Workshop

Held at the Cardiff University, this workshop gave both first-time and more experienced data users an insight into four of the UK’s internationally-renowned cohort studies run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). The slides from this workshop are available to download from this page.

About the event

Longitudinal data are a powerful resource for addressing a wide range of scientific questions in various social, health, political and geographical sciences.

For example, what determines health across life? How has social mobility changed? What determines voting preferences?

This workshop gave both first-time and more experienced data users an insight into four of the UK’s internationally-renowned cohort studies run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS):

Delegates were given an introduction to each of the cohort studies as well as further information on how to access and use them. The session also featured updates on recent developments in each of the studies, including upcoming new data releases.

The session featured guest speakers who discussed their use of cohort data across a range of topics such as the role of grandparents, social participation in adulthood, and children’s wellbeing.

Delegates also had the opportunity to discuss their own research ideas, gain advice and ask questions over a networking lunch.

The workshop was be run by staff from CLS, which is based at the Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education.

 

Workshop resources

Speaker slides

Londitudinal Data Across Life: An Introduction To Using Cohort Data

An Introduction To The National Child Development Study

An Introduction To The 1970 British Birth Cohort (BCS70)

An Introduction To Next Steps

An Introduction To The Millennium Cohort Study

The Changing Landscape Diverse Friendships And The Effects Of Contextual Diversity On Youth Outcomes – Dr Katarzyna Kucaba

Socioeconomic Inequalities In Childhood And Adolescent Body Mass Index, Weight, And Height From 1953 To 2015 – Dr David Bann

 

 

 

CLS speakers

David Bann Associate Professor in Population Health, Strategic lead of social science genetics

Full UCL profile

Phone: 020 7911 5426
Email: david.bann@ucl.ac.uk

David is an epidemiologist with broad interests in population health. David was previously Co-Investigator of the 1958 British birth cohort study (National Child Development Study), and is now strategic lead of social science genetics at CLS. He has responsibility for scientific aspects of genetic-related work at CLS (including data management, storage, access systems, research and collaborations).

Morag Henderson Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study and Next Steps

Full UCL profile

Phone: 020 7911 5566
Email: morag.henderson@ucl.ac.uk

As Director of both MCS and Next Steps, Professor Henderson leads the strategic and scientific direction of the studies and is responsible for overseeing all data collections. She also leads the training programme at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

Professor Henderson’s main area of research is inequalities across the life course. More specifically, she examines intergenerational educational mobility, social isolation, mental health and wellbeing. She holds a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford.

Vanessa Moulton Senior Research Fellow

Full UCL profile

Phone: 020 7612 6288
Email: vanessa.moulton@ucl.ac.uk

Vanessa is a psychologist, with a strong interest in multidisciplinary social science. Her research interests include using longitudinal and secondary data analysis to examine the influence of the earlier life course on children’s and adult mental health, cognitive, educational and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, Vanessa co-coordinates the CLS cohort training workshops and webinars.

 

 

Guest speakers

Dr Katarzyna Kucaba Research Associate

View Katarzyna’s biography on the University of Bristol website here.