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Longview Annual Conference
21st & 22nd September 2009, Clare College, Cambridge
'New Thinking in Longitudinal and Life Course Study'
This two day conference provides the opportunity for longitudinal and life course researchers to engage with new plans and thinking in a collegiate event.
There will also be the opportunity to participate in the establishment of a new learned Society, the International Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Research.
For more information and a booking form please click here
Announcement
We are sad to announce the death on Saturday 13th June of Norman Glass, Chairman of the Longview Trustees and Chief Executive of the National Centre for Social Research. His funeral took place on 26th June.
NatCen obituary for Norman can be viewed here. Norman was central to the establishment and development of Longview and will be sorely missed by everyone who had the priviledge to know him. An obituary will be on this page soon.
A memorial service is planned - details to be announced. Advice about charitable donations in memory of Norman will be posted here as soon as available.
New Cohort Study for 2011/2012?
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) commissioned Longview to undertake a scoping study to assess the scientific case and review the design options for the new birth cohort study. The final report was used to support ESRC's and MRC's joint bid to the UK Governments's Large Scale Facilities Fund for substantial investment in the birth cohort studies (1946, 1958, 1970, 1992 and 2000), including establishing a new study in 2011/12. The case has been accepted as part of a new facility for the development of the birth cohort studies (announcement here). And through supplementation of the budget by ESRC and MRC, £28 million has now been allocated for the new study. As part of the preliminary work for the invitation to tender for the new study, a follow up report by Longview was commissioned on costed options for the design. ESRC has released for publication the final report on the scientific case for the new cohort study and the follow up report on costed options for the design. To view the reports please click here.
Neville Butler Memorial Annual Prize 2010
For details about the prize and for an application form please click here
Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research
University of St Andrews, Scotland, from 17-19 September 2009
Further details can be found on the conference flyer here
Note that there is also a five-day training course on using linked
health data directly preceding the conference and led by D'Arcy Holman.
Details of this are also included in the flier.
Neville Butler Memorial Lecture
The first lecture in the series took place in Imperial College on Friday 3rd April 2009 and was well attended with over 70 people present. Professor Neal Halfon, from the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities gave an excellent presentation on "Light on the Longterm: from the British Cohorts to the US National Children's Study". More details of the lecture series and Professor Halfon's Powerpoint presentation can be viewed here.
'Parents Matter' Conference - 26th/27th March 2009
The 'Parents Matter' conference was a success with over 180 people attending the first day and 150 on the second day. Feedback shows that participants found the talks and group sessions rewarding and enjoyable, wetting appetites for more information and action to follow. The planning team is developing ideas for taking the conference proceedings forward, possibly in the form of a short publication presenting its main messages and a special issue of Longview's Journal, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. In the meantime all the Powerpoint presentations available to us, as used in the talks and group sessions, are now available here on the website - to view them click here.
Many thanks to all participants for making the conference such a memorable event.
Neville Butler Memorial Annual Prize 2009
For details of prize winners please click here
Use of Longitudinal Research in Scotland
Commissioned by the Scottish Government, this project was to help the Scottish Government in the evaluation of their ‘National Outcomes’. A workshop was held in Edinburgh with Government officials on 30th June 2008 to discuss the findings.
To view the Longview reprot report on the Scottish Government website please click here
Now We Are Fifty
A new publication from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies will be of much interest to all visitors to this website. ‘Now We Are Fifty’ is an attractive publication, produced to celebrate the 50th birthday of the UK's National Child Development Study, (NCDS 1958 cohort). The short report with copius photographs, starts with an overview of the changing context of cohort members' lives since 1958.This is followed by chapters on different features of their lives from birth to 50 – as revealed by analysis of the longitudinal data they supplied over the course of the study. A summary version has been produced for cohort members - to see the full document click the web link here. A Must read!
In Praise of Panel Surveys
To mark the first 15 years of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and the launch of fhe new eight-fold larger UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) – titled Understanding Society – the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the Universiiy of Essex and ESRC have been in celebratory mood. In praise of panel surveys is an attractive publication that highlights through a series of essays by leading BHP analysts and commentators, some of the rich findings obtained from the survey in different life domains*. The launch of the UKHLS, which from next year will absorb BHPS attracted a large gathering in Church House Westminster. As opening speaker, Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive of ESRC, highlighted the success in gaining 'big science funding for the survey, which in public importance increasingly moves the social sciences centre stage.
*www.iser.essex.ac.uk/press/releases/docs/IPOPS.pdf
Neville Butler
Neville Butler, founder sponsor of Longview and Director of the International Centre for Child Studies (ICCS), died in February 2007.
A memorial fund in Neville's honour has been established and contributions may be sent to:
Longview 90 Mansfield Road London NW3 2HX
(cheques made payable to Longview)
Read Neville's obituary here
Strategic Review of Panel and Cohort Studies and Biomarkers Project Reports
These reports arising from the ESRC review are available here
Longview is an independent think tank, devoted to promoting longitudinal research in the UK, to improving its quality and to supporting those undertaking longitudinal studies.
The think tank’s role is to debate the findings of longitudinal research, to improve communication among those engaged in, and using longitudinal research, and to develop this field of study.
Ultimately, Longview aims to make longitudinal research findings more widely known and more useful, thus enhancing Britain's already impressive reputation in this field.