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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.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults in midlife compared to their counterparts in the US.
If you are using NCDS, BCS70 or MCS data in your research projects, and you have any publications that are not currently listed on our website it would be particularly useful to hear from you immediately. The ESRC needs the best evidence of the usefulness of existing cohorts in the bid they are currently making for Large Facilities funding of cohort studies in the future.
The Bloomsbury Colleges consortium is offering twelve PhD Studentships, including one position analysing Millennium Cohort Study data. The Studentships start in October 2008, and will cover course fees (at the usual level for UK and EU studentships) and a student stipend.
An analysis of the findings relating to Scottish families from the Second Survey of the Millennium Cohort Study has been published by the Scottish Government.
The European Science Foundation has awarded funding to a joint project which aims to bring together leaders of national and regional children’s cohort studies, including the Millennium Cohort.
A dataset offering a wealth of information on the Scottish population has been created by the Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland. The dataset, known as the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), links together routinely collected administrative data for a 5.3 per cent representative sample of the country’s population (about 270,000 people).
The initial sets of longitudinal data teaching resources for NCDS and BCS70 are now available on the CLS website.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published two papers, entitled Mothers and the modern family and Ethnicity and patterns of employment and care, which use Millennium Cohort Study data.
Research from the British Cohort Study, which studies subjects born in 1970, is to be featured in tonight’s Dispatches programme, on Channel 4 at 8.00pm. The programme, entitled Why our children can’t read, focuses on intervention during primary school and how this affects children’s reading ability and their future life chances.
CLS is delighted to welcome two new colleagues. Professor John McDonald and Professor Robert Michael
CLS would like to gather information from users of CLS data sets. If you are using NCDS, BCS70 or MCS data in your research projects, please add details of any publications which involve the use of cohort data on the feedback form at www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/feedback.
Scottish children have a wider vocabulary and a better understanding of colours, numbers, sizes and shapes at the age of three than youngsters in the other UK countries.
Northern Ireland is the safest and best part of the UK in which to bring up young children, a new study suggests.
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
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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