CLOSER is delighted to announce the programme for our new 2024 Emerging Longitudinal Scholars (ELS) webinar series showcasing 10 early career researchers at the frontier of longitudinal exploration.
About the series
Chaired by CLOSER Research Fellow, Dr Neil Kaye, our ELS webinar series provides a collaborative platform for fostering knowledge exchange and showcasing research by early career researchers using UK longitudinal population study data.
We’ve curated a diverse programme of talks for this inaugural series. The range of topics covered will include: children’s development, healthy ageing, diet and health, employment and wellbeing in midlife, mental wellbeing, ethnicity and gender.
Each showcase webinar will include two 20-minute presentations, with ample time dedicated to discussion and collaboration. Launching in January 2024, these hour-long webinars take place once a month until May 2024.
Find out more about the programme and how to register your place below.
Programme of events
Wednesday 24 January 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 GMT: Longitudinal trends in children’s development
- Longitudinal pathways between socioeconomic status and educational attainment: mediation by executive functions and processing speed
Kate Mooney (University of York)
- Understanding the downstream effects of early sleep for vocabulary, academic achievement and mental health in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and Born in Bradford longitudinal samples
Cátia Margarida Ferreira de Oliveira (University of York)
Read the abstracts and register for the Longitudinal trends in children’s development webinar
Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 GMT: Healthy ageing
- Obesity, psychological factors, and risk of developing seven non-communicable diseases: evidence from longitudinal studies of UK and US older adults
Edi Putra (University of Liverpool)
- Longitudinal clustering of health behaviours and their association with multimorbidity in older adults in England: a latent class analysis
Alisha Suhag (University of Sheffield)
Read the abstracts and register for the Healthy ageing webinar
Wednesday 20 March 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 GMT: Socioeconomic influences on diet and health
- Associations of early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories with adult diet quality
Yinhua Tao (University of Cambridge)
- Exploring the Influence of Grandparental Socio-Economic Status on the Association Between Parental BMI and Offspring BMI Trajectories
Jie Zhang (Aarhus University)
Read the abstracts and register for the Socioeconomic influences on diet and health webinar
Wednesday 24 April 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 BST: Midlife, employment, engagement and wellbeing
- Life-course social participation and physical activity in midlife: longitudinal associations in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
Stella Tsoli (University College London)
- How workers’ employment trajectories are affected by insecure employment at the early career stage
Rebecca Florisson (Lancaster University)
Read the abstracts and register for the Midlife, employment, engagement and wellbeing webinar
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 BST: Mental wellbeing, ethnicity and gender
- The gendered impact of COVID-19 on health behaviours and mental health: evidence from the UK
Karen Arulsamy (National University of Singapore)
- Is air pollution associated with poor mental wellbeing and how this association differs by ethnic sub-groups in the UK?
Mary Abed Al Ahad (University of St Andrews)
Read the abstracts and register for the Mental wellbeing, ethnicity and gender webinar
How to register
Registration is open now for all webinars in the series via the individual event pages.
Further information
If you have any questions about the webinar series or individual sessions, please contact CLOSER Digital Communications and Events Manager, Jennie Blows: j.blows@ucl.ac.uk