a number of activities within the EOSIG: a) Enhance understanding of the prevention and treatment of obesity from an economics perspective; b) Connect economists working in obesity across the world; c) Share knowledge and provide support through the creation of a community of health economists specialized at the Economics of Obesity working together; d) Provide input to policy development at an international level. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2017 |
URL | https://www.healtheconomics.org/page/EOSIGMembers |
Description | Economist article |
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 | Research undertaken by L.Platt and A.Nandi referenced in Economist article on mixed-ethnic population in Britain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/10/03/britains-mixed-race-population-blurs-the-lines-of-ident... |
Description | Email exchange with Major of one of Germany's largest cities about benefits of longitudinal data collection and analysis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Email and Skype conversation with deputy major of the City of Leipzig following the discussion of my Understanding Society-based longitudinal research on children's wellbeing in The Economist. The City maintains their own community study and we discussed the pros and cons of turning the study into a panel. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Employment workshop (25 October 2019) - Re-thinking the conceptualisation and measurement of employment status |
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 | Information sharing and awareness raising. Led to further thinking of how employment is captured in Understanding Society. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Engagement with Cabinet Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Talk given to Open Innovation Team at the Cabinet Office about policy uses of Understanding Society and dialogue about establishing a policy partnership |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://openinnovation.blog.gov.uk/ |
Description | Epigenetic Data Launch 27 April 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Introducing understanding society biomarker data to leading experts in a new field of the study of epigenetics. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Ethnic minority voters & the British political system public event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentations were arranged from 3 academics, including myself. I presented research based on Understanding Society, showing that there has not been a realignment of voting preferences among ethnic minority voters. A panel discussion took place afterward between Omar Khan (Director of Runnymede), Binita Mehta-Parmar, Director of Modern Britain and Conservative party politician, Shahrar Ali, former Deputy Leader of the Green Party and Zrinka Bralo, Chief Executive, Migrants Organise. The event was chaired by Tom Clark, editor of Prospect magazine. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-minorities-and-the-british-political-system-new-research-on-en... |
Description | Expert consultation on Measurement of food consumption using household consumption and expenditure surveys (World bank and UN FAO) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The World Bank and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization invited Crossley to participate in an Expert consultation on Measurement of food consumption using household consumption and expenditure surveys. The goal of the consultations was to develop a set of guidelines for surveys, particularly in developing countries. The proposed guidelines are to be submitted to the UN statistical Commission. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Gave a talk at the "Family finance surveys user conference 2020" on the UKHLS COVID-19 data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | To promote the use of the Understanding Society COVID-19 data I gave a talk summarising "The Understanding Society COVID-19 Web Survey" with some initial results. Government researchers, ONS, think tanks and academics were in attendance. The talk sparked interest in the survey amongst this group of potential users. I answered questions about the data, design of the survey and added value activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5639 |
Description | Gender equality research featured in KS3 teaching resource |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Research on learned gender attitudes was included in a resource pack for secondary school teachers focusing on gender equality. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Glasgow seminar 2 February 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to introduce biomarker and genetic research in Understanding Society to MRC unit in Glasgow |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Government Equalities Office meeting on the use of large datasets and longitudinal studies to address gender pay gap (Raj Patel, October 2018) |
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 | Event resulted in staff from the Government Equalities Officer getting an informed perspective of the application of data and evidence to further the government's Workplace and Gender Equality (WAGE) Research Programme designed to inform policies to reduce the gender pay gap. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Guardian article |
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 | The Guardian has published an in-depth feature on Dr Davillas' (along with Benzeval and Kumari) research on biomarkers using UKHLS. This article has been shared with social media more than 450 times and has received more than 160 comments from general public. This article has sparked several discussions regarding the potential of biomarkers for social and economic research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/oct/10/how-your-blood-may-predict-your-future-health-bio... |
Description | HILDA Keynote lecture 7 September 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote lecture at HILDA conference on methodological innovations in household panel studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | HILDA Steering Group on 8 September 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Advising Australian HILDA Household Panel on methodological issues |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | HM Treasury internal webinar on COVID-19 and Ethnicity |
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 | Webinar with chief economists from various departments, this included slides using Understanding Society data and other data sources. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | ITV news: Women less likely to progress at work following childbirth, new research suggests |
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 | ITV feature on research from the Policy Unit on occupational downgrading for women, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-10-22/women-less-likely-to-progress-at-work-following-the-birth... |
Description | Insights 2020 launch |
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 | Insights 2020 was launched at a discussion event focusing on social integration and cohesion. An expert panel provided an over view of some of the areas being considered across the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2020/02/04/understanding-neighbourhoods-and-local-action-the-... |
Description | Insights event: How do housework inequalities perpetuate across generations? presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Insights 2021: Parents and children - how one generation influences the next Covid-19, like the 2008 Great Recession, is having a differential impact across generations but intergenerational solidarity is vital to a cohesive society. This means ensuring support for the older generation as their needs rise or change, whilst also looking out for the younger generation in response to their aspirations and the enormous economic, housing and mental health pressures they face. A fair 'social contract' relies not simply on understanding the transmission of goods and finance ('the Bank of Mum and Dad') between different types of families but also the nature of services and cultural transfers between generations, including transfers 'up' from children to parents. What is the dynamic nature of the relationship between parents and their children and how does each influence the other or respond to their changing needs? How are disadvantages transferred from one generation to the next to shape children's outcomes? From the geo-dynamics of caring to gender attitudes, how are the generations influencing or supporting each other? Hosted by the Understanding Society Policy and Partnerships team, our speakers explored these issues with time for questions and debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/events/2020/11/24/insights-2021-parents-and-childre... |
Description | Insights policy event: Education and social inequalities, what are the links? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Online discussion bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Generated questions and discussion, plus a broader interest in the Study data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/events/2020/11/24/education-and-social-inequalities... |
Description | Insights policy event: Financial resilience and recessions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Online discussion bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Generated questions and discussion, plus a broader interest in the Study data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/events/2020/11/27/insights-2021-financial-resilienc... |
Description | Insights policy event: Parents and children, how one generation influences the next |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Online discussion bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Generated questions and discussion, plus a broader interest in the Study data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/events/2020/11/24/insights-2021-parents-and-childre... |
Description | Insights policy event: Spending wisely on health, can we do better? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Online discussion bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Generated questions and discussion, plus a broader interest in the Study data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/events/2020/11/27/insights-2021-spending-wisely-on-... |
Description | Insights policy event: The future of work, how can it generate a health dividend? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Online discussion bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Generated questions and discussion, plus a broader interest in the Study data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/events/2020/11/24/insights-2021-the-future-of-work-... |
