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Marmot health indicators highlight stark regional differences in children’s development

14 February 2011

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, who last year chaired the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities, which drew on evidence from all three birth cohort studies, has published indicators at local authority level showing marked differences in children’s development between rich and poor areas of England.

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Strategies for Reaching Social Equality in Education – An International Perspective

11 February 2011

Dr John Goldthorpe attended a conference in the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin, on New Strategies for Reaching Social Equality in Education – An International Perspective. He presented a keynote address on Institutional Change and Social Class Inequalities in Educational Attainment: the British Experience since 1945. The conference received wide coverage in the German media.

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New issue of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

2 February 2011

A new issue of the journal Longitudinal and Life Course Studies appeared this week, featuring three new sets of findings from birth cohort data

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Lucinda Platt joins CLS

27 January 2011

Professor Lucinda Platt has just joined CLS as the new Principal Investigator (PI) of the Millennium Cohort Study. She is taking over from Heather Joshi who has been Director of the study since its inception. She will pick up work on the fifth survey of the children and their parents, which will take place when they are aged 11 in 2012.

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The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is now on Twitter!

26 January 2011

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is now on Twitter! For up to date information on CLS news, events, press coverage on the National Child Development Study, British Cohort Study and Millennium Cohort Study plus other updates from the world of social science please follow us here www.twitter.com/clscohorts. If you do not have a Twitter account you can join free by visiting www.twitter.com

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MCS meets sister surveys in Europe

24 January 2011

Professor Heather Joshi and Lisa Calderwood are sharing expertise and experience from the Millennium Cohort Study with the German and French cohort studies.

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Deputy Prime Minister launches new parenting report featuring MCS and BCS70 research

17 January 2011

Nick Clegg today launched a report The Home Front, produced by the think tank Demos, which explores the influences and pressures on today’s families and the interdependent relationships within them, drawing on research based on the Millennium Cohort Study and British Cohort Study 1970.

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Does how you measure income make a difference to measuring poverty?

17 January 2011

A new CLS Working Paper examines the implications different methods of collecting and reporting income may have for measuring poverty, by reference to the Millennium Cohort Study income data.

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Early Environments and Child Outcomes

10 January 2011

Bristol University Centre for Market and Public Organisation have produced a report based on the Millennium Cohort Study, which provides valuable supporting evidence to the Government-commissioned Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances.

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Parental factors associated with walking to school and participating in organised physical activities

10 January 2011

Research based on the Millennium Cohort Study looks at how much a child’s physical activity can be predicted by parental income and education, health behaviours and parents playing with them.

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Edith Dominian Memorial Lecture

21 December 2010

The Millennium Cohort Study features in the Edith Dominian Memorial Lecture 2006.

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BCS70 Consultative Conference – The Age 42 survey

17 December 2010

CLS held a successful conference on 10th December 2010 at which around 50 delegates including members of the scientific comminity, government policy-makeers and other stakeholders met to discuss the questionaire content for the next follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study which will take place in 2012 when study members are aged 42.

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