Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER)
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Social Science
Abstract
The United Kingdom has a unique portfolio of birth cohort studies which provide an invaluable resource for policy-relevant research across the social and bio-medical sciences. The overarching aim of the proposed Cohort Resources Facility (CRF) is to enhance their value, use and long term sustainability. Its key objectives are to: stimulate interdisciplinary research across the existing major cohort studies; develop resources that encourage more researchers to use their data ; support training and capacity building among potential users; and, to facilitate communication between the studies so that they contribute effectively to the development of ESRC and MRC strategy. The rich and detailed longitudinal datasets created by the studies enable research which is of direct policy relevance (in the short and long term). A further important role for the CRF will be to ensure that evidence from these publicly-funded resources has maximum economic and societal impact.
By following individuals through the life course and by systematically collecting data on their development, behaviour, attitudes and environment, each cohort study makes it possible both to understand trajectories of development and ageing, and to identify how early life circumstances impact on later life outcomes. Each study thus forms a rich, and complex, research resource in its own right. However, strengthening the links between the studies, and creating a more visible and accessible integrated research resource, has a number of advantages. First, the replication of findings across multiple cohorts provides robust evidence on which to base future policy decisions, for example in the areas of public health and education. Second, the portfolio of cohort studies allows for investigations across different geographical areas, generations and time periods, enabling researchers to build an understanding of how varying external contexts may contribute to, or modify outcomes for individuals. Third, there are potential economies of scale and advantages of sharing best practice which will best be realised by building strong and mutually supportive links between the teams directing individual studies.
The CRF includes seven work packages (WPs). Four focus on data harmonisation, three of which aim to provide comparable cross-cohort measures of (a) biological function and structure (b) socio-economic resources, and (c) senses (e.g. vision and hearing); a fourth aims to develop standardised strategies for analysing biological samples. Three other WPs focus on linking administrative, health and geographical data to survey data and enhancing further the research resources provided by the cohort studies. A major component of the CRF is the creation of a uniform search platform. This will allow users efficiently to explore the content and design of the studies and better plan research and, in particular, analyses which use data from more than one cohort.
A number of existing initiatives and organisations also aim to facilitate access to data from existing surveys, and provide training and capacity building in quantitative methods. For example, the ESRC-funded National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton provides a focal point for research, training and capacity building activities, while the Economic and Social Data Service and the MRC Data Support Service both provide support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities. The leadership team submitting this proposal have close, and complementary, links with many of these initiatives, which will promote communication and collaboration through the lifetime of the facility.
By following individuals through the life course and by systematically collecting data on their development, behaviour, attitudes and environment, each cohort study makes it possible both to understand trajectories of development and ageing, and to identify how early life circumstances impact on later life outcomes. Each study thus forms a rich, and complex, research resource in its own right. However, strengthening the links between the studies, and creating a more visible and accessible integrated research resource, has a number of advantages. First, the replication of findings across multiple cohorts provides robust evidence on which to base future policy decisions, for example in the areas of public health and education. Second, the portfolio of cohort studies allows for investigations across different geographical areas, generations and time periods, enabling researchers to build an understanding of how varying external contexts may contribute to, or modify outcomes for individuals. Third, there are potential economies of scale and advantages of sharing best practice which will best be realised by building strong and mutually supportive links between the teams directing individual studies.
The CRF includes seven work packages (WPs). Four focus on data harmonisation, three of which aim to provide comparable cross-cohort measures of (a) biological function and structure (b) socio-economic resources, and (c) senses (e.g. vision and hearing); a fourth aims to develop standardised strategies for analysing biological samples. Three other WPs focus on linking administrative, health and geographical data to survey data and enhancing further the research resources provided by the cohort studies. A major component of the CRF is the creation of a uniform search platform. This will allow users efficiently to explore the content and design of the studies and better plan research and, in particular, analyses which use data from more than one cohort.
