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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 7h
Congratulations to SRI’s @profalices.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, Sex, Lies and Statistics: Why We Need Evidence-Based Policy on Sex and Gender — and on these fantastic endorsements! 🎉📚
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 7h
New research from SRI's @alexbryson.bsky.social uses the 1958 British birth cohort to examine the gender wage gap — finding that childhood circumstances account for none of the raw gap, regardless of the estimation method used. 👇 Read the new IZA paper
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 8h
Amazing new work from our new colleague @lukaslehner.bsky.social on the expansion of the Job Guarantee scheme in Austria
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some topics never go out of fashion. Prof Ann Oakley continues to profoundly influence sociology and SRI specifically, as the founder-director of our Social Science Research Unit.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A call for papers dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir David Metcalf, renowned scholar of industrial relations. SRI’s @alexbryson.bsky.social is among the editors.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) hosts a conference on Workers and Technological Change 10-11 December. Submit by 16 October. Open to "historians, economists, sociologists, political scientists and scholars of industrial relations" www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-f...
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Call for Papers | Workers and Technological Change
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No big deal we’re just out here building research capability while informing economic policy and improving lives
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More than just a cup of tea? Discover creative research methods, art, tea and biscuits coming together to tackle domestic abuse. K. Schucan Bird @sriucl.bsky.social visualises care and discusses the importance of art-based collaborations for knowledge mobilisation. Read here doi.org/10.1080/1472...
A paper coaster drawn with ornaments and hearts with a message "u r not alone, we r here 4 you", on the edges, following the round shape of the coaster it reads "you don't have to go through this alone" followed by drawn mini hearts. The coaster is white with blue and plain pencil used to draw and write on it. It is laid on a paper tablecloth where a part of a hand-drawn cup with saucer is seen to the right of the image.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UCL Research informs Mayor of London's new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, including addressing technology-facilitated abuse and making public spaces safer. #ResearchImpact #VAWG Image credit&full news:https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/sep/tackling-violence-against-women-and-girls
LtR photo of team invited to the launch in a room at UCL East : Jen Reed, Superintendent Sarah Jackson, Georgina Carey, Kaya Comer-Schwartz, Lucy Musgrave OBE, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Andrea Simon, Siwan Hayward, Dr Nelly Ali, Dr Leah Lovett, Seb Dance.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How do we move children’s rights from documents into everyday practice? @nellyali.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social created the www.therightscompass.org.uk to make children’s rights accessible, actionable and relevant for children (and the adults).Free learning resources🔗 #ChildrensRights #Education
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UCL Social Data Institute @uclsocialdata.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"There's no perfect solution to this problem, but I do think the push for more variation in the kinds of maps that we commonly look at is a welcome suggestion." James Cheshire, SODA Director and Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography in @uclgeography.bsky.social on BBC News 👇 #map #UN
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are growing! This year we’re excited to welcome new lecturers @zsofiaboda.bsky.social and @lukaslehner.bsky.social who will add to our team of Quantitative Social Science expertise
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Welcome to UCL, Lukas! One of our new signings for the 26/27 academic season. A strong addition to the QSS squad 📊We’re lucky to have got this one over the line
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Welcome our latest addition to @sriucl.bsky.social. Lukas will give an incredible boost to our expertise around social policy, labor market precarity, and good jobs
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A warm welcome, Lukas! Our students are excited to meet you
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A wonderful example of the extraordinary things our alumni go on to do and the mark they make on the world
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Analyses of the latest data from the Millennium Cohort Study on mental health rates in young adults, led by @dominicpkelly.bsky.social, was cited by BBC News today. Take a look: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The debate over young people taking prescription drugs instead of alcohol
Increasingly, young adults are taking anxiety medication to feel "drunk" at parties. But it's not a free lunch, experts warn.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A new paper by our colleague @tobyseddon.bsky.social which situates the global illicit drug problem in the context of the crisis of planetary health
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨New preprint alert! 🚨 @jacqueswels.bsky.social and some SRI collaborators used 15 years of cohort study data to demonstrate that rising NEET rates among UK youth are driven largely by more young people having physical and psychological ill health. Read it here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Rising rates of young people Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) explained by higher prevalence of physical and psychological ill health: a 15-year UK study
Background: Rising rates of young people Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) in the UK have recently coincided with declining youth physical and mental health but no study has asked wheth...
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Looking for some Friday reading? @tcru-ucl.bsky.social Katie Gadinni's new book "Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right" was discussed in Slate- take a look! slate.com/culture/2026...
