UCL Social Research Institute

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📌Sociology MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
📌Sociology & Data Science MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
📌Sociology & Social Inequalities MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
📌Sociology of Childhood & Children’s Rights MA www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

A major new project involving our very own team in the @eppicentre.bsky.social

Brick Lane is the place for me | The Migration Menu James and Luke return to series 2 of The Migration Menu exploring how migration has transformed food and the places we call home. Headed to East London,...

TCRU's Ashraf Hoque features on The Migration Menu podcast! bit.ly/435tsLB
He discusses Brick Lane’s Bengali heritage, migration, and the stories behind London’s South Asian food culture. A rich listen on identity, history & taste.
#MigrationStudies #Diaspora #SouthAsianStudies
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Labour market prospects are key to understanding the North-South divide in young Europeans' life satisfaction. Find out more here: www.academia.edu/2997-9196/2/... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Not Flourishing Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Focusing on the 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study we find not flourishing is highest among women and the young. We emphasise the importance of accounting for survey mode when examining wellbeing and illbeing. www.nber.org/papers/w3432... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social

New fellowship framework to strengthen UK research and innovation A new approach to fellowships will make funding opportunities clearer, simpler and more effective for researchers and innovators at different career stages.

UKRI have announced a new fellowships framework.
www.ukri.org/news/new-fel...

AI investment to transform global policy with scientific evidence An £11.5 million AI-driven evidence synthesis project will turbocharge policymakers’ ability to quickly understand scientific evidence on important issues.

Excited to launch ESRC's major investment in METIUS, led by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, with a host of global partners.

METIUS will harness AI to provide timely, reliable evidence synthesis on major societal challenges to policymakers across the globe.

www.ukri.org/news/ai-inve...

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📖 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

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@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy

Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing An interdisciplinary panel event with voices from journalism, arts, and research exploring migration, resistance and wellbeing.

How can art and storytelling help us make sense of migration, displacement & belonging?
Join panellists @ismaileinashe.bsky.social, Manal Massalha, Christie Swallow & Jessie Sullivan on 11 Nov, 4.30pm, for Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing.
bit.ly/479Qe6d
#Migration #Art #Wellbeing

Book Launch: Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss & Damage Join the UCL Climate Crisis Grand Challenge on Weds 5 Nov for the launch of Professor Lisa Vanhala's new book.

📘 Book Launch: Governing the End
Join us on 5 Nov, 6:30pm @ UCL Bloomsbury for the launch of Prof Lisa Vanhala’s new book on climate change loss & damage.
🎤 Panel experts: UCL, SOAS, LSE, Johns Hopkins & The Loss and Damage Collaboration.
🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/tUwzL

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Latest harmonised data on UK smoking rates showcased in new study | CLS New UCL research using harmonised data from four UK cohort studies shows the extent of the decline in cigarette smoking over the past five decades.

New UCL research using harmonised data from four UK cohort studies shows how cigarette smoking has declined over the past five decades.

The researchers undertook the analyses to highlight the research opportunities available using harmonised data.

Read more on the CLS website -
bit.ly/4n6WJfI

Delaying cancer: The effect of education on the age at cancer diagnosis Join this event to hear Yuliya Kulikova discuss the relationship between educational attainment and the timing of cancer onset.

The Wednesday seminar this week: education and cancer.

Join this event to hear Yuliya Kulikova discuss the relationship between educational attainment and the timing of cancer onset.

www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Looks like a useful paper @ioe.bsky.social

SRI Inaugural Lectures Inaugural lectures hosted by the UCL Social Research Institute.

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...

🔊"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...

Research conducted by SRI researchers Mette Louise Berg, Eve Dickson and Rachel Rosen with colleagues from Denmark Sweden as part of the Migrants and Solidarities research

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Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, citizenship and urban governance Join this event to hear Dr Rachel Humphris explain how citizenship is negotiated in sanctuary cities.

How is citizenship negotiated in “sanctuary cities”?
Join Dr Rachel Humphris on 16 Oct, 12:00-13:00, to explore migration, governance & belonging across San Francisco, Sheffield & Toronto. Open to all.
bit.ly/42wd1HI
#UCL #Migration #Citizenship #UrbanStudies
@sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢

We're looking for a centre administrator to join our fantastic team! Role is for 3 days a week, with flexible hybrid working options. Interest in @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's mission a bonus.

🕕Apply by 23.59 on 24th October 2025

Full details: tinyurl.com/5t586vuj

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Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is delighted to welcome Susan Zieger to give this seminar. With respondent Professor Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou.

Our first event of the academic year is the UK book launch of @susanzieger.bsky.social's LOGISTICS AND POWER.

🗓️29 October 2025, 5pm–7pm
📍IAS Common Ground G11 ground floor, South Wing
UCL Gower St, London

Followed by a reception

Free and open to all--register here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Data! 📊〽️💹

K26 Using R for Longitudinal Data Analysis | UCL Online Store This is an in-person two-day course for quantitative researchers wanting to perform longitudinal data analyses with the programming language R. The course

🔈 Do you want to use programming language R in your longitudinal data analyses? Take part in a two-day in-person, paid short course running on 3–4 November 2025 at UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus. Head to the UCL Online Store to find out more and register 👉

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🌟 Just run the 13.1 miles of the Royal 👸🏻 Parks Half Marathon in 2:03:44. 🏃🏻‍♀️
My first Half and LOVED IT!!! 💙

I run for Cancer Research UK 💙
You can still donate👉🏻
www.justgiving.com/page/gabriel... 🙏🏻

REGISTER NOW 20-21 November 2025: 'Introduction to Time Use Research' ONLINE workshop!
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Labour market tightness and union activity Join this event to hear Patrick Nuess explore the effect of changes in aggregate labour market tightness on union membership, union elections, and strikes.

Patrick Neuss will be presenting at our QSS-CLS seminar on 22 October @sriucl.bsky.social Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

A reminder that there is about 1 week left to apply for these 2 positions in Quantitative Social Science @sriucl.bsky.social!

Application deadline: 10 October.

Further details in the link below.

Congratulations to @nikkishure.bsky.social on two amazing milestones: celebrating 10 years at the SRI and beginning her first day as a full professor! We’re so proud to have such an inspiring colleague with us.