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.
Category: Young People
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.
Ioannis Katsantonis, a PhD candidate in Psychology and Education at the University of Cambridge, shares his research on the role parent-child interactions have on children’s mental health.
Dr Chris Playford, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, describes his recent study which explores the role of geography in progression to Higher Education in England.
Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer discusses her research into the impact of perceived income inequality on adolescents’ mental health.
Jake Anders, the Principal Investigator of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO) which has recently released it’s first wave of data, shares about the aims of the study, some findings from Wave 1 and what comes next.
Finn Dymond-Green explores how data in the UK Data Service collection has been feeding into a UK Parliament committee inquiry into children in poverty.
To coincide with the new MCS time use diary and accelerometer data release, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Survey Manager, Dr Emily Gilbert discusses how the use of new technology has enabled us to gain new insights into the lives of the millennial generation.