Description | Institute for the Future of Work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation made to the Institute for the Future of Work. Research is currently limited on the determinants and outcomes of individual exposure to friction, experience of the friction, and the cost and other impacts of adjusting to friction. The Institute is keen to explore how Understanding Society data could be used to examine this broad area of research interest. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ifow.org/ |
Description | Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty and Poor Health Workshop (Heather Brown, Policy Fellow) - 14 June 2019, London |
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 | Workshop with Professor Jim McManus (Vice President of the Association for Directors of Public Health), Baroness Sally Greengross (Member of the Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Committe), Jennifer Wallace (Head of Policy at the Carnegie Trust) and Dr Heather Brown (Newcastle University and Understanding Society Policy Fellow). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/06/14/intergenerational-persistence-of-poverty-an... |
Description | Interview for local newspaper article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Substantial article in local newspaper (Colchester Gazette) promoting the work of Understanding Society researchers at ISER in evaluating the effects of the covid-19 pandemic. Published 11-01-2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18998270.essex-university-researchers-world-leading-covid-study/ |
Description | Interview on "More or Less" (Radio 4) |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview regarding the reliability of survey estimates in a particular context and how the public should interpret them |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00028cf |
Description | Interview on regional radio |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview with Heart FM in January 2021 about the work of Understanding Society researchers at ISER in evaluating impacts of the covid-19 pandemic. Extracts from the interview were broadcast within the hourly news bulletins on Heart FM East and Heart FM London with an extended version of the interview broadcast on the drivetime shown on Heart FM East. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.globalplayer.com/catchup/heart/colchester/episodes/BUoxuPMgDDUKrkkPEYsBQEATu/ |
Description | Interview with BBC Look East |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview with BBC Look East about Understanding Society research into effects of the covid-19 pandemic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj5w |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata (13-14 November 2019) |
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. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata (2-3 May 2019) |
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. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata - training course - April 2017 |
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 | Training course to build capacity for using UKHLS data. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata - training course - November 2017 |
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 | Usual introduction training course that is run two times a year - to introduce data users to the Study and help them with analysing the data. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata/SPSS/R/SAS on 18-19 March 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 | 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 | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2019/12/19/introduction-to-understanding-societ... |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata/SPSS/R/SAS on 20-21 May 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 | 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 | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/01/07/introduction-to-understanding-societ... |
Description | Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata/SPSS/R/SAS on 25-26 November 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 | 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 | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/01/07/introduction-to-understanding-societ... |
Description | Invited presentation at the GenPopWeb2 event on Collecting Data Linkage Consents in Online Surveys |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop presentation on Understanding Society research on the methodology of collecting consent to data collection. Attended by over 60 international survey researchers and practitioners, from private sector organisations, charities, national statistical institutes, and academics. The presentation led to extended discussion afterwards and participants reported changing their views and future plans based on this research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/genpopweb2/ |
Description | Invited presentation at the workshop on Data Collection in a time of multiple crises: The social research response to COVID-19, bushfires, and drought, organised by the Australian National University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation on the survey methods used for the Understanding Society COVID-19 study, that sparked discussion and raised awareness of research done by the Understanding Society team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Invited speaker at a Knowledge and Evidence Network meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Presentation on innovations in data collection methods given to an audience of researchers from UK health charities (Cancer Research UK, NHS Strategy Unit, Crohn's & Colitis UK, Diabetes UK, MS Society, Life Changes Trust, Versus Arthritis, St John Ambulance, Ovarian Cancer Action), followed by questions and a discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited talk - City, London |
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 | Dr Davillas has been invited by the School of Health Sciences at City, University of London to give a talk regarding the potential of biomarker data for social science research. An audience of about 50 (undergraduate and postgraduate) students and academics is expected (December 2018). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited talk - U of Barcelona |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been invited by the Department of Economics, University of Barcelona to give a talk regarding the potential of biomarker data for social science research. An audience of about 40 (undergraduate and postgraduate) students, academics and (local government) health policymakers is expected to attend (November 2018). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2018 |
Description | Invited talk at CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis seminar at London School of Economics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was invited to give a talk about spatial mobility of young adults in England and Wales in the 1990s and the 2000s. The research is using data from British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society and showcasing the advantage of studying internal migration using survey data. The audience included a good spread of people from academia, charities, think tanks and government departments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invites presentation to the IADB |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation to the Inter-American Development Bank Strategy Group: "Panel attrition: Why is it of concern? And what can we do about it?" (Washington DC, October 2017) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | KEY NOTE - Portugese Health Economics Conference - October 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation to Portugese conference on methodological innovation in Health Research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Keynote conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at the CIPHER 2020 conference in Washington DC, on methods of collecting data using mobile apps. Conference attended by survey researchers and practitioners including from US government departments, private sector survey agencies, and funding agencies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://cesr.usc.edu/cipher_2020 |
Description | Keynote panel discussion at the European Survey Research Association conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote panel discussion at the ESRA conference, about best practice in the collection of data from different sources and using different data collection methods, which sparked questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/esra-biennial-conference |
Description | L.Platt media engagement - Interview France TV & other |
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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Lucinda Platt - interview with France TV and other media engagement based on ethnicity expertise and Understanding Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Labour Market Shocks and Household Finances through COVID - GES presentation - Hamish Low |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | talk on the work we have been doing with the covid surveys at Government Economic Service. Using new data from the Understanding Society COVID-19 Study collected regularly between April and November 2020 in the UK, we study the labour market shocks that individuals have experienced through the pandemic. We document the steps they and their households took to cope with those shocks and the extent of financial resilience. We show the importance of private transfers and the use of debt. We elicit individuals' willingness to spend unanticipated one-off payments. Individuals report an extremely low tendency to increase spending following such payments, both in lockdown and outside of lockdown. Joint work with Tom Crossley (European University Institute), Paul Fisher (ISER and Essex University), and Peter Levell (Institute for Fiscal Studies) . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | MRC Clincal Trials Unit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | wide ranging methodological presentation and discussions MRC CTU, followed by number of meetings re possible collaborations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Masterclass on allostatic load - 13 March 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | To introduce understanding society biomarker data to leading experts internationally in the field |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting of international panel studies, July 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of different panel studies from around the world to share knowledge and raise awareness - at the end of the 2017 Scientific Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting on household selection procedures |
