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Gearoid Garvey

2 June 2017

Gearoid is responsible for the leadership and management of the Cohort Maintenance Team in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). He is also the Information Governance (IG) Lead for CLS.

Ludovica Gambaro

2 June 2017

Ludovica worked in CLS from 2013 to 2016, mainly on the Millennium Cohort Study and she continues to collaborate with researchers in CLS. Her main areas of interest are inequalities in child development, early childhood education and care services, residential mobility.

Emla Fitzsimons

2 June 2017

Emla is the Director of the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study following children born at the turn of the new century. Her research is focused on the development of human capital throughout the life course, and in particular how experiences and circumstances in early life and childhood affect causally the acquisition […]

Brian Dodgeon

2 June 2017

At CLS, Brian works in the Cross-Cohort research programme (CCRP), the CLS Missing Data Project, and the Cohort Studies User Support Programme, specialising in the NCDS and BCS70 cohorts. His specialist areas of research and methodology are: changing socio-economic indicators; predictors of well-being over the life course; cognition & social capital; education and fertility; clustering […]

Lisa Calderwood

2 June 2017

Lisa is a Professor of Survey Research. She has over 20 years’ experience of the design and implementation of complex, large scale longitudinal surveys. Her research areas include non-response, innovations in participant engagement, new technologies and mixed-modes of data collection, administrative data linkage and integrating bio-measures in social surveys. Lisa has strong national and international […]

Robert Browne

2 June 2017

Robert is responsible for the development and support of the Cohort Maintenance and Survey Management (CMSM) databases and the survey data processing procedures associated with the NCDS, BCS70 and MCS cohort studies.

Matt Brown

2 June 2017

Matt is a Senior Survey Manager for our NCDS and BCS70 cohort studies. Matt’s role involves being responsible for the day-to-day management of these studies, designing and developing data collection strategies and questionnaires, and working with fieldwork contractors to ensure successful delivery of the projects. His research interests are in survey methodology, particularly in relation […]

Denise Brown

2 June 2017

Denise’s responsibilities include the administration of the confidential databases containing records of contact information for our cohort members across all four of our longitudinal studies. She is also responsible for the management of CLS’s printing and mailing suppliers, including budget monitoring and associated reporting.

Tony Ball

2 June 2017

Tony joined the Centre for Longitudinal Studies as Database Manager in October 2013.  He is responsible for creating and documenting an address database and user interface for the Next Steps study.

George Andrew

2 June 2017

George assists with all aspects of the work carried in relation to data collection, documentation and analysis of the 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study, and the Next Steps study.

Vilma Agalioti-Sgompou

2 June 2017

Vilma has been a member of the CLS Research Data Team since 2015. She is responsible for the curation and management of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the Early Life Cohort – Feasibility Study (ELC-FS). Previously she managed the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Vilma is the team’s technical lead and primarily works on […]

Meghan Rainsberry

30 May 2017

Meghan leads CLS’s Communications team, which is responsible for communicating the value of the cohort studies to researchers, cohort members, policy makers, funders and the general public. She develops CLS’s Impact & Communications Strategy, and oversees the centre’s media relations, digital communications, branding, events and research impact. Meghan is also a member of the team […]

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