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» 12/09/06 International Conference on Child Cohort Studies

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies, which is responsible for the UK Millennium Birth Cohort Study, and the British birth cohorts of 1958 and 1970, is organising an international conference at St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 12 to 14 September 2006. The conference will focus on the international experience of large-scale birth cohort studies which were started around the turn of the new millennium, i.e. studies whose subjects were born within a decade either side of 2000, and who have so far only been observed as children.

The object of the conference is to promote communication and comparison between those designing, conducting and analysing such surveys in different countries.

The conference booklet for this event (available in "Downloads" on the right hand side of this page) contains the programme and abstracts for all oral and poster presentations.

Venue: St Catherine's College, Oxford OX1 3UJ - map and directions.

Urgent message (posted 31st August 2006):  Please note that registration is now CLOSED. There is no en-site registration for this conference. 

Invited speakers

Jo Boyden, Jonathan Bradshaw, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, John Bynner, Ian Diamond, Irwin Garfinkel, Heather Joshi and Sara McLanahan.

Contributed papers (approximately 50 on the following topics):

• Childcare
• Child development
• Education, health and income
• Family structure and behaviour
• Growth and weight
• Immunisation studies
• Infant mortality and health inequalities
• Local studies from the Americas
• Mental health
• Methodology
• Neighbourhoods
• Parenting

The following cohort studies will be providing poster presentations:

• Birth to Twenty (South Africa)
• Born in Bradford Birth Cohort Study (UK)
• Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children Salinas (California, USA)
• The Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA)
• Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth/1979 (USA)
• Children’s Health and the Environment in the Faroe Islands (Faroe Islands)
• The Danish National Birth Cohort (Denmark)
• The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort of 2001 (USA)
• Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance (France)
• European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (Great Britain, The Isle of Man, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Russia, Ukraine)
• The 1995 and 1997 French National Education Longitudinal Studies (France)
• Gateshead Millennium Study (UK)
• Growing Up in Australia - the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (Australia)
• Growing Up in Scotland Study (Scotland)
• Infancia y Medio Ambiente (Spain)
• Jamaican Birth Cohort Studies (Jamaica)
• KOALA Birth Cohort Study (the Netherlands)
• Korea Youth Panel Survey (South Korea)
• The Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study (Ireland)
• Longitudinal Study of New Zealand Children and Families (New Zealand)
• Millennium Cohort Study (UK)
• The National Children’s Study (USA)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth/1997 Cohort (USA)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (Canada)
• The Newborn Lung Project Regional Follow-up Study (Wisconsin, USA) 
• Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (Norway)
• 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study (Brazil)
• Québec Longitudinal Study on Child Development (Canada)
• Swiss Etiological Study of Adjustment and Mental Health (SESAM) (Switzerland)
• Young Lives Study (India)  

The provisional programme, poster instructions, registration form and a summary of the "Study Profile" posters which are to be presented on Tuesday 12th September 2006 are available in downloads.

Registration fees (meals included)

Register before 1 July 2006 to qualify for our "early bird" discount
Full registration (3 days): £110
Day 1: £50
Day 2: £50
Day 3*: £30
Full time students (3 days, proof required): £80

Registering on or after 1 July 2006
Full registration (3 days): £150
Day 1: £70
Day 2: £70
Day 3*: £50
Full time students (3 days, proof required): £100

* includes lunch only

Accommodation
£59 per night per person. Rooms for the night of 11 September or 14 September can also be reserved (please see registration form for details).

Package for accompanying person is £80, this includes all meals and social events for three days but does NOT include accommodation and registration fees.

Bursaries to help with the cost of registration, accommodation and travel up to a value of £400 are available for a limited number of presenters of papers or posters from less developed and transition countries. If you wish to apply, please write to Wendy Robins at w.robins@ioe.ac.uk stating your case by the 14 of April 2006. Decisions will be communicated by the end of May.

Contact details:
Name: Wendy Robins
Tel: +44 020 7612 6654
Fax: +44 020 7612 6686
email:w.robins@ioe.ac.uk