Nikki Shure

Is the graduate premium bigger for women? We need more than earnings data to know - Impact of Social Sciences Without using additional data points and survey data, earnings figures can paint a misleading picture of gender differences in graduate earnings.

Is the graduate premium bigger for women? We need more than earnings data to know.

@adameczanna.bsky.social @mattdickson.bsky.social & @nikkishure.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Infographic about how much do graduates earn compared to non-graduates.

🎓 Degrees boost women's income, but by how much? A new @lseimpactblog.bsky.social published by @ucl.ac.uk researchers argues that only using annual earnings figures is not enough to answer the question. Analysis using Next Steps data can paint a more reliable picture. Find out more👉 buff.ly/Z6D45di

Is the graduate premium bigger for women? We need more than earnings data to know - Impact of Social Sciences Without using additional data points and survey data, earnings figures can paint a misleading picture of gender differences in graduate earnings.

💥New: Is the graduate premium bigger for women? We need more than earnings data to know

✍️ @adameczanna.bsky.social, @mattdickson.bsky.social & @nikkishure.bsky.social

#GraduatePremium #HigherEducation

How can policy tackle regional inequalities? | Institute for Fiscal Studies At this policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

Excited about discussing regional inequalities at the Fiscal Studies symposium event next week!

We've got a star-studded lineup of @andyburnham.bsky.social, Paul Collier, Philip McCann, @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @amcanning.bsky.social and more.

Summary of new papers below 🧵👇

We are very fortunate to have these @ukri.org funded studies in the UK. This is especially true of Next Steps—the only Millennial cohort study in England!

This work highlights the importance of the @clscohorts.bsky.social British cohort studies. Without information on hours worked, we can’t get the full picture on the returns to graduation.

UCL CEPEO Autumn Seminar Series 2025 The effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes Dr Judith Delaney (University of Bath) Thursday 27th November 2025, 3pm (UK Time) #CEPEOSeminarSeries

There's still time to register for this week's CEPEO seminar!

We are hosting Dr Judith Delaney from University of Bath who will presenting work on the effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes

REGISTER NOW: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience: Save the date to celebrate together! The countdown has officially begun! Save the date for UCL Illuminated – a spectacular sound and light experience that will kick off our bicentennial celebrations from 11-13 February 2026.

UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience! 💫

We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!

📅11-13 February 2026.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk

Opinion | For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment

Jessica Grose’s nice piece citing our new research: For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o... @sriucl.bsky.social

'Lee Miller was the bravest person I ever knew': The pioneering photographer who captured the horror of World War Two The unflinching gaze of the fearless US artist and war photographer bore witness to both beauty and brutality. Now she is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain.

I cannot recommend this exhibition enough—go see it! #tatebritain

I found Miller’s photo of @ucl.ac.uk taken during WWII quite surreal. I walk through the Wilkins Building on a regular basis and never stopped to think of all it has seen. Looking forward to (hopefully!) learning more as part of #ucl200

I went to see the Lee Miller exhibition at @tate.bsky.social last weekend (curated by my brilliant friend Hilary 🌟) and was struck by the range of Miller’s work. It is to quote Hilary: “fearless, poetic, and surreal”.

Today marks my 10 (!!!) year anniversary at @sriucl.bsky.social and my first day as a full professor. Grateful for all the people who helped me get here, especially my amazing QSS colleagues. Here’s to the next 10!

Research by @adameczanna.bsky.social @suncicavujic.bsky.social and Anna Lovász finds that women who are the first in their family to graduate are less likely to become mothers than non-graduates or continuing-generation graduates. Covered by The Times yesterday www.thetimes.com/uk/education....

🔊"We are seeing big conglomerate organisations who are providing the same kind of formulaic childcare in a number of settings"

@drantoniasimon.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social describes how the privatisation of nurseries has affected #childcare provision.
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social:

📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org

Applications open from October 13!

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.

Opinion: Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research Writing in The Conversation, Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Social Research Institute) outlines his new research that highlights a peak of unhappiness among the young, which then declines with age. He exp...

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

This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...

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:
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I just need to work it into a paper title! Will pick your brain in the future 😊

The @sriucl.bsky.social has been the best place to do this research ♥️ ♥️ ♥️