Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Our people

Our researchers, survey specialists, data experts, cohort maintenance team and communications staff each play their own important part in what we do. Our work is overseen by a strategic advisory board who help guide our scientific and strategic management.

Senior leadership team

With responsibility for our overall strategic and scientific management, this group includes the team leader from each of the different working areas within the centre.

Emla Fitzsimons

Professor of Economics and CLS Director

E.Fitzsimons@ucl.ac.uk

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Matt Brown

Professorial Research Fellow, and Senior Survey Manager

matt.brown@ucl.ac.uk

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Lisa Calderwood

Professor of Survey Research, CLS Managing Director, Co-Director of Generation New Era and Director of GUIDE

l.calderwood@ucl.ac.uk

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Morag Henderson

Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study and Next Steps

morag.henderson@ucl.ac.uk

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George Ploubidis

Professor of Population Health and Statistics, and Director of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study

g.ploubidis@ucl.ac.uk

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Meghan Rainsberry

Head of Communications and Engagement

M.Rainsberry@ucl.ac.uk

Aida Sanchez

Head of Research Data Management

a.sanchez@ucl.ac.uk

Felicia Teague

Centre Manager

f.teague@ucl.ac.uk

Administration team

Our administration team supports the management of the centre as a whole. This includes matters concerning HR and recruitment, and finance.

Felicia Teague

Centre Manager

f.teague@ucl.ac.uk

Magda Knitter

Research Finance Administrator

Jay Kubler

Programme and project manager

j.kubler@ucl.ac.uk

Mel Sealy-Pearson

Centre Administrator

Cohort maintenance team

Our cohort maintenance team works to keep our study members’ contact details secure and up to date. They also trace study members who we might have lost touch with, for example if they have moved home.

George Andrew

Cohort Maintenance Officer

g.andrew@ucl.ac.uk

Tony Ball

Database Manager

t.ball@ucl.ac.uk

Denise Brown

Cohort Studies Administrator

denise.brown@ucl.ac.uk

Peter Deane

Cohort Maintenance Officer

p.deane@ucl.ac.uk

Kathryn McRae

Database Manager

k.mcrae@ucl.ac.uk

Shaadi Shidfar

Senior Database Manager (SQL Developer)

shaadi.shidfar@ucl.ac.uk

Mary Ukah

Cohort Maintenance Officer

m.ukah@ucl.ac.uk

Communications team

The communications team works to maximise the use and impact of our study data and research findings. They also work with the cohort maintenance team to keep study members up to date on the latest findings from each survey and on plans for future surveys.

Meghan Rainsberry

Head of Communications and Engagement

M.Rainsberry@ucl.ac.uk

Katie Allen

Digital Channel Manager

katie.allen@ucl.ac.uk

Ryan Bradshaw

Editorial Content Manager

r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk

Katherine Butler

Senior Communications Manager

k.butler@ucl.ac.uk

Radhika Jhamaria

Communications Officer

radhika.jhamaria.23@ucl.ac.uk

Lucy Morling

Communications and Engagement Manager (Generation New Era)

Richard Steele

Events and Marketing Officer

richard.steele@ucl.ac.uk

Naomi Yohendran

Communications and Engagement Officer

naomi.yohendran@ucl.ac.uk

Research data management team

The data management team manages the information collected by field work agencies. They are responsible for cleaning and depositing the data with the UK Data Service. They also produce data documentation to help researchers understand and use the study data.

Vilma Agalioti-Sgompou

Senior Research Data Manager/Engineer

v.agalioti-sgompou@ucl.ac.uk

Alice Barnett

Data Engineer

Maggie Hancock

Senior Research Data Manager/Engineer

maggie.hancock@ucl.ac.uk

Sarah Kerry-Barnard

Research Data Manager/Engineer

sarah.kerry.15@ucl.ac.uk

Silvia Mendonca

Research Data Manager/Engineer

silvia.mendonca@ucl.ac.uk

Nureen Hanisah Mohamad Zaki

Research Data Manager/Engineer

nureen.zaki@ucl.ac.uk

Andrew Peters

Research Data Manager/Engineer

andrew.peters@ucl.ac.uk

Sarab Rihal

Research Data Manager/Engineer

s.rihal@ucl.ac.uk

Rachel Rosenberg

Research Data Manager/Engineer

r.rosenberg@ucl.ac.uk

Aida Sanchez

Head of Research Data Management

a.sanchez@ucl.ac.uk

Information governance and data protection

The Information governance and data protection team for CLS.

