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George Ploubidis

14 June 2017

George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and currently holds the posts of Principal Investigator of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine […]

Aase Villadsen

2 June 2017

Aase’s role involves analysis of data from the Millennium Cohort Study. She is especially interested in family and parental influences on longitudinal child psychopathology.

Alice Sullivan

2 June 2017

Alice’s research interests are focussed on social and educational inequalities and the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage.

Darina Peycheva

2 June 2017

Darina assists in the various aspects of the development and implementation of Next Steps. This primarily involves fieldwork management and liaison with the fieldwork contractor. She also helps with the administrative records linkage applications for the four CLS cohort studies and liaises with a number of government departments and non-governmental bodies. Darina’s research interests relate […]

Praveetha Patalay

2 June 2017

Praveetha’s main areas of research interest relate to investigating the development and antecedents of mental health (both ill-health and wellbeing) and their consequences through the lifecourse.

Sam Parsons

2 June 2017

Sam has a long history of producing research based on the British Birth Cohorts, from the antecedents and consequences of poor basic skills in adult life, to more recent research focusing on poorer outcomes for children with Special Education Needs, the gendered occupational occupations of teenagers and the long-term advantages for men and women who […]

Martina Narayanan

2 June 2017

Martina contributes to several CLS research projects. At the moment, her main responsibilities cover the data preparation, analysis, and dissemination of findings for the “What Works for Wellbeing” and the “Using New Technologies for Qualitative Data” research programmes. Martina’s general research interests include mental health and wellbeing over the life course, intergenerational associations and longitudinal […]

Vanessa Moulton

2 June 2017

Vanessa is a psychologist, with a strong interest in multidisciplinary social science. Her research interests include using longitudinal and secondary data analysis to examine the influence of the earlier life course on children’s and adult mental health, cognitive, educational and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, Vanessa co-coordinates the CLS cohort training workshops and webinars.    

Heather Joshi

2 June 2017

With a background in economic demography, notably on women’s lifetime incomes, Heather became the founder director of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), and of the Centre as a whole. She has retired from these roles but continues to provide advice within and beyond the department, based on that experience. More recently Heather led a project, […]

Morag Henderson

2 June 2017

Dr Henderson’s main area of research is inequalities across the life course. More specifically she examines patterns in educational attainment, bullying and wellbeing. Morag oversees all aspects of CLS’s work on Next Steps, and leads on the strategic and scientific direction of the study.

Maggie Hancock

2 June 2017

Maggie is currently responsible for the design and development of the CLS metadata database and provides technical and advisory support to the CLS research data management team. She has previously managed the research data for the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study.  She has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and an […]

Alissa Goodman

2 June 2017

Alissa Goodman is Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, and Co-Director of the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study, a project funded by ESRC to test the feasibility of a new birth cohort for the UK. She is a Co-Investigator on two further new national cohort projects, Children of the 2020s and […]

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