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.
A report published on 1 February, which makes use of detailed data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), reports that children from the poorest homes are almost a year behind middle class pupils by the time they start school.
On Tuesday 16 February Radio 4 launched a fascinating new five-part series called When I Grow Up.
The report Fair Society, Healthy Lives, more generally known as the Marmot Review was published on 11 February as part of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010, to considerable media attention
The National Equality Panel today (27 January) published a major report: An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK.
Ireland’s longitudinal study of children, tracking the lives of over 8,500 nine-year-olds, has published its first major report. Growing Up in Ireland – The lives of 9-year-olds was launched on 7 December 2009 at the Study’s inaugural research conference in Dublin.
Leading UK social scientists met at Beijing Normal University on 17–18 December 2009 for discussions with Chinese researchers about data resources that underpin social research.
The Millennium Cohort Study’s ‘sister’ project in France has finally secured funding for the first round of data collection.
Focusing on Scottish data, this report, published 15 December 2009 by the Scottish Government, presents findings from the third survey of the UK-wide Millennium Cohort Study (MCS3).
Demos, a think tank focusing on power and politics, released a major report on 8 November identifying strong links between parenting style and character development in children.
Professor Dan A. Black will be giving a lunchtime talk at the Institute of Education on Tuesday 10 November on the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Dan A. Black is a professor and deputy dean at the Harris School and a senior fellow at the National Opinion Research Center, both at the University of Chicago. The talk is open to all.
Lisa Calderwood of CLS will be making a feature presentation on 13 November at this two-day workshop in Canberra, Australia. The workshop, which is being held by FaHCSIA and the ARACY ARC/NHMRC Research Network, will bring together an exciting group of expert presenters, researchers and policymakers involved in longitudinal research.
The fifth sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study is scheduled to take place in 2012 when the cohort children will be aged 11.
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