16/ TL;DR: The UK system isn’t mysterious, it just runs differently. Tailor your cover letter to the criteria, foreground your teaching, and remember: the letter is everything.

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

Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in. More info 👇

Very happy to be taking on this role. @sllshome.bsky.social is so important for our worldwide longitudinal family through the conference, journal and many wider activities. I look forward to helping it to continue to go from strength to strength.

🚨 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...

Since we're hiring off-cycle, we're aware typical dissemination channels might be less effective... please do share with anyone you think might be interested #EconSky

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

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/...

Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026. More information, including call for papers, to follow

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...

And on a more serious note: @snageebali.bsky.social and i have a recent paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social that shows that application portfolios become more aggressive when beliefs are more optimistic: rshorrer.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/...

Writing this paper with John Jerrim and Phil Parker got me started on a whole journey about gender differences in over-/underconfidence.

Love seeing great work from early career researchers in @sriucl.bsky.social 🌟

When Danilo started his PhD, we developed this idea thinking it'd keep him busy for a year. He had full results within a few weeks. Out now and it's brilliant! Rising star.

Our @gillwyness.bsky.social is navigating the economics of UK higher education in the @ioe.bsky.social podcast this week! check it out below: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

I have the best colleagues ♥️

Book your place for the CEPEO Annual Lecture with Chloe Gibbs on 10th July 2025. She will be discussing the latest evidence about investments in early childhood education. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

This special issue of the @scot-j-pol-econ.bsky.social brings together seven international papers that advance our understanding of gender norms in economics, featuring new theoretical models, novel data, and empirical analyses (what more could you want #econsky ??).

Very pleased to announce our special issue on Gender Norms, edited by @emmatominey.bsky.social and @nikkishure.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

🎬 UCL’s Bloomsbury campus keeps stealing the spotlight Batman Begins (2005) - Medawar Building Starter for 10 (2006) - Main Quad Our Kind of Traitor (2016) - Gustave Tuck LT Killing Eve (2022) Gustave Tuck LT Follow the link and see even more filming spots in Portico Magazine: bit.ly/44gJBz6

Any questions about this role I'm happy to answer them. This is a permanent academic post with decent teaching load and good promotion prospects, equivalent to Assistant Professor in the US.

Can participation in volunteer activities reduce older people’s reliance on antidepressants? In a new study with HP Qvist & @jeevitha-q.bsky.social, we explore this, merging longitudinal survey data with register data on antidepressant prescriptions. Link: tinyurl.com/3brw3fy3 @sriucl.bsky.social

For the twelfth year running, our faculty IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, remains the top place in the world to study Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.

Does it matter that university tuition fees are soon likely to break through the £10k psychological barrier? CEPEO's deputy director @gillwyness.bsky.social comments in this Times Higher Education article: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/rising-...

📣Another blog post I hear you ask? Yes! Here's today's with @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot: 🎤Testing, Testing – Why are Black applicants not getting graduate jobs?🎓💼 Black applicants are 45% less likely to get a graduate role than their white peers blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

🎙️New blog post🎙️ 🐦🪱The Early Bird Catches The Worm - Why Applying Early Matters for Social Mobility 🪱🐦 'Application readiness' accounts for over 10% of the gap in offer rates between applicants from working class & professional backgrounds blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0... @clairetyler.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this paper out! This is part of a larger research agenda documenting that: 1) A variety of (often understudied) factors affect the quality of colleges students choose, and 2) College choice and quality matter for longer-run outcomes like graduation and earnings.

📢 In a new @diw.de weekly report, we show that there are (average) differences in math and reading competencies between men and women, but they don’t explain much of the gender pay gap. For more details, read below (in German) 💡 Joint work with @jonasjessen.bsky.social and Frauke Witthöft.

So proud of my UCL colleagues for their years of amazing work on this. tldr: the class ceiling is very real in access to elite professions

Out tomorrow: our @nuffieldfoundation.org report "Inequalities in Access to Professional Occupations" @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot Why are working class & ethnic minority young people underrepresented in professional jobs? Do they not apply? OR do they apply, but just not get hired?

Side note: we have been working on this collaboration since 2015, just after my eldest was born. It’s a true labour of love. I’m thrilled that tomorrow we can finally share some results with the world thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org having enough faith in this project to let us expand

New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷 Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... #EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution

Me, presenting new research on the university applications strategies of private v state school students this week... In which I also reveal why we named a paper after an S-Club 7 song 🎤

People with lower skills tend to misjudge their ability, something known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. But there's a gender twist: while men overestimate, women underestimate themselves.

How do 'first in family' students navigate uni and the labour market? Follow this #ThursdayThread with research by our @nikkishure.bsky.social @adameczanna.bsky.social and Morag Henderson to find out! 🧵 1/8

What happens when more than 50 population scientists team up to tackle the demographic dimensions of climate change? Read the research from SRI’s @ruettenauer.bsky.social austriaca.at?arp=0x003fb936

Our motto is "changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education" or, as we like to say for short: C T W F T B T W C S S R A E

💡CEPEO Seminar coming up next week! 💡 Silke Anger from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) will be presenting her work on offering high school students access to assistance from professional career counselors. 27th Feb Online - you can sign up below! ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...