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Mary Clare Lennon

20 September 2018

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 Tsoli

18 September 2018

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 Freitas Gomes

5 September 2018

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.

Bozena Wielgoszewska

31 August 2018

Ellen Thompson

25 July 2018

Sarah Kerry-Barnard

25 July 2018

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 Sanchez

18 January 2018

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 Sanchez

10 January 2018

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

24 November 2017

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 Wiggins

20 November 2017

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 […]

Karen Dennison

20 November 2017

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 Wong

5 October 2017

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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