12/03/2010 Women’s memory better than men’s at age 50
A study involving more than 9,600 middle-aged men and women in England, Scotland and Wales has found that women outscored men in two verbal memory tests. Participants in the first test listened to 10 common words being read out and were then given two minutes to recall as many as possible. The second test required them to list the same 10 words about five minutes later.

02/03/2010 Researchers using data from the birth cohort studies (NCDS, BCS70 and MCS)
CLS would be grateful if anyone who is carrying out research using data from any of the three birth cohort studies could remember to notify us of all resultant publications.

02/03/2010 Underclass of pre-school children emerging, study says
A new study by think tank Demos, which draws on data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), blames a lack of spending at pre-school level for educational disengagement in children under four.

17/02/2010 Fewer parents gaining ‘first choice’ primary schools than statistics suggest
Fewer parents are managing to enrol children in their true ‘first choice’ primary schools than is generally thought, says a new study.

17/02/2010 Simple tests in babyhood ‘could point to children who need help with learning’
Screening tests that monitor babies’ motor development could prove crucial in helping to identify children who will need learning support in their pre-school years, says a book published today.

17/02/2010 Second Millennium Cohort Study book published
Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years, edited by Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi and Shirley Dex, was published on Wednesday 17 February by The Policy Press.

16/02/2010 Black mothers most likely to say they receive racist treatment
Black Caribbean and black African mothers are more likely than women from other ethnic groups to say that they have been victims of racism, a study has found.

16/02/2010 Sikh and Catholic mothers 'most likely to attend religious services'
Sikh and Roman Catholic women in the UK are more likely to attend a weekly religious service than women from other major faiths and churches, new research suggests.

16/02/2010 Reading to a child at age 3 pays real dividends two years later
Parents who read to their child every day at age 3 are more likely to see them flourishing in a wide range of subjects during their first year in primary school, a UK-wide study suggests.

16/02/2010 Black children at greatest risk of being overweight, study finds
Black children in the UK are far more likely to be overweight than youngsters from other ethnic groups when they enter primary school, a newly published study suggests.

15/02/2010 Poor children 'lag a year behind'
A report published on 1 February, which makes use of detailed data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), reports that children from the poorest homes are almost a year behind middle class pupils by the time they start school.

12/02/2010 NCDS on BBC Radio 4
On Tuesday 16 February Radio 4 launched a fascinating new five-part series called When I Grow Up.

12/02/2010 Major health inequality report draws on CLS studies
The report Fair Society, Healthy Lives, more generally known as the Marmot Review was published on 11 February as part of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010, to considerable media attention.

27/01/2010 Economic inequality in the UK
The National Equality Panel today (27 January) published a major report: An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK.

22/01/2010 Growing Up in Ireland report published
Ireland’s longitudinal study of children, tracking the lives of over 8,500 nine-year-olds, has published its first major report. Growing Up in Ireland – The lives of 9-year-olds was launched on 7 December 2009 at the Study’s inaugural research conference in Dublin.

07/01/2010 CLS attendance at ESRC Pathfinders Workshop, Beijing
Leading UK social scientists met at Beijing Normal University on 17–18 December 2009 for discussions with Chinese researchers about data resources that underpin social research.