Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
It was exciting to be invited earlier this week to the launch of Shaping Us, the new Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood campaign to raise awareness of how important the early years are for shaping the adults we become. At the launch, the Princess of Wales showed her obvious passion for and commitment to […]
Teenagers are far more likely to spend their time on social media and gaming after school than they are to be doing homework, according to new data gathered from around 3,500 teenagers in the UK.
Teenagers’ own career aspirations could be perpetuating the gender pay gap, researchers at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) suggest.
The first two-day workshop on using the cohort studies to teach quantitative methods to students was successfully run at City University, London, on 21 and 22 June. The first two-day workshop on using the cohort studies to teach quantitative methods to students was successfully run at City University, London, on 21 and 22 June. There were twelve […]
The initial sets of longitudinal data teaching resources for NCDS and BCS70 are now available on the CLS website.
Children who play and listen to music, draw and paint, and read for pleasure tend to have higher levels of self-esteem, new research shows.
Mums living with intellectual and developmental disabilities tend to live in poverty, have a chaotic home environment and report poorer mental health during their children’s early years.
August-born teenagers are 20 per cent less likely to win a place at a top UK university than those born in September, a new study has found.
The summer 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.
Substance use and antisocial behaviour are more likely to go hand-in-hand with poor mental health for generation Z teens compared to millennial adolescents growing up a decade earlier, finds a new UCL study.
Young people from less advantaged homes may limit their options for further education unnecessarily when choosing their GCSE subjects.
The findings of the third survey of more than 15,000 children born in the UK during the first two years of the new millennium are published by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies today (Friday, October 17).
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