In his landmark 1942 report on social insurance Sir William Beveridge talked about the ‘five giants on the road to reconstruction’ – the giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. Social ...
Find out more »How are we doing as a society when it come to inequalities? Are the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity still as important as ever? Are there gender gaps in pay, experiences of crime, unemployment, ...
Find out more »In May 2017, CSI initiated a landmark project to monitor public attitudes towards the Brexit negotiations, entitled Fixed, Crystallising or Diverging: Attitude formation and change in the run-up to Brexit. This ...
Find out more »In wave 8 of the CSI Brexit panel study, participants were asked to select which politician they trusted from a list we provided, including the main party leaders. Check CSI Brexit 7: The State of Trust in British Politicians for details.
Did hate crime double after Brexit? Find out in our new briefing note: CSI 34: Hate crime after Brexit
Insecure working conditions are increasingly prevalent in today’s labour markets. Many workers face the risk of their jobs being replaced by machines, as scientific progress has led to the development of technologies that are capable of carrying out many of the tasks that were previously reserved for humans. In the […]
Welcome to the Centre for Social Investigation eNewsletter. Please click on the individual items below or click here to download the newsletter. New CSI research reveals high levels of job discrimination faced by ethnic minorities in Britain Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research programme, CSI conducted field experiments […]
Anthony Heath has been acting as an adviser to RIDEA (The Research Institute for Development and European Affairs) in Kosovo, which have been conducting a survey on the attitudes of Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo to possible ways in which relations between Serbia and Kosovo could be normalised, leading to […]
UKICE have released a new collection of articles on Brexit opinions providing a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to public opinion on each of the key issues around Brexit. It is a varied and interesting collection showing that Brexit continues to polarize the British public. We have contributed two pieces to […]
Nuffield College’s Centre for Social Investigation organised a workshop at the British Academy on 18th January to present new research findings on racial discrimination in the British labour market. Valentina Di Stasio, former Research Fellow at CSI, introduced the new field experiment funded by the EC’s Horizon 2020 programme and […]
New research by CSI and colleagues at the GEMM project has revealed shocking levels of discrimination against job applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds. We made fictitious applications to nearly 3,200 real jobs, randomly varying applicants’ minority background, but holding their skills, qualifications and work experience constant. On average, nearly one in […]
23rd October 2018 Welcome to the Centre for Social Investigation eNewsletter which you can also download as a pdf. CSI’s book published with OUP: Social Progress in Britain Our New book published on 27th September, sets out how much progress Britain has made since 1942. […]
New paper from the Brexit project: Preference for realistic art predicts support for Brexit. Read or download here. Following the UK’s EU referendum in June of 2016, there has been considerable interest from scholars in understanding the characteristics, identities and attitudes that differentiate those who supported Leave from those who supported […]
