Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

We broadly welcome the recommendations of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, in particular citing CEPEO’s briefing note on the value of GCSEs (econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...) and...

Interesting comparative study of attendance patterns in OECD countries pre vs. post pandemic by @jakeanders.uk and colleagues! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are in the UCL /Euston area & you have a calculator that I can borrow this morning, please get in touch urgently!!! I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died! Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one. Oh my life....

How have the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent cost of living crisis affected the course of young people's lives? New @suttontrust.bsky.social qualitative research of the COSMO cohort highlights those Altered Courses of young people's lives: www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

Popularity of the first name Christopher correlates with Burglaries in Oklahoma (r=0.966)

Empirical evidence and conceptual reasoning suggest quasi-experimental studies—the most common form of studies making causal claims—have a "p-hacking" problem. My essay on this and the case for adapting & adopting QED preregistration is now published in Evaluation Review. doi.org/10.1177/0193...

What are the post-pandemic inequalities in wellbeing? And are pandemic events still casting a shadow for some young people? Reporting results that are now forthcoming in a journal article for Social Indicators Research.

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

Come and join our busy, fun and friendly team!

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢 We're looking for a centre administrator to join our fantastic team! Role is for 3 days a week, with flexible hybrid working options. Interest in @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's mission a bonus. 🕕Apply by 23.59 on 24th October 2025 Full details: tinyurl.com/5t586vuj Please share widely!

🌞Another day, another @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper 🌚 Our PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social examines a recent major reform to the UK education system: the introduction of T levels - a qualification that aims to blend the academic and vocational econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

We have more of our online courses on using administrative data, supported by ADR UK, coming up soon. ➡ National Pupil Database (NPD) 23-24 Sept www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru... ➡ Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) 30 Sep - 1 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🔬 PALS researchers in npj Science of Learning show that people unconsciously track irrelevant probabilities, reshaping perception – sometimes causing lasting “statistical deafening.” Read the paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

GCSE results are out: On the surface, today’s results seem cause for relative optimism. Despite this cohort’s tough time — both final year at primary & first year of secondary were disrupted by COVID; rates of SEND and mental health issues also up among this group — there’s no results drop off.

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

UCL staff and students - have you seen our Research Data Management webpages? 🌐💻 With information about writing data management plans, complying with funder requirements, using the UCL Research Data Repository and more, it's worth having a browse 👀 www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open...

A level results are out! And as many have reported, there was an overall improvement in the proportion of students gaining the top grades. But its not good news for everyone: with London & the South East continuing to pull away from the rest of the country, and boys slightly ahead of girls.

Great paper on the under-explored topic of non-A level pathways by my PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social — highly relevant for Level 3 Results Day!

Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists! Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂 Dates: 22-26 September Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social llmsforsocialscience.net

New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog post. Our brilliant PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social has been looking at inequalities in resit performance. Those performing worst in resits are: - Disadvantaged students - Students w unauthorised absences in year 11 - Students entered into resits too early

Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... "for three key objectives: maximizing teacher utility, maximizing teacher retention, and maximizing student achievement...schools underutilize salary and performance pay while overutilizing retirement benefits"

Irony

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Check out some research I did with Zack Dorner, Stephane Hess and Steve Tucker... We explored the associations between social media use and Vaccine preferences during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand. A very interesting context to study vaccine preferences, given NZ's unique covid response!

What are the barriers to children’s early learning? Over the last 18 months, @laouthwaite.bsky.social has worked with Ofsted, as part of the URKI Policy Fellowship scheme, to explore this question. Here’s what she found, why it matters, and what we can do about it www.linkedin.com/company/ofst...

New paper alert! 🔔📘 The second paper of my PhD is out in PLOS One! We studied remediation programs after the first COVID-19 school closures in primary education in the Netherlands, focusing on their impact on reading and mathematics test scores. With @carlahaelermans.bsky.social & Martijn Meeter

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wow…

Our Annual Lecture with Professor Chloe Gibbs is getting closer! Sign up now for the event on the evening of 10 July, discussing making smart investments in early childhood education: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

This week @jakeanders.uk is taking part in a consortium meeting of @learnineq.bsky.social. Along with @dominicpkelly.bsky.social and @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, CEPEO is contributing to the project's work with partners across Europe on understanding educational inequalities. helsinki.fi/learn

Calling academics! Are you interested in inequalities in higher education? Do you have experience of evaluation? @taso.org.uk have secured an 18 month UKRI policy fellowship on contextualised admissions Details www.ukri.org/opportunity/... lnkd.in/eTFT6Qe4 Webinar for applicants 20 May: pls share!

This week I published a new piece on @econ-observatory.bsky.social looking at differences in young people’s post-pandemic wellbeing.

🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found. Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

📢📢New blog out today 📢📢 Our DD @jakeanders.uk uses COSMO data to determine the lasting impact of the pandemic on young people's wellbeing. Evidence suggests girl and non-binary students show persistently lower wellbeing. Read the report here: www.economicsobservatory.com/what-are-the...

Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?

JUST PUBLISHED – What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing? By @jakeanders.uk

A bit of news... I'm leaving the Sutton Trust at the start of July, so my job is up for grabs! Happy to answer any Qs on it 😊 Will say the exciting thing I'm off to do next soon (!)

Definitely worth reading and updating reporting approaches in new trials with SPIRIT2025 (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) and CONSORT2025 (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) to maximise consistency and transparency of evaluation work.

‼️ I am hiring ‼️ We are looking for a PhD candidate in "Inequalities of Education" (100%, 3 years) at CREATE: Centre for Research on Equality in Education, University of Oslo. Amazing data, incl. admin, survey and genetics (MoBa) ‼️Deadline May 21 ‼️ Questions? Feel free to reach out! #econsky

My phone decided all of the Apple Intelligence summaries should be in French today. Quite delightful.

The Department for Education is looking for a new Chief Scientific Adviser - £120k, 3 year term. Important role, and one that might suit a social scientist www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

Read our latest policy brief, based on research by Rob Higham, @jakeanders.uk, Gabriel Chouhy, @francisgreen1.bsky.social, Golo Henseke, and @ruthmcginity.bsky.social education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...

Ugh, you just reminded me that I should do my ~5 yearly check of my work mailbox. Should be two or three items in there by now…