Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are lower among British adults in midlife compared to their counterparts in the US.
Mary Clare Lennon is a professor at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the PhD Program in Sociology and DPH Program in Public Health. She has recently been granted an award from the National Centre for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to analyze data from a US birth […]
Stergiani is a PhD student in Social Epidemiology at the Centre for Longitudinal studies, holding an ESRC studentship for her doctoral studies. Her main areas of interest are broadly on social and structural determinants of population health and health disparities. More specifically her work examines the longitudinal impact of social capital on mortality and physical and […]
Danielle is responsible for strategic and operational planning and management of CLS’ record linkage programme. Previously, she worked in data liaison for the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) at the University of Essex.
Sarah primarily handles linked medical records including records from NHS Digital, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Her role also includes leading on the disclosure/sensitivity analysis of data and development of the internal training resources. Sarah has an MSc in Data Science for Health Research and Biomedicine from UCL and previously worked in the Population Health […]
Carole joined CLS in 2018 as a Research Associate (Survey Manager) working on the National Child Development Study (NCDS). Carole’s main responsibility will be questionnaire development. Carole has worked for CLS previously as a Survey Manager on the Next Steps study. Carole’s experience also includes working as an Associate Director at BMRB Social Research (now […]
Aida oversees the full set of activities of the CLS Data Management Team, which includes operational responsibilities in relation to the four cohort studies, external advice on data management, and line management for all members of the Data Management team. Aida previously worked as the Senior Data Manager in the Whitehall II Study. Her academic […]
Shirley Dex is now Emeritus Professor of Longitudinal Social Research in Education. She joined the Institute of Education in 2002. Previously, she has held posts at the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge), the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) (University of Essex), and the Economics Department at the University of Keele. She also […]
Dick’s current research interests include the impact of fee-pay schooling on adult outcomes and voting, the measurement of subjective well-being (https://casp19.com) as well as patterns of consent in response to requests to link survey and administrative data. He is committed to the value of life course research and methodological rigour notably, strategies to handling missing […]
Having previously worked at the UK Data Archive for eighteen years in various roles, with a 15 month secondment to the Australian Data Archive, Karen has an extensive background in data archiving, including in areas around conditions of access, licensing, and data security and protection. She oversees with the planning and management of the CLS […]
Erica is a Survey Manager primarily working on the National Childhood Development Study (NCDS). Prior to joining CLS, Erica taught sociology and conducted research on survey incentives, the intersection of race and religion, and health.
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