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.

David Bann

David is an epidemiologist with broad interests in population health. David was previously Co-Investigator of the 1958 British birth cohort study (National Child Development Study), and is now strategic lead of social science genetics at CLS. He has responsibility for scientific aspects of genetic-related work at CLS (including data management, storage, access systems, research and […]

Ryan Bradshaw

Ryan is Senior Communications Officer for CLS. His role includes media relations, writing press releases, writing and editing publications such as research briefing papers and web content, managing online media and organising events and training.

David Church

Benedetta Pongiglione

Benedetta worked as a Research Associate for CLS from 2016-2018. During her time here, she undertook methodological research on the different British cohort studies and investigated the determinants of healthy behaviours and lifestyles, and the intergenerational transmission of social capital and economic status. Benedetta has a PhD in epidemiology and population health from the London […]