The CLOSER Longitudinal Communications Network (LCN) is a community of practice made up of science communications professionals working in the field of longitudinal and life course science.
The group meets three times throughout the year to discuss common challenges faced within the science communications field, share experience, and facilitate collaboration across the different studies and research centres. Guest speakers from external organisations are often invited to the meetings to share their expertise and experience.
Longitudinal studies and organisations currently represented at the LCN include:
- The 1958, 1970, 2000-01 birth cohorts (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies)
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (University of Bristol)
- Born in Bradford (Bradford Institute for Health Research)
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (University College London)
- Generation Scotland (University of Edinburgh)
- Growing Up in Scotland (ScotCen Social Research)
- Hertfordshire Cohort Study (University of Southampton)
- MRC National Survey of Health and Development (University College London)
- National Centre for Social Research
- Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Queen’s University Belfast)
- ONS Longitudinal Study (CeLSIUS, University College London)
- Population Research UK
- Southampton Women’s Survey (University of Southampton)
- Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (University of Essex)
- UK Data Service (University of Essex)
- TwinsUK (King’s College London)
For more information, or to enquire about joining the CLOSER Longitudinal Communications Network, please contact us: closer@ucl.ac.uk
Read the LCN’s Terms of Reference