Understanding Society Podcast Series: Recent Episodes
Institute for Social and Economic Research
In the Understanding Society Podcast Series, you can listen to interviews with the Understanding Society team, researchers using the survey in their work and those benefiting from it.
Interviews last no longer than 10 minutes and are designed to be understood by a non-academic audience.
Understanding survey attrition helps us make sure our sample is representative of the wider population
How do people react to government stimulus payments, designed to encourage spending in a recession or other crisis?
The cost of living is affecting households across the UK. Who has been hit the hardest? And what can government do about it?
In this episode we're discussing how the experience of ageing in the UK is changing, and for many worsening.
In this episode we look at the tension between commuting and working from home - and how the two combined affect transport policy.
Why is romance fraud on the increase? Has the pandemic changed how we meet and date people? And how can people protect themselves from being victims of this type of crime?
This podcast explores two particular factors in the debate around long-term inequalities - the labour market and government spending.
Understanding Society has been providing data on life in the UK for over a decade. In this final episode of season 3 of our podcast series we take a closer look at the Study itself.
In this episode we look at how the Covid-19 school closures impacted children and their parents.
Trends in partnership formation, marriage and fertility - what's changing over time? And how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected our relationships?
In the third episode of our new podcast series, we take a look at the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the topic area of income and expenditure for the second episode in our new podcast series, we take a look at Universal Credit – how it’s designed, how it compares to the old benefits legacy system and the effects it has on people’s lives.
In the first episode of our new podcast series, we look at employment and the experience of working-class women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this podcast recorded at the ESRA conference Annette Jäckle, Florian Keusch and Emanuela Sala talk about asking respondents to do more than answer survey questions.
This episode explores how our jobs and job security affect our health and well-being. Our 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.
In this podcast we're talking to the four panellists from our Insights launch. 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.
Professors Michaela Benzeval and Meena Kumari give a short introduction to the Understanding Society biomarker and genetic data.
Professor Eric Kaufman from Birkbeck College, University of London, discusses his research making use of the BHPS and Understanding Society to look at White Flight and discusses what his findings tell us about the apparent rise of UKIP.
Professor Nick Buck, former Director of Understanding Society, discusses two pieces of research using the study to look at movements in and out of poverty and household change.
Dr Andrew Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute talks about research on the effects of video gaming on children’s behaviour and development.
Dr Ben Wheeler from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, part of the University of Exeter Medical School talks about the Beyond Greenspace research project, which is looking to develop a better understanding of the relationships between nature, health and wellbeing.
Professor Peter Lynn from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex talks about early findings from the ESRC funded project, The distribution and dynamics of UK citizens’ environmental attitudes, behaviours and actions.
Eloise Poole from NatCen talks about findings from the ESRC-funded study Fathers, work and families in twenty-first century Britain, which uses Understanding Society to explore fathers' role as breadwinners and parents in the UK and Europe.
Are older people getting online and are they included? Age UK researcher Marcus Green looks at the evidence.
Dr Graham Law from the University of Leeds talks about new research published in the Open Journal of Epidemiology which uses Understanding Society to examine the links between the composition of households and how well and how long we sleep.
NatCen analyst Chris Lord explains the benefits of utilising Understanding Society in third sector research projects such as this project by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
David Hayes from the Personal Research Finance Centre at the University of Bristol talks about a joint programme of research with the International Longevity Centre UK which uses Understanding Society to look at the financial wellbeing of people in later life.
Jenny Chanfreau from NatCen discusses research undertaken for the Department of Health on predictors of well-being.
Dr Gundi Knies talks about new research exploring the links between ethnicity, neighbourhoods and life satisfaction.
Dr Noah Uhrig discusses ground-breaking new research commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation exploring the links between sexual orientation and poverty.
Professor Adeline Delavande talks about research which uses the Understanding Society Innovation Panel to examine the perceptions of parents and children of the financial value of gaining a degree.
Dr Olena Kaminska talks about why sample size matters when researching hard to reach sub-sections of the population and why Understanding Society offers not just great data but some innovative and original opportunities to research previously ignored groups.