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Why fathers? A reflection on my academic and data journey

  • 15 September 2020

Helen Norman shares her data and research journey in investigating the role of fathers in family work.

Do we have to move out to move on? Climbing the Social Mobility step ladder in Britain

  • 3 August 2020

James Cockett, one of our #DataImpactFellows, asks “Is it time to create opportunity in every town and city and start turning the tide?”

How can we calculate levels of deprivation or poverty in the UK? (part 2)

  • 2 July 2020

What is the difference between poverty and deprivation? How can they be measured and understood? How can data help policymakers find ways to reduce their effect on the lives of people in the UK, especially given the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic?

How can we calculate levels of deprivation or poverty in the UK? (part 1)

  • 24 June 2020

What is the difference between poverty and deprivation? How can they be measured and understood? How can data help policymakers find ways to reduce their effect on the lives of people in the UK, especially given the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Why is understanding trade union membership from survey data harder than it might first seem?

  • 24 February 2020

Rhys Davies explores how he uncovered problems with official UK government figures on trade union presence and coverage – and how the government recognised and corrected the error.

Developing a new way of measuring poverty

  • 11 February 2020

Emily Harris and Matthew Oakley from the Social Metrics Commission’s Secretariat introduce the release of the code underlying the Commission’s new poverty measure.

Supplementing official statistics on risks and injuries to pedestrians and cyclists

  • 7 November 2019

What does the National Travel Survey tell us about road injuries? Rachel Aldred explores how the National Travel Survey can add to the official statistics on risks and injuries to pedestrians and cyclists.

What does the Northern Ireland public think about the Armed Forces Covenant?

  • 6 September 2018

Dr Jana Ross, Dr Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley and Professor Cherie Armour of the Northern Ireland Veterans’ Health and Wellbeing Study explore the public’s attitudes toward the Armed Forces Covenant.

The gender pay gap from the perspective of people born in 1958

  • 30 August 2018

Heather Joshi, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson and Kelly Ward from the Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Education, University College London consider the gender pay gap for people born in 1958 and the effects of unequal pay on financial equality.

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