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Getting under the skin with biomarkers

Our researchers are linking genomics expertise with social and economic data to get a complete picture of us as individuals as never before.

Depression: A couples’ disease?

Four in ten adults in the UK report having experienced depression at some point in their life and many are in a long-term relationship at the time. How can professionals better support couples?

Unlocking the secrets of Victorian and Edwardian life

How a collaboration between our historians and the UK Data Archive has brought history to life and transformed research.

“One play is worth a hundred speeches”

How theatre helped the women's suffrage movement succeed.

Using data revolution to solve real world issues

As the first UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science, Professor Maria Fasli is on a mission to ensure the data revolution benefits all walks of society.

Why were the Victorians better at rehabilitating child offenders?

A new book containing the first ever-cradle-to-grave study of children in the early English juvenile justice system uncovers a time when youth incarceration seemed to work - and suggests why it can't in today's Britain.