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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.
What can cohort studies show us about gender equality? Founding Director of MCS and Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography, Heather Joshi explains in an IOE London blogpost.
Today the Institute of Education (IOE) will join UCL as a single Faculty School, to be known as the UCL Institute of Education.
Today the Institute of Education (IOE) will join UCL as a single Faculty School, to be known as the UCL Institute of Education. One advantage of the merger is that all five UK birth cohort studies will be housed together for the first time in history. The IOE’s Centre of Longitudinal Studies (CLS) currently manages […]
Professor Alice Sullivan gave her inaugural professorial lecture at the UCL Institute of Education earlier this summer, summarising the highlights of her academic career so far. This blog outlines her presentation.
Inequalities in the early cognitive, social and emotional development of children in the UK, which are so important in shaping later life outcomes, have changed little between those born in the early 2000s and those born in the early 2010s. Researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies […]
Social background remains the most powerful predictor of 11-year-olds’ cognitive abilities, a new study confirms.
Kate Smith, CLS Survey Manager, sadly passed away unexpectedly on 2 September 2023. Kate was the Centre’s longest serving member of staff and devoted her highly successful career to the development of longitudinal cohort studies, and in particular to the Millennium Cohort Study.
A tribute to the founding director of the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies and professor of education who sadly passed away on 22 August 2023.
What can cohort evidence tell us about the predictive power of early maths skills and what policymakers can do to boost the nation’s numeracy?
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.
Children’s different rates of progress in their first two years at school are still largely driven by their parents’ social class, a UK-wide study has concluded
The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) has been an important source of evidence on midlife mental health, helping to improve our understanding about why middle age is such a vulnerable period for adults.
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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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