A number of existing initiatives and organisations also aim to facilitate access to data from existing surveys, and provide training and capacity building in quantitative methods. For example, the ESRC-funded National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton provides a focal point for research, training and capacity building activities, while the Economic and Social Data Service and the MRC Data Support Service both provide support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities. The leadership team submitting this proposal have close, and complementary, links with many of these initiatives, which will promote communication and collaboration through the lifetime of the facility.
Planned Impact
The CRF will have a vital role in maximizing the impact of the UK's world-leading portfolio of longitudinal studies. Five specific audiences will be targeted, all of whom will benefit in distinct ways: (1) researchers; (2) policy makers; (3) practitioners; (4) the public; and, (5) study members.
Researchers divide into five groups: 1) Early career researchers, with little experience of conducting longitudinal analysis, will benefit from dedicated training packages, accessible and integrated information on the key longitudinal studies, and from the increased availability of linked data. 2) Researchers with previous experience of longitudinal analysis will benefit from tailored training, and the availability of harmonised variables. The latter will promote wider use of data and cross-cohort analysis. 3) Researchers from central and local government, who commission, undertake and use research, will benefit from the creation of a single information hub about the portfolio of studies, and the identification of the range of cohort data relevant to specific policy issues. 4) Researchers from overseas will benefit from the same single information hub and from detailed documentation on harmonised variables. 5) Teams managing cohort studies will benefit from knowledge exchange workshops on issues relating to study management. The benefits of the CRF for researchers will begin to be realised within the first five years of funding; thereafter, given the long-term value of the resources created, and the time taken for researchers to gain experience in longitudinal analysis, benefits will grow incrementally over the next decade and beyond.
Policy makers will benefit from the coordinated work of the CRF leadership team to ensure that existing findings from analysis of cohort studies have instrumental impact. A series of briefings will be organised to highlight and distil the principal policy-relevant findings from across the studies on such themes as: social mobility; the 'Big Society'; health and well-being; family life; healthy ageing; housing, and residential mobility. To enhance understanding of the instrumental impact of cohort research, the briefings will include input from practitioners and/or policy makers, discussing how the findings inform their work. The impact of the briefings will be evaluated to assess impact, with benefits realised within the lifetime of the CRF.
Practitioners (in the third and private sectors as well as government) are unlikely to conduct their own analyses using the cohort studies. However their decision making and professional practice will be informed by evidence from the cohort studies. Members of the leadership team will identify key knowledge exchange opportunities such as professional and thematic conferences and events. Given the time taken for research results to be translated into policy, or adopted by practitioner groups, it is expected that the benefits of the CRF to practitioners will be observed over a longer term than the benefits to groups of researchers described above.
The CRF will have a less direct impact on the public but will work to enhance the public understanding of the value of longitudinal research. Additionally, by encouraging nterdisciplinary research that addresses questions of direct policy relevance, and maximising the impact of the studies, it is expected that in due course the CRF will play a role in increasing the effectiveness of public services, and enhancing health and well-being.
The CRF will provide a mechanism for sharing best practice in involving study members (and their families) in the design and development of cohort studies, as well as the processes for feeding back results from individual studies. The aim will be to increase the quantity and quality of information provided to study members about the value of longitudinal studies, improve their engagement with the study and minimise attrition. Benefits will be realised within the lifetime of the CRF.
Researchers divide into five groups: 1) Early career researchers, with little experience of conducting longitudinal analysis, will benefit from dedicated training packages, accessible and integrated information on the key longitudinal studies, and from the increased availability of linked data. 2) Researchers with previous experience of longitudinal analysis will benefit from tailored training, and the availability of harmonised variables. The latter will promote wider use of data and cross-cohort analysis. 3) Researchers from central and local government, who commission, undertake and use research, will benefit from the creation of a single information hub about the portfolio of studies, and the identification of the range of cohort data relevant to specific policy issues. 4) Researchers from overseas will benefit from the same single information hub and from detailed documentation on harmonised variables. 5) Teams managing cohort studies will benefit from knowledge exchange workshops on issues relating to study management. The benefits of the CRF for researchers will begin to be realised within the first five years of funding; thereafter, given the long-term value of the resources created, and the time taken for researchers to gain experience in longitudinal analysis, benefits will grow incrementally over the next decade and beyond.
