UCL Social Research Institute

🎄 CEPEO Xmas Seminar 🎄

Human Capital Spillovers in the United Kingdom
🗣️ Dr Fabien Petit (University of Barcelona)

📍 Room G06A, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP
🗓️ Thursday 11 December
⏰ 2 pm (UK time)

🔗 Register here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#CEPEOSeminarSeries

Great to see TCRU colleagues featured in UCL’s Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report!

@ktwamley.bsky.social, Prof Ann Phoenix, Mette Berg & Eve Dickson contributed to key case studies tackling inequality and justice. #TCRUResearch
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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 ⛳️

Using UCAS data to understand higher education transitions Join us in person at the Department for Education in London to learn more about using UCAS data to better understand youth transitions

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...

The ONS Research Excellence 'Impact of Analysis' Award 2025 goes to The Sure Start Evaluation Team ‪@theifs.bsky.social. Congratulations @gabriconti.bsky.social & co-authors!

The ONS research excellence awards took place yesterday.

@jakeanders.uk co-authored work on the impact of free schools which won the People's Choice Award and Claire Crawford worked with @theifs.bsky.social on the Sure Start evaluation which won the Impact of Analysis Award.

Congratulations!

This recent work by @drsamsims.bsky.social and @clareroutledge.bsky.social was quoted in today's Times article discussing teacher training recruitment this year👏

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Confused about the English education system? You wouldn't be alone. Thankfully @nbraz.bsky.social is here to help.

More high-level impact from SRI researchers. The ‘Our Voices’ project takes a participatory approach to understand struggles of young people facing homelessness.

Some things are changing with undergraduate admissions at UCL. This event will keep you updated on that and what to expect from our degrees.

Our Alex Bryson continues to shine a light on the troubling downturn in young people’s mental well-being. In the US, this trend is driven by those in the labor force, as opposed to students or others outside it.

The government's opportunity mission set the goal of reaching 75% of children having a good level of development when starting school by 2028.

It's good to see this has now reached 68.3%, up 0.6%pts from last year, but still a way to go.

The Fatherhood Institute are helping us make sure the collection of 'dad data' is tightly woven into our plans for Generation New Era - a new birth cohort study for the UK. Find out more in this new blog!

Brand new report on UCL’s strong contribution to justice and equality research – featuring our head of department Mette Berg’s work on asylum housing in northern England, among several outstanding projects.

Austerity in England has restricted childbearing mainly for low-income and racially minoritised women. Important research from former SRI Research Fellow @jenchanfreau.bsky.social and @laurasochas.bsky.social.

@laouthwaite.bsky.social is about to start a new ESRC-funded project exploring potential screening tools for early identification of special educational needs - and what they suggest about numbers who may require support in future.

Check out her blog introducing the project: tinyurl.com/yecuddv2

Ready to boost your skills and upgrade your future? Pursue a funded MSc/MA with the Social Research Institute.

Our head of department Mette Berg has contributed to a new @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social podcast on asylum housing in the UK.

Check it out below!

A logo that reads "ArtEase: arts for resilience", words are in dark blue, look like painted by a brush on orange/yellow watercolour backdrop surrounded by white.

A new Knowledge Exchange project funded by UCL's
Innovation Fund, building on Rwanda’s Nkwihoreze approach @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social & @kirrilypells.bsky.social, together with global partners, will co-create a new tool. More at: www.nkwihoreze.org/artease
#ArtEaseResilience #nkwihorezeproject

The @sriucl.bsky.social VRA call is live! Postgrad students can join real research projects, from global health and climate activism to arts-based studies and systematic reviews. Huge thanks to colleagues who submitted projects! More info on your student Moodle platform.
@ioe.bsky.social #research

Work or study? Gender and the transition from school to work - Nuffield Foundation New research is studying young people's pathways from education to employment, focusing on gender differences.

New research on gender differences in the school to work transition and early career outcomes in England from Andrew Jenkins and Ingrid Schoon of @sriucl.bsky.social

Learn more:
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/work...
#gender #vocationaleducation #employment
Funded by the Nuffield Foundation

Black and white sketch of a person in derelict setting. White text reads "Social reproduction in the shadows"

Through ethnographic fieldwork, decolonial policy analysis, and creative co-production Shadows project @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social explores how migrant families and young people with no access to public funds survive and create lives in England. Learn more: nrpfintheshadows.com
#NRPF #SocialJustice

Link to join: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Image of a sunflower with a bee on it with blue sky in background. Invitation text for UCL IOE Panel Event: Amplifying, Advocating and Advancing! Wednesday 3rd December 25 from 12 noon till 1pm. Room A5.02 (20 Bedford Way) or online. Panelists will discuss 1. their lived experiences and the strengths that they bring to UCL 2.support for advancement towards leadership. This will be followed by Q&A

Join @melbond.bsky.social for Panel Event for the United Nations International Day of Disabled People: Amplifying, Advocating and Advancing!
📅 Dec 3 | ⏰ 12–1 PM | 📍 @ioe.bsky.social 20 Bedford Way+ Online
Register now & be part of the conversation!

#Inclusion #HigherEducation #Disabilities

@sriucl.bsky.social Just made a video to help promote an important resource, result of creative collaboration between Karen Schucan Bird @sriucl.bsky.social, two artists and victim-survivors of domestic abuse. Download the Time for Tea Zine now at: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
#DomesticAbuse

Want to learn how to use time diary data?

Sign up for the Centre for Time Use Research introductory workshop now ⬇️

A very interesting read ⬇️

Check out this article!

Have you ever considered using time diary data?

🕒 They capture what people actually do over a day; typically in 10–15 minute slots.

💭 Unlike stylised questions, which rely on what people think they do (e.g. 'How many hours of childcare did you do last week?').

Check out timeuse.org for more!

Ever thought of using time diary data? Capturing not just what people do, but when, where, and with whom.

The Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) harmonises diary data across countries. Researchers can request the MTUS data for free from the Centre for Time Use Research (UCL).

www.timeuse.org/mtus

TIME USE WEEK 2025 — TUI Time Use Week 2025 proposes to reflect on time use in a moment of digital transformation and its impact on the right to time.

Prof Oriel Sullivan (Centre for Time Use Research, UCL) presented at the Time Use Week in Barcelona the main updates and key trends in time use data across Europe.

Read more here: timeuse.barcelona/time-use-wee...

#TUW2025