Death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
We at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies join in the sadness felt among the UCL community at the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
We at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies join in the sadness felt among the UCL community at the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
A study using Next Steps data has found that higher earners are more likely to trust other people, and more likely to believe that working hard leads to higher rewards.
Researchers from the UK and Australia analysing Next Steps data have found that being bullied at school can have long-term effects on mental health, income and employment at age 25.
Information Next Steps 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 Next Steps have made to our understanding of the factors that shape our lives.
A study based on Next Steps has found that people who took out a student loan to go to university are less likely to own a home than those who didn’t take out a loan, or who didn’t go to university.
Research using Next Steps has found that graduate women who were the first in their family to go to university earn less than graduate women whose parents also went to university. The research team found that for men the opposite was true.
Professor Alissa Goodman, Director of the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), where Next Steps 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.
Our first COVID-19 survey, in May 2020, included one open-ended question where you could express in your own words how the coronavirus outbreak was affecting you. Our researchers have done some initial analysis of your responses.