Policy makers will benefit from the coordinated work of the CRF leadership team to ensure that existing findings from analysis of cohort studies have instrumental impact. A series of briefings will be organised to highlight and distil the principal policy-relevant findings from across the studies on such themes as: social mobility; the 'Big Society'; health and well-being; family life; healthy ageing; housing, and residential mobility. To enhance understanding of the instrumental impact of cohort research, the briefings will include input from practitioners and/or policy makers, discussing how the findings inform their work. The impact of the briefings will be evaluated to assess impact, with benefits realised within the lifetime of the CRF.
Practitioners (in the third and private sectors as well as government) are unlikely to conduct their own analyses using the cohort studies. However their decision making and professional practice will be informed by evidence from the cohort studies. Members of the leadership team will identify key knowledge exchange opportunities such as professional and thematic conferences and events. Given the time taken for research results to be translated into policy, or adopted by practitioner groups, it is expected that the benefits of the CRF to practitioners will be observed over a longer term than the benefits to groups of researchers described above.
The CRF will have a less direct impact on the public but will work to enhance the public understanding of the value of longitudinal research. Additionally, by encouraging nterdisciplinary research that addresses questions of direct policy relevance, and maximising the impact of the studies, it is expected that in due course the CRF will play a role in increasing the effectiveness of public services, and enhancing health and well-being.
The CRF will provide a mechanism for sharing best practice in involving study members (and their families) in the design and development of cohort studies, as well as the processes for feeding back results from individual studies. The aim will be to increase the quantity and quality of information provided to study members about the value of longitudinal studies, improve their engagement with the study and minimise attrition. Benefits will be realised within the lifetime of the CRF.
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- UK Data Service (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Carleton University (Collaboration)
- Mental Health Research Network (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (Collaboration)
- Medical Research Council (MRC) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Department for Education (Collaboration)
- Wellcome Trust (Collaboration)
- University of London (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- The British Library (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Wellcome Genome Campus (Collaboration)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (Collaboration)
- Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- MQ Mental Health Research (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (Collaboration)
- St Thomas' Hospital (Collaboration)
- University of Michigan (Collaboration)
- UNICEF (Collaboration)
- UK Reproducibility Network (Collaboration)
- Million Women Study (Collaboration)
- Parliament of UK (Collaboration)
- Health Data Research UK (Collaboration)
- Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- OPEN DATA INSTITUTE (Collaboration)
- Understanding Society (Collaboration)
- ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health (Collaboration)
- Society of Social Medicine and Population Health (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- University of Cape Town (Collaboration)
- Office for National Statistics (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Generation Scotland (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) (Collaboration)
- University of Groningen (Collaboration)
- National Health Service (Collaboration)
- Royal Statistical Society (Collaboration)
- Insitute of Food Research (Collaboration)
- Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) (Collaboration)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Collaboration)
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) (Collaboration)
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology [POST] (Collaboration)
- Leibniz Association (Collaboration)
Publications
Zhu Y
(2021)
A Structured Approach to Evaluating Life-Course Hypotheses: Moving Beyond Analyses of Exposed Versus Unexposed in the -Omics Context.
in American journal of epidemiology
Wood N
(2021)
Childhood correlates of adult positive mental well-being in three British longitudinal studies.
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
Winpenny EM
(2021)
Early adulthood socioeconomic trajectories contribute to inequalities in adult cardiovascular health, independently of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position.
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
White J
(2022)
Mortality among rough sleepers, squatters, residents of homeless shelters or hotels and sofa-surfers: a pooled analysis of UK birth cohorts.
in International journal of epidemiology
White J
(2022)
Mortality among rough sleepers, squatters, residents of homeless shelters or hotels and sofa-surfers: a pooled analysis of UK birth cohorts.
in International journal of epidemiology
Walton E
(2019)
Epigenome-wide Associations With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: The Need for a Longitudinal Life Course Approach in Epigenetic Psychiatry.
