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The UK Household Longitudinal Study

Capturing life in the UK in the 21st century Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal household panel study of its kind and provides vital evidence on life changes and stability

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Authoritarian parents have negative effects on behaviour

A new ‘explainer’ from Understanding Society sets out how the Welsh Government has used Understanding Society data

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Our digital lives and our wellbeing

What does internet and smartphone use do to wellbeing, especially for the young?

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Lords Committee cites Understanding Society in home-working report

House of Lords Home-based Working Committee says working from home could support government plans to get people back into work

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Unpaid work – the missing link in the gender gap

Long read: unpaid work may affect health through its impact on employment

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Latest research

Attenuation and reinforcement mechanisms over the life course

  1. Matteo Richiardi
  2. Patryk Bronka
  3. Justin van de Ven

Genome-wide association study of long COVID

  1. Vilma Lammi
  2. Tomoko Nakanishi
  3. Samuel E. Jones
  4. Shea J. Andrews
  5. Juha Karjalainen
  6. Beatriz Cortés
  7. Heath E. O'Brien
  8. Ana Ochoa-Guzman
  9. Brian E. Fulton-Howard
  10. Martin Broberg
  11. Hele H. Haapaniemi
  12. Masahiro Kanai
  13. Matti Pirinen
  14. Axel Schmidt
  15. Ruth E. Mitchell
  16. Abdou Mousas
  17. Massimo Mangino
  18. Alicia Huerta-Chagoya
  19. Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong
  20. Elizabeth T. Cirulli
  21. Marc Vaudel
  22. Alex S.F. Kwong
  23. Amit K. Maiti
  24. Minttu M. Marttila
  25. Daniel C. Posner
  26. Alexis A. Rodriguez
  27. Chiara Batini
  28. Francesca Minnai
  29. Anna Dearman
  30. C.A. Robert Warmerdam
  31. Celia B. Sequeros
  32. Thomas W. Winkler
  33. Daniel M. Jordan
  34. Raimonds Rešcenko
  35. Lorenzo Miano
  36. Jacqueline M. Lane
  37. Ryan K. Chun
  38. Beatriz Guillen-Guio
  39. Olivia C. Leavy
  40. Laura Carvajal-Silva
  41. Kevin Aguilar-Valdés
  42. Erika Frangione
  43. Lindsay Guare
  44. Ekaterina Vergasova
  45. Eirini Marouli
  46. Pasquale Striano
  47. Ummu Afeera Zainulabid
  48. Ashutosh Kumar
  49. Hajar Fauzan Ahmad
  50. Ryuya Edahiro
  51. Shuhei Azekawa
  52. Shiuh-Wen Luoh
  53. Christian Erikstrup
  54. Ole B.V. Pedersen
  55. Jordan Lerner-Ellis
  56. Alicia Colombo
  57. Joseph J. Grzymski
  58. Makoto Ishii
  59. Yukinori Okada
  60. Noam D. Beckmann
  61. Meena Kumari
  62. Ralf Wagner
  63. Iris M. Heid
  64. Catherine John
  65. Patrick J. Short
  66. Per Magnus
  67. Laura Ansone
  68. Luca V.C. Valenti
  69. Sulggi A. Lee
  70. Louise V. Wain
  71. Ricardo A. Verdugo
  72. Karina Banasik
  73. Frank Geller
  74. Lude H. Franke
  75. Alexander Rakitko
  76. Emma L. Duncan
  77. Alessandra Renieri
  78. Konstantinos K. Tsilidis
  79. Rafael de Cid
  80. Ahmadreza Niavarani
  81. Erik Abner
  82. Teresa Tusié-Luna
  83. Shefali S. Verma
  84. George Davey Smith
  85. Nicholas J. Timpson
  86. Ravi K. Madduri
  87. Kelly Cho
  88. Mark J. Daly
  89. Andrea Ganna
  90. Eva C. Schulte
  91. J. Brent Richards
  92. Kerstin U. Ludwig
  93. Michael Marks-Hultström
  94. Hugo Zeberg
  95. Hanna M. Ollila

A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case–control classification and trans-ancestry comparison

  1. Xueyi Shen
  2. Miruna Barbu
  3. Doretta Caramaschi
  4. Ryan Arathimos
  5. Darina Czamara
  6. Friederike S. David
  7. Anna Dearman
  8. Evelyn Dilkes
  9. Marisol Herrera-Rivero
  10. Floris Huider
  11. Luise Kühn
  12. Kuan-Chen Lu
  13. Teemu Palviainen
  14. Alicia M. Schowe
  15. Gemma Shireby
  16. Antoine Weihs
  17. Chloe C.Y. Wong
  18. Eleanor Davyson
  19. Hannah Casey
  20. Mark J. Adams
  21. Antje-Kathrin Allgaier
  22. Michael Barber
  23. Joe Burrage
  24. Avshalom Caspi
  25. Ricardo Costeira
  26. Erin C. Dunn
  27. Lisa Feldmann
  28. Josef Frank
  29. Franz J. Freisleder
  30. Danni A. Gadd
  31. Ellen Greimel
  32. Eilis Hannon
  33. Sarah E. Harris
  34. Georg Homuth
  35. David M. Howard
  36. Stella Iurato
  37. Tellervo Korhonen
  38. Tzu-Pin Lu
  39. Nicholas G. Martin
  40. Jade Martins
  41. Edel McDermott
  42. Susanne Meinert
  43. Pau Navarro
  44. Miina Ollikainen
  45. Verena Pehl
  46. Charlotte Piechaczek
  47. Aline D. Scherff
  48. Frederike Stein
  49. Fabian Streit
  50. Alexander Teumer
  51. Henry Völzke
  52. Jenny van Dongen
  53. Rosie M. Walker
  54. Natan Yusupov
  55. Louise Arseneault
  56. Jordana T. Bell
  57. Klaus Berger
  58. Elisabeth Binder
  59. Dorret I. Boomsma
  60. Simon R. Cox
  61. Udo Dannlowski
  62. Kathryn L. Evans
  63. Helen L. Fisher
  64. Andreas J. Forstner
  65. Hans J. Grabe
  66. Jaakko Kaprio
  67. Tilo Kircher
  68. Johannes Kopf-Beck
  69. Meena Kumari
  70. Po-Hsiu Kuo
  71. Qingqin S. Li
  72. Terrie E. Moffitt
  73. Hugh Mulcahy
  74. Therese M. Murphy
  75. Gerd Schulte-Körne
  76. Jonathan Mill
  77. Cathryn M. Lewis
  78. Naomi R. Wray
  79. Andrew M. McIntosh

A pecking order of household finance

  1. Declan French
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Understanding Society in the media

Research using data from the Study is frequently featured in the media.

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