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 | I Chaired a meeting co-hosted by a network of private survey organisations, EC-funded researchers and academics to discuss methods of conducting within-household selection for social surveys. The audience of 125 included government and third-sector researchers as well as the survey research industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.natcen.ac.uk/events/past-events/2020/november/webinar-within-household-selection-methods... |
Description | Meeting with researchers at ONS Data Science Campus to discuss joint research interests |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Exchange with researchers at ONS Data Science Campus, involving presentations of ongoing research on both sides and discussion. This exchange has led to a collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Ministry of Justice Court Reform Programme Evaluation Panel |
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 | Member of a Panel convened by the Ministry of Justice to advise on a programme of evaluations being carried out to assess the impacts of wide-ranging court reform measures. The court reforms, and therefore the evaluations, should be of substantial benefit to the tens of thousands of people involved in court services in the UK each year, including barristers, court officials, jurors, journalists, defendants, witnesses and members of the public in attendance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hmcts-reform-programme-projects-explained |
Description | Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) 11 september 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion with the Murdoch institute on collecting Biomarkers in the general population |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | NCRM Autumn School: New Data Horizons - integrating social and biological data |
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 | Joint event with NCRM - awareness-raising/ capacity-building. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
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 | National Academy workhop on longitudinal costs - 6 September 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to cross country workshop on costs issues on longitudinal research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | New York Times: Black, minority Britons hit hardest by COVID job losses, researchers say |
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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article in the New York Times on research done on the economic implications of the Covid pandemic by Paul Fisher, Thomas Crossley and Hamish Low. Analysis used the UKHLS Covid dataset. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Nicole Martin: Guardian online: Loss of minority ethnic support threatens Tory power, study suggests |
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 | Nicole Martin: Guardian online: Loss of minority ethnic support threatens Tory power, study suggests |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/26/loss-of-minority-ethnic-support-threatens-tory-powe... |
Description | ONS Loneliness Technical Advisory Group (Raj Patel, 2018) |
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 | The purpose of the group was to map and examine how loneliness is measured across various surveys. It drew up recommendation on the measures for adult and child loneliness and how to interpret and report the findings, keeping in line with the Government's Loneliness Strategy. National guidance was published by ONS following the work of the technical advisory group (see URL link). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/methodologies/measuringlonelinessguida... |
Description | ONS/ISER Workshop |
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 | On Friday, 6th October, a team from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) travelled to ISER to meet up with survey experts to discuss issues of common interest, and to learn from each other's experience. Both the ONS and ISER are working innovative and experimental research to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of data collection. Representatives from the ONS discussed the Social Survey Transformation project, which will transform the way in which the ONS uses surveys, with greater focus on online surveys and the use of administrative data to complement and, for some measures, replace survey data. Presentations covered the way in which respondent materials are being re-designed, using experiments to gauge the effectiveness of different designs of letter and envelope, the methods used to transform questionnaire content and design, and the effects that changes in survey design has on the take-up of the online survey. Taking up the subject of online surveys, ISER shared with the ONS the lessons we have learned from using Understanding Society, and the Innovation Panel (IP). The presentation covered the mode experiments on the IP, and the work that has been done to model the likelihood of a sample member completing online, and how this has been used on the main-stage. The Wave 8 adaptive design was also discussed, where we have been experimenting with methods to increase the proportion of web-first households that fully complete online. In the afternoon, the focus switched to the collection of data about household finances. The ONS Household Finance Survey Transformation Lead, spoke about the need to rationalise the large number of separate surveys and integrate them into a single design which would have administrative data at the heart. Representatives from ISER then presented the work that we have been doing on understanding household finances through improving measurement. This covered a number of projects underway at ISER: linking survey responses to process-generated data; improving the way we impute missing information between surveys; asking survey participants to reconcile their household budget in the IP; and using new technologies to capture objective data, using the Spending Study carried out on the IP. The workshop concluded with a discussion of common challenges and opportunities, and a commitment to continue sharing insights and experiences on these issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Obesity opinion article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been invited by the ESRC to contribute an opinion article regarding his research on the Economics of Obesity (ESRC Society Now magazine, Winter 2017, issue 27). Society Now is the regular magazine of the ESRC, bringing the latest and most topical social science research to key opinion formers in business, government and the voluntary sector. It is published four times a year and highlights research by the UK's leading social scientists. This opinion article demonstrates the importance of the survey measurement of obesity on inequalities and social science research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://esrc.ukri.org/files/news-events-and-publications/publications/magazines/society-now/society-... |
Description | Ongoing advice give to the Department for Work and Pensions around production of (UKHLS based) official income statistics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Official UK poverty estimates are derived from UKHLS (DWP "income dynamics" report). The UKHLS team produce multiple income variables derived from the raw survey reports and assess the quality of those reports. This is a technical area and in a series of ongoing meetings we advise DWP on the outcome of the quality checks and on how they can use the UKHLS derived income variables to produce their official income statistics. The outcome of these ongoing discussions is that DWP continue to publish official income statistics based on UKHLS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-dynamics-2010-to-2018 |
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 | Onward Social Fabric Study and Index |
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 | Analysis into the state of the social fabric in the UK and development of an index to measure social fabric. The Onward team were particularly provided information and advice on the construction of the index. Analysis from the index fed into proposals put forward by Danny Kruger MP to the PM: https://www.dannykruger.org.uk/files/2020-09/Levelling%20Up%20Our%20Communities-Danny%20Kruger.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ukonward.com/interactiveindexmap/ |
Description | Organisation of a CLOSER workshop on "New technologies to measure non-health topics in longitudinal studies" that included a presetnation of results from this project |
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 | Organisation of a workshop funded by CLOSER, that included a presentation of fundings from this project and generated discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/new-technologies-measure-non-health/ |
Description | Organisation of a sessio on "Measurement issues in household surveys" at the European Survey Research Association conference that inlcuded a presentation from this project. |
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 | Organised and chaired a conference session that included a presentation on "Measuring income in household surveys: evidence from a collection of experiments", that generated discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2017/prog/ESRA2017_Full_Programme_225238.pdf |
Description | Outreach with Carnegie Foundation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Opportunities to establish a policy partnership |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/ |
Description | Outreach with DEMOS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Use of Understanding Society data and potential for future collaboration in a policy partnership |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://demos.co.uk/ |
Description | Outreach with Data Orchard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Assess the capacity building needs of charities and how best to engage them in the use of Understanding Society data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.dataorchard.org.uk/ |
Description | Outreach with Health Watch Essex |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Organise needs to assess the care needs of older residents in the area. Also able to facilitate public engagement, e.g. on health issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://healthwatchessex.org.uk/ |
Description | Outreach with Institute for the Future of Work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Developing a research proposal which, if successful, will utilise Understanding Society data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ifow.org/ |
Description | Outreach with Onward |
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 | Reseach on repairing the social fabric of Britain which utilises Understanding Society data. The research is scoping work for a 2 year research project - will need access to more granular data and published research papers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ukonward.com/media-coverage-and-photos-of-repairing-our-social-fabric/ |
