Centre for Time Use Research – News

Widening inequalities in learning, growing gender gaps in paid and domestic work - we hear about covid’s impact in these areas and how research findings are informing responses in policy and practice.

‘High-risk behaviours’ were significantly higher in the second Covid-19 lockdown than the first, finds a new study led by UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

The UK population spent more time doing activities that were less risky during the first national lockdown in May and June 2020, followed by a slight, though not complete reversal in August 2020.

New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and UCL Institute of Education (IOE) has found that a sizeable gap emerged in the amount of time primary school children from better and worse-off families spent learning while schools were closed.

School closures, massive rates of job loss and furloughing, and a shift to working from home are all affecting how parents spend their time, and how mothers and fathers divide responsibilities for paid work, housework and childcare.

Children from better-off households are spending 30% more time each day on educational activities than children from the poorest fifth of households.

New research suggests that combining work and childcare during lockdown takes up virtually the entire day for some groups of parents.

UCL Institute of Education’s (IOE) Centre for Time Use Research and Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies are two of five research centres that have been granted ‘L

A new book by IOE academics exploring how we spend our time and how this compares to previous generations has been published today (27 June).