Using new biosocial data to explore inequality of opportunity
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:27 am
Andrew Jones uses data from Understanding Society to explore the health impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
My Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship supports a programme of research that embeds biosocial data from the national panel dataset, Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, within a unified ethical framework of equity of opportunity in health. It focuses on the ways in which early life circumstances nigeria rcs data and education shape lifetime inequality of opportunity in health and the pathways through which this happens.
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the final nine months of the Fellowship.
The release of the Understanding Society Covid-19 monthly web survey from May 2020 has allowed a new strand of the project to focus on the impact of the response to the pandemic in the UK on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress.
This asks whether the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK has had a greater impact on psychological distress among those in more disadvantaged circumstances and hence widened inequality of opportunity (IOp)?
The release of the Understanding Society Covid-19 Survey provides an opportunity to address this question.
My Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship supports a programme of research that embeds biosocial data from the national panel dataset, Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, within a unified ethical framework of equity of opportunity in health. It focuses on the ways in which early life circumstances nigeria rcs data and education shape lifetime inequality of opportunity in health and the pathways through which this happens.
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the final nine months of the Fellowship.
The release of the Understanding Society Covid-19 monthly web survey from May 2020 has allowed a new strand of the project to focus on the impact of the response to the pandemic in the UK on inequality of opportunity in psychological distress.
This asks whether the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK has had a greater impact on psychological distress among those in more disadvantaged circumstances and hence widened inequality of opportunity (IOp)?
The release of the Understanding Society Covid-19 Survey provides an opportunity to address this question.