Description | Outreach with The Young Foundation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Agreed to develop collaborative activity to support social innovation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://youngfoundation.org/ |
Description | Outreach with Working Families |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Produce a Modern Families Index but sample size much smaller than Understanding Society. Could potentially use UKHLS data but this will require a review of their Index. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://workingfamilies.org.uk/ |
Description | Outreach with the Learning and Work Institute |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Talk on the use of Understanding Society data. Undertaking a project for the Social Mobility Commission which will use Understanding Society data. Also hoping to build a case for a 'what works' centre on FE and skills which could utilise research from Understanding Society. Happy to contribute to Insights 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.learningandwork.org.uk/ |
Description | PSID - Understanding Society exchange week (MB, JB, JMP, AN) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Exchange week with PSID (USA household panel study) , set of presentations to PSID team followed by a week of discussions and sharing experiences and learning. Funded by ESRC international visit |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Panel Contributor KeyNote Swiss Household Panel Conference 20th Anniversary |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited Plenary Panel Debate about the future of longitudinal surveys |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Panel data econometrics using Understanding Society on 27 November 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 | 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 | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/06/01/workshop-panel-data-econometrics-usi... |
Description | Panel discussant at the Nottingham Talks: public assembly |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was an invited speaker at the 'Nottingham Talks: public assembly' event which addressed the questions around integration and immigration in the UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Overview of open access European survey data 3: the UK Household Longitudinal Study". Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-21, 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association |
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 | "Moving Understanding Society to Mixed Mode: Effects on Response and Attrition". Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-21, 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Paper presented at the CLOSER Mixing modes and measurement methods in longitudinal studies workshop |
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 | "Fieldwork experiments to boost web response". Paper presented at the CLOSER Mixing modes and measurement methods in longitudinal studies workshop, London, 3rd November 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Paper presented at the Presented at the Mixing Modes and Measurement Methods in Longitudinal Studies Workshop, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Results for Web/Face-to-Face Linkage Consent Questions in the Innovation Panel". Paper presented at the Presented at the Mixing Modes and Measurement Methods in Longitudinal Studies Workshop, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Participant newsletter, summer 2020 |
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 newsletter sent to all Study participants to update them on how UKHLS is being used. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
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 | Print newsletter sent to all Study participants to update them on how UKHLS is being used. Sent to participants at during Feb 2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Phone call with BBC journalist 21st April about ethnic minority voters and candidates in the general election |
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 | Phone call with BBC journalist 21st April about ethnic minority voters and candidates in the general election to inform their programming. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Phone call with journalist from the Economist |
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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | I talked with a journalist from the Economist about ethnic minority voters and candidates in the forthcoming general election. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
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: Gender equality - the pay gap and beyond |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Podcast recorded for Understanding Society. Fran Bennett, Monica Costa Dias, Sam Smethers and Helen Wright explore research findings and ideas surrounding the gender pay gap in the UK and what can be done to close it. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/gender-equality-the-pay-gap-and-beyond |
Description | Podcast: Our health and the environment we live in |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | In this episode of the Understanding Society Podcast we are looking at the relationship between chronic stress markers, health, and deprived areas. Lucy Prior (University of Bristol) takes us through her research into this relationship between deprivation and negative health outcomes, and her use of Understanding Society data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/our-health-and-the-environment-we-live-in |
Description | Podcast: The impact of working hours and job security on long term health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | This podcsst explores how our jobs and job security affect our health and well-being.Host Emma Houlton introduces us to two interviews, with Professor Tarani Chandola (University of Manchester) on the relationship between working hours and work-life balance and our health, and with Dr Claire Niedzwiedz (University of Glasgow) on the relationship between financial security and physical health. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/the-impact-of-working-hours-and-job-security-on-long... |
Description | Policy round table Australia - 6 September 2017 |
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 | Presentation to and discussion with policymakes in Canberra Australia on the contribution that longitudinal data can make to policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Policy roundtable: the changing world of work - how is it affecting our health? (6th June 2019) |
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 | With quality of work, productivity, public health and closing the disability employment gap higher on the policy agenda, there is a need for more precise research on the complex relationship between health and the fast changing nature of employment. Traditionally, links between work and health have been examined through self-reported measures of health and health functioning in population surveys (which can contain distortions) or through employer surveys. Combining rich employment and other information on work with biological information, in particular the collection of physical measurements and biological markers (indicators that a biological process in the body has happened or is ongoing) through large longitudinal studies, is offering the prospect of better understanding the association between environmental factors and health - and the possible causal pathways and transmission mechanisms at play. This event will bring together policy advisors and researchers from across government departments, public health agencies, Health and Safety Executive, human resource professionals, local economic development and health organisations, transport bodies, trade unions and charities. The purpose of the event is to: hear about leading edge biosocial research findings from his emerging field of social science; discuss policy implications flowing from the research; learn about biosocial research and discuss the opportunities and barriers to policy adoption |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/06/06/policy-roundtable-the-changing-world-of-wor... |
Description | Politico Interview |
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 | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been interviewed by Politico.com regarding the potential of biomarker information for health policy. This article has been read extensively and has sparked several discussions in social media on the value of objective measures of health for health policy evaluation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/01/10/long-term-health-nation-problems-000613 |
Description | Presentation - Ethnic identity in context: the influence of forms of contact on majority and minority social identities. TCRU Seminar, UCL, 28/2/17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Knowledge exchange and awareness raising of UKHLS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation - Ethnicity and identity: individual and contextual influences on identity expression across ethnic groups - opening seminar, SEMILUX seminar series, University of Luxembourg, 20/9/2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Opening seminar. Knowledge exchange about Understanding Society, awareness-raising. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation - Ethnicity and identity: new perspectives. Closing plenary, Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Plenary presentation - influencing practice. Knowledge exchange about research using UKHLS data, awareness-raising of UKHLS in general. Widely publicised by the Study as part of conference communications. Audience included policy makers and third sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation - The politics of ethnicity and identity. Lecture to the Royal College of Defence Studies 2017/18 cohort |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lecture to over 100 military personnel and senior civil servants from over 50 different countries, studying for a year at RCDS. Presentation used UKHLS data hence awareness-raising of the study and the reach of research based on UKHLS data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation and discussion at UKHLS Methodology Advisory Committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion of the aims and research design for this project with the Methodology Advisory Committee of the Understanding Society panel study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation and expert discussion to inform decisions on data collection methods for the German Microcensus |
