An important day for SRI that we've been working towards since 2021! Great to have you at the helm, @yanghu.co.uk, leading the way!

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

@rosamendizabal.bsky.social presented research on families in neonatal care in Mexico at #MedSoc57. This global, co-produced project reveals deep links between inequality, urban peripheries & health. At UCL SRI, we advance sociological research on health, place & social justice.

This weekend is the last opportunity to visit Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity and Sumud, a two-week immersive exhibition and programme that the Critical Childhood Studies Centre is involved in hosting. Open 10-4 to the public. #ChildhoodStudies reimaginingchildhoodstudies.com/solidarity_a...

It’s a very pleasant experience to work with Marie von Mallinckrodt and her team from ARD Germany on this mini-documentary project: In love with an AI 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳! Plz check it out here: www.ardmediathek.de/video/weltsp...

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We’re LIVE from Westminster for #PolicyLive, exploring how to do policy differently ⚡ Not joining us in person? Tune in to our live stream to hear talks on economic growth, immigration, mission-driven government, how to make big ideas spread and more ➡️ https://www.policylive.org/nesta/332/82846

Research Spotlight: Exploring what life is like for families when their baby is in hospital. This co-production study in Mexico by @rosamendizabal.bsky.social will help inform future infant and family development programmes. #coproduction www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

Evidence Spotlight: How do we know if mental health support for people affected by humanitarian emergencies is working? Listen to a @ioe.bsky.social podcast and find links to research evidence here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202... #humanitarianemergencies #socialscience

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

A special moment for me to see this huge announcement made on my very final day as Head of SRI. There truly is incredible work going on here that it has been a privilege to support.

Always appreciate the incredible work you do, Nelly!

A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson from @sriucl.bsky.social introduce their book Bordering Social Reproduction, in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Shirin Rai. 25 Sep 2025, 18:00 – 19:30. Hybrid event. Book at www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

As part of the celebrations of our 10th anniversary as a UCL Department, we have launched an inaugural lecture series. You can watch the first here and there will be more to come this academic year! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

And both based in SRI! Also home to UCL's BSc Sociology and MSc Sociology.

Delighted that we have not one but two colleagues on the Sociology sub-panel for REF2029! Congratulations @ktwamley.bsky.social and @yanghu.co.uk!

Congratulations to Francesca Arduini for completing her economics PhD at @ucl.ac.uk. Lorraine Dearden and I had a great time supervising her. Find out more about her PhD and her new job at Somerville College here www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/people/m... @sriucl.bsky.social

A widely documented ‘unhappiness hump’ that peaks in midlife and then declines may have disappeared due to worsening youth mental health, suggests a new study by Prof @alexbryson.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social and Prof @dannyblanchy.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

Come join us at QSS @sriucl.bsky.social! We have the best colleagues ♥️

Five years ago today, I joined UCL and the unique academic powerhouse that is the UCL Social Research Institute. It’s been a fantastic and enriching experience and I look forward to many more years here! @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

The rise in despair among the young means poor mental health is monotonously declining in age. This is the case in the USA, the UK and many countries around the world. Find out More here: theconversation.com/lifetime-tre... @sriucl.bsky.social

Is there really a sleep deprivation epidemic? Analysis of cross-national time diary data, including Asian samples for the first time, finds no evidence of widespread sleep decline. In fact, sleep has improved in most countries studied. #TimeUse #SleepResearch Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Research by UCL’s Centre for Time Use Research shows that how people spend their time, and how much they enjoy it, strongly influences life satisfaction, with trends consistent across age, sex, and lockdown periods, with data available via the UK Data Service. whatworkswellbeing.org/projects/tim...

Research from CTUR shows a versatile digital time-use diary design capturing multiple independent fields, including child care, ICT use, and infection risk. High-quality and policy-relevant insights for today’s digital lives. timeuse.org/time-use-dia... #TimeUse #DigitalDiary #PolicyResearch

The CTUR UK Time Use Survey – March 2023 is now available via the UK Data Service (SN9336)! Covering 2,179 adults with 3,784 diaries, this nationally representative dataset tracks how UK adults spend their time. beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogu...

🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU! @susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social

Applications are still open for our exciting new taught MSc in Sociology, being offered for the first time in September! Take a look here... www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

From finding your data buddy, to sharing longitudinal data on LinkedIn and using AI to improve data discoverability: Jennie Blows reflects on the @closer-uk.bsky.social conference last May. closer.ac.uk/news-opinion...

Mum's genetics appear to play a bigger role in influencing a child's weight. @sriucl.bsky.social research explores the concept of genetic nurture, where a parent’s genes influence a child through environment over direct inheritance. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

A mother’s genetics may play a bigger role in determining whether a child becomes overweight than a father’s finds a new @sriucl.bsky.social study. Dr Liam Wright examined the association between parental BMI and child birthweight, BMI, and diet from birth to age 17. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

Check out this extraordinary new paper out today from @clscohorts.bsky.social Liam Wright, Gemma Shireby, Tim Morris and David Bann + UCL's Neil Davies published in PLOS Genetics using the Millennium Cohort Study dataset! Congratulations to everyone involved! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Proud of all the amazing early career researchers in our department and everyone that helps their development!

Take a look at this fascinating new bit of international research from SRI's @yanghu.co.uk! The authors use Egyptian admin data to provide unique insights into an important and understudied sociological topic. It's free to access:

Join us on September 23rd and 24th for an online (and free!) introduction to using the National Pupil Database and its linked data. Our experienced team will showcase some of our research using the NPD and guide you on how to apply to use it. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

The recording of our latest training webinar National Child Development Study at Age 62: Explore the new data is now available on our YouTube channel. Our YouTube channel is a great place to explore all our previous training webinars. Subscribe now 👉 bit.ly/3GVDQxD

As conversations in government about regulating screen time for children increase, it's essential to be aware of the best evidence on its consequences. @dominicpkelly.bsky.social (CLS) wrote this policy summary on young children's attention + screens, see here: econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Low-achieving students from elite high schools 'overmatch' at uni: they are more likely to go to elite university courses than predicted by their grades. New working paper by @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

We are all in for women's empowerment through education with @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social ⚽📓

Yay! Another output from our Posthuman digital intimacies project!!! This is our Women and Video Games block! Plz do check it out!

🧠 Gen Z is not okay. Mental despair among U.S. young people is higher now than it used to be at its traditional midlife peak. This shift is driven by women, and young people in paid work. Full paper by ‪@alexbryson.bsky.social‬ and @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @nber: www.nber.org/papers/w34071

📢 New in Review of Economics of the Household! @adameczanna.bsky.social, Anna Lovász & @suncicavujic.bsky.social show that first-in-family female graduates are more likely to remain childless than other grads & non-grads. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BCS70 #FiF #GenderEcon #Fertility #HE

Cohort studies are vital to study a range of social science questions. The Age 62 wave of the 1958 National Child Development Study by @clscohorts.bsky.social‬ is now available! Find out more: bit.ly/4lIwpJa

Gen Z’s turn away from dating doesn’t necessarily reflect a lack of desire for connection, but perhaps a heightened sense of vulnerability related to larger trends in mental ill-health and social, economic and political insecurity. New piece from @ktwamley.bsky.social for @theconversation.com

New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog from Claire Crawford shows biggest drops in take-up of early ed amongst disadv 2-yr-olds occurred in areas where it looks like demand for working families entitlement may be high, so overlapping entitlement may not explain whole fall Read more: tinyurl.com/y65tt3zr

The panel members for the Independent Inquiry into White Working-Class Educational Outcomes has been announced today, including @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social The Inquiry will looks to better understand persistent disadvantage in WWC education outcomes schoolsweek.co.uk/members-reve...

New op-ed from PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social. Analysing PIAAC data, they show big improvements in literacy and numeracy for young adults between 2012 and 2023 but this is not evenly distributed, with less progress for the lowest performers @feweek.bsky.social feweek.co.uk/bottom-10-pe...

Job-to-job transitions have fallen as the bite of the UK's minimum wage has risen. Download our new paper free through #OpenAccess here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social @wagedynamics.bsky.social