Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
CLS is seeking input on the first draft questionnaire of the Age 31 Sweep of Next Steps, a longitudinal cohort study following 16,000 people born in England in 1989-1990.
Now that the participants have turned 25, this new data will allow researchers to explore how their educational choices, family resources and experiences in adolescence have influenced their life chances so far. The data includes extensive information about cohort members’ lives at this pivotal time.
Newly released survey variables for Next Steps sweeps 1-7 (ages 14-20) are now available to download from the UK Data Service under the standard End User Licence (EUL).
Researchers investigating the links between childhood mental health and people’s later outcomes can now access a wealth of new cohort study data.
Elizabeth Cooksey from Ohio State University will be visiting CLS several times over the forthcoming year.
The Survey Resources Network, a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will be officially launched on Thursday, April 23, 2009. The Survey Resources Network, a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will be officially launched on Thursday, April 23, 2009. The service will be funded for […]
An investigation into the effect of growing up in social housing on child development reveals significant changes since the 1970s.
A study of people now in their 40s has revealed that those who went to single-sex schools were more likely to study subjects not traditionally associated with their gender than those who went to co-educational schools.
Six ESRC-funded studentships are available for 2011-12 entry to 3- or 4-year training programmes. No nationality restriction applied. Closing date: 4th April 2011.
The Bloomsbury Colleges consortium is offering a PhD studentship that will explore the relationship between children’s physical activity and mental health using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
The challenges facing first-time parents are examined in a new briefing paper from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
The data from the biomedical survey of the NCDS, when they were aged 44–45 years, has just been released by the UK Data Archive.
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