CLOSER was recently commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council to carry out a review of available training for longitudinal researchers. In this blog, the review’s author, Dr Jane Maddock, reflects on her findings, and her own experience as a developing longitudinal researcher.

In this CLOSER blog, Prof George B. Ploubidis discusses how data harmonisation can help unlock the potential of mental health measures in the British birth cohorts.

CLOSER’s Technical Lead, Jon Johnson discusses how metadata can help drive new ways of doing research and collecting data.

In this blog, Rob Davies highlights how new developments in the policy world are helping to feed more scientific evidence into the policy making process.

In our latest CLOSER blog, Dr Will Johnson (Lecturer in Human Biology and Epidemiology, Loughborough University) illustrates how longitudinal studies can help us understand age-period-cohort effects.

In our latest blog, Rob Davies summarises the Science & Technology Committee’s report on their inquiry into the impact of social media use and screen-time on children’s health.

In our latest blog, Dara O’Neill demonstrates how CLOSER’s new teaching resource can help students understand and use longitudinal data analysis.

CLOSER’s Interim Director, Dr Lisa Calderwood reflects on how CLOSER can help the UK’s longitudinal population studies meet the challenges their currently facing.

Last month, CLOSER held a workshop at the University of Manchester that brought together speakers and participants from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to share and discuss their experiences of undertaking cross-study research.

Following over 100 pieces of written evidence and oral evidence from 26 witnesses, yesterday the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published their report on ‘Evidence-based early years intervention’, calling on the Government to draw up a new national strategy for early intervention approaches to address childhood adversity and trauma.