Our studies
This project aims to develop a conceptual and empirical understanding of social isolation across the life course and generate comparable measures across cohorts.
The relationship between social isolation and wellbeing will be documented from a life course and cross-generational perspective.
| Project title | Social isolation, loneliness and wellbeing across the life course and between five British birth cohorts |
|---|---|
| Project lead | Dr Praveetha Patalay |
| Themes | Family and social networks |
| Dates | September 2020 – September 2022 |
| Funder | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) |
| Summary |
A blog published by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing exploring key insights from the second report published under the Social isolation and loneliness across the life course project.
A blog published by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing exploring key insights from the first report published under the Social isolation and loneliness across the life course project.
A briefing published by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing outlining key trends in social isolation.
Dr Rosie Mansfield presents evidence from four British longitudinal studies on the interrelationships between social isolation and loneliness and their correlates among older British adults before and during the lockdown.
Phone: 020 7612 6051
Email: p.patalay@ucl.ac.uk
Praveetha’s main areas of research interest relate to investigating the development and antecedents of mental health (both ill-health and wellbeing) and their consequences through the lifecourse.
Phone: 020 7911 5566
Email: morag.henderson@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Henderson’s main area of research is inequalities across the life course. More specifically she examines patterns in educational attainment, bullying and wellbeing.
Morag oversees all aspects of CLS’s work on Next Steps, and leads on the strategic and scientific direction of the study.
Email: r.mansfield@ucl.ac.uk
Rosie Mansfield is a postdoctoral researcher at CLS investigating the association between social isolation, loneliness and wellbeing across the life course and between five successive British birth cohort studies. The project is funded by the ESRC as part of their Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, and is the first large-scale study of social isolation, loneliness and wellbeing in the UK.
Rosie has a BSc and an MPhil in Psychology from the University of Liverpool, and completed her PhD at the Institute of Education, University of Manchester as part of the Department for Education funded, Education for Wellbeing Programme.
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.
Head of Evidence, What Works Centre for Wellbeing
Psychology and Psychoanalysis Department, State University of Londrina, Brazil
UKRI Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Network, UCL Psychiatry
Following the lives of 17,000 people born in a single week in 1958 in Great Britain.
Following the lives of 17,000 people born in a single week in 1970 in Great Britain.
Following 16,000 people who were in Year 9 in 2004 at secondary schools in England.
The most recent of Britain's cohort studies, following 19,000 young people born in the UK at the start of the new century.
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
The CLS Bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute
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London WC1H 0AL
Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
