UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
@clscohorts.bsky.social
CLS is home to a unique series of UK national cohort studies. We conduct research and produce policy evidence to improve lives.
We are based at UCL Institute of Education (IOE). We are funded by the ESRC.
https://cls.ucl.ac.uk
We are based at UCL Institute of Education (IOE). We are funded by the ESRC.
https://cls.ucl.ac.uk
A really exciting opportunity 👇
📢8 days to apply to this 2-year postdoc!📢
Join @jdasmunshi.bsky.social + @georgeploubidis.bsky.social + me to do research using data from @clscohorts.bsky.social and beyond, as well as linkages to health and administrative data, to examine population mental health inequalities over the life course!
Join @jdasmunshi.bsky.social + @georgeploubidis.bsky.social + me to do research using data from @clscohorts.bsky.social and beyond, as well as linkages to health and administrative data, to examine population mental health inequalities over the life course!
🚨Job alert!🚨
We are looking for a 🧮 quant postdoc researcher to join the AMAZING Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social & myself at @kingscsmh.bsky.social in collab with @clscohorts.bsky.social
All info: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
Closes 18 Nov!
We are looking for a 🧮 quant postdoc researcher to join the AMAZING Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social & myself at @kingscsmh.bsky.social in collab with @clscohorts.bsky.social
All info: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
Closes 18 Nov!
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A really exciting opportunity 👇
Out now – the new issue of the CLS Data Update! This newsletter's the one for you if you’re interested in hearing about new cohort study data, training and other free resources to support your research. Follow the link to subscribe and catch up on what you might have missed.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Out now – the new issue of the CLS Data Update! This newsletter's the one for you if you’re interested in hearing about new cohort study data, training and other free resources to support your research. Follow the link to subscribe and catch up on what you might have missed.
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Want to learn more about harmonised fertility datasets in four British cohorts?
Read the latest CLS working paper to find out how these data can enhance cross-cohort research on fertility and family life and how they compare with ONS statistics on fertility. Read now 👉 buff.ly/u66v1Nt
Read the latest CLS working paper to find out how these data can enhance cross-cohort research on fertility and family life and how they compare with ONS statistics on fertility. Read now 👉 buff.ly/u66v1Nt
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Want to learn more about harmonised fertility datasets in four British cohorts?
Read the latest CLS working paper to find out how these data can enhance cross-cohort research on fertility and family life and how they compare with ONS statistics on fertility. Read now 👉 buff.ly/u66v1Nt
Read the latest CLS working paper to find out how these data can enhance cross-cohort research on fertility and family life and how they compare with ONS statistics on fertility. Read now 👉 buff.ly/u66v1Nt
✨ Join us! We're inviting expressions of interest from experts wishing to join our Scientific Advisory Network. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in shaping the scientific direction of our longitudinal cohort studies. Deadline Monday, 17 November. Find out more: bit.ly/4o4qyiD
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
✨ Join us! We're inviting expressions of interest from experts wishing to join our Scientific Advisory Network. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in shaping the scientific direction of our longitudinal cohort studies. Deadline Monday, 17 November. Find out more: bit.ly/4o4qyiD
What questions should we ask parents of new babies? Generation New Era is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Our online consultation event (6 Nov) is an opportunity for researchers, policymakers & practitioners to help us with our plans. Please join us for this! bit.ly/3JiDfXQ
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What questions should we ask parents of new babies? Generation New Era is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Our online consultation event (6 Nov) is an opportunity for researchers, policymakers & practitioners to help us with our plans. Please join us for this! bit.ly/3JiDfXQ
Thanks for a really great day!
The Northern Ireland launch of Generation New Era, a landmark UK-wide study set to follow 30,000 babies from birth, was hosted by Ulster University this week at Titanic Hotel, Belfast.
Read more: https://ow.ly/PRJt50XgenK
#WeAreUU | Department of Health | UCL | UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Read more: https://ow.ly/PRJt50XgenK
#WeAreUU | Department of Health | UCL | UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thanks for a really great day!
📣 Coming soon: this flagship @clscohorts.bsky.social webinar is the best place to get started with using our unique series of UK national cohort studies. Register now 👉 buff.ly/r4ZefJC
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📣 Coming soon: this flagship @clscohorts.bsky.social webinar is the best place to get started with using our unique series of UK national cohort studies. Register now 👉 buff.ly/r4ZefJC
🌞Cohort data users may find this of interest 👇
Today is the day 👀
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
October 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🌞Cohort data users may find this of interest 👇
New UCL research using harmonised data from four UK cohort studies shows how cigarette smoking has declined over the past five decades.
The researchers undertook the analyses to highlight the research opportunities available using harmonised data.
Read more on the CLS website -
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The researchers undertook the analyses to highlight the research opportunities available using harmonised data.
