The deadline for proposals for the Innovation Panel Competition is 12 Dec. If you've got an idea for new survey content or a methodological experiment that you'd like to try apply now!
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/innovation-p...

Exploring the representativeness of web-only surveys of the general population - a new working paper from Survey Futures using analysis of Understanding Society. Read the paper: surveyfutures.net/wp-content/u...

Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2025 - registration now open!
Join us 1-3 July at the University of Essex to hear the latest research using longitudinal household panel studies. Find the programme and book your place: understandingsocietyconference.co.uk

The policy team at @closer-uk.bsky.social are working on a project on active travel and would like to hear from researchers who have used longitudinal data to explore this topic. If you'd like to be involved or provide evidence contact Jay Dominy at CLOSER: j.dominy@ucl.ac.uk

Topic webinars from Understanding Society - all 14.00-15.00, for new and experienced data users:
Income, wealth and housing: 12 March
Employment: 19 March
Family, households, children: 26 March
Sign up on our website - www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/trainin...

We're recruiting for a new Senior Research Officer to work on the methodological aspects of our health and biomarker data collection. Based at @iseressex.bsky.social, apply online by 16 Feb.
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

New year, new dataset! UKHLS calendar year 2022 data is now available! Our calendar year datasets combine data from different waves collected in a specific year and include appropriate analysis weights. Find the dataset: beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogu...

The Understanding Society office will be closed for the Christmas period between 23 December and 2 January. Our social accounts will be taking a break during this period - season's greetings to all our followers!

Insights 2025 - how #housing can influence #health, #wealth equality and carbon emissions. We're launching the report on 26 Feb at the British Academy, London, with a one-day policy conference on creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/under...

The University of Essex, where Understanding Society is based, celebrates its 60th birthday this year, and they’ve made a short film about us, and how we provide evidence on people’s changing lives to inform government policy