Equal Opportunities Commission – Ethnicity and patterns of employment and care

1958 National Child Development Study – Caring responsibilities in middle age

CLS Briefings – The intergenerational transmission of disadvantage and advantage

Journey to work data in the UK – what data are available?

This webinar is jointly organised by CeLSIUS and the UK Data Service as part of the ESRC-funded data resource’s collaborative webinar series, ESRC data resources: discovering data and how to use it.

Educational and occupational aspirations of young people: influences and outcomes

Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and Next Steps, this research project investigates the role of aspirations on social reproduction and social mobility across the divides of gender, ethnicity, disability and social class.

Webinar: Introduction to the 1970 British Cohort Study

This session introduced the study to both first-time and more experienced data users of the 1970 British Cohort Study. A recording of the webinar is available to view on the event page.

Parental working hours and the rising prevalence of obesity over time: a cross-cohort analysis

This research project aims to investigate how changes in parental employment have affected childhood weight and if/how this effect has been changing over the last 5 decades?

NCDS Age 60 Consultation Event

Delegates from the scientific community, government departments, members of the third sector and other stakeholders were invited to give their ideas and discuss scientific priorities for the data collection instruments for the Age 60 Survey of the National Child Development Study (NCDS).

Intergenerational influences on physical activity

This research project investigates the influence of work and family status on exercise and sedentary behaviour in childhood and adult life.

Does the language of 11-year-olds predict their future?

This research project aimed to apply automatic content analysis tools to transcribed self-reported essays, written by study members at age 11 and age 50 in order to undertake quantitative analysis of the words and concepts expressed by respondents.

Parental wealth in childhood and its relationship with children’s development and predictors of wealth in adult life

For the first time in the history of the UK birth cohort studies, a short measure of parents’ financial assets and debts is available in childhood (Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), age 11) alongside measures of income. This research project aims to understand how parents’ long-term financial position shapes their children’s outcomes from an early stage.

Cross Cohort Research Programme

Incorporating seven projects, this programme explored two key themes which are both central to government policy: healthy lifestyles and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage from one generation to the next.