Cohen Simpson

Cohen’s research sits at the intersection of the sociology of social networks and human behavioural ecology. In general, he is concerned with the mathematical study of network formation (i.e., Where do social networks come from?), where the role of genetic kinship is a special interest. Empirically, Cohen focuses on cooperative relationships (e.g., food sharing) in […]

Rebecca Hardy

Alex Bryson

Gary Pollock

Jennifer Symonds

Jennifer Symonds is Professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology at UCL’s Social Research Institute. Her research examines how school experiences influence wellbeing and engagement from childhood through adulthood, drawing on psychology, sociology, anthropology, and data science. She directs CLOSER, the UK’s national centre for advancing longitudinal population studies, and is Infrastructure Co-Chair of Population Research […]

Lucy Griffiths

Lucy is a Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology at Swansea University Medical School and Study Country Lead for Generation New Era. She has over 20 years of experience in using longitudinal cohort and linked data to explore how social and environmental factors impact the health and development of children and young people. Her research particularly focuses […]

Rebecca Reynolds

Professor Reynolds is Dean International, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Professor of Metabolic Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Consultant Physician in Diabetes & Endocrinology, NHS Lothian. Her research focus is a life-course approach to prevention of non-communicable diseases. She has: used healthcare record data linkage and cohort studies to document […]

Orla McBride

Dr Orla McBride is a Reader in the School of Psychology, Ulster University, Northern Ireland. Orla was a member of the Scientific Leadership and Delivery Team and Northern Ireland Lead for the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study (2021-24). She is the Study Country Lead for Northern Ireland for Generation New Era. Orla holds a PhD […]

Nikki Shure

Dr Shure is an economist interested in education and the labour market. Her current work examines the linkages between socioeconomic status and gender and participation in higher education, those who are ‘first in the family’ to attend university, education policy and maternal labour supply, non-cognitive peer effects, international comparisons of educational outcomes, and the returns […]

Helena Koerber

Helena is a Survey Futures researcher focusing on two key areas: video interviewing and the collection of complex measures in self-completion surveys. Helena’s work evaluates the effectiveness of video interviews and investigates how complex measures such as occupational coding, consent to data linkage, event histories, and cognitive function can be reliably collected in online surveys. […]

Ingrid Schoon

Georgia Tomova

Georgia joined CLS in January 2025 as a Research Fellow and works on assessing and disseminating methods for handling survey mode effects as part of the wider Survey Futures collaboration. Her main research interests are centred around the theory and application of causal inference methods in health and social science research. Previously, Georgia was based […]