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CLS welcomes Bob Michael back as World Scholar

5 September 2008

Prof Robert Michael arrived on September 1, and will be staying at CLS until September 15.

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CLS welcomes applications for PhD Studentship

1 May 2008

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is advertising a Studentship for a 3-year PhD, which involves analyses of the British Birth Cohorts data in relation to educational achievement in rural and urban areas.

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CLS website user survey

26 January 2016

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) wants to know how you think our website is working. Please give us your feedback by completing a short survey. Your answers will only be used to inform the future development of the CLS website. You can take part in the survey by clicking the link below

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CLS to present latest survey methods research at international conference

15 July 2019

CLS will present its latest research on survey methods at the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference this week (15-19 July 2019).

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CLS to pilot plans for new national birth cohort study

13 May 2021

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is to launch a new UK-wide study that will test approaches to setting up a full large-scale national birth cohort study in the future. The study team is calling for input from future data users as it develops its plans for the two-year feasibility study.

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CLS to manage national study of young people’s transitions from school to adult life

18 October 2013

A new home has been found for a major longitudinal research project that is following more than 15,700 young people born in 1989-90.

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CLS tests new methods of collecting DNA samples from children

28 March 2013

New methods of collecting DNA using saliva samples could help enhance cohort datasets with valuable biological information, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Institute of Education‘s Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and Ipsos MORI tested the viability of collecting saliva from 11-year-olds and their natural mothers and fathers. They found that most children and […]

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CLS studies part of £18.5m research project to investigate long COVID

18 February 2021

Data collected from CLS’s four cohort studies will be used to help improve the understanding of the risk factors, symptoms and treatment of the long term effects of COVID-19, in a major new research project announced today.

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CLS staff in fact-finding mission to the USA

22 April 2009

Three members of CLS visited America in early April as part of an international scoping study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under the Survey Resources Network. Three members of CLS visited America in early April as part of an international scoping study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under the Survey Resources […]

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CLS sets up a new working group for the 2008 fieldwork for NCDS and BCS70

14 September 2006

CLS has set up a new working group to discuss measures of cognition and personality in the next round of NCDS and BCS70 fieldwork

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CLS seeks input on the content of wave 3 of COVID-19 survey

17 September 2020

The UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is seeking views on the questions to include in the next wave of its COVID-19 survey, due to take place in early 2021.

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CLS seeking a senior Impact Fellow to maximise the impact of the British cohort studies

10 April 2012

CLS is seeking an Impact Fellow to maximise the impact of the British birth cohort studies. This post is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

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