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Oct 5 2020

Celebrating 10 years of the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS)

About this event To mark their 10 year anniversay, SLLS put together a an exciting programme combining both pre-recorded and live events. As part of their pre-recorded events programmes, the society published...

Oct 1 2020

Webinar

Recording available: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies

About the webinar Mental health awareness has been steadily increasing in recent years. Estimates of the extent and adverse impacts of mental health problems underline the urgent need for more research...

Sep 23 2020

Workshop

CLOSER linkage special meeting: The COVID-19 Super Cohort workshop

About the online workshop As research efforts continue to respond to urgent COVID-19 research priorities, UK Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) are a valuable resource for understanding the effects of the virus,...

Sep 23 2020

Webinar

Recordings available: Metadata management in the real world: Questionnaire Development and Data Collection

This webinar was organised as part of the CLOSER Data Management Network, with the support of the DDI Alliance. About the webinar The first webinar in our Metadata in the real world...

Sep 9 2020

Webinar

Nov 9 2015

Seminar

Nov 4 2015

Training

Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata

Understanding Society collects information about individuals and the households in which they live repeatedly at one year intervals. It includes new and innovative features to allow research across different social...

Oct 18 2015

Conference

SLLS International Conference 2015

The overall conference theme will focus on life courses in cross-national comparison this year, but the SLLS welcome conference submissions from all areas of longitudinal and life course studies: physical,...

Oct 14 2015

Training

Webinar: Introduction to the 1970 British Cohort Study

The webinar will cover: Introduction to BCS70 How to access the data Documentation available About the BCS70 sample, including issues of non-response and attrition What’s new and upcoming Speakers include Brian Dodgeon, CLS Research Fellow, Matt...

Sep 24 2015

Seminar

Mar 16 2015

Conference

Due to their interdisciplinary nature, longitudinal studies are an unparalleled source of evidence on what individual and environmental factors help people function well in later life. This symposium brought together...

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Slides available: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective – ALSPAC & Generation Scotland

Understanding Society: Changing Families

Comparative Survey Design and Implementation 2021 workshop

Call for abstracts: Longitudinal Studies (Virtual conference)

Slides available: Metadata management in the real world: Enhanced data services with structured metadata

Accessing and using ‘real-world’ study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research (2021)

Recordings and slides available: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective – Born in Bradford and TwinsUK

Recordings and slides available: Introducing Our Future Health – A world-leading platform for early detection and prevention research

Understanding Society: Insights 2021

CLS: The Age 17 survey – Millennium Cohort Study Webinar

European DDI User Conference 2020 (Virtual conference)

Recording and slides available: Examining cognition within and across longitudinal studies: Introducing CLOSER’s online cognitive measures guide

Celebrating 10 years of the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS)

Recording available: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies

CLOSER linkage special meeting: The COVID-19 Super Cohort workshop

Recordings available: Metadata management in the real world: Questionnaire Development and Data Collection

Recording available: Overview of CLOSER Discovery – how to search and explore the content of UK longitudinal studies

The future of data collection in longitudinal population studies: during and after COVID-19

UK Data Service Health Studies User conference

North American Data Documentation Initiative (NADDI)

Recordings available: CLOSER Seminar – What can we learn from linking area data to longitudinal studies?

POSTPONED – Longitudinal Area Network & Data-link (LAND): Creating a central resource for longitudinal area data

Recording available: CLOSER Seminars – Using longitudinal data to explore young people’s social media use

Webinar: Investigating political behaviour in the UK – what data can I use?

Webinar: Investigating language spoken in the UK – what data can I use?

Webinar: Investigating religion in the UK – what data can I use?

Accessing and using ‘real-world’ study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research

UCL Data Dialogues

Preparing for the future II: international approaches to challenges facing the longitudinal population studies

Webinar: Investigating mental health in the UK – what data can I use?

CLOSER Seminars: Investigating cognition and cognitive ageing using longitudinal studies

European DDI User Conference 2019

Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Launch Event

Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata

DOHaD 2019: Investing in a healthy future for all – Research, Education, Policy

CLOSER Seminars: Tracking differences in physical activity and sedentary behaviour

2019 SLLS International Conference

Understanding metadata management in longitudinal studies

Cohort Methods and Applications in Human Biology

Society for Social Medicine & Population Health and International Epidemiology Association (IEA)

Introduction to the 1970 British Cohort Study Age 46 Sweep

Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2019

CLS Large-scale surveys and technology innovation event

CLOSER Seminars: Exploring mental health data from British longitudinal studies

Harmonising mental health measurements from the British birth cohorts

Train the trainer: a workshop to explore longitudinal data to inform your teaching in quantitative social science subjects

2019 Annual conference of the Royal Economic Society

Education in the long run – which data are available?

CLOSER Seminars: Using longitudinal studies to investigate diet and nutrition

Investigating obesity in the UK – what data can I use?

Learning from longitudinal studies in the UK and Low and Middle income countries

Longitudinal data for ethnicity & migration research in the UK: Understanding Society and the Millennium Cohort Study

Journey to work data in the UK – what data are available?

Using multiple longitudinal studies for age-period-cohort investigations

Preparing for the future: tackling the key challenges facing the UK’s longitudinal population studies

Understanding Society Confererence: Combining Biological and Social Data

CLOSER Seminar: Using harmonised measures of income and earnings – Laura van der Erve, Alissa Goodman and Bozena Wielgoszewska

Realising aspirations? Gender, ethnicity and job inequalities

Gender Equality – the pay gap and beyond

Key data: Longitudinal data

Cross-study research: Opportunities, challenges and examples

CLOSER Seminars – Whitehall II: Findings from a world-class, interdisciplinary study of ageing – Prof Eric Brunner and Dr Archana Singh-Manoux

Next generation seminar: Analytics

Longitudinal data across the life course: an introduction to using cohort data

Introduction to the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

What’s on the Menu? Food choices in Contemporary Life

Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service

Introduction to Understanding Society using STATA

A showcase of student research using the ONS Longitudinal Study and Census microdata

CLOSER Seminars: Patterns of alcohol consumption across the life course – Yvonne Kelly and Annie Britton

NCDS 60 years of our lives

Using secondary data in research

CLOSER Seminars: Capturing contemporary family diversity in longitudinal datasets – Rebecca Goldman and Caroline Bryson

Automated Content Analysis: special training session

New sources of data for social science research

Introduction to CLOSER Discovery and its latest features

Introduction to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for teaching and research

The persistence and prevalence of racial harassment and the impact on health

Introduction to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for teaching and research (Manchester)