Social Research Institute – News

For the twelfth year running, IOE - UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society remains the top place in the world to study Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.

CLOSER is launching a new annual Emerging Longitudinal Scholars Symposium Series. This year’s symposium focuses on health, wellbeing and labour market (non-) participation.

Four new degrees will inspire students to understand the social forces that shape society and explore diverse sociological approaches to social change, cultural norms and the modern world.

Dr Karen Schucan Bird (IOE) spoke at the Employers' Initiative on Domestic Abuse (EIDA) conference on 16 October to share her research on the importance of education on domestic abuse to equip informa

This year’s theme of ‘Reclaiming Narratives’ invites reflection of the wide variety of Black experiences in our academic spaces and in the wider world we engage in through our research, teaching, and enterprise.

UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society has been recognised for its significant commitment to promoting gender equality.

Dr Alina Pelikh (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has received the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Early Career Award for her contributions to the field of family demography and transitions to adulthood.

A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity.

In this episode, hosts Dr Keri Wong and Dr Alina Pelikh dive into the particular and sometimes daunting process of job interviews within academia.

How do you make the leap into doctoral study to make the most of life as a PhD researcher? This episode's guest Dr Jenny Chanfreau recommends treating your PhD like a full-time job - we explore how.

The winners of elections in the UK and abroad need to ensure the right conditions are in place to allow cutting-edge ideas developed by experts in our universities to meet today’s policy challenges, and vice versa.

In this episode Dr Alina Pelikh speaks to in-house media relations expert Chris Lane, who works in UCL's central press office team. We discuss the ins and outs of communicating research and expertise to the wider world via the media.

Based on collaborative research from IOE and people who have sought asylum in the UK, the “My name is not asylum seeker!” exhibition aims to confront prevailing dehumanising narratives.

The impact of job quality on wellbeing is of a similar magnitude to that of health, outshining more traditional factors, finds a report co-authored by Professor Francis Green and Dr Sangwoo Lee.

In this podcast we take a closer look at international development and global health research that shapes the way we respond during times of crisis.