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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.
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.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are collaborating to establish a Cohort Resources Facility which will promote and showcase the UK’s world leading portfolio of cohort studies and provide a dedicated resource for all cohort studies through the sharing of best practice and the development of new practices in a variety of areas. If you have any comments or suggestions we would like to hear from you.
CLS Director Professor Heather Joshi presented a paper on this question, at the International Population Conference in Morocco,1 October. It related the cognitive and behavioural development of school-age children to mothers’ employment in babies’ first year. Evidence came from the British Cohort Study of 1970 in 2004, and a sample of children in the USA. The short answer is ‘not in this most recent British evidence’.
Children whose mothers work are less likely to lead healthy lives than those with “stay at home” mothers, a report study based on the Millennium Cohort Study says. The Institute of Child Health research on more than 12,500 five-year-olds found those with working mothers less active and more likely to eat unhealthy food.
A paper co-written by CLS researcher Dr Alice Sullivan, which found that women are less likely to gain a place at Oxford University than men even when they have better grades and are from similar backgrounds, has attracted strong media interest from the Guardian and the BBC.
The 2009/10 series of Research Methods courses, run in partnership with Government Social Research Unit as part of the MSc in Policy Analysis and Evaluation, can also be taken as stand-alone courses as part of the continuing professional development.
CLS staff and colleagues from UK Longitudinal Studies Centre at University of Essex have produced an interim report about the potential for improving the efficiency and quality of data collection, management and dissemination for complex longitudinal surveys in the UK.
A major report, published by the Tenant Services Authority with support from Joseph Rowntree, is one of the first pieces of large-scale research to use all four of Britain’s cohort studies, three of which are managed by CLS. Its findings challenge current government policy on social housing
Places are still available on some of the Institute of Education courses run in partnership with the Government Social Research Unit
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk
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The CLS 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.
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