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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Increasing access to parks and gardens may not be enough to help teenagers in urban areas get a healthy amount of sleep.
The Department of Business Innovation and Skills today announced a grant of £28.5 million for a new 2012 cohort study tracking the growth, development, health, well-being & social circumstances of over 90,000 UK babies and their families. A Cohort Resources Facility will also be set up to maximise the use, value & impact of all 5 UK birth cohort studies.
A CLS Working Paper published today investigates new evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study on the ’part-time penalty:’ the lower rates of hourly pay offered in part-time jobs rather than full-time jobs to equivalently qualified and experienced women.
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.
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.
A new issue of the journal Longitudinal and Life Course Studies appeared this week, featuring three new sets of findings from birth cohort data
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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Professor Heather Joshi and Lisa Calderwood are sharing expertise and experience from the Millennium Cohort Study with the German and French cohort studies.
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.
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.
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.
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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