CLS International Conference on Child Cohort Studies

Between 12th and 14th September 2006, over 200 individuals involved in large-scale birth cohort studies following children born around the turn of the new millennium attended the International Confe

Between 12th and 14th September 2006, over 200 individuals involved in large-scale birth cohort studies following children born around the turn of the new millennium attended the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

As well as 45 oral presentations, the conference included keynote speeches from Professor Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Columbia University, NYC), Professor Sara McLanahan (Princeton University, NJ) and Professor Jonathan Bradshaw (University of York); a panel discussion entitled “What is the point of international comparisons?”; and two poster sessions in which 56 delegates presented summaries of their cohort studies.

Many of the presentations from the conference are available to download from www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/conference06-presentations.

Summary information on some of the studies represented at this conference is also available in the CLS International Zone. There are also plans to publish a special issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (guest edited by Rosemary Creeser) in December 2007. This will be based upon a selection of papers given at the conference.