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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📢Our takeover of the @ioe.bsky.social podcast series, Research for the Real World continues this week as Dr Sam Parsons discusses what our long-running birth cohort studies can reveal about people’s lives as they approach retirement. Find out more and listen to the podcast - bit.ly/4rVa7pZ

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Worked more, still got less | Research for the Real World | IOE Insights | Episode

We explore retirement readiness, gender gaps in pension wealth, and the real-life consequences of inequality across the life course.Dr Amy Harrison speaks with Dr Sam Parsons about what long-running b...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🚀 Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) Age 27 sweep open consultation. 👉 We're seeking input on the next sweep of the MCS, which will take place in 2028-29 when participants are aged 27. Submit your ideas online or attend a consultation event online or in-person. Details: buff.ly/yMGpXuM

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CLS | MCS Age 27 Sweep

What should we ask the Millennium Cohort Study at age 27? Consultation on MCS Age 27 Sweep is now open: submit ideas online or join an event.

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George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Pensions and economic status among the 1958 birth cohort prior to reaching State Pension age New research report for the Department for Work and Pensions 👇🏻

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📢New research shows that not all baby boomers are headed for a comfortable retirement, with one in six people (16%) approaching their late 60s without a private pension and low household savings. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4rQ9puQ

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How are the baby boomers faring as they reach State Pension age? | CLS

One in six (16%) baby boomers are approaching their late 60s without a private pension and low household savings.

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sobering new figures on financial precarity in midlife Britain from our high-quality cohort data.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

More than a quarter of British adults in their early 50s are ‘just getting by’ or ‘finding it quite’ or ‘very difficult’ financially, while two-thirds worry about how much money they will have to live on in retirement. Read more - bit.ly/3N2ISLA

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One in four report financial difficulties in midlife | CLS

A CLS briefing paper shows that more than a quarter of British adults in their early 50s are ‘just getting by’ or ‘finding it quite’ or ‘very difficult’ financially.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

📢 The CLS conference 2026, 22 – 23 September, London, call for papers runs until Wednesday 8 April. ⏰ Submissions must use data from at least one CLS cohort study, such as the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which has just had a new age 23 data deposit. Submit your paper: bit.ly/45SP3rO

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📣 Announcing the CLS Conference 2026, celebrating 80 years of the UK’s cohort studies. Our call for papers is now open. All researchers using CLS cohort data are invited to submit and join us this September in London. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 8 April. More details: bit.ly/45SP3rO

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The poor hearing makes a lot of sense 🙄

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UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care @ucliehc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New research: Early menopause and surgical menopause impact women’s labor market trajectories 💼 This study suggests that hormone therapy within the early years of the final menstruation may help women remain employed. #menopause @elsa-study.bsky.social journals.lww.com/menopausejou...

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

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the forest jar @theforestjar.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

the race

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"Managers may prefer to see people at desks, but for many who take jobs while carefully calculating rents, house prices, commuting costs and childcare complexities, flexibility is not a nice-to-have feature but the difference between taking and leaving a job." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all | Polly Toynbee

The dispute over hybrid working at the Office for National Statistics is becoming a key test of worker power, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

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Graphic describing some of the key features of the study: 30,000 babies will take part, it is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years, babies will be age 9-11 months at the first survey, and 3-4 years at the second survey.

Graphic showing sample sizes in the four UK countries: 16,300 babies in England, 5,000 babies in Scotland, 4,500 babies in Wales, and 4,200 babies in Northern Ireland.

Graphic describing some of the elements of the study. This includes boosts for ethnic minority and low income families, interviews with fathers as well as mothers, consent to linkage to administrative data.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Day one of @sllshome.bsky.social #SLLS2025 - come meet our friendly team, including our mascot 🐻, at our stall opposite the reception desk. Find our list of CLS colleagues taking part here: bit.ly/4lYhdXv

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Some good news at the end of a long week 😊 Nice to see our work on labour market gender inequality a year into the pandemic among the most cited papers in the SLLS journal 😊 @sllshome.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social @francescafolia1.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/LLCS...

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🚩Job vacancy 🏘️ #Postdoctoral #ResearchfFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation as part of @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG. Closing date: 8 July 2025 Full info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Image shows a picture of a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook. Text advertises job opportunity: Post-doctoral Research Fellow* to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. This work is part of two research programmes: a) the MigrantLife project funded by the European Research Council (ERC); and 2) the ESRC Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations (CPC-CG). The Research Fellow will use microsimulation: a) to project partnership and childbearing trajectories of migrants and their descendants in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe); and b) to investigate individuals’ and couples’ housing trajectories in the UK and to project future homeownership rates.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If you would like to propose questions or topics for the joint web survey of NCDS and BCS70, head over to our consultation webpage by 16 May 2025 to submit your ideas. bit.ly/3FDRog7

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CLS | Scientific consultation: NCDS at 68 and BCS70 at 56

CLS is seeking input on the content of a joint web survey of NCDS at age 68 and BCS70 at age 56. Contribute your ideas by Friday 16 May 2025.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

📊 REGISTER NOW Help shape the next major sweep of the 1958 and 1970 British cohort studies. Join us in-person or online: bit.ly/42DZ7T1 📆 In-person consultative conference: Thurs 8 May, 10:00-16:00, London 📆 Online consultative workshop: Thurs 1 May, 13:30-16:30

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🍿 Watch now: our free webinar on the age 32 data release from Next Steps, our national cohort study of millennials. Ideal for researchers with an interest in work, mental health, family and relationships:

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Next Steps at age 32: explore the new data

In this webinar, explore the new data available from Next Steps, learn why this national cohort study of millennials is such a valuable research resource and...

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 06/03/2025

Speaking at our event @chris-smyth.bsky.social says that while the overall scale of economic inactivity is unknown, ill-health is increasing is pushing it up. For the first time, young women are more likely to be economically inactive due to poor health, rather than looking after family.

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Out tomorrow: our @nuffieldfoundation.org report "Inequalities in Access to Professional Occupations" @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot Why are working class & ethnic minority young people underrepresented in professional jobs? Do they not apply? OR do they apply, but just not get hired?

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

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Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New PhD position on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project on political polarization: fully funded + ~20k tax free yearly stipend. Deadline: Feb 14th! Link to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI246/p...

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PhD Studentship in Politics and International Relations at University of Reading

Explore the PhD Studentship in Politics and International Relations on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for higher education. Apply now.

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Important findings from the latest wave of the Next Steps study 👇 Data from the Age 32 sweep suggests that women earn 12.5% less per hour than men- with even bigger gaps for mothers than fathers. Read the report: cls.ucl.ac.uk/millennial-w... @clscohorts.bsky.social

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Nice to see The Times covered our research on Gender Pay Gap among Millennials - highly educated and economically active generation - using Next Steps data www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a... If you cannot access this link, more info at cls.ucl.ac.uk/millennial-w... and cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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Millennial women earn 9% less than men in same jobs

This gender pay gap was even wider for mothers but fathers earned a similar amount to men without children, the report said

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

New #NextStepsStudy research on the gender wage gap finds that women in their early 30s are more likely than men to find work stressful, suggesting that they are not accepting lower pay for less pressured and more fulfilling work. Read more: buff.ly/3Boxu7a

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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, who are in the same types of jobs & have similar levels of work experience, finds new research by Dr Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

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Millennial women paid less than male colleagues in similar jobs

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds a new study from UCL rese...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds new #NextStepsStudy research. Read more: buff.ly/3Boxu7a @mebozena.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social

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IZA@LISER @iza.org · 17/12/2024

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 1️⃣7️⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: Parental role models matter for the child penalty! Classroom exposure to peers with working mothers reduces child-related employment penalties, while exposure to working fathers tends to amplify them. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

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How parental role models shape gender inequality in labor markets

Childhood exposure to parental work behaviors leaves lasting impacts on gender roles and labor market outcomes

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