Events

Here you can find out what events we have coming up and book your place. These include training workshops and webinars for new and experienced CLS data users, academic conferences, and briefings aimed at policymakers.

Webinar recordings and presentations
Search our events archive below for details of past CLS events. Tick ‘previous events’ and search to view completed events. Our training and support page includes recordings of selected webinars and events. In August 2020 and June 2021 we ran COVID-19 online training sessions which are available here. If you can’t see what you’re looking for, please email us.

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Public lecture
24 May 2023

Healthy longevity in the 21st century: A cross-generational life course perspective

George Ploubidis gave his Professorial Lecture on 24 May 2023. He explored findings from across several generations suggesting how to delay the onset of chronic illness and promote health and wellbeing.

Location: Online
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Webinar
18 May 2023

Introduction to the Millennium Cohort Study

This short webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) an insight into this unique longitudinal cohort dataset born at the turn of the century.

Location: Online
Webinar
19 Apr 2023

Introduction to Next Steps: a longitudinal study in England

This training webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with Next Steps an insight into this unique cohort of ‘millennials’ in England.

Location: Online
Webinar
27 Apr 2023

Handling missing data in the British cohort studies

View this webinar to learn why principled methods of missing data handling are usually required to obtain unbiased estimates in long-running cohort studies, learn how to undertake such analyses, and observe a demonstration of how to do so in practice using Stata, with a focus on multiple imputation.

Location: Online
Webinar
25 Jan 2023

Introduction to the 1958 National Child Development Study

This webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) an insight into this invaluable longitudinal cohort study. This session describes the study aims, content and design as well as offering a helpful look at some of the types of research that can be undertaken using the study. […]

Location: Online
Webinar
6 Dec 2022

Using Linked Administrative Data: Hospital Episode Statistics linked with the CLS cohorts

Several administrative health datasets have been linked to the CLS cohort studies survey data, opening up new possibilities for health researchers. In this webinar we focus on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES): what’s included in the linked datasets, how to access them and how to analyse the data.

Location: Online
Webinar
29 Nov 2022

Getting started: An introduction to four British cohort studies

This webinar gives first-time users an insight into four internationally-renowned cohort studies run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS).

Location: Online
Webinar
18 Oct 2022

Introduction to the 1970 British Cohort Study

This short webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) an insight into this invaluable longitudinal cohort dataset.

Location: Online
Webinar
27 Apr 2022

Introduction to Next Steps: a longitudinal study in England

This training webinar gives first-time users and researchers less familiar with Next Steps an insight into this unique cohort of ‘millennials’ in England. It includes an introduction to the study aims, content and design as well as a helpful look at some of the types of research that can be conducted using the study

Location: Online
Webinar
12 Jun 2018

New data from the Millennium Cohort Study: Time use diaries and accelerometry at Age 14

This webinar introduced users to the new MCS6 (Age 14) time use diary and accelerometry data deposit. A recording of the webinar is available to view on the event page.

Location: Online
Workshop
4 Jul 2017

Combining social and bio-medical data collection: pros and cons of different approaches

Combining objective measurements of biomarkers with self-reported information about lifestyles and behaviour in longitudinal studies offers enormous research potential. This workshop comprised presentations from a range of UK longitudinal studies regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches they’ve used. This workshop was hosted by CLOSER.

Location: Woburn House, London

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Event enquiries

Richard Steele
Events and Marketing Officer

Phone: 020 7911 5320
Email: ioe.clsevents@ucl.ac.uk

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