UCL Social Research Institute

New research in the Journal of Marriage and Family by our colleague @yanghu.co.uk examines what unmarried people look for in a spouse in China. The wish list? high income, property ownership, good education, attractive appearance, urban origin, and similar age. #highstandards

Congratulations to Professor Morag Henderson, appointed Director of the Millennium Cohort Study!

Following 19k people born in the UK in 2000–01, the MCS is one of the world’s richest resources for understanding how early life shapes later outcomes.

We look forward to the next chapter of MCS. 🥂

Thought Gen Z was the “sober generation”? Think again.

New research from @clscohorts.bsky.social shows substance use rises sharply in the early 20s.

• 68% of 23-year-olds report binge drinking
• 49% have used cannabis
• 32% have tried harder drugs

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One in six people approaching their late 60s have no private pension and low savings.

New research from @clscohorts.bsky.social looks at how prepared baby boomers are for retirement, using data from the 1958 National Child Development Study. Read more 👇

Millennium Cohort Study at age 23: explore the new data In this Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) webinar, users are introduced to the Age 23 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study. Watch the video to find out what’s new in the latest sweep, and gain…

📺️ Did you miss our webinar exploring the latest data from the Millennium Cohort Study? Catch up now on our YouTube channel 👉 buff.ly/EI80Y74

The data are available to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. Find out more on how to access the data on the CLS website 👉 buff.ly/C8Rg24D.

For social science research, birth cohort studies provide one the best possible data source. Happy 80st birthday to the world's longest running birth cohort study, the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD)! 🎂@clscohorts.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Life's eternal questions

We love to see it

The latest in this must-attend series is essential for anyone interested in analyses of administrative data (and our Millennium Cohort Study!). Register your place 👇

@rjsilverwood.bsky.social

Chairing this online event next Wed. Come one, come all

Sobering new figures on financial precarity in midlife Britain from our high-quality cohort data.

Our researchers, bravely wading through 900+ papers so you don’t have to.

200 years young. What should an urban, open, challenge-driven university look like today?, asks @rainerkattel.bsky.social

Attention prospective students seeking an exciting postgraduate pathway. 👇👇👇

A great showcase of the range and depth of work happening in our department... talent on display all around.

Follow our researchers with this starter pack and if you're new and would like to be added, give us a shout: go.bsky.app/BcLmmBN

Today in our quantitative social science seminar, Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) will tell us what we can learn about worker rights from analysing 30,000 collective bargaining agreements.

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Should coresidence be the ideal? Many happy, committed couples disagree, and not just among the young. Check out Yang Hu's research and coverage in The Telegraph

Gen Z more likely to live with parents in early 20s than previous generations | CLS More than two thirds of people in the UK are living with their parents at age 23, around three times higher than a generation of millennials when they were a similar age a decade ago.

🔎New research using data from the Age 23 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study shows gen Z are more likely to live with their parents in their early 20s than previous generations.

Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4tSafZh

This Thursday at TCRU: Diego García Rodríguez (University of Nottingham) presents findings from a qualitative study with LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers

Our sister institute brings you research-based insights beyond the headline as always

ETFs and crypto are booming as investments for the average person. Our Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is researching how this is fueling global populism.

Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026

Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!)

Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]

Really looking forward to sharing our work on understanding mode effects with DAGs!

Join in person at LSHTM or online on 26 February 👇

cc @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Administrative data are commonly used in research but they often have limited information on confounders, making analyses prone to residual confounding.

Join us to hear from @rjsilverwood.bsky.social about a multiple imputation-based approach to address this using linked cohort data.

Link below👇

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our friends at @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social are running another of their high quality data training courses soon. This time on LEO data, and with an in-person R workshop!

Developing a new Linked Employer Employee Dataset for the UK - ESCoE This project will firmly establish the feasibility of developing a LEED data­set for the UK and outline practical steps for implementation.

Under this new @escoeorg.bsky.social project John Forth and I are working with ONS colleagues to construct the first comprehensive LEED spine for the UK www.escoe.ac.uk/projects/dev... @sriucl.bsky.social

Narratives of the silent: Exploring women's stories in South African communities How do we as a society live with silences? How are untold stories shaped by social silence?

Whose stories remain unheard?
Join TCRU's Bianca Parry this week where she'll look at women’s experiences in South African communities and what feminist research can teach us about listening, ethics and power.
#SocialResearch #GenderAndSociety
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Excellent opportunity for a funded PhD...