Centre for Longitudinal Studies

George Andrew

Cohort Maintenance Officer

Room number:

201

Tel:

020 7612 6857

Email:

g.andrew@ioe.ac.uk

George Andrew joined CLS in 2001. He works as part of the specialist CLS Tracing and Operations Team responsible for maintaining the address information that is essential for maximizing responses to surveys of the CLS cohorts.

His responsibilities include tracing NCDS cohort study members who have moved, using a variety of specialist and publicly available sources of information.

Claire Battye joined CLS on 10 December 2012 as Communications Officer for CLS and CLOSER. She is responsible for events and print marketing materials and the day-to-day maintenance of the CLS and CLOSER websites and social media accounts.

Claire was previously a Development Officer with the British Lung Foundation, and prior to that, served as the Events and Communications Assistant at the National Housing Federation. In both these roles Claire has specialised in events coordination (particularly training events) and public engagement.

Denise Brown is an Administrator and Database Administrator at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the Institute of Education, University of London. 

Denise works on all three of the Cohort Studies based at CLS and co-manages the Access databases containing confidential records of contact information for up to fifty thousand individuals who are members of these studies.  Her responsibilities include database development and implementation, preparing data files for mailings to cohort members and overseeing all other aspects of mailings including the printing and preparation of materials, generating report of outgoing and return mail; and monitoring supplies, timetables and costs.

Matt joined CLS as the survey manager for the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the British Cohort Study (BCS70) in June 2007. Matt's responsibilities include questionnaire development, fieldwork monitoring and liaison with survey contractors.

Matt was previously employed as a Senior Research Executive at BMRB Social Research and was responsible for the day-to-day management of many projects including the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey for the Scottish Executive.

Matt has an MSc in Social Research Methods and a BA in Geography.

Robert Browne

Database Manager

Room number:

202

Tel:

020 7911 5550

Email:

r.browne@ioe.ac.uk

Robert joined CLS as a database manager in July 2004. He has responsibility for the development and support of the Cohort Studies address databases and the associated survey data processing procedures, plus the development of the CLS Scanned Archive system.

Robert has a BSc in Electronics and an MSC in Operational Research from the University of Warwick and started work as an analyst at Plessey Radar. He worked as senior programmer and manager for a startup company developing a commercial online information service, and then became an independent database developer working for (amongst others) the British Library of Political and Economic Science (at the LSE) and The National Archives at Kew.

David Budge fields media enquiries about CLS's work and issues press releases to publicise the findings of its cohort studies. He also edits research reports published by the Centre and produces briefing papers on the Millennium Cohort Study.

Professional Membership:

Member of the Academy of Social Sciences

Erzsébet is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford  (and Faculty Fellow of Nuffield College).  Prior to this, she worked as a Senior Researcher at CLS from 2007 to December 2011.  In 2010 she became a Reader in Quantitative Sociology and was later appointed Research Director of the NCDS and BCS70.  As a Visiting Resarch Associate at CLS Erzsébet continues her work on the projects colleagues here

Erzsébet is a quantitative sociologist, with a background in the Hungarian Statistical Office and international research experience in Germany and Oxford.  Her research interests involve educational inequalities, trends in intergenerational and intragenerational mobility, different aspects of life-course analysis and gender differences in the labor market as well as the relationship between social and cultural stratification.

Further information on Erzsébet is also available on our pages on the IoE Website and the University of Oxford website.   

John Bynner

Emeritus Professor

Room number:

301

Tel:

020 7612 6901

Email:

j.bynner@ioe.ac.uk

John is currently an Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences in Education.  Prior to this, he was Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies from 1998-2003, leading the Centre’s work on the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).

Previous posts in the Institute of Education include Director of the Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies; Executive Director of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, and first Director of the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Prior to joining the Institute his posts included: Dean of the School of Education at the Open University; and Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit at City University. John was also national co-ordinator of the “ESRC 16-19 Initiative” (1985-1991), which included a comparative study of transition to work in England and Germany, funded by the Anglo-German Foundation.  He was a member of the ‘Moser Committee’ on Adult Basic Skills and of the Social Exclusion Unit Policy Action Team on Disaffected Youth. 

Research interests include: basic skills, economic and political socialisation, social exclusion and comparative and longitudinal research.

Lisa Calderwood

Senior Survey Manager

Room number:

107

Tel:

020 7911 5510

Email:

l.calderwood@ioe.ac.uk

Lisa leads the teams responsible for survey management and cohort maintenance on the Millennium Cohort Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study and the 1958 British Cohort Study (National Child Development Study). She has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of survey design and is able to offer consultancy in this area. Her research interests are in survey methodology, particularly in relation to longitudinal survey design and implementation.

Details of Lisa's research activities can be found on the IoE website (link).

Stella joined the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in October 2012 as a John Adams Career Development Research Fellow. She is a member of the MCS team within CLS, and her main research interests are in social stratification, well-being, time allocation, and longitudinal and life-course research.

Elizabeth Cooksey is Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State University, the Associate Director of OSU's population center, and the Principal Investigator of the Child and Young Adult portions of the NLSY79. 

