Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
People who have ADHD traits at age 10 are more likely than those without such traits to have physical health problems and to report physical health-related disability at age 46.
Professor Jane Elliott is to take over as director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, which houses three of Britain’s internationally-renowned birth cohort studies. She will succeed Professor Heather Joshi, who is stepping down after seven years in the post.
The Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) has elected Professor Heather Joshi of CLS as its first President.
The first deposit of data from the 8th follow-up of the National Child Development Study, which took place in 2008/9 when cohort members were 50 years old, is now available from the UK Data Archive.
CLS organised four workshops in local schools last week as part of ESRC’s Social Science Week.
A study involving more than 9,600 middle-aged men and women in England, Scotland and Wales has found that women outscored men in two verbal memory tests. Participants in the first test listened to 10 common words being read out and were then given two minutes to recall as many as possible. The second test required them to list the same 10 words about five minutes later.
CLS would be grateful if anyone who is carrying out research using data from any of the three birth cohort studies could remember to notify us of all resultant publications.
A new study by think tank Demos, which draws on data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), blames a lack of spending at pre-school level for educational disengagement in children under four.
Fewer parents are managing to enrol children in their true ‘first choice’ primary schools than is generally thought, says a new study.
Screening tests that monitor babies’ motor development could prove crucial in helping to identify children who will need learning support in their pre-school years, says a book published today.
Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years, edited by Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi and Shirley Dex, was published on Wednesday 17 February by The Policy Press.
Black Caribbean and black African mothers are more likely than women from other ethnic groups to say that they have been victims of racism, a study has found.
Sikh and Roman Catholic women in the UK are more likely to attend a weekly religious service than women from other major faiths and churches, new research suggests.
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