Aida Sanchez

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

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

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

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

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.

Katherine Butler

Kath is responsible for managing and developing our website as well as leading a range of discrete communications projects. She has nearly 20 years’ experience in communications, spanning the health, public, and education sectors.

Gabriella Conti

Sarab Rihal

Sarab is responsible for the data management of survey research data within CLS and works mainly on the Next Steps cohort study.

Andrew Peters

Andrew is the Data Manager for the 1970 British Cohort Study, supporting data collection throughout fieldwork, and preparing research data for deposit. He is also responsible for linked education, and legacy data within the data management team. Previously Andrew oversaw the deposit of all three waves of the Covid-19 survey for NCDS, BCS70, Next Steps […]

Lucy Haselden

Peter Deane

Peter joined CLS in July 2001. He works as part of the specialist Cohort Maintenance Team responsible for maintaining the address information that is essential for maximising responses to surveys of the CLS cohorts. Peter’s responsibilities include tracing Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) members who have moved, using a variety of specialist and publicly available sources […]

Mary Ukah

Mary works primarily on 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) as first point of contact for cohort members.