in Biological psychiatry
| Description | CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, is the interdisciplinary partnership of leading social and biomedical longitudinal population studies (LPS), the UK Data Service and The British Library. Our mission is to increase the visibility, use and impact of longitudinal population studies, data and research to ensure that longitudinal evidence is used to address the health, social, economic and environmental challenges facing the UK, now and in the future. After expanding the number of partner studies in 2020, CLOSER now works with 19 internationally renowned UK longitudinal population studies. In so doing, CLOSER continues to bring together academic and professional study staff working across UK biomedical and social science studies in an environment where differences and shared experiences can be openly discussed. This collaboration across disciplines has been fundamental to its activities which typically focus on increasing the use, visibility, and awareness of longitudinal population study data, mobilising data and research from multiple longitudinal population studies, providing training and capacity building opportunities for researchers and those running longitudinal population studies, and ensuring the long-term value of our extensive work on data harmonisation and data linkage through knowledge dissemination and training. Key achievements include: 1. The creation of an online search platform, CLOSER Discovery, which has allowed researchers to search, discover and explore data from across longitudinal population studies and enabled meaningful comparison within and between the studies. CLOSER launched CLOSER Discovery, the UK's most detailed search engine for longitudinal data in 2016. The platform provides a single point of entry to the hundreds of thousands of variables and questions. It is an innovative and ambitious project; the scale of data required makes it amongst the largest of such repositories in the world. Extensive COVID-19 questionnaire information across ten studies has been added. In 2021, information from new partner study, Next Steps, was added for the first time. In 2022, data from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study (WCHADS) was added, and in 2023, data from the Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) study was included. CLOSER Discovery is viewed as the gold-standard in metadata management best practice and the team regularly advises research projects, studies and infrastructures across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. 2. CLOSER's 23 work packages have demonstrated and promoted the value of: a) cross-study harmonisation and; b) the enhancement offered by linking survey data to administrative records. Data harmonisation topics covered are: body size; socioeconomic position; biological sample collection; visual function; childhood environment; pubertal status; biomarkers; household overcrowding; physical activity; mental health; diet; DNA methylome; and cognition. These work packages have created important new research resources including harmonised datasets, research resource guides and reports, and have generated significant new knowledge, for example, investigating whether results are consistent across generations, or differ in response to changing social conditions. The work packages have produced several journal articles and research resources as documented on Researchfish. CLOSER's foundational work on data linkage has been instrumental in enabling the rapid setting up of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) and the learning from CLOSER's harmonisation work packages has been applied to derivation of harmonised variables in the UK LLC. 3. CLOSER builds professional and research capacity and skills in the management and implementation of longitudinal population studies, and in the analysis of data from longitudinal population studies. CLOSER's training workshops disseminate best practice, with past workshops including events on data linkage, participant engagement, metadata management, cross-study harmonisation and data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic. CLOSER has hosted over 60 training events, workshops and seminars that have attracted over 3,500 delegates. CLOSER has created an online Learning Hub aimed at undergraduates and those new to longitudinal studies, which is regularly refreshed and updated with new content. The CLOSER Learning Hub contains a diverse set of resources, including learning modules, animations, research case studies and teaching datasets, and is used by several thousand users every month. CLOSER currently runs three Communities of Practice (Longitudinal Communications Network, Data Linkage Working Group and Data Managers Network) for study staff (from over 30 institutions) which aim to cultivate knowledge exchange, share best-practice, and facilitate innovative and collaborative projects. CLOSER's Head of Policy and Dialogue has participated in several training sessions for researchers on how to mobilise research in the policy landscape, for example, at the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) annual research methods conference. |
