the analysis of panel data in Economics and Sociology. It opened in 1989 as the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change in Britain and now houses the ESRC-funded Understanding Society project, a longitudinal study of the socio-economic circumstances and attitudes of 100,000 individuals in 40,000 British households. ISER's work led to Essex receiving the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2017. Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing The Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing (IPHW) is a multidisciplinary international research centre of excellence for developing work-class research efforts alongside national (NHS Trust, Public Health England, British Heart Foundation) and international (WHO, WHF) organisations for tackling public health issuess and improving health and wellbeing by means of cutting edge innovations. Notable departments Essex Law School The Essex School of Law is ranked 19th in the UK, 72nd in the world and 3rd in the UK by research power through THE World University Rankings (2022). The Essex Law Clinic allows students to undertake appointments alongside qualified lawyers and clinical teaching staff to the public, namely those of the Essex community, students and university staff to give initial advice about legal problems. Essex Business School The Essex Business School (EBS) is the first carbon-zero business school in the UK symbolising "the proclivity to champion responsible, ethical and sustainable business". Granted funding by the Economic and Social Research Council, EBS posits to be the UK's centre of choice for data research through its Research Centre where academics and researchers undertake theoretical and applied research used within businesses, the public sector, non-profits domestically and internationally to which is consistently rated "internationally excellent". The Essex MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs, making EBS among the top 2% of business schools in the world. Department of Government The Essex Department of Government has been consistently ranked as top for research in every UK Government's assessments of research excellence. In the Research Excellence Framework in 2014, Essex recorded the average GPA score of 3.54 with 68 percent of its outputs graded as 4*. An article published by the Political Studies Association noted: "This is a tremendous achievement and further cements Essex's reputation as the leading political science department in the country." The department has four major Research Centres: The Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation, the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis (CIDA) and the