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 methods for identifying mode effects in survey data, followed by an expert panel discussion. The presentations and discussion are feeding into decisions being made about the future data collection methods for the German Microcensus. The event was attended by 160 people from the German National Statistical Offices, research organisations, market research and polling companies, the German Bundesbank, and Government departments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation at CLOSER Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on "Adjustments for Selective Non-Response by Mode" to workshop of survey managers and directors, as well as academics and students. Generated discussion and raised a possible future research agenda. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/mixing-modes-measurement-methods-longitudinal-studies/ |
Description | Presentation at DIAL thematic workshop: Labour Market Inequalities Across the Life-course |
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 presentation on 'Occupational downgrading of women after childbirth' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at International Family and Fertility Symposium in St Andrews |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I have presented a piece of research on employment trajectories of men and women following the birth of a child in the UK, and at how individual, family and pre-birth employment characteristics influence employment outcomes up to five years following birth. The research is using eight waves of longitudinal data from Understanding Society. The talk followed with a discussion of potential implications for policy-making as well as of opportunities for further research and international collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at MHCLG (Indicators of Social Integration) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | presenting results from the consultancy research project to policy makers and analysts at MHCLG |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at RTI International |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | I presented our research in a seminar at RTI International. Approx. 10-15 people attended the seminar and reported increased interest in the subject. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at Runnymede event on ethnic minority voters in 2017 - 25th February 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Presentation at Runnymede event on ethnic minority voters in 2017 - 25th February 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Westat |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | I presented our research in a seminar at Westat. Approx. 20-25 people attended the seminar and reported increased interest in the subject. After the seminar, I met with staff responsible for the design of FoodAPS-2, the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey, to discuss our project in more detail. They expressed great interest in our project and mentions that this is likely to inform their own work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at conference including private sector organisations and National Statistical Institutes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the General Online Research conference on "Quality of expenditure data collected with a receipt scanning app in a probability household panel". The audience included survey practitioners and researchers from the private sector, National Statistical Institutes, and academics and created interest and discussion about methods we have developed to automatically code categories of household spending. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.gor.de/gor18/sessions.php |
Description | Presentation at international Panel Survey Methods Workshop |
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 | Presentation and discussion of goals and research design for this project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.514856.en |
Description | Presentation at the 'Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys' workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on "How to increase participation in mobile app data collection?" that generated discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://massworkshop.sites.uu.nl/2019-workshop-in-mannheim-germany/ |
Description | Presentation at the American Association for Public Opinion Research annual conference |
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 "Examining potential sources of nonresponse to mobile data collection with new technologies in a probability household panel" to an international audience that included survey practitioners from governments and industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Main/media/MainSiteFiles/AAPOR-17-CP_webFNL.pdf |
Description | Presentation at the American Association for Public Opinion Research annual conference |
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 "Using an app to collect detailed expenditure data in a probability household panel survey: response rates, response biases and measurement quality" to an international audience that included survey practitions from governments and industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Main/media/MainSiteFiles/AAPOR-17-CP_webFNL.pdf |
Description | Presentation at the BigSurv20 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the BigSurv20 conference, attended by survey researchers and professionals working in academia, National Statistical Institutes, government departments, private companies and charitable organisations. The presentation sparked interest in research using the Understanding Society panel study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.bigsurv20.org |
Description | Presentation at the British Society for Population Studies conference in Winchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a presentation about education and employment trajectories of young adults born between 1974 and 1990 in England and Wales. The talk followed with a discussion of policy implications and potential for future research. This research is using combined life histories from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and Understanding Society (UKHLS) showcasing the advantages of using longitudinal data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at the European Survey Research Association 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 experiments with different protocols to increase participation in data collection using mobile apps, which sparked questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/esra-biennial-conference |
Description | Presentation at the European Survey Research Association 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 the effects of offering respondents personal feedback on their spending, to motivate participation and engagement in the survey data collection, which spartked questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/esra-biennial-conference |
Description | Presentation at the European Survey Research Association 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 respondent burden in data collection using mobile apps, which sparked discussion and questions afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/esra-biennial-conference |
Description | Presentation at the European Survey Research Association conference |
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 "Reconciling Income, Spending, Borrowing and Saving in a Single Household Surve" that sparked discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2017/prog/ESRA2017_Full_Programme_225238.pdf |
Description | Presentation at the European Survey Research Association 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 the use of machine learning models to classify spending data collected from the images of shopping receipts, which spartked questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/esra-biennial-conference |
Description | Presentation at the General Online Research conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'How do different device specifications affect data collection using mobile devices?' which generated some discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.gor.de/gor19/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=47&presentations=show |
Description | Presentation at the General Online Research conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Thirty to forty people attended presentations on "using smartphone data for social science research" and discussed potential for app based research and potential for improvement to economic measurement |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.gor.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GOR19_digital_conference_proceedings.pdf |
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 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 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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 research in a seminar at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Approx. 15-20 people attended the seminar and reported increased interest in the subject. After the seminar, I met with staff responsible for the Redesign of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (Gemini Project) to discuss our project in more detail. They expressed great interest in our project and mentioned that this is likely to inform their own work. We have been invited to present our work at the Consumer Expenditure Survey Methods Symposium next year. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at the Understanding Society scientific conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on experiments with different protocols designed to increase participation in mobile app-based data collection, that sparked questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/ |
Description | Presentation of the imputation strategy of Understanding society (MOLS international meeting on imputation) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I organised an international meeting on imputation for income data and I gave a presentation on the imputation strategy og Understanding Society. People in the audience included:colleages working at the imputation of income data in Australia, Germany, and Switzerland, DWP delegates, experts of imputationand income data from IFS and Academia, collegues at ISER. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation of the imputation strategy of Understanding society (PSID visit) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I gave a presentation about the imputation strategy of Understanding Society to the PSID delegation |
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 to Cambridge Econometrics (Raj Patel, 2019) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Senior directors and analysts took part in this presentation. A number of ideas for collaboration were discussed which would depend on the nature of commercial demand. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.camecon.com/ |
