£100ms spent on widening participation in higher education each year & *very little* progress made - serious questions about value for money here

Read our new Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities briefing note on how much we know about reducing inequalities in HE participation

🐶In honour of this year's #NationalPetDay , we've published a new Learning Hub case study exploring longitudinal research into pet ownership and cognitive decline in older adults.

🐱Read more: closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/n…

What a wonderful day! So happy to be back at TCRU at UCL IOE today together with my favourite scholars and people! Dr. Andrea Doucet Margaret O’Brien Alison Koslowski and Ann-Zofie Duvander

📢 “Social, economic and health impacts of the COVID pandemic: Evidence from five national UK cohorts” 📢

George Ploubidis will talk about the impact of the pandemic on people’s economic/social/health-related outcomes!

Join us 👉bit.ly/gploubidis
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#CassReview evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study on online stressors and harms in Gen Z

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Join our calibration study to test&improve our Harmony tool. Follow the link below to sign up> tell us how similar the items are> make Harmony better & get a 15£ Amazon voucher. bit.ly/harmonycalib Social Finance UK Centre for Longitudinal Studies UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) Wellcome Mauricio Scopel Hoffmann

Probably one of the most important pieces of new evidence on how to reduce educational inequalities in a long time.

Sure Start worked. It worked best for those who really needed it. And it paid for itself. These findings are huge.

We are hosting a fab one day hybrid event on higher education access and finance on May 14th with Institute for Fiscal Studies, UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) and Georgetown U. Speakers include: Prof Dynarski John N.Friedman Professor Lindsey Macmillan Lorraine Dearden gill wyness and more...
Sign up here!!
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📢There is still time to apply for this Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) in Social Psychology position UCL Social Research Institute (SRI). Do consider joining our team! ⏰Deadline is April 14th. All details can be found here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DGQ052/lec…

New version of Nathan Wilmers and my paper on firms and intergenerational mobility now up at SocArXiv. 50% longer and loads of new analyses. 1/7
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Join us for our up-coming UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) Richard Blundell seminar examining changes in the life-cycle profile of male and female wages. Find out more here: ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202… UCL Economics UCL Sociology Network

NCRM's #ResearchMethods training is delivered by our core partnership, plus nine additional partners:

Centre for Multilevel Modelling (School of Education (Bristol University))
Centre for Computational Social Science
ISER
engage@liverpool
NatCen
Improving Health
Timescapes Archive
UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)
WISERD

Read more: ncrm.ac.uk/about/organisa…

🎓We’re heading back into the classroom with this month’s #StudySpotlight shining a light on the (Department for Education) Longitudinal Study of Young People in England: Cohort 2.

➡️Read more: closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/b…

Join us in May for this joint Institute for Fiscal Studies Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) and Georgetown University event on higher education access and finance - just look at that line up! Prof Dynarski, John N.Friedman, Sam Freedman, Professor Anna Vignoles, Lorraine Dearden, gill wyness, Jack Britton bruce chapman

So many inspiring talks at #LAPHRN24 today! Great to meet people researching food insecurity and other public health issues. V happy to get the chance to share some early findings from Fair Food Futures UK project! giorgia previdoli Maddy Power TCRU at UCL IOE UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) NIHR Research

A very productive afternoon at our AI in qualitative sociological research workshop. Our thanks to Christina Silver (Uni of Surrey) who helped many of us navigate unknown territory
Christina Silver, PhD Katherine Twamley IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) University of Surrey

Good to see #longitudinal research using data from the MRC LHA @ UCL 1946, Centre for Longitudinal Studies 1958 & 1970 British cohort studies and TwinsUK research cited in this new The Guardian feature exploring how the #COVID19 pandemic has affected every UK generation.
theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Most happy day. After long journey have just passed PhD Viva. Many thanks to Prof. Olmo Silva and Claire Crawford for their generous feedback. Want to share this achievement with Professor Alice Sullivan and Nikki Shure that guided and supported me along the way. Many thanks! Now time to 🍾

This special issue includes open access articles by TCRU at UCL IOE's Eve Dickson with Rachel Rosen and Dr Rachel Benchekroun with Rachel Humphris and Nando Sigona. UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Sociology Network

We are very proud of you Nuno! 🍾🎓 UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)