Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults in midlife compared to their counterparts in the US.
The challenges facing first-time parents are examined in a new briefing paper from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
An all-party parliamentary group has launched a report outlining seven “truths” about social mobility and the challenges they pose for policy-makers.
The Age 42 survey of the 1970 British Cohort Study has now begun. Over the course of the year we hope to speak to more than 9,000 study members for the 9th time.
Professor Jane Elliott, Director of CLS, will speak at the Methods in Dialogue workshop, Researching Imagined Futures, at the University of Manchester on 30 May 2012.
CLS is seeking an Impact Fellow to maximise the impact of the British birth cohort studies. This post is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The Millennium Cohort Study has entered its third month of fieldwork for the age 11 survey. Over 4,000 interviews have been conducted with cohort families and more than 500 questionnaires have been returned from the children’s class teachers.
There is a clear relationship between cognitive ability in childhood and the odds of taking long-term sick leave as an adult, a new study suggests.
It is very easy for UK families to slip from zero to multiple challenges to their children’s development, Dr Kirstine Hansen has told Channel 4 News.
Briefings draw on evidence from cohort studies to show how education, health, parenting and poverty influence social mobility.
Children born just a few weeks early have a slightly higher risk of health problems in early childhood, new research based on the Millennium Cohort Study suggests.
More than one in four UK youngsters are growing up in families facing multiple challenges such as parental depression and financial hardship that can have a damaging effect on children’s development, new research suggests.
Interviewing has begun for the age 11 survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Over the course of the year, thousands of children and their families across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be visited for the fifth time.
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