A new study by CSI Director Dave Kirk and collaborators Nicolo Cavalli (Bocconi) and Noli Brazil (UC-Davis) finds countervailing effects of the rollout of Uber’s ridehailing services in the UK. Uber is associated with a 9% decline in serious road accident injuries in the UK. However, that relative improvement is […]

Our new report to the UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research discusses current methods for measuring and analysing occupational mobility, and the way in which methods designed for the analysis of developing countries may need to be modified when applied in other contexts. The paper also provides analyses […]

New CSI report reviews evidence, both from Britain and abroad, on what works to boost community engagement and participation in civic, social, and economic action within local areas.

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 […]