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An Eye-Opening New Book Offers Insight Into the Hearts and Minds of Conservative Women
Christian conservative women aren’t all alike, Katie Gaddini’s book Esther’s Army suggests.
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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A-level and other Level 3 qualification results are out with a lot of focus on top grades rising again: 28.3% of entries got an A or above (28.2% in 2025, 25.2% in 2019), and 78.1% got a C or above. But results aren't equally good news for everyone.
Showing the distribution of A level grades in England in 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 in a stacked bar chart.
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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 13/08/2026
Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today! 🎉 If you're joining us this September, welcome to UCL 💜 🔗 Got questions about Results Day? Head to our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/study/prospective-stu…
Two people joyfully looking at a phone together. The image includes a purple banner with the word "Congratulations!" and the UCL logo.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@gillwyness.bsky.social is giving a joint public lecture at the Australia National University tomorrow (Thursday) on the topic of income-contingent student loans in Australia and England, with Bruce Chapman. If you're in the ACT and would like to attend, see more here: rse.anu.edu.au/seminars-eve...
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Bart Simpson Points to Australia on Globe
ALT: Bart Simpson Points to Australia on Globe
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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Millennium Cohort Study linked education administrative dataset for Scotland opens up new opportunities for researchers to explore young people’s educational journeys from primary school through to college, training and employment. Find out more in the user guide - bit.ly/4wWv3jI
Graphic illustration of the Millennium Cohort Study linked education administrative data Scotland
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This summer, we hosted five young people at SRI for a work experience programme led by Larissa Pople and @jennywoodman.bsky.social. They learned about our work in social research and we learned from them how we can better include young people in research. Congratulations to everyone who took part!
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Congratulations to @tommetherell.com on a fantastic paper from his doctoral work, along with his CLS colleagues @georgeploubidis.bsky.social and @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social. It uses survey data to try and better understand digital mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read here:
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Children’s social connections, internet usage and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South: evidence from Disrupting Harm
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UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit @tcru-ucl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nearly 50 years after the original Becoming a Mother study, BAM50 brought Ann Oakley & two mothers back together to watch rediscovered 1978 footage. For TCRU, it speaks to research that takes family life seriously - following motherhood, memory and social change across generations. bit.ly/4xqdtEt
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BAM50 host special screening at UCL BAM50 host special screening at UCL - 50 Years of Becoming a Mother (BAM50)
In July we held a special screening event as part of UCL200. Over eighty people joined us to watch a 1978 archival broadcast from Thames Television, featuring Ann Oakley and two first-time mothers fro...
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@buraksonmez.bsky.social has a new paper which involved a clever online experiment with a sample of nearly 2000 US adults to determine the relationship between perceived threat and support for escalating approaches to preventing unauthorised border crossings: academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
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Perceived threat drives support for coercive border enforcement against unauthorized crossings
Abstract. The securitization of the borders has intensified through harsh enforcement and deterrence strategies, yet little is known about what factors dri
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UCL Thomas Coram Research Unit @tcru-ucl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This connects with a question running through a lot of TCRU’s work: what shapes young people’s futures when opportunity is uneven? @amit-singh.bsky.social new book, Cancelled Futures, looks at how class, race and place affect what young working-class people feel is possible. @sriucl.bsky.social
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@gergobaranyi.bsky.social was quoted in the @theguardian.com last week on the health effects for children for living in some of England's poorest areas- take a look at what he had to say: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Poorest children in England 40% more likely to be hospitalised for lung infections
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS England data reveals stark impact of air pollution in deprived areas
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The @clscohorts.bsky.social team have been working hard on making their datasets easier to use. A key part of that is the release of MCS Core- a dataset which combines data from all 8 sweeps of the study into a single dataset of the most useful variables. Learn more: cls.ucl.ac.uk/mcs-core-dat...
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MCS core dataset: a new, consolidated ready-to-use resource for research | CLS
A single dataset, which brings together a wide range of core variables from across all sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), is now available.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Another proud day for SRI! Congratulations to our colleague @aronszekely.bsky.social and our former (but forever) colleague @aksoyundan.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 Robert K. Merton Award from INAS for their article, “Making Sense of Honor Killings.”
