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Katie Allen

20 July 2023

Katie is responsible for overseeing our website as well as other digital channels. She has previously worked in digital content across the charity, funding and publishing sectors.

Tim Morris

16 June 2023

Tim is a statistical epidemiologist whose research combines social and genetic data to better understand how health and social factors are formed and transmitted from parents to children. He is involved in work to increase the availability and use of genetic data across the CLS studies. Tim has over 10 years’ experience in epidemiology, social […]

Liam Curran

26 May 2023

Liam is responsible for the management of the linked geographical data for all cohort studies. His role also includes data management for the Millennium Cohort Study and assistance with technical development. Liam joined CLS after having completed a BSc and MSc, both in Mathematics, at King’s College London.

Jay Kubler

25 May 2023

Jay has senior responsibility for ensuring effective and coordinated project management across CLS core-funded work. She develops and manages systems to monitor the Centre’s objectives and deliverables and leads on reporting and assurance to the funder and the management and governance bodies. Before joining CLS, Jay was the Centre Manager for the Stone Centre at […]

Nureen Hanisah Mohamad Zaki

8 March 2023

Nureen will be involved in the operational side of the CLS data sharing programme and the technical management of the CLS cohort research data. Nureen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan, where she also worked as a research technician and lab manager. Following her Masters in Bioinformatics […]

Larissa Pople

29 November 2022

Larissa joined CLS in 2022 as a Research Fellow (Survey Manager) working on the Millennium Cohort Study. Larissa has 20 years’ experience working in academic and voluntary sector organisations. In 2022, she completed her PhD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, where she also taught statistics modules in […]

Alison Fang-Wei Wu

9 November 2022

Alison is a research fellow working for Next Steps cohort study. She explores diverse topics, including the employment history, correlates mental ill health and mental health measurement synchronisation. Alison’s research focused on young people’s mental health, social withdrawal behaviours and the experiences of the global pandemic among minoritized ethnic groups. She received her Master’s degree […]

Silvia Mendonca

31 October 2022

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

2 September 2022

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

26 August 2022

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

4 February 2022

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

21 December 2021

Charis is a Senior Research Fellow in Population Health and Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at UCL. Charis conducts research related to physical health using data from the CLS cohorts (the 1958 NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps, 2000/2 MCS), with a focus on understanding inequalities in health between cohorts and across […]

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