Jon Burton @jburton123@qoto.org

Innovation Panel Wave 16 data released. The Innovation Panel is a separate survey, conducted as part of Understanding Society. It is designed for experimental and methodological research relevant to longitudinal studies.

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11/06/innovation-panel-wave-16-data-released/

Experiments in IP16:
Measuring flexibility stigma
Cognitive reflection and politically motivated reasoning
Robustness of climate change worries measurement
Understanding of the long-term future
Mental health questions comparisons
Asking for child Red Book pictures
Spatial cognition mobile app game

Blog by Ying Zhou, Min Zou, and Mark Williams: Downward career moves – do they always hurt?
Uses ten years of Understanding Society data to look at patterns of job satisfaction for up to 3 years before a downward move, and up to 5 years afterwards.

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2024/11/04/downward-career-moves-do-they-always-hurt/

Build your skills using Understanding Society

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/10/25/build-your-skills/

November 2024 events
- Introduction to Understanding Society
- Using UKHLS child and youth data
- Geographical data linkage
- Using weights in Understanding Society

In a change from podcasts about research and policy, the new Understanding Society podcast episode asks one of our participants what it’s like to be part of Understanding Society. What does it mean to him, and what changes has he seen since joining our predecessor the British Household Panel Survey way back in 1991?

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/being-part-of-understanding-society/

New linked Credit Reference Agency data. Understanding Society participants were asked for their consent to link their CRA record information to their survey data and this dataset is now available from the UK Data Service.

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/06/06/new-linked-credit-reference-agency-data/

2023 was another year of growth for Understanding Society. Our latest Annual Report highlights some of the achievements, research and policy impact from 2023.

https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/06/11/2023-was-another-year-of-growth-for-understanding-society/

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.

Are political parties neglecting the ethnic minority votes? New research led by experts from @OfficialUoM @univofstandrews @Uni_of_Essex and @UniofNottingham https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/news/2023/05/04/are-political-parties-neglecting-the-ethnic-minority-votes

Short presentations on a variety of themes related to housing and households using data from the UK, including housing tenure, living arrangements and housing transitions, biological aging, mortality and population projections, followed by round table discussions.

One-day workshop from ESRC supported project on Families, households and health in ageing populations: Projections and implications. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/day-workshop-families-households-and-health-in-ageing-populations-tickets-609327634357

We are looking for a Research Assistant to assist with the core survey tasks in developing the Understanding Society: UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). @iseressex @usociety. https://hrorganiser.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=786220SWdK&WVID=9918109NEm&LANG=USA

Anyone know the likely finishing time of "An evening with Bob Odenkirk" at the London Palladium this Sunday?

UKMOD country report 2020-2026 - @CeMPAEssex UKMOD enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for the UK as a whole or for the population of the each of its nations. https://www.microsimulation.ac.uk/publications/publication-547705/

Our finding that trust is selected more often as a reason for consenting by those who got the consent questions early suggests that the prevailing belief that trust is built up over the course of a survey is not empirically supported in our study.