Social & political attitudes

The fourth wave of the Wellcome Monitor explores public understanding of and attitudes towards science and health research. This research provides new insights into where society stands on crucial issues such as health research funding, drug resistant infections and mental health.

The British Social Attitudes survey has been carried out annually since 1983 and is our longest running survey. Over 90,000 people have taken part in the study so far.

A new study designed to provide a robust, up-to-date and representative evidence base on key issues for Greater London Authority’s social integration and wider social policy agendas.

Levels of trust in ONS and the statistics it produces remain high, having not changed significantly since 2016.

This report compares attitudes towards immigration in Scotland with those in England & Wales.

We provide an analysis of how attitudes toward tax and spending have shifted across the entire period (over 30 years) that British Social Attitudes (BSA) has been running.

At 69%, voter turnout in the 2017 General Election was higher than at any such election since 1997. In the latest release of our initial British Social Attitudes (BSA) findings, we examine the increase in more depth.