Yvonne Benjamin

Information Governance and Data Protection Officer

y.benjamin@ucl.ac.uk

Records linkage team

The Records linkage team are responsible for coordinating and overseeing the centre’s programme of work to link administrative or other relevant records to the study data. These data linkages enhance the research potential of the information we collect through our regular study sweeps.

Karen Dennison

Records Linkage Manager

k.dennison@ucl.ac.uk

Danielle Freitas Gomes

Record Linkage Manager

danielle.gomes@ucl.ac.uk

Research team

Our team of researchers analyse data from our four cohort studies and conduct their own research projects. The team is made up of researchers from a variety of different academic disciplines.

Habtamu Ali Beshir

Research Fellow

h.beshir@ucl.ac.uk

David Bann

Associate Professor in Population Health, Strategic lead of social science genetics

david.bann@ucl.ac.uk

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Gergő Baranyi

Senior Research Fellow

g.baranyi@ucl.ac.uk

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Charlotte Booth

Research Fellow

charlotte.booth@ucl.ac.uk

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Charis Bridger Staatz

Senior Research Fellow

Charis.staatz.17@ucl.ac.uk

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Matt Brown

Professorial Research Fellow, and Senior Survey Manager

matt.brown@ucl.ac.uk

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Lisa Calderwood

Professor of Survey Research, CLS Managing Director, Co-Director of Generation New Era and Director of GUIDE

l.calderwood@ucl.ac.uk

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David Church

GIS Developer

utnvdch@ucl.ac.uk

Gabriella Conti

Professor of Economics

gabriella.conti@ucl.ac.uk

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Brian Dodgeon

Research Fellow

b.dodgeon@ucl.ac.uk

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Emla Fitzsimons

Professor of Economics and CLS Director

E.Fitzsimons@ucl.ac.uk

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Alessandra Gaia

Senior Research Fellow (Survey Methodology)

a.gaia@ucl.ac.uk

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Laura Gimeno

Research Fellow

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Alice Goisis

Professor of Demography

a.goisis@ucl.ac.uk

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Alissa Goodman

Professor of Economics and Co-Director of Generation New Era

alissa.goodman@ucl.ac.uk

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Morag Henderson

Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study and Next Steps

morag.henderson@ucl.ac.uk

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Heather Joshi

Emeritus Professor

h.joshi@ucl.ac.uk

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Dominic Kelly

Senior Research Fellow

dominic.kelly@ucl.ac.uk

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Helena Koerber

Research Assistant

helena.korber.23@ucl.ac.uk

Rosie Mansfield

Senior Research Fellow

r.mansfield@ucl.ac.uk

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Bettina Moltrecht

Senior Research Fellow

b.moltrecht@ucl.ac.uk

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Darío Moreno-Agostino

Principal Research Fellow in Population Mental Health

d.moreno@ucl.ac.uk

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Tim Morris

Senior Research Fellow

t.t.morris@ucl.ac.uk

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Vanessa Moulton

Senior Research Fellow

vanessa.moulton@ucl.ac.uk

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Saul Justin Newman

Senior Research Fellow

Martina Narayanan

Research Fellow

m.narayanan@ucl.ac.uk

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Maria Palma

Research Fellow

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Sam Parsons

Principal Research Fellow

sam.parsons@ucl.ac.uk

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Praveetha Patalay

Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing

p.patalay@ucl.ac.uk

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Alina Pelikh

Principal Research Fellow in Demography and CLS Deputy Research Director

a.pelikh@ucl.ac.uk

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George Ploubidis

Professor of Population Health and Statistics, and Director of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study

g.ploubidis@ucl.ac.uk

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Alyce Raybould

Research Fellow (Survey Manager)