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What would it take to achieve real parity of esteem between academic and vocational education? New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social briefing argues that exposure from age 14 should broaden horizons, not lead to early tracking, and must be backed by quality, flexibility and credible pathways. Link in comment.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We are so proud of our brilliant Social Sciences with Data Science BSc student, Daniel Jones, taking up a @uclsocialdata.bsky.social summer internship at @financialtimes.com. One of his first contributions 👇
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Ministers look at restricting cash payments as disability benefits bill soars
Rise in claims since 2019 has been driven by mental health and neuro-developmental conditions
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📖Adolescent mental health is linked to dropout and poorer outcomes by age 22: NEET, lower wages, motherhood, abortion, STDs and substance abuse. New @iza.org WP by our colleagues @adameczanna.bsky.social and John Jerrim with Ágnes Szabó-Morvai using linked admin data from Hungary. #mentalhealth
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Leaving School Early: A Mediation Analysis Linking Adolescent Mental Health Disorders to Early Adult Outcomes
This paper examines the role of dropping out of school in the association between adolescent mental health disorders (MHDs) and subsequent early-life...
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📣New @iza.org working paper by our colleague @alexbryson.bsky.social and co-authors finds a striking pattern of mental health across five European countries: wellbeing rises, while depression and anxiety fall with age. The young now clearly fare the worst. #mentalhealth docs.iza.org/dp18803.pdf
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Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New podcast episode! I talk to Kojo Koram about his new book, The Next Fix, and discuss what comes next after drug prohibition... tobyseddon.com/2026/07/23/1...
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13: The Next Fix: A conversation with Kojo Koram
In this episode, I talk to Kojo Koram, Professor of Law and Political Economy at Loughborough University, about his new book ‘The Next Fix’. Further details about the book are available…
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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How would minimum entry grades affect opportunities in higher education? This is not a new idea… @gillwyness.bsky.social and Claire Crawford wrote for Economics Observatory about this when it was first mooted in 2022: www.economicsobservatory.com/how-would-mi...
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How would minimum entry grades affect opportunities in higher education? - Economics Observatory
The UK government is consulting on the introduction of minimum eligibility requirements for access to student loans. If such a reform is introduced, it is likely to prevent many who miss getting the r...
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ever wondered about where the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 came from? Its origins and history? How it works? I have just the podcast episode for you... tobyseddon.com/2026/06/16/1...
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12: A Short Guide to…. the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
A short guide to the main piece of drug control legislation in the UK, describing its history, how it works and arguments for its reform or repeal. Draws on my research on the historical origins of…
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Prof. Oriel Sullivan and Dr Juana Lamote recently presented a UNDESA webinar on MTUS+, the next generation of the Multinational Time Use Study. Learn how MTUS+ is improving data on unpaid care work worldwide: social.desa.un.org/issues/world...
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UN DESA DISD Webinar with Oriel Sullivan and Juana Lamote de Grignon-Perez on MTUS+: A New Generation of Data for Understanding Unpaid Care Work [14 April 2026] | Division for Inclusive Social Develop...
Speakers' bioFind the presentation here.
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Danilo Kuzmanic @danilok.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/7 🚨 New paper out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social ! I study how the unequal distribution of financial resources across universities in Brazil and Chile overlaps with the unequal distribution of students from different SES background. doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Resource Stratification and Income Segregation in Brazilian and Chilean Universities - Danilo Kuzmanic, 2026
Wealthy universities enjoy advantages in accessing resources, disproportionately benefiting high-income students who are overrepresented in these institutions. ...
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Research Handbook on Drugs and Society, edited by @tobyseddon.bsky.social, is out now! A global collection of leading scholars exploring drugs & society. 📚 #DrugPolicy #DrugResearch ➡️ Read Sample Chapter: lnkd.in/eNUeefeQ ➡️ More Info: lnkd.in/eykS5crw ➡️ Listen to Podcast: lnkd.in/eTG4QTPW
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Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New podcast episode, to mark the publication of my Research Handbook on Drugs & Society! tobyseddon.com/2026/05/29/1...
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11: Research Handbook on Drugs & Society: book launch episode
This episode marks the publication of the new Research Handbook on Drugs & Society, edited by me and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. You can find out more information about the Handbook h…
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Delighted to see research from our department cited in the "Milburn Review" on young people and employment! Well done to all involved. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Young people and work: interim report
The young people and work report is an independent review of the increase in the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
While I was away last week, this finally arrived…
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New findings from the Millennium Cohort Study suggest that by age 23, 1 in 5 young people report have a chronic mental health condition. Women, sexual minorities and young people who grew up in poverty have notably worse mental health than their peers. Read more here:
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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
New research, drawing on data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, finds people who reported long-term physical and mental health difficulties at age 42 were less likely to be employed at age 51. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/3Ruk2WY @georgeploubidis.bsky.social
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