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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
UCL and the University of Bristol are to lead the Population Research UK (PRUK) co-ordination hub, part of an existing strategic investment from the UKRI Infrastructure Fund.
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, […]
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 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 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 […]
Gearoid is responsible for the leadership and management of the Cohort Maintenance Team in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). He is also the Information Governance (IG) Lead for CLS.
Ludovica worked in CLS from 2013 to 2016, mainly on the Millennium Cohort Study and she continues to collaborate with researchers in CLS. Her main areas of interest are inequalities in child development, early childhood education and care services, residential mobility.
Emla is the Director of the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study following children born at the turn of the new century. Her research is focused on the development of human capital throughout the life course, and in particular how experiences and circumstances in early life and childhood affect causally the acquisition […]
At CLS, Brian works in the Cross-Cohort research programme (CCRP), the CLS Missing Data Project, and the Cohort Studies User Support Programme, specialising in the NCDS and BCS70 cohorts. His specialist areas of research and methodology are: changing socio-economic indicators; predictors of well-being over the life course; cognition & social capital; education and fertility; clustering […]
Lisa is a Professor of Survey Research. She has over 20 years’ experience of the design and implementation of complex, large scale longitudinal surveys. Her research areas include non-response, innovations in participant engagement, new technologies and mixed-modes of data collection, administrative data linkage and integrating bio-measures in social surveys. Lisa has strong national and international […]
Robert is responsible for the development and support of the Cohort Maintenance and Survey Management (CMSM) databases and the survey data processing procedures associated with the NCDS, BCS70 and MCS cohort studies.
Matt is a Senior Survey Manager for our NCDS and BCS70 cohort studies. Matt’s role involves being responsible for the day-to-day management of these studies, designing and developing data collection strategies and questionnaires, and working with fieldwork contractors to ensure successful delivery of the projects. His research interests are in survey methodology, particularly in relation […]
Denise’s responsibilities include the administration of the confidential databases containing records of contact information for our cohort members across all four of our longitudinal studies. She is also responsible for the management of CLS’s printing and mailing suppliers, including budget monitoring and associated reporting.
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
Our bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
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