a.raybould@ucl.ac.uk

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Carole Sanchez

Survey Manager

carole.sanchez@ucl.ac.uk

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Laura Sheppard

Research Fellow

Laura.sheppard@ucl.ac.uk

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Richard Silverwood

Associate Professor and Chief Statistician

R.Silverwood@ucl.ac.uk

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Cohen Simpson

Senior Research Fellow

cohen.simpson@ucl.ac.uk

Thomas Steare

Research Fellow

t.steare@ucl.ac.uk

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Alice Sullivan

Professor of Sociology

alice.sullivan@ucl.ac.uk

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Evangeline Tabor

Senior Research Fellow

Evangeline.tabor.18@ucl.ac.uk

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Katie Thompson

Research Fellow

k.n.thompson@ucl.ac.uk

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Georgia Tomova

Research Fellow (Statistics/Quantitative Social Science)

g.tomova@ucl.ac.uk

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Konstantinos Tsigaridis

Research Fellow in Statistics/Quantitative Social Science

k.tsigaridis@ucl.ac.uk

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Aase Villadsen

Principal Research Fellow

a.villadsen@ucl.ac.uk

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Bozena Wielgoszewska

Senior Research Fellow

b.wielgoszewska@ucl.ac.uk

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Erica Wong

Survey Manager

erica.wong@ucl.ac.uk

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Liam Wright

Associate Professor in Statistics and Survey Methodology

liam.wright@ucl.ac.uk

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PhD students

Doctoral Candidates supervised by CLS researchers.

Zihan Chen

PhD student

Martin Danka

PhD student

Alice Deng

PhD student

Esme Elsden

PhD student

Yiling Guo

PhD Student, Research Assistant

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Linxuan He

PhD student

Luke Kretschmer

PhD student

James Lathe

PhD student

Sandra Martinez

PhD student

Matthew van Poortvliet

PhD student

Sorcha Ni Chobhthaigh

PhD student

Siqi Wu

PhD student

Wenye Yu

PhD student

Survey team

The survey team is responsible for designing each study survey and working with the field work agencies to collect survey data from cohort members.

Tugba Adali

Research Fellow (Survey Manager)

t.adali@ucl.ac.uk

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Matt Brown

Professorial Research Fellow, and Senior Survey Manager

matt.brown@ucl.ac.uk

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Lisa Calderwood

Professor of Survey Research, CLS Managing Director, Co-Director of Generation New Era and Director of GUIDE

l.calderwood@ucl.ac.uk

Full UCL profile

Lucy Haselden

Survey Manager

l.garcez@ucl.ac.uk

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Darina Peycheva

Research Fellow (Survey Manager)

d.peycheva@ucl.ac.uk

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Larissa Pople

Research Fellow (Survey Manager)

l.pople@ucl.ac.uk

Alyce Raybould

Research Fellow (Survey Manager)

a.raybould@ucl.ac.uk

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Carole Sanchez

Survey Manager

carole.sanchez@ucl.ac.uk

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Erica Wong

Survey Manager

erica.wong@ucl.ac.uk

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Visitors & Collaborators

We host a number of visiting researchers who are working towards a graduate or postgraduate degree at another institution. They use CLS study data in either their own research projects or in collaborative projects with other CLS researchers.

Jenny Chanfreau

Research Fellow in Demography

j.chanfreau@ucl.ac.uk

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Shirley Dex

Emeritus Professor

s.dex@ucl.ac.uk

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Ludovica Gambaro

Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow, DIW Berlin

l.gambaro@ucl.ac.uk

Michelle Kelly-Irving

Senior Researcher/Visiting Fellow

michelle.kelly@inserm.fr

Mary Clare Lennon

Visiting Fellow

m.lennon@ucl.ac.uk

Jennifer Maggs

Visiting Research Associate

j.maggs@ucl.ac.uk

Ellen Thompson

Honorary Research Associate

ellen.thompson@ucl.ac.uk

Nikos Tzavidis

Research Associate

n.tzavidis@ucl.ac.uk

Dick Wiggins

Emeritus Professor

d.wiggins@ucl.ac.uk

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Afshin Zilanawala

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

afshin.zilanawala@ucl.ac.uk