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 Net-SILC3 workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation on the role of proxy response in statutory EU data collection (EU-SILC) to an audience consisting mainly of representatives of national statistical institutes from across Europe, plus Eurostat, the EU statistical office. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.liser.lu/?type=news&id=1641 |
Description | Presentation to an international audience of research professionals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk to a workshop of survey professionals from USA, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, South Korea and UK regarding design and implementation issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation to government research professionals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation as part of a one-day engagement workshop on 06-10-2017 with research professionals from ONS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation to the Bank of England on using Understanding Society (Raj Patel, October 2018) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Bank of England produce various analysis to inform decision making, including running an economic model that includes housing finances, and produce regular economic bulletins and reports . The presentation attracted key analysts. The availability of harmonised UKHLS/BHPS dataset was a major improvement that would make it easier for bank staff to continue using the data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation to the National Audit Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation made to the modelling team at the National Audit Office on how to use Understanding Society data. As a result the NAO will be exploring how Understanding Society can be used on audit projects. Two immediate areas of interest are pandemic responses to social care and learning loss. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation/Seminar/Q&A at the Office of National Statistics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 50 live + 10 video attendees to presentation of our project at Newport with Q&A. Lots of discussion. Aim to foster interest in topic, possible future collaboration? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation/advice to CPOP |
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 | Invited presentation and expert advice to The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Population (CPOP) panel on "Recruitment and presence of population subgroups over the life Course: Maintaining representativeness in longitudinal studies" (Washington DC) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.nationalacademies.org/cpop/committee-on-population |
Description | Printed Case Study: Does the grammar school system increase inequality? |
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 | Case study on research from the University of Bath using Understanding Society to explore the effect of the grammar school system on earnings. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/impact/does-the-grammar-school-system-increase-inequality |
Description | Project findings presented at a one-day event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | In November 2017, at the end of the ESRC funded project, Prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: A longitudinal analysis, the findings from this project were presented to an audience comprising of policy makers, IPCC, government departments, third sector organisations and general public. There were around 20-25 participants. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session. After lunch there was an open round-table discussion within the entire audience about the key findings, gaps in evidence, and the way forward, suggestions about further dissemination of these findings to specific audiences. A 3-page briefing report was also handed to the audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-and-racial-harassment-and-its-impact-on-health-new-findings-ti... |
Description | Public Health Challenge Lab - MB, RP, MK, CB, KC, July 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Produced a set of joint proposals between University of Essex and Public Health England/Essex County Council/other organisations to be funded through innovation/impact funds. All the ideas submitted were funded, including a joint project on 'active travel' by Understanding Society, Transport for West Midlands and Warwickshire County Council. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SERRIS workshop on mixed mode fieldwork costs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A number of international studies shared experiences of costs in mixed mode fieldwork; shared good practice in contracts and pricing |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SLLS value biomarkers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation in symposium promoting value of biomarkers in social science research and how to use them effectively. provided advice for indvidual's own research ideas and collaborations. Two collaborative projects are ongoing as resutl fo disucssions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SLLS: Allostatic load in the CLOSER studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation as part of a symposium on social biological research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://8eb09126-a526-416f-85a3-d4becc810a9a.filesusr.com/ugd/df1448_a93c5ad45eb04bc9809485845f32f42... |
Description | SLLS: introduction to epigenetics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation at conference introducing a session on social and biological research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://8eb09126-a526-416f-85a3-d4becc810a9a.filesusr.com/ugd/df1448_a93c5ad45eb04bc9809485845f32f42... |
Description | Scottish Government Evidence into Policy: Can training help workers change their stripes? Retraining and career change in the UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was part of the Scottish Government's Evidence into Policy events. The event was organised by Understanding Society. The presentation was given by Kathleen Henehan from the Resolution Foundation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/can-training-help-workers-change-their-stripes/ |
Description | Scottish Government Evidence into Policy: Learning inequalities during Covid-19 - how did families cope with home-schooling? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was held in partnership with the Scottish Government as part of its series of events to examine the latest evidence on various subjects. The presentation was organised by Understanding Society, with a presentation based a paper by Nic Pensiero, Tony Kelly and Christian Bokhove from the School of Education at the University of Southampton. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications/526202 |
Description | Seminar at University of Bath on UKHLS COVID-19 survey and the economic effects of COVID-19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave an academic seminar to the economics department on "The Heterogeneous and Regressive Consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from High Quality Panel Data". One aim of this seminar was to promote the Understanding COVID-19 study to academics who would potentially use the data. Several academics expressed interest following the talk. Several had questions about the data and accessing it which I answered. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Seminar on methods of collecting data with mobile apps |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar in the City-ESS HQ-NatCen survey methodology seminar series about methods of collecting data using mobile apps. Attendands included representatives from fieldwork agencies (Ipsos Mori, Kantar, NatCen), Third Sector (Macmillan Cancer Support, Sport England, Natural England, Internews Europe), government departments and regulators (Ministry of Housing, Home Office, Public Health England, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, National Health Service, Care Quality Commission), Office for National Statistics, commercial organisations (Breaking Blue, Google, Upshot, M&C Saatchi) and universities (King's College London, University College London, City University of London, University of Southampton). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.natcen.ac.uk/events/past-events/2019/november/using-mobile-apps-for-data-collection-10-th... |
Description | September 2018 'The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity'. Lecture to the Royal College of Defence Studies, 2018/19 Cohort. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture to over 100 military personnel and senior civil servants from over 50 different countries, studying for a year at RCDS. Presentation used UKHLS data hence awareness-raising of the study and the reach of research based on UKHLS data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Statistics provided to Financial Times Reporter for an article |
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 | I provided some statistics on the proportion of the UK population whose grandparents were not born in the UK using survey data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to a reporter from Financial Times. The article "Lies, damned lies and citizenship tests" was published on 23 November 2017. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ft.com/content/4ae8af86-d041-11e7-9dbb-291a884dd8c6 |
Description | Summer Newsletter for Study 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 | Newsletter for participants giving them information about how UKHLS is used by researchers and policymakers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | TES article: GCSE grades 'drop' after successful Ofsted inspections |
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 TES on parents role in their children's education following a school Ofsted inspection. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.tes.com/news/gcse-grades-drop-after-successful-ofsted-inspections |
Description | Tackling spatial disparities: geographical mobility and commuting, with Centre for Cities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of tackling spatial disparities, a joint event was held with the Centre for Cities to examine regional mobility and what factors influence this. This was a broad-based event with well over 100 people participating. The event was organised by the Centre for Cities with academic speakers provided by Understanding Society. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDDYViIe4cI&list=PLN2x0DavrncLaua-XgfKyDyP_neiXxu8z |
Description | Talk at the 2019 Annual Symposium of Social Mobility and Labour Market research group Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST), Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Alita presented some of the key findings from this project at this research group, which was followed by discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarity-inequality-and-social-mobility-a-work-and-inequality-focuse... |