Elizabeth has been collaborating with Prof. Heather Joshi to expand their research begun under an ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellowship (2008 – 2010) to consider the role that child care might play in the relationship between maternal employment and child development, and also to explore further potential cross-national research opportunities using data from the Children of the NLSY79 and the British Millennium Cohort Study.

Further information on Elizabeth can be obtained from the Ohio State University Website.

Elise is a senior researcher in the team running the Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance (ELFE). She has a background in epidemiology, statistics and demography, in which she has published widely.  Elise’s  duties in the ELFE team have included the co-ordination of research proposals on developmental milestones and mental health, and liaison over linkage  of the cohort study to schools data.

She will be based in CLS so as to exchange experience with the team developing the fifth survey of MCS, and to observe our analysis and dissemination work on data collected earlier. She also wishes to make contact with the team developing the ‘2012’ cohort if that project is going ahead. She would like to prepare for comparative analyses between these cohorts, as well as the new one starting in Germany. These objectives are all within the aims of the European Science Foundation funded EUCCONET network (European Child Cohort Network) of which MCS and ELFE are the founder studies.

While Elise is based in London, she hopes to develop a proposal for further funded collaborative research, and she would be asked to give a presentation to the CLS informal seminar, or the Gordon Square quantitative seminar or both.

Peter Deane

Cohort Maintenance Officer

Room number:

201

Tel:

020 7612 6858

Email:

p.deane@ioe.ac.uk

Peter Deane joined CLS in July 2001. He works as part of the specialist CLS Tracing and Operations Team responsible for maintaining the address information that is essential for maximizing responses to surveys of the CLS cohorts.

His responsibilities include tracing Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) members who have moved, using a variety of specialist and publicly available sources of information.

Shirley Dex

Emeritus Professor

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Tel:

Email:

s.dex@ioe.ac.uk

Curriculum vitae (295514 Kb)

Shirley Dex is now Emeritus Professor of Longitudinal Social Research in Education.

She joined the Institute of Education in 2002. Previously, she has held posts at the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge), the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) (University of Essex), and the Economics Department at the University of Keele. She also acted as an advisor to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Work and Family Life Programme from 1998 to 2004.

She has published, authored and edited books on the Millennium Cohort Study, and papers on analyses of women’s employment using NCDS data.  She has also published many articles on flexible working, cross national comparisons of women’s employment, labour market behaviour, household employment, flexible working arrangements in organizations, equal opportunities, work and care, family policy and research methods. Much of her research work has involved the analyses of longitudinal data. She has successfully carried out research and consultancy for government departments, voluntary bodies, international agencies, EU commissions, equality commissions, the ESRC, charities, research foundations and a range of private UK organizations.

Shirley is continuing to work at the Institute of Education in the Department for Education-funded Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre, as well as being involved in research in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, primarily on research methods. She is also on a government Taskforce, led by ONS, to devise measures of  subjective wellbeing for children and young people.

Details of Shirley's publications can be found on the IoE website (link).

Brian Dodgeon

Research Fellow

Room number:

301

Tel:

0207 612 6877

Email:

b.dodgeon@ioe.ac.uk

Brian joined CLS in 1990 as a Research Fellow specialising in the computing side of the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS). In 2001 he moved to working with the Cohort Studies Programme.

Brian has a degree in Pure Mathematics and post-graduate qualifications in Social Administration and Applied Social Studies from Bristol University.

Details of Brian's research activites and publications can be found on the IoE Website (link).

Jane Elliott

Director of CLS and Director of CLOSER

Room number:

106

Tel:

020 7612 6395

Email:

j.elliott@ioe.ac.uk

Curriculum vitae (193485 Kb)

Jane is the Director the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the Director of the collaborative CLOSER (Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) programme.  

Her main research interests include gender and employment, women's careers, longitudinal research methodology, combining qualitative and quantitative research and narrative.

For more about Jane, visit the IOE website.

Alexandra Frosch joined CLS in August 2006 as Centre Administrator. Alex is responsible for managing the administrative and operational systems of the CLS and supports senior management in strategic and departmental planning and reporting activities. She also provides research and finance support and coordinates the administrative procedures of CLS' research and consultancy projects.

She previously worked as Executive Assistant at the General Teaching Council for England where she was managing the administration of a large scale national professional development project. Alex has got a M.A. in Sociology, Politics and Cultural Studies and worked in research and teaching positions in Germany and Greece.

Further information on Alex's activities and interests can be found on the IoE Website (link).

Claude joined CLS in 2008. She has a background in software engineering in the fields of artificial intelligence, medical research, data mining and software reliability.

Alissa Goodman

Professor of Economics and PI of NCDS (1958 cohort)

Room number:

G15

Tel:

020 7612 6231

Email:

a.goodman@ioe.ac.uk

Alissa is the Principal Investigator of the 1958 British Birth Cohort, known as the National Child Development Study (NCDS), and leads the team responsible for developing its content, design and analysis.

Alissa is an economist whose main research interests relate to inequality, poverty, education policy, and the intergenerational transmission of health and well-being.  In her previous employment, she has served as deputy director of the latest British birth cohort study, known as Life Study; and as deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.