News and opinion

Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.

Filter by

Choose a filter from each dropdown to narrow your search:

News

BCS70 2012 Survey: Invitation to participate in consultative process

7 October 2010

In preparation for the ninth wave of the British Cohort Study 1970, which is scheduled to take place in 2012 when the cohort members will be aged 42, there is an open call for experts in relevant fields to advise the CLS team on the content of the 2012 survey.

News

1970 British Cohort Study 38-year follow-up now available from UK Data Archive

27 August 2010

Data from the latest 1970 British Cohort Study follow-up are now available from the UK Data Archive. The survey was conducted when the cohort members were aged 38 and used a telephone interview for the first time.

News

Social mobility in England report uses NCDS and BCS70 data

30 April 2010

The Sutton Trust’s latest report into education mobility, an indicator of future social mobility, has found that children’s levels of achievement are more closely linked to their parents’ background in England than in many other developed nations.

News

Poorer children’s educational attainment

8 April 2010

A report which makes extensive use of CLS data was published at the end of March by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

News

Economic inequality in the UK

27 January 2010

The National Equality Panel today (27 January) published a major report: An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK.

News

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

News

NCDS and BCS70 Consultative Conference

3 July 2006

On Monday 26 June over 50 researchers from both academia and government departments attended the NCDS and BCS70 Consultative Conference to discuss the design and content of the next round of fieldwork, which will take place in 2008.

News

Press release: Couch potato kids become – and remain – obese adults

2 May 2006

Statistics confirm that children who watch more than two hours of television a day at the weekend risk becoming obese adults. And despite health warnings, the rate of exercise has not increased among adults who are overweight as the result of inactivity.

News

An “early bird” discount is available for the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies

4 April 2006

Register before 1 July 2006 to qualify for our “early bird” discount for the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies.

News

Latest issue of Kohort now online

3 March 2006

The Spring 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.

News

CLS awarded funding to create teaching datasets

13 January 2006

On 1 January 2006 a new two-year project started at CLS which will produce a set of teaching datasets and associated resources based on our three cohort studies (NCDS, BCS and MCS).

News

CLS celebrates its first anniversary as an ESRC Resource Centre

4 November 2005

CLS is celebrating its first anniversary as a Resource Centre of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In October 2004, the ESRC’s decision to fund CLS gave the data collection of the 1958, 1970 and Millennium cohort studies an assured future and recognised their value to the research, educational and policy communities in the UK and abroad.

Contact our communications team

Media enquiries

Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer

Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk

Contact us

Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute

20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL

Email: clsdata@ucl.ac.uk

Follow us