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Versus Arthritis and MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work
We investigate the adverse impacts of musculoskeletal conditions on work. By informing policy and practice we aim to improve the lives of workers, patients and employers
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Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts
The Intergenerational Commission, chaired by Lord Willetts, highlighted the challenges facing the social contract between generations, with rising job and housing insecurity experienced by young people alongside a social care system not fit to suppor...
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Intergenerational flows of support in later life
Flows of support between different generations of kin can be upwards or downwards. This project will investigate flows in both directions by exploring regular and one-off financial, emotional and instrumental contributions.Inheritances constitute one...
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Social and spatial mobility within and across generations
Persistent inequalities exist in individuals' propensities to move across space and to move up, or down, the social hierarchy. This research investigates how patterns of spatial mobility are changing, the trends in socio-economic mobility and the com...
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Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study
The City Region Deal for Stirling and Clackmannanshire is a £100m+ investment by the Westminster and Scottish governments. It provides a network of local communities, businesses, community organisations and local authorities, all of whom are working ...
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Community resilience and social coherence
This project examines the extent of residential age mixing and how it is changing over time.This project uses an innovative mixed methods design, analysing spatial and longitudinal data that is both quantitative (from Censuses and surveys) as well as...
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Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations
Changes in fertility and mortality have affected the number of kin an individual can expect to have alive at different stages of the life course. As children, most of us now know our grandparents, and in our fifties and sixties, many of us have both ...
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Transitions to adulthood and the buffering effect of intergenerational support
The past decade has seen a persistent rise in the age at which young adults leave the parental home, as well as an increase in returning home, particularly following the end of university, job loss, and partnership break-up. Young adults who live awa...