Philippa Costello

📣 New report: Despite efforts to widen access to higher education, social mobility is flatlining or declining across wealthier countries

Students whose parents did not attend university remain 45% less likely to reach the top earnings quintile than those with graduate parents.

➡️ bit.ly/4oE8YSK

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Power structures in this country are still dominated by a small group of people.

1️⃣ The 7% who go to private schools

2️⃣ The roughly 1% who go to Oxford or Cambridge for university

This is especially true for those who attend both private school and Oxbridge 👇

21.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Photo of three babies lying on the carpet

Graphic describing some of the key features of the study: 30,000 babies will take part, it is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years, babies will be age 9-11 months at the first survey, and 3-4 years at the second survey.

Graphic showing sample sizes in the four UK countries: 16,300 babies in England, 5,000 babies in Scotland, 4,500 babies in Wales, and 4,200 babies in Northern Ireland.

Graphic describing some of the elements of the study. This includes boosts for ethnic minority and low income families, interviews with fathers as well as mothers, consent to linkage to administrative data.

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

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📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

05.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 19    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

Parental social class and school examinations: a longitudinal investigation using linked administrative and survey data This study investigates the relationship between parental social class and young people’s school examinations in England. This study uses a specialist data resource from the UK Household Longitudin...

new article alert:
Parental social class and school examinations: a longitudinal investigation using linked administrative and survey data
by Sarah Stopforth & Vernon Gayle Huge congrats!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @rachelbrooks.bsky.social @coralinglingxu.bsky.social

04.06.2025 15:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Registration information for the Large Social Surveys symposium in Edinburgh.

Final week to sign up for the annual @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social symposium!
📍 Edinburgh University Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
💰 Free!
💬 Keynote from Lucy Dean at @natcen.bsky.social /ScotCen too!
✏️ Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/ARDLVnhyU3

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PGTA - Political Science (Quantitative Research Methods) Political Science are looking for PGTAs for Quantitative Research Methods modules. Start date: 1 September 2025. Deadline to apply: 11.59pm on 25th April 2025.

🚨London PhDs — We’re hiring PGTAs in Quantitative Methods at @sriucl.bsky.social 🧮📊

💼 Teach on core quant methods modules — I'm on POLS0007, happy to chat if you're interested!
🗓️ Deadline: 25 April (3 days left!)

Apply here 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/pg-teaching-...

#PGTA #QuantMethods #PhD #LondonJobs #UCL

22.04.2025 12:01 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Registrations for the LSS symposium '25 are now open! This is a PGR led conference about all the different uses of survey data in the social sciences. We've got a great keynote speech lined up from Lucy Dean at ScotCen too. Sign up here :https://forms.office.com/e/ARDLVnhyU3

08.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats 👏

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This is a great idea! 💡 ⬇️ #academicsky

21.11.2024 21:08 — 👍 48    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 2

cc. @scottoatley.bsky.social for bsky acc 🦋

22.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wee jaunt to University of Stirling for a super useful and informative weights workshop delivered by Pierre Walthery from the UK Data Service. Cheers @kateohara.bsky.social for organising through the Large Social Surveys group (time to make a blue sky account so I can tag you pls).

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CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

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All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.

So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.

Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

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