CLOSER produces four main newsletters designed to keep you up to date with all the latest news and blogs, research, events, and policy developments from the longitudinal population study community.
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Below you’ll find previous issues of Longitudinal News and ‘In the loop’ – our quarterly policy update.
Longitudinal News
Latest issue: April 2024
In this issue of Longitudinal News, we feature our latest Learning Hub research case study which explores the relationship between pet ownership and cognitive decline in older adults.
Also featured in this month’s issue:
- Event: Emerging Longitudinal Scholars – Mental wellbeing, ethnicity and gender (22 May 2024)
- Event: Metadata management in the real world – FAIR Researcher tools for documenting social science data (26 June 2024)
- Policy: Showcasing longitudinal research on preterm birth to UK Parliament
Read the latest issue of Longitudinal News
Previous issues of Longitudinal News
In the loop
Latest issue: April 2024
‘In the loop’ is CLOSER’s quarterly policy update which features a round up of the latest developments in the policy landscape, open opportunities to engage with policy and decision makers, and new resources for improving your public engagement knowledge & skills.
This month’s issue, covering January – March 2024, features:
- Policy landscape review: New funding opportunity from Women’s Health Strategy, Government recommendations to ease research bureaucracy, and the Government Chief Scientific Advisor updates the Lords Science and Technology Committee.
- Engagement opportunities: New Areas of Research Interest announced by the Department for Education and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, as well as a new Senedd (Welsh Parliament) Health and Social Care Committee inqury into the prevention of ill health in relation to obesity.
- Developing your skills: New interactive map for visualising government science functions and a CAPE report on building regional academic policy engagement.
Read the April 2024 issue of ‘In the loop’