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UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows 2023: Daniel Muir

  • 30 May 2023

We are delighted to announce Daniel Muir as one of our Data Impact Fellows for 2023. In this post Daniel shares a bit about his background, his current work and research and what he hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.

Was the shift to home working during the pandemic bad for mental health?

  • 23 May 2023

Dr Charlotte Booth discusses new research from the National Core Studies Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing initiative on working from home and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How can we tackle in-work poverty in the UK?

  • 6 April 2022

How is research by the Living Wage Foundation (LFW) supporting their ‘Living Hours’ scheme and helping tackle work insecurity in the UK?

How does early menopause and menopause symptoms affect women’s careers?

  • 8 March 2022

To mark International Women’s Day 2022, Alice Sullivan and Alex Bryson introduce their research into the effects of menopause on women’s careers.

You get what you pay for: wages and motivation in the school workforce

  • 31 January 2022

Joshua Fullard, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Essex, shares the findings of his data-driven research into teacher pay and student outcomes.

How long must women wait for equal pay?

  • 3 February 2021

Dr Bozena Wielgoszewska, one of our #DataImpactFellows, discusses the recent research she has undertaken with colleagues at UCL on the gender wage gap project.

Merit or ‘fit’? The class ceiling: social mobility and why it pays to be privileged – through the lens of the UK Labour Force Survey

  • 26 June 2019

Daniel Laurison, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College and Sam Friedman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE assert that class analysis needs an approach which registers class destinations more effectively.

Data journeys in a research career: investigating the effect of immigration on the labour market

  • 17 April 2019

Nina Heyden, a US student on a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Essex, won the university’s 2018 Secondary Data Analysis Award for an MSc investigating the effects of immigration on the labour market. Here she discusses her journey of investigation with the data.

Tackling transport-related barriers to employment in low-income neighbourhoods

  • 15 January 2019

Alasdair Rae uses quantative and qualitative data, including the stories of the people affected, to explore the reality of using public transport to access work from poorer areas of the country.

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