Social & political attitudes

This research examined attitudes to climate change and the environment in Britain before and since COVID-19.

The Wellcome Monitor is a study of the British adult population’s awareness of, knowledge of, engagement with, and attitudes towards science and health research. The public engagement study is the third and final of a series of reports based on data collected in March and April 2020.

Exploring public perceptions of the sentencing of causing death by driving offences in Scotland, including the perceptions of families of victims.

A report series exploring public perceptions of sentencing practices for criminal offences in Scotland.

Looking at whether key political attitudes and values have changed following the pandemic.

This module from the Scottish Social Attitudes survey explores people’s attitudes to a wide range of forms of violence against women including domestic abuse, rape, sexual harassment and commercial sexual exploitation.

The Wellcome Monitor is a study of the British adult population’s awareness of, knowledge of, engagement with, and attitudes towards, science and health research. The drug-resistant infections study is the second of the series.

The What Scotland Thinks website provides impartial, up-to-date information on public attitudes towards how the constituent parts of the UK should and are being governed.

The What UK Thinks: EU website provides impartial, up-to-date information on public attitudes to the European Union before and since the EU Referendum.

The UK faces a range of environmental challenges that require action to ensure the Government’s aims, set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, are met. This study aims to improve Defra’s understanding of people’s values and priorities for the environment and will generate options for taking these into account in environmental policymaking.