Read more on the CLS website -
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Latest harmonised data on UK smoking rates showcased in new study | CLS
New UCL research using harmonised data from four UK cohort studies shows the extent of the decline in cigarette smoking over the past five decades.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New UCL research using harmonised data from four UK cohort studies shows how cigarette smoking has declined over the past five decades.
The researchers undertook the analyses to highlight the research opportunities available using harmonised data.
Read more on the CLS website -
bit.ly/4n6WJfI
The researchers undertook the analyses to highlight the research opportunities available using harmonised data.
Read more on the CLS website -
bit.ly/4n6WJfI
📺 Missed our latest free training webinar? We’ve got you covered.
Visit the CLS training YouTube channel to catch up on the latest recording: find out about the range of freely available polygenic scores in CLS cohorts and explore the unique research opportunities they offer. Watch: buff.ly/XXpmjf9
Visit the CLS training YouTube channel to catch up on the latest recording: find out about the range of freely available polygenic scores in CLS cohorts and explore the unique research opportunities they offer. Watch: buff.ly/XXpmjf9
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📺 Missed our latest free training webinar? We’ve got you covered.
Visit the CLS training YouTube channel to catch up on the latest recording: find out about the range of freely available polygenic scores in CLS cohorts and explore the unique research opportunities they offer. Watch: buff.ly/XXpmjf9
Visit the CLS training YouTube channel to catch up on the latest recording: find out about the range of freely available polygenic scores in CLS cohorts and explore the unique research opportunities they offer. Watch: buff.ly/XXpmjf9
The CLS team (and our mascot!) had an amazing time at our Generation New Era consultation event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Come meet us in Cardiff or Belfast for the final two of our in-person events and help shape a new birth cohort study for the UK! bit.ly/4oft9G8
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The CLS team (and our mascot!) had an amazing time at our Generation New Era consultation event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Come meet us in Cardiff or Belfast for the final two of our in-person events and help shape a new birth cohort study for the UK! bit.ly/4oft9G8
Join us in Cardiff, Tuesday 14 Oct for an open consultation event to help shape the next UK birth cohort study, Generation New Era, which will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026.
What questions do we need to ask when children are 9-11 months and at 3-4 years? bit.ly/47lsSL1
What questions do we need to ask when children are 9-11 months and at 3-4 years? bit.ly/47lsSL1
October 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Join us in Cardiff, Tuesday 14 Oct for an open consultation event to help shape the next UK birth cohort study, Generation New Era, which will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026.
What questions do we need to ask when children are 9-11 months and at 3-4 years? bit.ly/47lsSL1
What questions do we need to ask when children are 9-11 months and at 3-4 years? bit.ly/47lsSL1
🔈 Do you want to use programming language R in your longitudinal data analyses? Take part in a two-day in-person, paid short course running on 3–4 November 2025 at UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus. Head to the UCL Online Store to find out more and register 👉
K26 Using R for Longitudinal Data Analysis | UCL Online Store
This is an in-person two-day course for quantitative researchers wanting to perform longitudinal data analyses with the programming language R. The course
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October 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🔈 Do you want to use programming language R in your longitudinal data analyses? Take part in a two-day in-person, paid short course running on 3–4 November 2025 at UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus. Head to the UCL Online Store to find out more and register 👉
🚨 NEW DATA! Data from the Age 9-10 Months Sweep of the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study are now available to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. Find out more on the CLS website: buff.ly/PPgvUTq
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 NEW DATA! Data from the Age 9-10 Months Sweep of the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study are now available to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. Find out more on the CLS website: buff.ly/PPgvUTq
Our Generation New Era open consultation events have begun! We're pleased to be joined by so many data users and early years experts today in London. Mascot Cohort MemBear has been listening to all the feedback. Next up is our Edinburgh consultation event on Wednesday, 8 October: bit.ly/3WuZXid
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Our Generation New Era open consultation events have begun! We're pleased to be joined by so many data users and early years experts today in London. Mascot Cohort MemBear has been listening to all the feedback. Next up is our Edinburgh consultation event on Wednesday, 8 October: bit.ly/3WuZXid
⏰ Reminder: send your comments on the draft questionnaire for the joint sweep of NCDS at age 68 and BCS70 at age 56 by this Sunday 5 October.
Full details on our website buff.ly/1BI6Zu2
Full details on our website buff.ly/1BI6Zu2
October 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
⏰ Reminder: send your comments on the draft questionnaire for the joint sweep of NCDS at age 68 and BCS70 at age 56 by this Sunday 5 October.
