Silvia Mendonca

Silvia supports data management for all cohort studies, focusing on data quality and availability. She has previously worked at the University of Cambridge, first as a statistician and then as a data manager. She has experience working with health care data including health administrative datasets, public surveys and electronic primary care records. She has an […]

Naomi Yohendran

Naomi is our Communications and Engagement Officer. She works on a range of communications activities and campaigns to help keep our cohort members engaged in our studies and up to date on new findings.

Dr Jake Anders

Jake’s research focuses on better understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities, evaluating policies and programmes aiming to reduce these inequalities, and how best to do this evaluation. In addition to leading the COSMO study, Jake’s other work includes research projects for multiple UK government departments, such as work for the Department for Education […]

Bettina Moltrecht

Bettina is a research fellow investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health, with a specific focus on mental health, using data from multiple cohort studies and electronic health records. Her wider research focuses on the development and treatment of mental ill-health with a specific focus on emotion regulation and the use of technology […]

Charis Bridger Staatz

Charis is a post-doctoral Research Fellow working with Dr Richard Silverwood and Professor George Ploubidis. She is researching what the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been on health and well-being. She is working as part of the National Core Studies project, and the CLS COVID-19 project. Charis completed her PhD in Social Epidemiology at […]

Liam Wright

Liam is a post-doctoral researcher using CLS’s genetic data to explore social inequalities in health and changes in inequality through time. He is also involved in work to quality control CLS genetic data, working with colleagues at UCL and the University of Bristol. Liam has over five years’ experience of research in public health, having […]

Tugba Adali

Tugba started working at CLS in 2021 as a survey manager in the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) Project, a new cohort study to investigate how the pandemic affects socio-economic inequalities in life chances. Tugba holds a PhD in demography from the Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies in Turkey. She worked there as […]

Nasir Rajah

Nasir is a Research Fellow working with Dr Richard Silverwood and Professor Emla Fitzsimons on the analysis of linked administrative and birth cohort study data. Nasir completed his PhD at the University of Leeds, investigating the socioeconomic effects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in the British Cohort Study. After this, Nasir was a […]

Charlotte Booth

Charlotte is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies investigating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on population health and wellbeing. She is currently working as part of the National Core Studies project, which is a multidisciplinary team science approach to understanding Covid-19 effects, using data from multiple cohort studies across the UK. Charlotte […]

Rachel Rosenberg

Rachel is responsible for managing data for the Millennium Cohort Study. A large part of her role involves writing complex syntax to perform data cleaning, manipulation and consistency checking, as well as derivation of variables. Rachel has 10 years of experience working with MCS data. Rachel has a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from […]

Alyce Raybould

Alyce joined CLS in 2021 and works on the development of the Early Life Cohort Feasibility study. The study aims to test the feasibility of a new UK-wide birth cohort, collecting information on the babies’ development and their families. Prior to joining CLS, Alyce completed her PhD in Demography at the London School of Hygiene […]

Shaadi Shidfar