
We are pleased to announce that Professor George Ploubidis has been appointed the new director of NCDS.
We are pleased to announce that Professor George Ploubidis has been appointed the new director of NCDS.
Happy birthday for March! We hope you like this year’s birthday card and 2023 update. If you haven’t already received yours, they should be with you very soon. In the update we’ve covered some of the latest findings from the study – all made possible thanks to your continuing participation. If you’d like to find […]
We at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies join in the sadness felt among the UCL community at the death of Her Majesty The Queen, Queen Elizabeth II. In an ever-changing world, The Queen has been the one constant, with most of us, including all our study participants, never knowing another monarch. Her loss will […]
Happy birthday for March! We hope you like this year’s birthday card and booklet which we’re sending you this month. Here are some further details about the information in the booklet, including the research we’ve featured.
When you were 50 we asked you to think about what your life would be like a decade later. New research has found that the answers that you provided, the words you mentioned and the topics you discussed differed depending on your gender, occupation and education.
A new study based on NCDS has found that early menopause (before age 45) reduces how much time women spend in work by 9% – around 4 months’ – during their early 50s.
A new study, using NCDS in conjunction with information from the Census, has found that living in a deprived area is linked to having poorer health.
Information NCDS participants have shared with the study is helping researchers understand the factors that have made people more vulnerable to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers welcomed Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge to UCL this week, and discussed the invaluable contribution longitudinal cohort studies like NCDS have made to our understanding of early child development and the factors that shape our lives.
Professor Alissa Goodman, Director of the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), where NCDS is based, has been awarded a CBE for her services to social science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.
We are now inviting everyone who completed one or more of our three COVID-19 surveys to take part in a COVID-19 antibody test. This will help us build a clearer picture of who has had COVID-19 and learn more about why some people develop severe disease and others do not.