How has COVID-19 impacted volunteering?
As society continues to respond to the challenges posed by COVID-19, it’s important to assess how the pandemic has impacted on volunteering in the UK.
View ArticleAlternatives to immigration detention: providing support and reaching case...
Alternatives to detention can provide a more humane environment for people seeking asylum, could be significantly less expensive and do not reduce compliance with the immigration system.
View ArticleWhen and how to deliberate online
At the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), our Centre for Deliberative Research approaches deliberation as a spectrum of involvement.
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned from a life in research
Our trustee Phyllis Macfarlane shares what she has learnt from a life spent working in the insight sector.
View ArticleStaying healthy in a fast-changing world: exploring young people’s...
Changes in young people’s media habits in recent years, alongside the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, have transformed the landscape for policymakers concerned with unhealthy food marketing.
View ArticleDeliberation: a way of doing society?
On 25 May 2022, NatCen’s Centre for Deliberative Research and the Policy Institute at King’s College London launched the first in an ongoing seminar series looking at a range of aspects exploring both...
View ArticleExploring the relationship between loneliness and mental health
Loneliness is something that many people will experience from time to time and is part of the human experience. Defined as ‘a subjective, unwelcome feeling of lack or loss of companionship’, loneliness...
View ArticleA new ‘worry gap’ between women and men is a concerning legacy of the pandemic
Women are twice as likely as men to report levels of extreme worry since the pandemic, according to new analysis published today as part of NatCen’s annual Society Watch report.
View ArticleThe public's view: how did the pandemic impact on UK consumers' experiences?
Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant social and economic disruption across the world, with businesses forced to close, borders closed, personal restrictions...
View ArticleUnderstanding female perpetrators of intimate partner violence
The Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrators Research Fund is focused on strengthening the evidence base for ‘what works’ in addressing perpetrator behaviour, to support effective commissioning and...
View ArticleQualitative research...just a sum of its parts?
After 20 years as a qualitative researcher, the term ‘qualitative research’ rolls off my tongue with ease. I ‘know’ what it is. I do it every day. I try and convince others of its virtues. But here I...
View ArticleMaking an impact? Routes for deliberation to make a difference
On 27 July, the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the Policy Institute at King’s College London held the second in an ongoing seminar series looking at a range of aspects to do with both...
View ArticleUnderstanding and tackling fly-tipping in England
Fly-tipping is a growing problem in England. In 2020/21 English local authorities dealt with 1.13 million fly-tipping incidents, an increase of 16% from 2019/20. The issue is also having a significant...
View ArticleCould ‘Culture Wars’ Rekindle the Brexit Divide?
It is often asserted that Brexit has fallen off voters’ agenda. Remain voters, it is said, have accommodated themselves to the fact that we have left the EU, while the issue has lost its importance for...
View ArticleHow The Constitutional Question Has Become More Divisive
Nicola Sturgeon has a fall-back plan. In her statement in June on how she proposed to set about trying to hold a second independence referendum in the face of opposition from Westminster...
View ArticleWorld Mental Health Day 2022: Disabled people at work – accepted as equals?
Under the 2010 Equality Act, a person can be classified as disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to do normal...
View ArticleFirst Annual Update from A Better Start – National Evaluation
In October 2022, the A Better Start Evaluation Team launched the first in a series of five annual podcasts where they discuss the evaluation findings to date and talk to those leading the different...
View Article“Climate change is outrunning us”: COP27 and the urgency to reaffirm equity...
This blog is co-authored by Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, Anh Ngoc Vu and Ini Dele-Adedeji. There is hope that by holding COP27 in Egypt, a stronger commitment to elevating southern, particularly...
View ArticleAutumn Statement 2022: What are the public’s priorities for taxation, welfare...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, is finalising his Autumn Statement against the backdrop of what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a “profound economic crisis”. As the two men prepare...
View ArticleCan tablets collect data from people with no internet or limited digital...
Survey data collection is increasing moving online. A key driver has been cost, though other factors such as changing public attitudes and lifestyles and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have also played a...
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