Research
Research is a major focus of the Social Research Institute with an annual research income of over £15 million. Our research work is organised within seven renowned centres.
Research in the Social Research Institute
Centres
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS)
The home to four of Britain's internationally-renowned cohort studies, charting social change and the reasons behind it. - Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR)
We work with time use data to investigate issues of social life, paid work patterns, work-life balance, family, gender, and socio-economic structure. - Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER)
CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, brings together world-leading longitudinal studies with participants born throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. - Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-centre)
Developing methods to bring together research evidence to inform decision making in policy, practice and research. - Quantitative Social Science (QSS)
Applying quantitative methods to inform policy on education, health, labour markets, human development and child/adult wellbeing. - Social Science Research Unit (SSRU)
Promoting evidence-informed policy and practice in education, health and welfare through ethical and participative social research. - Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU)
Leaders of research into children, parenting and families since 1973.
Research group
- Climate, Learning & Environment Academic Network (CLEAN)
An interdisciplinary, collaborative community conducting innovative research meeting the challenges of the climate crisis.
Featured research
UCL-led unit providing evidence to shape policy to improve child and family health
The Children and Families Policy Research Unit provides high-quality evidence to guide wide-ranging policy decisions that have implications for the health and wellbeing of children and their families.
17 Jun 2024
Journeys of walking and cycling improve physical and mental health across the life course
Policy priorities and recommendations to increase active travel, drawn from research using longitudinal population study data.
24 Jul 2023
‘Stuck’ schools: the detrimental consequences of failing Ofsted inspections
Why do some schools continuously fail to improve after Ofsted inspections, and what will unstick them from their under-performance predicament?
29 Jun 2023
More research projects
- Exploring what life is like for families when their baby is in hospital care
- Fair Food Futures in Tower Hamlets
- Nkwihoreze: Intergenerational Creative Arts and Healing in Rwanda
- Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender
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