CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, brings together world-leading longitudinal studies with participants born throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. We also work closely with other key partners: the British Library and the UK Data Service. The UCL Social Research Institute is the lead research institute.
Studies
For more information on the studies involved explore the studies:
- 1958 National Child Development Study
- 1970 British Cohort Study
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (Children of the 90s)
- Born in Bradford
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Generation Scotland
- Growing Up in Scotland
- Health and Employment After Fifty
- Hertfordshire Cohort Study
- Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England: Cohort 2 (Our Future Study)
- Millennium Cohort Study (Child of the New Century)
- MRC National Survey of Health and Development
- Next Steps
- Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- ONS Longitudinal Study
- Southampton Women’s Survey
- Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study
- Whitehall II (The Stress and Health Study)
- Wirral Child Health and Development Study (The First Steps Study)
Other partners
British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest research libraries. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive research collection.
The British Library has been a partner on CLOSER since its inception in 2012. Dr Allan Sudlow (Head of Research Development at the Library) is as a member of CLOSER Executive and Leadership teams and supports the strategic planning, impact and engagement strands of CLOSER.
This role enables the Library to gain insights from, and contribute to, contemporary biosocial research and its evolving approaches to data infrastructure, discovery, access and reuse.
UK Data Service
The UK Data Service is is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to meet the data needs of researchers, students and teachers from all sectors, including academia, central and local government, charities and foundations, independent research centres, think tanks, and business consultants and the commercial sector.
The UK Data Service collection includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data.
UCL Social Research Institute
The UCL Social Research Institute (formerly the Department of Social Science) is one of the leading centres in the UK for multidisciplinary teaching and research in the social sciences. With more than 180 academic, research and professional staff, the Institute works to advance knowledge and to inform policy in areas including gender, families, education, employment, migration, inequalities, health and child/adult wellbeing. Research is a major focus of the Social Research Institute with an annual research income of over £15 million, with research work organised within seven renowned centres.