| Exploitation Route | As an infrastructure resource aimed at helping maximise the visibility, use and impact of longitudinal population studies, CLOSER has produced a wide range of resources available to academic and non-academic audiences. Key examples include: 1. Academic research audiences benefit from: CLOSER Discovery, the UK's most detailed research tool for longitudinal population studies; CLOSER harmonised datasets and cross-study data guides, which cover an array of substantive areas and have been designed to make it easier to carry out cross-study comparisons; data linkage resources, which help facilitate the linking of longitudinal and administrative data; and a range of training events and training resources aimed at building capacity. 2. Teaching and training audiences benefit from the CLOSER Learning Hub, which introduces new users to longitudinal population studies and highlights key aspects in their design and analysis, and its associated training dataset. The Learning Hub also provides resources for teachers across all disciplines where longitudinal population studies are part of the course. CLOSER provides free training events for researchers and professional staff working on longitudinal population studies. Many are delivered online, or are recorded with videos subsequently made available online, to ensure a wide and international reach of this provision. 3. Policy makers and those from third sector organisations seeking to better understand research and research findings from longitudinal population studies benefit from CLOSER's impact and engagement activities, which focus on the promotion of the value of longitudinal population studies as well as key findings from CLOSER and its partner studies. In May 2020, CLOSER created the COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub to act as a one-stop resource for researchers, parliamentarians, and policy makers, in showcasing the UK's longitudinal population studies response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Hub has been continually updated since its creation and in 2021 and has been listed as a key resource by multiple high-impact organisations. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk |
| Description | Our mission is to increase the visibility, use and impact of longitudinal population studies, data and research to ensure that longitudinal evidence is used to address the health, social, economic and environmental challenges facing the UK, now and in the future. In this section we summarise some of the work CLOSER has done to improve the visibility of longitudinal studies as robust sources of evidence for policy makers and practitioners, and our public engagement activity. CLOSER's Public Affairs activity focuses on engagement with the latter group, and includes: brokering relationships between scientists, and policy makers and parliamentarians; raising awareness of longitudinal population studies and their evidence; and influencing policies and thinking in data science and data management through targeted evidence mobilisation. Key examples of impact in this area include: 1. CLOSER's engagement with the Cabinet Office as part of their 'Better Use of Data in Government' work stream began in 2016. These discussions led to formal recognition by the Government in their official response of the need to review the proposed legislation and ensure that it maximises the potential for accessing administrative data for various types of research, including linkage to longitudinal population studies, in a way that does not complicate existing processes. CLOSER's continued efforts in this area and official response to the Research Code of Practice and Accreditation Criteria consultation resulted in the unique nature of longitudinal population studies being emphasised in the Government response: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-economy-act-part-5-data-sharing-codes-and-regulations/research-code-of-practice-and-accreditation-criteria 2. In January 2017, CLOSER hosted a seminar with staff from the House of Commons Library on the value of longitudinal population studies and how evidence from CLOSER could help inform their work. Engagement with the Library continued throughout 2017 resulting in the citation of CLOSER's Learning Hub and relevant longitudinal evidence in the Debate Pack briefings on social mobility and bullying prepared by the Library for Members of Parliament. 3. In February 2017, CLOSER hosted an event in Portcullis House, in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG), to discuss the development of a new government alcohol strategy with parliamentarians and senior health practitioners. Yvonne Kelly of UCL talked about the importance of longitudinal evidence in this area, highlighting her research on drinking among adolescents using the Millennium Cohort Study. Later that month, the House of Lords held a short debate on Alcohol Abuse. Baroness Walmsley spoke about the seminar and specifically mentioned the research in her statement. 4. In August 2016, the Government published its Childhood Obesity Strategy, which cited CLOSER's research into the rise of the obesity epidemic. These citations follow directly from CLOSER's engagement with the Department for Health Obesity Policy Team, and public promotion of the findings. 5. In May 2018, CLOSER and the APHG hosted an event on 'Tackling mental health problems in children and young people: the importance of early intervention' during mental health week. For the event we secured the Chair of the Science and Technology Committee and Shadow Minister for Mental Health as panel speakers. We also produced a tailored briefing note and a blog highlighting the value and contribution of CLOSER and longitudinal research. 6. In June 2018, CLOSER organised and delivered a bespoke longitudinal research event entitled 'How longitudinal research can help get to the heart of wicked problems' for the first ever Evidence Week in Parliament. This involved representatives from several CLOSER studies on the platform. 7. In 2018 CLOSER submitted evidence to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee: The First 1000 Days of Life enquiry. The report, published in 2019, cited CLOSER's evidence and helped inform a recommendation in government. 8. In 2019, CLOSER submitted written evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing inquiry into how to manage the impact of social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing. The APPG's report, published in March 2019, cited CLOSER's evidence several times and CLOSER's recommendations for action were adopted by the APPG, which subsequently led to recommendations urging the government to fund and conduct more longitudinal research in this area. One of the main policy recommendations in the APPG report was to "Urgently commission robust, longitudinal research, into understanding the extent to which the impact of social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing is one of cause or correlation". CLOSER's evidence was also cited in a Barnardo's high-profile report 'Left to their own devices', published in June 2019. 9. In January 2019, CLOSER's written evidence submission was cited in the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Fourteenth Report: Impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health (HC 822). CLOSER's recommendations for action were adopted by the Committee and helped to inform several recommendations to Government, including the need for social media companies to make anonymised high-level data available, for research purposes, to bona fide researchers and that the government should commission further research into the long-term consequences of social media and screen-use exposure on young persons. The Government response, published in May 2019, agreed to convene a research seminar to identify the avenues for undertaking and funding future research on the relationship between social media and young people's health and help support the developing evidence base around screen time by providing access to anonymised data to researchers. 10. In 2020, CLOSER's written evidence was cited in the House of Lords Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry Select Committee inquiry report, which included a dedicated section on longitudinal surveys acknowledging their unique nature and value. The report recommendations clearly reflected those in CLOSER's evidence to the Committee, including the need for a new longitudinal study and improved access to the data that gambling companies hold for research purposes. 11. In May 2020, CLOSER created a new COVID-19 Taskforce to capture and showcase the response of UK Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) to the COVID-19 pandemic, increase the visibility of UK LPS and research, provide resources for researchers, generate insights for policy and decision makers, and make COVID-19 data discoverable. Several established organisations for researchers including the UK Data Service, the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, and Campaign for Social Science cited CLOSER's COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub as a key resource as well as the NHS Strategy Unit in their rapid evidence review: Prospective and longitudinal studies exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department for Education (DfE) cited the Hub in their October 2020 report: State of the nation 2020: children and young people's wellbeing research report. 12. In early 2021, two CLOSER COVID-19 Briefing Notes showcased the response of the LPS community to the pandemic and synthesised emerging findings on the impacts of the pandemic on the UK population. Following the response to these from senior parliamentarians and policy makers, the Head of CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce was invited to write an article for the Science in Parliament Journal. 13. In 2021, the government's response to the National Data Strategy consultation reflected several points in CLOSER's consultation submission (on data discoverability, skills, interoperability, linkage, and metadata standards). 14. Public Health England's (PHE) review of gambling-related harms in England echoed CLOSER's recommendations to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry. This PHE review was the subject of a debate in the House of Lords which further reinforced these recommendations. 15. In 2021, the CLOSER COVID-19 Hub was listed as a key resource by multiple high-impact organisations, including The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, Campaign for Social Science, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). In 2021, the COVID-19 Taskforce produced an updated COVID-19 Policy Briefing Note drawing together evidence from multiple LPS to provide insights into the impact of the pandemic on people's lives and inform policy decisions to help those most in need. In addition, two 'COVID-19 Insights' infographics were produced, one on the impact of COVID-19 on education and another on the impact on access to healthcare. In 2022, CLOSER's COVID-19 Hub was upgraded and enhanced with a new dynamic research tracker. 16. In 2022, CLOSER co-hosted a webinar on health data and public trust with the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics. 17. Throughout 2022, CLOSER's written evidence submissions to government calls for evidence and parliamentary select committee inquiries have continued to inform and influence policy making and scrutiny across a range of policy areas, including adult social care, mental health and wellbeing, and active travel. CLOSER regularly raises awareness of longitudinal population studies and their findings to audience groups outside academia, as part of its public engagement activities, through producing accessible products, including newsletter, blogs, infographics, and animations. Wherever possible these events are filmed and made available via the CLOSER website. Examples include: 1. Promotion of individual work package findings. For instance, an article about obesity published in PLoS Medicine in 2015 (resulting from one of CLOSER's data harmonisation work packages) gained extensive press coverage with over 30 online reports, an interview on BBC Radio London and a podcast interview for the 'Child of our Time' blog. Another paper published in August 2017, outlining that men from poor backgrounds have lower earnings and are twice as likely to be single as those from rich families, resulted in interviews on the BBC New Channel and LBC Radio, coverage on BBC News 24 and extensive news coverage online and in print. 2. Professor Alison Park (CLOSER's previous Director) contributed to a session at the 2016 Edinburgh International Science Festival focused on birth cohort studies and what they reveal about the many factors that influence our economic, social and personal development. 3. In January 2016, Professor Alison Park worked with the BBC World Service to put together an episode of The Forum, their flagship discussion programme. The episode focused on 'the long view' and featured Professor Park and two other speakers. 4. "From 7Up to Social Science - How longitudinal stories help us understand our lives" (November 2015): CLOSER and the team behind the 7Up documentary series discussed how thinking longitudinally can help people understand how society is changing, as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. In total 179 people registered for the event, from across academia, the London film community and the general public. 5. In April 2018 CLOSER and the British Library hosted a public event as part of the British Library's 'Food Season' on how we make food choices and the impact these choices have. The event heard from Professor Hazel Inskip, Director of the Southampton Women's Survey, award-winning food writer Felicity Cloake, and chef, blogger and author Anthony Warner (also known as The Angry Chef) and Polly Russell from the British Library. 176 tickets were sold to members of the public. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | AMS/ASSA 'Advancing multisectoral and life-course approaches in mental health research' report |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Acknowledgement in UPEN report: Opening Up Parliament: Barriers to Engagement and Participatory Potential |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | Improved practice and parliamentary scrutiny. |
| URL | https://www.upen.ac.uk/what_we_offer/reports/UPEN%20Opening%20Up%20Parliament%20report.pdf |
| Description | Andy Boyd met with the MRC Regulatory Support Unit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | Andy Boyd took part in a Kantar Public interview, commissioned by CLS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | This PPIE work has informed the design of the CLS run pilot of the new ESRC funded birth cohort study. |
| Description | Attendance at NHS Digital Reseach Ethics Group to participate in discussion about linkage of NHS Digital data to longitudinal study data (discussion based on prior paper prepared by CLOSER). |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Briefed parliamentarians as part of the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group COVID-19 experts briefing series |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/blog/how-policy-connect-has-been-informing-parliamentarians-during-... |
| Description | CLOSER research cited in The current landscape of obesity services: a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5975e650be6594496c79e2fb/t/5af9b5cb03ce64f8a7aa20e5/152631444... |
| Description | CLOSER research underpins Government's Child Obesity Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/closer-research-underpins-governments-child-obesity-strate... |
| Description | CLOSER response to Government Green Paper consultation - Industrial Strategy: building a Britain fit for the future |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-strategy-building-a-britain-fit-for-the-future |
| Description | CLOSER response to government consultation: Department for Education Character and Resilience. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The longitudinal evidence CLOSER highlighted in our submission informed a new guidance framework issued by the Department for Education (DfE) to schools on character education and development for pupils. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/character-education-framework |
| Description | CLOSER response to the Digital Economy Act Consultation on the Code of Practice and Accreditation Criteria Chapter 5: Data Sharing for Research Purposes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-economy-act-part-5-data-sharing-codes-and-regula... |
| Description | CLOSER response to the HM Government National Geospatial Commission call for evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launch-call-for-evidence-to-be-geospatial-world-leader |
| Description | CLOSER response to the National Data Guardian (NDG) consultation on future priorities. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | CLOSER's response to the National Data Guardian's proposed new work priorities helped to shape the future focus of their forward plan. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/national-data-guardian-a-consultation-on-priorities |
| Description | CLOSER's case study cited in UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap Landscape Analysis report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/files/infrastructure/landscape-analysis-final-web-version/ |
| Description | CLOSER's written evidence cited a number of times in the APPG on Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing inquiry report into how to manage the impact of social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | CLOSER's written evidence was cited a number of times in the APPG on Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing inquiry report into how to manage the impact of social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing. CLOSER's recommendations for action were adopted by the APPG, which led to recommendations urging the government to fund and conduct more longitudinal research in this area. |
| URL | https://www.rsph.org.uk/uploads/assets/uploaded/23180e2a-e6b8-4e8d-9e3da2a300525c98.pdf |
