Eve Little explores how data and research have informed understanding of child poverty and contributed to recent policy change, including the removal of the two-child limit.
Category: Young People
Katherine Collier discusses how the Millennium Cohort Study is helping her explore the relationship between personal, social and economic factors and literacy in UK primary school pupils.
Professor Jake Anders is Principal Investigator of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study. In this post, he shares insights from the study’s second wave of data collection.
Michaela Pawley, a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, reflects on the emotional challenges of working with sensitive secondary data and shares practical steps for researcher wellbeing.
Katrin Metsis discusses her research using census microdata to understand the challenges of persisting health inequalities in young people.
We are delighted to introduce Kyle Genner as one of our Data Impact Fellows. He shares his background, his current work and research and what he hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.
In this post we introduce the latest Impact Case study which looks at the importance of social factors in mitigating disparities in the lives of young people in areas such as poverty, health, housing and discrimination.
Professor Christina Vogel, Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, discusses how the July election offers a window of opportunity to reduce food and drink-related inequalities affecting young adults.
Nicholas Kofi Adjei, Research Associate at the University of Liverpool, discusses the relationship between family adversities across the early life course and perceived emotional support in adolescence.