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 »From 1st May 2017 for a period of 18 months, CSI has a new project: Fixed, Crystallising or Diverging: Attitude formation and change in the run-up to Brexit. This project is funded by the Economic and ...
Find out more »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 […]
8th June 2018 Welcome to the Centre for Social Investigation eNewsletter which you can also download as pdf. New Research Out today! We have been helping The Migration Observatory update their briefing on UK Public Opinion toward Immigration. One fascinating finding is that attitudes towards immigration in […]
What reasons do people give to justify their vote choice for Leave or Remain? And, what are the reasons they think the other side voted as they did? New briefing note CSI Brexit 4: People’s Stated Reasons for Voting Leave or Remain. Summary of the findings: Several different surveys and […]
CSI has been of working with Making the Leap and the UK Social Mobility Awards to write up a set of case studies of the 2017 award winners. The full report can be downloaded here. Read highlights below. Making social progress is slow work. If we take a long view […]
