CEPEO has had another amazing year! ✨ The past 12 months have been full of achievements, and you can read all about them in our 2025 Impact Report. We wish you a joyful festive season, and look forward to working with you in 2026 🎉 Download the report here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Today we’re celebrating 10 years of SRI! This afternoon we’ll come together to share reflections on the past 10 years, showcase our strengths in research and education, and look to the future for our Institute 🎉🎈🥳

New publication from @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and colleagues: Not just a North–South divide: the geography of opportunity in England For young people who grew up in poor neighbourhoods of regional cities, earnings are far lower than those outside cities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to know more about using UCAS data to research transitions to HE (and delay the return to your desk in Jan!)? Join us in person at the Department for Education in London for a research showcase with @adruk.bsky.social 🕕Tues 6th Jan, 10.30am-4pm Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977270535...

It’s @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social last seminar of 2025 this Thursday with one of our own @fabienpetit.bsky.social Join us in person or online to hear about new research on the spillover benefits of education, using LEO data Note: At earlier time of 2pm to allow for the team to then play mini golf ⛳️

Please share this info. I cannot emphasise enough: all formulas are the same by law (*except prescription ones), you don’t need to spend £3-£5 more a tub for the branding. Spending more buys no extra quality and does not make you a better mama x

NEW BLOG POST @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @clairetyler.bsky.social & Padmini Ayer share key findings and practical recommendations to support employers on their social mobility journey from their research on where inequalities arise in UK graduate recruitment. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/1...

Judy in the house! come join us for CEPEO seminar this week

Great to speak on the opening panel of the day about higher education and social mobility - improving access to higher education is one route to improve social mobility, but we also need to think about inequalities by institutions, and inequalities that persist beyond education in the labour market

Lots of sensible recommendations in the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee report published today, including the importance of place, prevention, and a proper data strategy publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

Delighted that our research on inequality in access to and progression within professional occupations won an award @appam.bsky.social - thanks to all who stopped by for excellent conversations. And thanks Seattle, it’s been a blast. See you next time!

Saturday night / lunchtime poster session in Seattle 🇺🇸 to talk about our work on inequalities in access to and progression within graduate jobs…. with one eye on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

4/5 | Improving outcomes for children and young people Join @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, Julia Ellingwood, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and fellow researchers if your work is interested in improving the life chances of children & young people, locally and globally ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...

Our project, EduGap, is one of the funded projects. Myself, Jon Marius Iversen (CI), @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @gillwyness.bsky.social, and Richard Murphy (UT-Austin) will look at the effects of assessment forms on student outcomes in Norway and England. www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025...

CEPEO welcomes the announcements from this week’s education and skills white paper of index-linking tuition fees and maintenance loans, as well as the return of some non-repayable maintenance grants for disadvantaged students. [1/7] 🧵

👀 Important new project led by one of our Senior Research Fellows and funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org Paul will be looking at changes in student employment and how this helps or hinders their life chances. Congratulations Paul, we’re looking forward to learning more from this work

📖 New Working Paper "Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach" 😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep... @opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources: ⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow 👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... A 🧵 1/6

Come and join our wonderful team and help support the important work we do. Hybrid working options too

📢 Call for papers: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

Jo Blanden (CEP), @GillWyness.bsky.social (CEP), @Opmc1.bsky.social (UCL) and @LindseyMacmillan.bsky.social could explain why private school pupils are more likely to end up in higher-ranked HE courses than peers with similar grades. Read:

Join us at 3.15pm, Grace suite 2, Hilton Hotel, @suttontrust.bsky.social to hear new research on why the privately educated still dominate top jobs - I'll be discussing a number of new @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research papers on inequalities in access to top jobs econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Join us this afternoon for a panel hosted by @suttontrust.bsky.social to hear new research on why the privately educated still dominate top jobs - I'll be discussing a number of new @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research papers on inequalities in access to top jobs econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Arriving in Liverpool: Today 1.30-2.30pm @uclpolicylab.bsky.social panel 'A new age of work' - discussing youth LM Tomorrow 3.15-4.30pm @suttontrust.bsky.social panel 'Elitist Britain' - discussing @nuffieldfoundation.org funded work on access to professions www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/e...

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I regularly come back to this graph when talking to people about how we’re in a really different world now. And important to note that these are for EHCP only. There will be many more young people with SEND for these conditions, but no EHCP

We have an exceptional seminar on Thursday this week at 11am, with Dr Julie Cohen of University of Virginia: "Experimental evidence on modularising context in teacher education" Sign up now: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We should not accept 1 in 8 of our 16-24 year olds shut out of learning or earning. Dreadful for young people, economy & society. Purposeful government can make a difference - but it will require learning lessons, real focus & new resource. Me in the @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/97da...

Signed up for @appam.bsky.social 2025 in Seattle - who’s in? @joshua-goodman.com @dynarski.bsky.social @chloergibbs.bsky.social?? @gillwyness.bsky.social

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.

This looks potentially useful for junior scholars. "The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Did I mention that I love Lucy? 💪💪💪

What a journey! It’s not even about the win, although 😭. It’s my girl (who hates football) putting on a kit and playing with a ball all week. And my boys cheering on the team more than they even do the mens. These girls are changing the world and I am delighted to watch the influence they have 🦁🦁🦁

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At @britishacademy.bsky.social this morning for the launch of an important @nuffieldfoundation.org report on Raising of the Participation age to 18 by @mattdickson.bsky.social & colleagues. This is a vital contribution of high quality evidence to an important policy area @uniofbathipr.bsky.social

Omg. Breathe 🦁🦁🦁

As promised, some further analysis: LAs that have experienced larger falls in take-up relative to what might have been expected tend to have higher female employment rates and lower unemployment rates… perhaps indicating.. more competition for places blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

I love maths and Lucy

Most stressful penalty shoot out in ages! Got there in the end ❤️💃🏼🙋🏻‍♀️💪🦁🦁🦁

The 10ppt drop in disadvantaged 2 year old take up in the past year is really worrying for the Opportunities Mission goals - though there is caution urged around those headline numbers. Our CEPEO Early Years lead, Prof Claire Crawford, is looking into what might be going on. Watch this space 👀

Inspired by today’s conference launching the Civil Society covenant - the most important way to tackle the huge number of issues we currently face is through localised partnerships between government and civil society, leveraging the impact economy. The energy in the room was palpable

The stark difference in demand for the STATA vs R courses reminding me that I am now a 🦕 🦖

Thanks so much @chloergibbs.bsky.social for giving our @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social Annual Lecture yesterday. Timely, rigorous, engaging, and beautifully delivered. The packed audience couldn’t speak highly enough about it afterwards. Thanks also for spending the day at CEPEO HQ and all the great chats

It's today! If you haven't yet got plans this evening, join us to hear about "Making smart investments in early childhood" Chloe served as an advisor to President Biden on his Council of Economic Advisors, working on childcare reform. This is a really timely talk @chloergibbs.bsky.social

Great to see @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research and policy priorities informing the new Best Start in Life strategy: 🏠Best Start Family Hubs in disadvantaged areas 🚸Renewed focus on inclusive early years provision/funding 🔢Importance of early maths skills 💷Consultation on complex funding system

👇👏 why do women still have to ask for this?

Young adults remain a key group The proportion of young adults (aged 16 to 24), with a common mental health condition, rose from 17.5% in 2007 to 25.8% in 2023/4 There's an urgent need to better understand the drivers of this increase in prevalence digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

4 Professors celebrating! Congratulations to our @nikkishure.bsky.social on becoming a Full Professor ❤️