Our studies
On Tuesday 16 February Radio 4 launched a fascinating new five-part series called When I Grow Up. In 1969, 14,000 primary school pupils from across the country who were taking part in the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) were invited to write an essay about what they thought their lives would be like when they grew up and were aged 25 years.
All CLS survey participants are guaranteed absolute anonymity but for this radio series a dozen of the NCDS cohort members, now in their early 50s, talk openly about how their lives have turned out in relation to the essays that they penned as children.
The five 15-minute episodes are being broadcast on Tuesday mornings and are also be available on BBC iPlayer (www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qvkt7
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk
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
UCL Social Research Institute
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk
