ICCS
In 2007 Longview merged with the International Centre for Child Studies, founded by Neville Butler who was a founder Trustee, sponsor of Longview and was based in Bristol. Through a long and successful career, sadly Neville died in 2007. Read Neville's obituary here.
ICCS was established initially to promote the 16 year old survey in the 1970 cohort study, known as ‘Youth Scan’. The evidence on young people’s situations collected in that survey supplied the basis for a long programme of research, which gained a new lease of life when the 1970 cohort study joined the 1958 cohort study in the Social Statistics Research Unit at City University. Promoting the development of the new studies, together with supplying a comparison of the lives of people born in 1970 with those born 12 years earlier in 1958, offered new opportunities for understanding how lives were changing in response to social, economic and political change. This work is exemplified in the book which extended comparisons to the even earlier 1946 cohort study, “Changing Britain, Changing Lives”. ICCS has continued to support research within this comparative framework and a lot more besides, particularly in the area of child health and development.
Research supported by ICCS has been primarily concerned with the long-term health consequences of experiences in infancy, childhood and adolescence.The current work programme also includes studies of obesity and children growing up in care. An important new theme arising from Longview's work is “Escape from Disadvantage”. The problems associated with disadvantage in early life present challenges through the whole of society. Failing to escape from an economic and social disadvantage trap can lead to a disruptive and alienated adolescent life, drug or alcohol abuse and crime, the social and economic cost of which is born not only by individuals and their families, but by the whole of society.
Another strand of ICCS work is successful fund-raising events to support the work of the charity and ensure its future. These have included sponsored receptions at Claridges, lunches, receptions and a ball. This experience will be at a premium in the new organisation if it is to continue to grow.
Within Longview, ICCS continues to promote the cohort studies and to maintain contact with the wide circle of patrons and sponsors who supported ICCS over the years. This network now joins with the networks established by Longview to strengthen and develop the whole activity as a single programme.
ICCS retains its own identity within Longview. A new brochure has been produced. Please see new brochure here.
Neville Butler Memorial Prize & Memorial Lecture
Professor Neville Butler
Through money raised in connection with commemorating Neville Butler’s life, and generous support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), two important landmarks will be added to the longitudinal research calendar.
Neville Butler Prize
The first initiative from Longview and ESRC is the Neville Butler Memorial Prize to be awarded annually for three years in memory of the distinguished paediatrician and Professor of child health, who founded the 1958 and 1970 cohort studies and was a dedicated supporter of the Millennium Cohort study. £5,000 from ESRC is available each year to an early career researcher for the production of a paper on longitudinal research with wide general as well as academic interest and accompanied by a dissemination plan targeted at maximising impact. The paper will be considered for publication in the new journal, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. The closing date for submissions is 31st December 2008. The award ceremony will be held in the House of Commons on 5th March 2009 as part of ESRC’s Festival of Social Sciences. The event will be combined with the award of the Michael Young prize to celebrate the life and work of the first Chairman of the Social Science Research Council - ESRC‘s predecessor.
Please click on the link below for more details and application form:
Neville Butler Memorial Lecture
The second initiative from Longview and CLS jointly is the Neville Butler Memorial Lecture, supported by Neville Butler’s estate and the Neville Butler Memorial Fund. The first lecture, in what is planned as a series of annual lectures, is scheduled to take place on April 3rd 2009 in Imperial College. Each lecture will be on a topic of wide interest to people engaged in longitudinal research and life course study. In recognition of Neville’s considerable contribution in the area of child health and development, the main orientation of the early lectures will be towards child health and its later consequences through the life course.
