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31 July 2025
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Explore new content across ‘Our Changing Society’

Our new set of updates to CLOSER’s ‘Our Changing Society’ resource provides more context to the lives of longitudinal population study participants, with the latest data and information across a range of topics.

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01 July 2025
Delegates at the LCN conference listen to Dr Sarah Bunn's keynote

Expanding networks, sharing knowledge: reflections from the CLOSER LCN conference

Jennie Blows (CLOSER LCN Chair) reflects on our recent LCN conference and summarises the rich discussions on engaging with policymakers and data users, and communicating the impact of survey methods.
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Explore our bespoke guidance, trackers and templates for supporting longitudinal researchers mobilise findings in the policy landscape

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Use our interactive guides to discover measures used to assess cognition, physical activity, and diet in UK longitudinal population studies

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Find out more about the historical and political backdrop to the lives of study participants in this interactive resource

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Longitudinal News: catch up on the latest issue

This month we feature the videos and slides now available from our recent symposium which explored themes of health, wellbeing, and labour market (non-)participation, plus the latest news, research and events from the LPS community.

Search, browse and explore questionnaires and data from UK LPS

CLOSER Discovery—the UK’s most comprehensive research tool for longitudinal population studies— provides a single point of entry to rich questionnaire and dataset metadata.

Join a CLOSER policy surgery

Your next opportunity to sit down with our experts for personal advice and bespoke guidance on mobilising your research is coming up on 4 September (13:00-16:00 BST)

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Videos and slides available - Metadata management in the real world: FAIR Researcher tools for documenting social science data

26 Jun 2024
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