Description | Talk at the ISER 30th anniversary conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on "Innovations in measuring household finances" at the 30th anniversary conference of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, attended by policy makers, researchers, and representatives from private sector and third sector organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isers-innovations-in-examining-inequalities-in-society-tickets-720560... |
Description | Talk organised by University of Essex under its Essex Explores open lecture series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Alita Nandi was invited to give a talk organised by the University of Essex as part of its Essex Explore open lecture series which was conducted online and open to all audiences. The purpose was to provide a forum for Essex academics to discuss their research with the University as well as a wider audience and engage with them. Alita Nandi presented the key findings from the "Prevalence and Persisitence of Ethnic and Racial Harassment and its health impact: a longitudinal analysis" project as well as those from ongoing research that was built on the research conducted during this project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yAVvOEDFTO6ovtyLyBTlhg |
Description | The Guardian article: Why a good Ofsted report can be bad for GCSE results |
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 | Guardian article on research from ISER using Understanding Society on how parents engage with their children's education following Ofsted inspections. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/19/good-ofsted-reports-are-bad-for-schools-gcse-resul... |
Description | The Guardian: BAME and single-parent families worst hit financially by Covid-19 |
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 on analysis of the UKHLS Covid survey data on the financial implications of the pandemic. Research carried out by Paul Fisher, Thomas Crossley and Hamish Low. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/07/bame-and-single-parent-families-worst-hit-financially-... |
Description | The Guardian: Britons with live-threatening conditions denied care during pandemic |
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 | Feature in The Guardian on research from Michaela Benzeval, Cara Booker and Meena Kumari on the health impact of Covid. Data taken from the UKHLS Covid survey and accompanying briefing note. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/08/britons-life-threatening-conditions-denied-care-coro... |
Description | The Guardian: Good neighbours? No, UK's community spirit fell in summer Covid lockdown |
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 | Feature in The Guardian on work from Dr Magda Borkowska and Dr James Laurance using the UKHLS Covid dataset. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/07/good-neighbours-no-uks-community-spirit-fell-in-summer... |
Description | The Guardian: Weird but true: lockdown has made many families happier |
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 | Feature in The Guardian on work from Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris using the UKHLS Covid dataset and data from the Covid briefing paper on families during the pandemic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/05/weird-but-true-lockdown-has-made-many-families-... |
Description | The Times article: Good Ofsted rating can mean parents become complacent |
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 Times on ISER research using Understanding Society to explore parent's engagement with their children's education following Ofsted inspections. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-ofsted-rating-can-mean-parents-become-complacent-8qpwkppxf |
Description | Three blog series on mobilising data and evidence to transform social policies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our new Transforming Social Policies report looked at how longitudinal data could help researchers from across different sectors and organisations become problem solvers and better navigators in the dynamic world of policymaking. This series of three blogs highlighted different aspects of the publication and provided a platform to promote the publication to researchers and others. Links to the three blogs are provided here: Blog 1 - Time to change course on generating impact: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2020/10/12/time-to-change-course-on-generating-impact Blog 2 - Working with the policy machinery: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2020/10/14/working-with-the-policy-machinery Blog 3 - Modern problems and symphonic thinking: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2020/10/16/modern-problems-and-symphonic-thinking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/general/transforming_social_pol... |
Description | Tom Crossley - ESCoE webinar on Understanding Society / Covid survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | ESCoE webinar on Understanding Society / Covid survey |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Tom Crossley - Unicef talk on Covid data collection - May 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Talk about Covid data collection in Understanding Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Tom Crossley - member of ONS admin data methods research advisory board |
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 | Member of the advisory board, drawing on Understanding Society expertise. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Tom Crossley - member of the ONS Economic Experts Working Group |
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 | Member of the working group, drawing on Understanding Society expertise. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Train the trainer: a workshop to explore longitudinal data to inform your teaching in quantitative social science subjects (22nd May 2019) |
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 | This free one-day workshop will give an overview of longitudinal data available to lecturers who teach and supervise students in quantitative social science subjects. The workshop will provide an overview of longitudinal data and the training resources available for students to examine the value of, and to use, longitudinal social science data. The day also gives an opportunity for instructors and supervisors to discuss their teaching needs with the data providers and colleagues at the workshop. The day is organised collaboratively by Understanding Society and CLOSER, with Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the UK Data Service. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/05/22/train-the-trainer-a-workshop-to-explore-lon... |
Description | Two presentations at the BigSurv18 Conference, Barcelona |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented two papers at the BigSurv18 Conference to disseminate findings from the HH Finance Project and liaise with other researchers working on app data collection as part of a general population survey. Attendees reported increased interest in the subject. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bigsurv18.org/program2018 |
Description | UCL Policy Event on Environment and Wellbeing, 27 June 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Examined the relationships between housing, arts & culture, neighbourhood, etc. and wellbeing. Arranged by UCL. A presentation on use of Understanding Society data and examplar research provided delegates with a clearer understanding of application. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | UKDS Webinar on Understanding Society NPD data linkage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Webinar with the UK Data Service to promote the linked UKHLS-NPD data. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2017 |
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 Scientific Conference reaching c.200 people - presentations and workshops on research using UKHLS data; training courses for capacity-building; awareness-raising sessions about the Study; consultation sessions with data users; workshop with PIs from other international longitudinal studies. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/scientific-conference-2017 |
Description | Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2019 (2nd - 4th July) |
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 | An international conference sharing research based on longitudinal household panel studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsocietyconference.co.uk/ |
Description | University of Essex CURE talks (28th March and 18th November 2019) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Cross University Research Event - A termly event where research expertise is shared across the University in the format of TED style talks based on a theme. Join us for an hour of 3 minute presentations from our leading researchers across all three faculties, followed by refreshments and networking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Unresolved Public Policy Challenges, joint report and event with NATCEN and Office for National Statistics, Feb 2020 |
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 | Positive feedback from the event about the broader analysis presented, utilising the expertise and data-sets across all three partners. Early stage conversation between the partners about the value of collaborative activity. New format for presenting evidence in the form of a 'slide deck', with clear headlines and charts, particularly valued by busy policymakers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://natcen.ac.uk/our-expertise/unresolved-public-policy-challenges/unresolved-public-policy-chall... |
Description | Using Covid-19 data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A customised presentation was given to analysts in the Welsh Government on how to use Understanding Society. There was considerable interest in the new data-set given the unfolding situation with the pandemic and the event was organised at the request of the Welsh Government. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Using Understanding Society data to examine neighbourhood effects of local growth (Gundi Knies, Min Zhang, Raj Patel, Dec 2018) |
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 | BEIS were informed about the Neighbourhood Effects Research Project being led by Gundi Knies and Min Zhang to evaluation government policies aimed at stimulating local growth. Place is one of the five foundations of the Industrial Strategy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Using neighbourhood data in Understanding Society (15th November 2019) |
