This major ESRC project addressed the role of schooling in determining educational attainment, occupational outcomes and social mobility.
Project title | Schooling and unequal outcomes in youth and adulthood |
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Project lead | Alice Sullivan |
Themes | Education Employment, income and wealth Social mobility |
Dates | October 2013 – July 2017 |
Funder | ESRC |
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This blog post is based on the article ‘Elite universities, fields of study and top salaries: Which degree will make you rich?’ published in the British Educational Research Journal.
29 May 2018Alice Sullivan shares findings from this research project in an article published on The Conversation.
21 November 2014In this opinion piece for the ESRC’s Britain in 2015 magazine, Alice Sullivan examines the influence of social origins on educational chances for the 1970 cohort.
3 November 2014
Phone: 020 7612 6661
Email: alice.sullivan@ucl.ac.uk
Alice’s research interests are focussed on social and educational inequalities and the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage.
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.
Phone: 020 7612 6107
Email: g.ploubidis@ucl.ac.uk
George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and currently holds the posts of Principal Investigator of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge. George is a multidisciplinary quantitative social scientist and a longitudinal population surveys methodologist. His main research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error.
Phone: 020 7911 5411
Email: d.wiggins@ucl.ac.uk
Dick’s current research interests include the impact of fee-pay schooling on adult outcomes and voting, the measurement of subjective well-being (https://casp19.com) as well as patterns of consent in response to requests to link survey and administrative data.
He is committed to the value of life course research and methodological rigour notably, strategies to handling missing data, structural equation modelling and data visualization.