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CLOSER Study Network

The CLOSER Study Network brings together representatives from longitudinal population studies (LPS) across the UK, providing a platform for collaboration, knowledge-sharing and networking within the community.

The network meets twice a year to discuss key challenges and opportunities and identify solutions. Members actively shape the agenda, identifying topics for discussion with support from CLOSER staff.

The longitudinal population studies and organisations currently represented include:

  • The 1958, 1970, 1989-90, 2000-01, 2020s 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)
  • Children Growing Up in LiverpooL (University of Liverpool)
  • Children of the 2020s Study (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies)
  • Cohort Study of Mobile Phone Use and Health (Imperial College London)
  • COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (University College London)
  • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (University College London)
  • Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (King’s College London)
  • Five to Twelve (National Centre for Social Research)
  • Gemini Twin Research Study (University College London)
  • Generation Scotland (University of Edinburgh)
  • Growing Up in the 2020s (University College London)
  • Growing Up in Scotland (ScotCen Social Research)
  • Hertfordshire Cohort Study (University of Southampton)
  • Health and Employment After Fifty Study (University of Southampton)
  • MRC National Survey of Health and Development (University College London)
  • The Million Women Study (University of Oxford)
  • Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Queen’s University Belfast)
  • Next Steps (formerly the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England) (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies)
  • ONS Longitudinal Study (CeLSIUS, University College London and Office for National Statistics)
  • Our Future Health
  • PROTECT (University of Exeter)
  • Second Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (Department for Education)
  • Southampton Women’s Survey (University of Southampton)
  • UK Biobank
  • Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (University of Essex)
  • Wirral Child Health and Development Study (University of Liverpool)
  • Whitehall II (University College London)

For more information, or to enquire about joining the CLOSER Study Network, please contact us: closer@ucl.ac.uk

Read the Study Network’s Terms of Reference