Understanding Society Podcast Series

By Understanding Society

Understanding Society is one of the largest household panel studies in the world. We follow thousands of households fr

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The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.

Understanding Society Podcast Series episodes:

October 12, 2022 Understanding survey sampling
Who goes into the Understanding Society sample and why?

In this short podcast, Professor Peter Lynn, Director of Survey Methods, explains how the original sample for Understanding Society was selected and how the study ensures that the sample is representative of the UK population. He also talks about the sample for the Covid-19 survey and the role of boost samples in a longitudinal study.
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6min
February 21, 2022 Building Understanding Society - from surveys to data
In this final episode of season 3 of our podcast series we take a closer look at Understanding Society itself. How do we turn survey responses into data for research? How do we select who takes part in the survey? And what makes household panel data so useful for researchers and policymakers? Series host, Catherine McDonald, talks to the people who design and implement Understanding Society - taking the survey from methodological testing, through fieldwork and data processing, to ending with the anonymised dataset.
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41min
January 25, 2022 How have the pandemic related school closures affected our children?
In the sixth episode of our podcast series, we look at how the COVID19 school closures have affected our children – and their parents. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Professor Birgitta Rabe from the Institute for Social and Economic Research about her work comparing the mental health of those children who were invited to return to school in June 2020 with those who weren’t. Catherine’s second guest is Tom McBride, Director of Evidence at the Early Intervention Foundation, who explains why research such as this is so important for policy and practice.
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30min
January 18, 2022 How are relationships - between couples and within families - changing?
In the fifth episode of our podcast series, we look take a look at how relationships are changing. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris, Understanding Society’s Topic Champion for Families, about her research on partnerships, marriage and fertility trends using our main dataset and our COVID19 survey. Catherine’s second guest is Dee Holmes, Senior Practice Consultant from the relationship support charity, Relate, who assesses the extent to which Brienna’s research is reflected in what she sees ‘on the ground’.
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32min
January 11, 2022 Does volunteering make young people more likely to vote?
In the fourth episode of our podcast series, we look take a look at the role of social action in civic participation. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Dr Stuart Fox from Brunel University about his research looking at whether volunteering makes young people more likely to vote in their first election. Catherine then moves on to talk to Victoria Harkness, Head of Research and Evaluation at the National Citizen Service Trust about the Trust’s experience of young people and their levels of civic participation.
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30min
November 30, 2021 Public health and the COVID-19 pandemic
In the third episode of our new podcast series, we take a look at the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Professor Meena Kumari, Understanding Society’s Topic Champion for Health and Biomarker research and to David Finch, Assistant Director in the Healthy Lives directorate at The Health Foundation. Together they discuss Understanding Society’s COVID-19 survey and The Health Foundation’s COVID-19 Impact inquiry. They look at what the pandemic has highlighted with regard to the social determinants of health and they share their biggest fears as we move out of the initial clutches of COVID-19.
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29min
November 23, 2021 Universal Credit: How is it faring as a benefit system?
With the topic area of income and expenditure for the second episode in our new podcast series, we take a look at Universal Credit – how it’s designed, how it compares to the old benefits legacy system and the effects it has on people’s lives. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Tom Waters, Senior Research Economist from the Institute for Fiscal Studies about research that used Understanding Society data to take a longitudinal look at Universal Credit. With first-hand experience of supporting people on Universal Credit, Kayley Hignell, Head of Policy for Families, Welfare and Work at Citizens Advice, responds to the research and shares her view on how one of the biggest benefit reforms in UK history is playing out.

You can read Tom’s research here via the Understanding Society publications library.
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33min
November 16, 2021 Who carried the work burden during COVID-19?
In the first episode of our new podcast series, we look at employment and the experience of working-class women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Series host Catherine McDonald speaks to Professors Tracey Warren from Nottingham University Business School and Clare Lyonette from Warwick Institute for Employment about their project Carrying the Work Burden of the COVID-19 pandemic: working class women in the UK. Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the Women’s Budget Group and co-collaborator on the project also joins to explain the motivation for the research and the ways in which their findings are serving as vital evidence in the case of building back better with increased gender equality.

The research project’s website can be found here.
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28min
October 14, 2019 Why sample size matters
Dr Olena Kaminska talks about why sample size matters when researching hard to reach sub-sections of the population and why Understanding Society offers not just great data but some innovative and original opportunities to research previously ignored groups.
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8min
October 14, 2019 What makes a boomeranger? Moving back in with mum and dad
Anne Berrington talks about what makes young adults return to live with their parents.
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9min

FAQs about Understanding Society Podcast Series:

How many episodes does Understanding Society Podcast Series have?

The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.