2023 was another year of growth for Understanding Society. Our latest Annual Report highlights some of the achievements, research and policy impact from 2023.
Highlights of 2023
Our Scientific Conference, the first to return to face-to-face after the Covid pandemic, and one of our largest yet – 121 papers were delivered in 32 different topic sessions.
We recorded 1,868 new users for our main survey data, the largest number of new users in a year since the start of the Study.
Training was delivered to a record number of data users – 327 people attended an in-person course, with 339 using our online training courses.
From 2009 to 2023, Understanding Society provided the data for 12,529 research papers.
And papers using Understanding Society were highly cited: from 2018 to 2023 we recorded 21,622 citations.
Our survey methods research continues to grow, with 37 research papers and 15 working papers published during 2023.