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 facilitates exciting and innovative research about the UK's society, including research into the relevance of neighbourhood and place for individual and societal wellbeing. In this introductory course, participants will gain skills in thinking about exciting research questions around "neighbourhoods" that can be addressed using Understanding Society and will be equipped with the basic tools that are involved in answering them. How much neighbourhood social capital is there in Britain and what are its individual, household and neighbourhood level correlates? How has neighbourhood social cohesion changed over time, and how does this matter? Participants will learn to navigate the Study's extensive online resources to identify relevant study content and undertake some basic types of cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses in Stata. The course is open to early career and postgraduate researchers from all disciplines and policy fields. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Using neighbourhood data in Understanding Society on 20 March 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 | Understanding Society facilitates exciting and innovative research about the UK's society, including research into the relevance of neighbourhood and place for individual and societal wellbeing. In this introductory course, participants will gain skills in thinking about exciting research questions around "neighbourhoods" that can be addressed using Understanding Society and will be equipped with the basic tools that are involved in answering them. How much neighbourhood social capital is there in Britain and what are its individual, household and neighbourhood level correlates? How has neighbourhood social cohesion changed over time, and how does this matter? Participants will learn to navigate the Study's extensive online resources to identify relevant study content and undertake some basic types of cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses in Stata. This was conducted online by the study's Neighbourhood Topic Champion, Dr. Knies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/01/07/using-neighbourhood-data-in-understa... |
Description | Using weights and sample design indicators in Understanding Society: Why, when and how? July 2017 |
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 | Weighting training course in advance of the UKHLS Scientific Conference 2017. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Using weights in Understanding Society on 27 November 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 | 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 | 2020 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/training/2020/06/01/workshop-using-weights-in-understand... |
Description | Visit from Bank of England |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | On 17 May a representative of the he Bank of England visiting the University of Essex at our invitation to discuss our research on measuring household finances, the Understanding Society Data, and possibilities for Collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Visit from Panel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan - Communication and Impact (Raj Patel, January 2019) |
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 | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Exchange of best practice and ideas for audience engagement, knowledge exchange and impact generation. Presentation requested and circulated. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Visit from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 28 Jan - 1 Feb 2019 |
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 | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Visit from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 28 Jan - 1 Feb 2019 - discussions of survey developments and issues, plans for future collaborative working, etc. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Webinar on the new harmonised dataset |
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 webinar on the new harmonised BHPS-UKHLS dataset |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Webinar: A guide to weighting in Understanding Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | In this webinar Dr Olena Kaminska, Survey Statistician for Understanding Society, provided guidance to users on how to select an appropriate weight for their analysis. The webinar briefly described how the weights are calculated and reflected on the issue of 0 weights. Finally, a short introduction was given on how to create your own tailored adjustments to the UKHLS weights. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://youtu.be/1mElM8fSd9E |
Description | Webinar: Ethnicity and Migration Research using Understanding Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This webinar gave an overview of Understanding Society, and its special features that enable research on ethnicity and migration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://youtu.be/8Zx_olmf2zY |
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 | Winter newsletter for Study 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 | Newsletter for participants giving them information about how UKHLS is used by researchers and policymakers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Work and Health Roundtable |
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 | Policy roundtable on 'The changing world of work: How is it affecting our health?', utilising biomarkers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop for University of Essex Psychology Department Masters students, 29th October 2019 (AN) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Workshop for University of Essex Psychology Department Masters students, 29th October 2019 (AN) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop: Longitudinal and administrative data for distributional analyses (28-30 Oct 2019) |
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 use of administrative and longitudinal data for distributional analysis - sharing research and raising awareness |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop: Missing data in longitudinal and linked surveys (7th May 2019) |
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 | Longitudinal surveys are crucial resources for analysing and understanding how economic and social behaviour change over time. Because they provide repeated observations of the same observational units over time, they enable researchers to answer a host of questions about how individual heterogeneous units respond to economic and social factors. However, the longitudinal nature of these studies results in complex patterns of missing data. The interaction of attrition and time-varying nonresponse with the rich features of longitudinal surveys (such as rotating content) and the multipurpose nature of such studies results in a multiplicity of patterns of missingness for researchers analysing the data in different ways or for different purposes. A frontier in the provision of data for social science and biosocial research is the linkage of survey data with administrative and other external sources of data. This allows administrative data to be leveraged by the addition of information from survey questions on quantities that are not measured in the administrative data, and vice versa. But data linkage results in complete cases only for the intersection of cases that are complete in both the survey and administrative data. Moreover, the linkage processes itself can result in additional missing data, through lack of consent or failure to match. Linking external data to longitudinal surveys, while offering enormous opportunities, further complicates the missing data challenges inherent in such surveys. Developing new methods to address the challenges caused by these missing data problems is a research area of first-order importance. This workshop brings together statisticians, econometricians, survey designers, and data users to discuss new results and open questions in this important research area. The workshop will discuss practical experience in collecting and using panel data, advances in statistical and econometric methods to address missing data problems, and applications of these methods to important research questions. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion on the current state of knowledge, open research questions, and promising avenues of research. Confirmed workshop speakers will include Chris Bollinger (Kentucky), Peter Lynn (Essex), Jamie Moore (Southampton), Megan McMinn (Glasgow), Lars Nesheim (UCL), George Ploubidis (UCL) and Jeff Wooldridge (Michigan State). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/05/07/workshop-missing-data-in-longitudinal-and-l... |
Description | Workshop: Panel Data Econometrics using Understanding Society (1st July 2019) |
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 | In this introductory course, practical applications of panel data econometric methods will be illustrated using data from Understanding Society. There will be a strong emphasis on applied work, illustrating the use of relevant computer software with code provided for Stata. The short course will cover a range of topics in linear panel data models and nonlinear (dynamic) panel models. Familiarity with the basic syntax and structure of Stata is assumed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/07/01/workshop-panel-data-econometrics-using-unde... |
Description | Workshop: Using weights in Understanding Society (1st July 2019) |
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 lab session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2019/07/01/workshop-using-weights-in-understanding-soc... |
Description | Young People's Future Health Inquiry (Raj Patel, 2018 ongoing) |
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 | The Young People's Future Health Inquiry is a research and engagement project that aims to build an understanding of the influences affecting the future health of young people aged 12 to 24. It's a mixed methods research project, collecting evidence from young people as well as exploiting secondary data. This is an ongoing project but some early findings have already been produced: Listening to our future report : Identifying factors that have helped or hindered young people in their transition to adulthood A place to grow report: The result of engagement with over 600 young people aged 16 to 24 from five distinct areas across the UK The ultimate outcome of the project is to encourage leaders and practitioners to think more broadly about the holistic support young people need to fulfil their potential. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
URL | https://www.health.org.uk/what-we-do/a-healthier-uk-population/young-peoples-future-health-inquiry |
Description | festival of genomics: Understanding Society in METADAC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation to introduce Understanding Society to the genomic/business commnity |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.festivalofgenomics.com/page/1415913/about |