Social & political attitudes

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.

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 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.

Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) has been measuring and tracking changes in people’s social, political and moral attitudes in Scotland since 1999. The survey is a critical gauge of public opinion, and is used by the Government, journalists, opinion formers and academics.