Full details on our website buff.ly/1BI6Zu2
Full details on our website buff.ly/1BI6Zu2
NEW DATA! Harmonised data on diabetes from five British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 and 2000-02 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website –
bit.ly/4nBh4ew
Find out more on the CLS website –
bit.ly/4nBh4ew
Diabetes research enhanced with new harmonised datasets | CLS
Harmonised data on diabetes from five UK cohort studies are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
NEW DATA! Harmonised data on diabetes from five British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 and 2000-02 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website –
bit.ly/4nBh4ew
Find out more on the CLS website –
bit.ly/4nBh4ew
NEW DATA! Harmonised data on asthma from five British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 and 2000-02 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website –
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Find out more on the CLS website –
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Harmonised datasets on asthma open up new research opportunities | CLS
Harmonised data on asthma from five UK cohort studies are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
NEW DATA! Harmonised data on asthma from five British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 and 2000-02 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website –
bit.ly/48DbdQT
Find out more on the CLS website –
bit.ly/48DbdQT
NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS
Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
🧬Exciting new genetic data release!
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Polygenic scores released for four national cohort studies | CLS
The research community can now access a range of polygenic scores from more than 30,000 people taking part in four of the UK’s national cohort studies.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🧬Exciting new genetic data release!
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Date for the diary! Join us online next Thursday at 13:00 (UK time) to learn more about Growing Up in Digital Europe & feed into plans for the UK pilot. This new Europe-wide study will collect internationally comparable data on children’s wellbeing. More info: bit.ly/4pl4YHs @drlisac.bsky.social
GUIDE UK Stakeholder & Policy Engagement Webinar — GUIDE
We’d love for you to join our interactive webinar where we’ll bring together key voices from policy, research, and the third sector.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Date for the diary! Join us online next Thursday at 13:00 (UK time) to learn more about Growing Up in Digital Europe & feed into plans for the UK pilot. This new Europe-wide study will collect internationally comparable data on children’s wellbeing. More info: bit.ly/4pl4YHs @drlisac.bsky.social
📣 New data linkage! Explore the linkage of education administrative records from Ofsted reporting in England to the Millennium Cohort Study, spanning 2005-2019. If you're at @adruk2025.bsky.social today, come chat to our team about this important linkage.
👉 Download user guide here: buff.ly/Hh3zIEI
👉 Download user guide here: buff.ly/Hh3zIEI
September 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣 New data linkage! Explore the linkage of education administrative records from Ofsted reporting in England to the Millennium Cohort Study, spanning 2005-2019. If you're at @adruk2025.bsky.social today, come chat to our team about this important linkage.
👉 Download user guide here: buff.ly/Hh3zIEI
👉 Download user guide here: buff.ly/Hh3zIEI
Another exciting day at @adruk2025.bsky.social conference today! Coming up this morning, CLS colleagues @gergobaranyi.bsky.social and @rjsilverwood.bsky.social presenting.
Find out why linking cohort and admin data is vital for impactful research, and why we’re a sponsor of ADR: bit.ly/4nuhsuu
Find out why linking cohort and admin data is vital for impactful research, and why we’re a sponsor of ADR: bit.ly/4nuhsuu
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Another exciting day at @adruk2025.bsky.social conference today! Coming up this morning, CLS colleagues @gergobaranyi.bsky.social and @rjsilverwood.bsky.social presenting.
Find out why linking cohort and admin data is vital for impactful research, and why we’re a sponsor of ADR: bit.ly/4nuhsuu
Find out why linking cohort and admin data is vital for impactful research, and why we’re a sponsor of ADR: bit.ly/4nuhsuu
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🐝 It’s a hive of activity at #ADRUKConf25 Poster Session! #Admindata #innovation #research
@adruk2025.bsky.social @adrwales.bsky.social @adrcni.bsky.social @scadrdata.bsky.social @saildatabank.bsky.social
@adruk2025.bsky.social @adrwales.bsky.social @adrcni.bsky.social @scadrdata.bsky.social @saildatabank.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🐝 It’s a hive of activity at #ADRUKConf25 Poster Session! #Admindata #innovation #research
@adruk2025.bsky.social @adrwales.bsky.social @adrcni.bsky.social @scadrdata.bsky.social @saildatabank.bsky.social
@adruk2025.bsky.social @adrwales.bsky.social @adrcni.bsky.social @scadrdata.bsky.social @saildatabank.bsky.social
📝 We are inviting comments on the draft questionnaire for the joint sweep of NCDS at age 68 and BCS70 at age 56 by Sunday 5 October. Thank you to all who contributed to the open consultation.
👉 See consultation web page for full details, including our responses to the contributions: buff.ly/NWedlQy
👉 See consultation web page for full details, including our responses to the contributions: buff.ly/NWedlQy
September 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📝 We are inviting comments on the draft questionnaire for the joint sweep of NCDS at age 68 and BCS70 at age 56 by Sunday 5 October. Thank you to all who contributed to the open consultation.
👉 See consultation web page for full details, including our responses to the contributions: buff.ly/NWedlQy
👉 See consultation web page for full details, including our responses to the contributions: buff.ly/NWedlQy