Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience.
From 1 August 2008, access to NCDS, BCS and MCS data via the UK Data Archive changed.
CLS launches a new report to mark 50 years of the National Child Development Study.
Professor Corak arrived on June 9, and will be staying at CLS until the end of July.
Data from the National Child Development Study have enabled researchers to produce four new studies.
More on Modern Motherhood Conference, held by the Family and Parenting Institute and the Open University
New network aims to promote the exchange of information and ideas between those running and analysing cohort studies of children in different countries.
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is advertising a Studentship for a 3-year PhD, which involves analyses of the British Birth Cohorts data in relation to educational achievement in rural and urban areas.
The data and documentation from the third sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study have now been deposited in the Data Archive
If you are using NCDS, BCS70 or MCS data in your research projects, and you have any publications that are not currently listed on our website it would be particularly useful to hear from you immediately. The ESRC needs the best evidence of the usefulness of existing cohorts in the bid they are currently making for Large Facilities funding of cohort studies in the future.
The Bloomsbury Colleges consortium is offering twelve PhD Studentships, including one position analysing Millennium Cohort Study data. The Studentships start in October 2008, and will cover course fees (at the usual level for UK and EU studentships) and a student stipend.
An analysis of the findings relating to Scottish families from the Second Survey of the Millennium Cohort Study has been published by the Scottish Government.
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Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk