Our studies
Welcome to the online conference brochure. You can access abstracts on each session below.
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| 08:50 - 09:20 | Registration and refreshments (Regent Suite) |
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| 09:20 - 09:40 | Welcome / Celebrating 21 years of the Millennium Cohort Study – Emla Fitzsimons, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (Council Chamber) |
| 09:40 - 10:30 | The Millennium Cohort in comparative perspective – Liz Washbrook, University of Bristol (Council Chamber) |
| 10:30 - 10:35 | Short break |
| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Education inequalities | Health behaviours, Adverse childhood experiences | Mental health, educational attainment |
| Life trajectories of the ‘forgotten fifth’ (Sam Parsons, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies & Lee Elliot Major, University of Exeter) |
The relationship between time spent on social media and adolescent cigarette, e-cigarette, and dual-use: a longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Amrit Kaur Purba, University of Glasgow) |
Anxiety problems in childhood and adolescence are associated with lower academic attainment throughout schooling: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study (Jack Pollard, University of Oxford) |
| School Absence Trajectories and their Consequences for Achievement (Jascha Drager, University of Strathclyde) |
Do adverse childhood experiences cluster together and how are they related to psychopathology? (Athena Chow, University of Oxford) |
Sibling effects on Numeracy and Literacy achievement: Evidence from Two Large French Cohorts (Lilas Gurgand, Ecole Normale Supérieure) |
| Private school performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs) (Jake Anders, UCL) |
Modelling the potential impact on inequalities in childhood obesity of intervening on maternal smoking in pregnancy: A policy simulation using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Steven Hope, UCL) |
Racial inequalities in school exclusions and impacts on mental health trajectories among young people in inner-London: findings from the REACH study (Samantha Davis, King’s College London) CANCELLED |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Short break with refreshments |
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| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Symposium: Modelling the associations between technology use and adolescent wellbeing | Early childhood, education | Child development |
| Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media (Amy Orben, University of Cambridge) |
Effects of Teacher Gender on Students’ SocioEmotional Skills Development (Sonkurt Sen, University of Bonn) |
Social factors associated with different measures of cognitive development in 3-4 year olds (Behnaz Khosravi, University of Picardie Jules Verne / National Institute for Demographic Studies and Bertrand Geay, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis) |
| What (if anything) is going on? Examining longitudinal associations between social media use and mental ill-health among young people (Baowen Xue, UCL) |
Explaining the association between parental mental health and early childhood development: the role of the home learning environment (Jessica van de Grint, University of Cambridge) |
Adolescents’ pre-sleep waking activities and sleep duration: analysis of daily time-use diaries in the Millennium Cohort Study (Michael Osei Mireku, University of Lincoln) |
| Digital access constraints predict worse mental health among adolescents during COVID-19 (Tom Metherell, UCL) |
Meritocracy for the few: unequal educational outcomes for children with similar early childhood vocabulary but different socio economic circumstances (Emma Thornton, University of Manchester |
Changes over time in home language: exploring family and individual level predictors (Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, University of Turku) |
| A data-driven approach to understanding social media addiction in adolescence (Georgia Turner, University of Cambridge) |
Academies’ impact on pupils: Looking beyond exams (Nuno da Costa Braz, UCL) |
The changing social worlds of nine-year-olds: comparing two cohorts of the Growing Up in Ireland study (Emer Smyth, Economic and Social Research Institute {ESRI}) |
| 12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch (Regent Suite) |
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| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Symposium: Mental health inequalities in adolescents and young adults: evidence from longitudinal population surveys | Socio-economic inequalities | Mental health |
| Acceleration of the generational inequalities in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from five UK cohorts (Darío Moreno-Agostino, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Are socio-economic inequalities unequal across countries? Longitudinal analyses of the Millennium Cohort study and other national adolescent cohorts (Thomas Steare, UCL) |
Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Psychosocial adjustment of the children of care leavers at age 17 (Sam Parsons, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
| Inequalities in mental health, loneliness, and social support by sexual orientation among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Laia Becares, King’s College London) |
The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents (Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer, University of Cambridge) |
Delay Discounting is both a Risk and Protective factor for Different Mental Problems in Adolescents (Yi Yang, University of Edinburgh) |
| Gender inequalities in depressive symptom trajectories among young people in London and Tokyo: a longitudinal cross-cohort study (Gemma Knowles, King’s College London) |
Socio-economic inequalities in adolescent mental health in the UK: Multiple socio-economic indicators and reporter effects (Matthew Hazell, Warwick University) |
Within-person Cross-lagged relationships between children and parent’s mental health: Does poverty play a moderating role? (Zeliha Ezgi Saribaz, The University of Sheffield) |
| Longitudinal relationships of help-seeking intention with depressive symptoms in adolescents – The study from Tokyo Teen Cohort (Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science) |
Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage (Aase Villadsen, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Developmental trajectories of parental psychological distress and their associations with depressive symptoms in mid-adolescent offspring (Steven Papachristou, UCL) |
| 14:40 - 14:45 | Short break |
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| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Symposium: Genetics Research in the Millennium Cohort Study | Mental health | Weight inequalities and mental health |
| The MCS Genetics Data Resource (Gemma Shireby, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Time trends in mental health trajectories across childhood and adolescence, findings from two UK cohorts (Jessica Armitage, Cardiff University) | Impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental ill-health and obesity comorbidity in adolescence – A national longitudinal cohort study (Amal Khanolkar, King’s College London and Alexis Karamanos, King’s College London) |
| Changing Polygenic Penetrance on Childhood and Adolescent Body Mass Index: A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Two British Birth Cohort Studies (Liam Wright, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
Sexuality-related inequalities in the prevalence and impact of adverse childhood experiences on health in late adolescence – A national longitudinal cohort study (Rahul Chandrasekar, UCL) |
Association of childhood weight trajectory and depressive symptoms at 17 years: Exploring the mediating role of body dissatisfaction in the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Madelaine Davies Kellock, UCL) CANCELLED |
| Genetic associations with parental investment from conception to wealth inheritance in six cohorts (Jasmin Wertz, University of Edinburgh) |
The impact of sexual violence in mid-adolescence on mental health (Praveetha Patalay, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index and body composition through interactions between internalising / externalising symptoms and environmental conditions (Charis Bridger Staatz, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Short break with refreshments |
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| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Parenting | Early life influences | Maternal mental health and child development |
| Breastfeeding norms and the effectiveness of public health recommendations (Bastien Chabe-Ferret, Middlesex University) |
Medically Assisted Reproduction and Mental Health in adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Maria Palma, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Maternal Socio-Emotional Skills and Child Development (Greta Morando, UCL) |
| Parental care during the first year of life: gender and social variations in practices and tastes (ELFE) (Olivia Samuel, Université Paris Nanterre / Cresppa and Alex Sheridan, INED) |
Inequalities in early developmental skills according to gender and social class: results from a French cohort study (Inès Malroux, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) |
Theory of mind, social-motivational flexibility, and mental health trajectories in children and adolescents (DI Tsomokos, Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow) |
| Paternal psychological distress and adolescent health risk behaviours (Maria Sifaki, UCL) |
What early childhood experiences are important for children’s learning and how do they differ amongst children in Scotland? Evidence from the Growing Up in Scotland study (Paul Bradshaw, Scottish Centre for Social Research) |
Maternal psychological distress and harsh parenting: The role of maternal mental health treatment (Emily Midouhas, UCL) |
| 16:40 - 16:45 | Short break |
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| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Set up for reception – room not in use | Symposium: Examining cognitive ability across generations: As easy as ABC, to Generation Z! | Bullying and mental health |
| Comparability of cognitive measures in middle childhood in four British birth cohort studies: A pilot study (Vanessa Moulton, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Children’s resilience to sibling victimisation: the role of family, peer, school, and neighbourhood factors (Elise Sellars, University of Oxford) |
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| Weakening of the cognition and height association from 1957 to 2018: findings from four British birth cohort studies (Liam Wright, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Exploring the association between bullying victimisation and self-harm among adolescents: preliminary findings from the REACH study ~ (Emma Wilson, King’s College London) |
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| The ‘cognition puzzle’: weakening of the correlation between cognitive test domains from 1957-2018 (David Bann, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
Identifying modifiable resilience factors for adolescent mental health: a longitudinal analysis with cyberbullying as a risk factor (Aaron Kandola, UCL) CANCELLED |
Drinks reception (Council Chamber)
| 08:40 - 09:00 | Registration and refreshments (Regent Suite) |
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| 09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome – Emla Fitzsimons, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (Council Chamber) |
| 09:05 - 09:45 | Supporting the early years through research: the next generation cohorts – Pasco Fearon, University of Cambridge (Council Chamber) |
| 09:45 - 09:50 | Short break |
| Track 1 (Council Chamber) | Track 2 (Oxford Suite) | Track 3 (Warren Suite) |
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| Symposium: Recent developments and innovations in UK and Ireland cohort studies | Income-related inequalities | COVID-19, decision-making |
| Developing a new UK-wide birth cohort in the 2020s: The Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study (ELC-FS) (Lisa Calderwood, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
The instability of public and private safety nets over early and middle childhood among low-income, vulnerable families (Melissa Radey, Florida State University) |
Children as independent agents in financially strained households: A longitudinal test of the family stress model (Alexander O’Donnell, University of Tasmania) |
| Maximising the policy value and use of longitudinal data: The development of Growing Up in Ireland (Clare Farrell, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth) |
The emergence of health gaps in early life in France: Effects of childhood deprivation (Yuliya Kazakova, INED) |
Mapping mental health inequalities in UK young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic from an intersectional perspective (Darío Moreno-Agostino, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
| GUIDE – a comparative European longitudinal study of child wellbeing (Gary Pollock, Manchester Metropolitan University) |
The changing effect of family income on mental health from early childhood to adolescence: A longitudinal study from the UK (Murong Yang, University of Oxford) |
Psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and life satisfaction following COVID-19 infection: evidence from 11 UK longitudinal population studies (Jean Stafford, UCL) |
| Adapting through adolescence and COVID – recent experience of the Growing Up in Scotland study (Paul Bradshaw, Scottish Centre for Social Research) |
Income volatility and maternal psychological distress: evidence from the UK (Nicolas Libuy, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) CANCELLED |
Reciprocal associations between affective decision-making and mental health in adolescence (Francesca Bentivegna, UCL) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Short break with refreshments |
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| 11:10 - 12:05 | Panel discussion with current MCS study members – led by Emla Fitzsimons and Heather Joshi, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (Council Chamber) |
| 12:05 - 12:10 | Short break |
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| Environmental influences, mental health and cognitive development | Symposium: Mental health, social adversity, and health-related outcomes in sexual minority adolescents | Room not in use |
| Decision-making difficulties mediate the association between poor emotion regulation and eating disorder symptoms in adolescence (Marta Francesconi, UCL) |
Mental health, social adversity, and health-related outcomes in sexual minority adolescents: a contemporary national cohort study (Rebekah Amos, University of Bangor) |
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| Residential sorting on environmental media information exposure (Yi Wu, University of Reading) |
The onset of mental health difficulties in sexual minority youth: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study (Charlotte Booth, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) |
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| Introduction of fruit juice and sweet beverages before 6 months of age and early childhood caries (Josephine Kerguen, Université Paris Cité) |
Weight-related concerns and behaviours among gender and sexual minority adolescents: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Madelaine Davies Kellock, UCL) CANCELLED |
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| The role of the built environment in the trajectories of cognitive ability and mental health across early and middle childhood: Results from a street audit tool in a general-population birth cohort (Marta Francesconi, UCL) |
Asthma disparities by sexual minority status in the UK: a multi-dataset investigation (Evangeline Tabor, UCL) |
Lunch (Regent Suite)
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
Our 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
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Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
