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Working with a long-term illness – does employment status make a difference?
Across the developed world, a growing share of the population suffers from chronic disease such as diabetes, arthritis or heart problems and that affects their ability to work. But how do the self-...
Social media use and young people’s mental health: ‘chicken and egg’ – or something else?
The connections between social media and young people’s mental health are very much in the news. Professor Liz Twigg from the University of Portsmouth discusses some questions about this phen...
GGDOT Hacknights: exploring food, diet and sustainability
Have you ever wondered how your food choices affect the environment? Fancy exploring data on nutrition and greenhouse gas emissions and coming up with new ideas for changing food choices? Come alon...
Using data from the National Travel Survey to compare road travel deaths
Many people seem to think that cycling in this country is a particularly dangerous thing to do. They may not know that the UK has almost the lowest death rates for car drivers worldwide, so everyth...
What does the Northern Ireland public think about the Armed Forces Covenant?
Dr Jana Ross, Dr Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley and Professor Cherie Armour of the Northern Ireland Veterans’ Health and Wellbeing Study explore the public’s attitudes toward the Armed Forces Cov...
Rabia and Carstairs
Rabia Butt, one of our summer Q-Step interns, explains the process she went through to calculate and map the Carstairs deprivation index using UK Census data.