Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), Next Steps, and the National Child Development Study (NCDS), this project investigated the role of aspirations on social reproduction and social mobility across the divides of gender, ethnicity, disability and social class. The project was part of the Cross Cohort Research Programme.
Project title | Educational and occupational aspirations of young people: influences and outcomes |
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Project leads | Lucinda Platt Sam Parsons |
Themes | Education Occupational expectations Life course transitions Social and economic wellbeing Social mobility |
Dates | 1 January 2017 – December 2018 |
Funder | ESRC |
Summary |
This briefing, based on data from Next Steps and the Millennium Cohort Study, explores how occupational aspirations of girls and boys differ across ethnic groups, and the extent to which these aspirations feed through into subsequent occupational outcomes.
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Phone: 020 7612 6882
Email: sam.parsons@ucl.ac.uk
Sam has a long history of producing research based on the British Birth Cohorts, from the antecedents and consequences of poor basic skills in adult life, to more recent research focusing on poorer outcomes for children with Special Education Needs, the gendered occupational occupations of teenagers and the long-term advantages for men and women who attended a private school and/or an elite university.
View Lucinda’s biography on the London School of Economics website here.
The most recent of Britain's cohort studies, following 19,000 young people born in the UK at the start of the new century.
Following 16,000 people who were in Year 9 in 2004 at secondary schools across England.
Following the lives of 17,000 people born in a single week in 1958 in Great Britain.