CLOSER produces four main newsletters designed to keep you up to date with all the latest news and blogs, research, events, and policy developments from the longitudinal population study community.
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Below you’ll find previous issues of Longitudinal News and ‘In the loop’ – our quarterly policy update.
Longitudinal News
Latest issue: February 2024
In this issue of Longitudinal News, we announce our call for abstracts for the CLOSER Early Career Researchers Conference and Training Event 2024. This bespoke event will showcase and celebrate the work of ECRs working with longitudinal population studies data and provide a range of practical training workshops. The deadline for submissions is 26 March 2024.
Also featured in this month’s issue:
- Study Spotlight: Born in Bradford
- Event: Metadata management in the real world: How to get the most out of CLOSER Discovery
- Event: Emerging Longitudinal Scholars – Socioeconomic influences on diet and health
- Podcast: CLOSER and UKDS Love Data Week
Read the latest issue of Longitudinal News
Previous issues of Longitudinal News
In the loop
Latest issue: January 2024
‘In the loop’ is CLOSER’s quarterly policy update which features a round up of the latest developments in the policy landscape, open opportunities to engage with policy and decision makers, and new resources for improving your public engagement knowledge & skills.
This month’s issue, covering October – December 2023, features:
- Policy landscape review: the King’s Speech, the new DCMS Chief Scientific Advisor, newly updated DWP Areas of Research Interest, and the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2023
- Engagement opportunities: New opportunities announced by the Economic and Social Research Council, Department for Work and Pensions, UK Parliament, and UK Government
- Developing your skills: UPEN to run series of webinars for researchers looking to build their policy engagement capacities, CAPE’s new database of resources, and a blog on widening the evidence base for policy
Read the January 2024 issue of ‘In the loop’