Long-term outcomes for care-experienced parents and children: Evidence of risk and resilience from two British cohort studies

Research round-up – January to March 2021

Researchers from around the world have been using CLS study data to tackle important questions. Here is a round-up over 70 new pieces of research that we’ve added to the CLS bibliography between January and March 2021.

Initial findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Age 17 Sweep

Our initial findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Age 17 Sweep cover a range of themes, including mental health, obesity, substance use and antisocial behaviours.

Research round-up – October to December 2020

Researchers from around the world have been using CLS study data to tackle important questions. Here is a round-up over 40 new pieces of research that we’ve added to the CLS bibliography between October and December 2020.

Research round-up – April to September 2020

Researchers from around the world have been using CLS study data to tackle important questions. Here is a round-up over 100 new pieces of research that we’ve added to the CLS bibliography between April and September 2020.

Housing wealth matters for children’s mental health

Children growing up in families with expensive homes have fewer emotional and behavioural problems, finds new research led by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) based at the UCL Social Research Institute.

Research round-up – January to March 2020

How much does one’s family background influence their midlife wellbeing? And, what effect does technology engagement have on teenage sleep? What is the psychological impact of having to work part-time when full-time jobs are not available? And, how important is cognitive ability in helping people climb the social ladder?

Economic upheaval of 1980s linked to criminal behaviour among Generation X

Members of Generation X who lived in Britain’s declining industrial heartlands in the 1980s were more likely to play truant during their school years and to be involved in crime as adults, compared to those who grew up in more advantaged areas.

New harmonised data on childhood circumstances now available to researchers

Harmonised data from the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts on childhood environment and experiences are now available to the global research community via the UK Data Service.

Data from the first adult biomedical sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study now available

New data from the Age 46 Sweep of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) are now available for researchers to download from the UK Data Service.

Research round-up – April to June 2019

Are boys more sensitive to the state of the local job market when choosing their GCSE subjects? And why are migrant and ethnic minority mothers at increased risk of mental ill health? Researchers have been using CLS study data to tackle these and other key questions.

Greener neighbourhoods may be good for children’s brains

Children living in urban greener neighbourhoods may have better spatial working memory, according to new research by UCL Institute of Education (IOE).