Longview Annual Conference 2009
‘New Thinking in Longitudinal and Life Course Study’

21st/22nd September 2009 - Clare College, Cambridge

 

This year's conference provided the opportunity for longitudinal and life course researchers to engage with new plans and thinking in a collegiate event.

There was also the opportunity to participate in the establishment of a new learned Society, the International Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Research - (ISLLR) .

The conference was a success with an excellent range of presentations and discussions focussed on strategic and substantive topics in longitudinal research.

To view the full conference programme please click here

To view presentation abstracts please click here

To view papers relevant to conference sessions 4 and 7 devoted to the 'Society' please click here

To view full Powerpoint presentations please click on the titles under the different conference session headings set out below:

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Day 1 - 21st September 2009

Session 1: Inter study potential in life course research

Chair: Jane Elliott, Institute of Education

Peter Elias, University of Warwick:

Cohort comparisons in longitudinal research

Amanda Sacker, University of Essex:

Using panel studies for life course research collaborations

Paul Boyle, University of St. Andrews:

Use of the SLS as administrative data linkage in comparative research - to follow

Ingrid Schoon, Institute of Education:

Interstudy potential in life course research

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Session 2: Early years measures for life course study: cross cohort continuity, new methods, lifetime relevance

Chair: Heather Joshi, Institute of Education

Catherine Law, Institute of Child Health:

"As soon as we are born we begin to die...."

Edward Melhuish, Birkbeck College:

Child, family and cluster measures in life course studies

Elizabeth Cooksey & Randall Olsen, Ohio State University:

"Kids in a vacuum?"

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Session 3: New birth cohort studies Facility

Chair: Esther Wilkinson, ESRC

Luke Moody, ESRC:

ESRC/MRC birth cohort Facility

Peter Shepherd, Matthew Brown and Robert Michael, Institute of Education:

An outline of the CRF (Cohort Resources Facility) Scoping Study - to follow

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Day 2 - 22nd September 2009

Session 5: Age-related measurement across the life course: continuity, salience, innovation

Chair: Eric Brunner, University College London

Rebecca Hardy, Medical Research Council :

A life course approach to biological function and decline

Emily Grundy, London School of Hugiene and Tropical Medicine:

Studying age-related change using record linkage studies

Carol Brayne, University of Cambridge:

Reflections on 25 years of longitudinal research into dementia and ageing (or the art of finding  when the seemingly closed door might be slightly ajar)

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Session 6: Using longitudinal research to address contemporary and long term policy challenges

Chair: Peter Elias, University of Warwick

Anna Vignoles, Institute of Education:

Influencing policy: the importance of longitudinal analysis

Melanie Bartley, University College London:

Policy research on health and well-being: the importance of a life course perspective - to follow

Jacqueline Scott, University of Cambridge:

Gender equality: Policy challenges around work-life balance for men and women

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