| Description | CLOSER's written evidence submission cited in the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee's report on the impact of body image on mental and physical health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | CLOSER's written evidence submission has been cited four times in the Health and Social Care Committee's report on the impact of body image on mental and physical health. Our evidence submission focused on the relationship between people's perception of their body image and their physical and mental health using data and evidence from multiple LPS (MCS, ALSPAC, USoc and ELSA). Our evidence submission highlighted body image issues across the life course (which has its own section in the report) and that our suggested scrutiny questions/evidence gaps are reflected in the Committee's recommendations, specifically on the need for new research to understand causal pathways and the impact of social media on body image, and for a renewed effort to address the lack of research on certain populations, including older people. Also, looking at the other organisations that have been cited in the report (beyond the oral evidence witnesses), e.g. Mental Health Foundation, NHS Digital, Girlguiding, Children's Society, British Psychological Society, it's impressive that CLOSER's evidence is so heavily cited - this demonstrates the power of data and evidence from longitudinal population studies in informing parliamentary scrutiny and policy but also our reputation and the quality of our work. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/23284/documents/170077/default/ |
| Description | CLOSER's written evidence submission to the House of Commons Education Committee Home Education Inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/14452/html/ |
| Description | CLOSER's written evidence submitted to the House of Lords Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry Committee Inquiry. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/gambling-industry-c... |
| Description | CLOSER's written evidence submitted to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into the mental health of men and boys. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalitie... |
| Description | CLOSER's written evidence to the APPG 2018 APPG Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Inquiry cited in Barnardo's report 'Left to their own devices' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | CLOSER written evidence to the 2018 APPG Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Inquiry (which informed recommendations to government in the 2018 report '#New Filters - to manage the impact of social media and young people's mental health and wellbeing' https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/policy/wellbeing/new-filters.html) was also cited as a key piece of evidence in the Barnardo's report 'Left to their own devices: Young people, social media and mental health'. |
| URL | https://www.barnardos.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/B51140%2020886_Social%20media_Report_Final_... |
| Description | CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, response to the UK National Data Strategy consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-national-data-strategy-nds-consultation/uk-national-d... |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation in NHS Strategy Unit Rapid scan 7: Prospective and longitudinal studies exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2020-07/20200716%20Evidence%20rapid%20scan%207... |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation in Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Horizon Scanning: 'Mental health and well-being in the context of COVID-19' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/mental-health-and-well-being-in-the-context-of-covid-19/ |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation in Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Research Briefing: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0648/POST-PN-0648.pdf |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation in UK Health Security Agency Behavioural Science and Insights Unit Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://ukhsalibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/12/20211217_BSIU_LitRep_17Dec_... |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation in UK Research and Innovation: Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/UKRI-200721-AnnualReport2020-2021.pdf |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation in the Department for Education (DfE) State of the nation 2020: children and young people's wellbeing research report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The 'State of the nation 2020: children and young people's wellbeing' draws on COVID-19 survey data from the Millenium Cohort Study and UK Household Longitudinal Study. The CLOSER COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub is cited in the 'Future Research' section (page 23): Future Research This State of the Nation report is an initial review of children and young people's wellbeing during this time. Further analysis of information collected about children and young people's wellbeing in 2020, for example in the Mental Health of Children and Young People survey6, the UK Household Longitudinal Study7 and Longitudinal cohort studies8, will provide greater insight into the variety of experiences of children and young people. In the longer term, there will also be more evidence both on significant longer- term impacts for specific groups of children, for example those parentally bereaved, and on children and young people's resilience to lasting effects from this time. 6 Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2020: Wave 1 follow up to the 2017 survey 7 UK Household Longitudinal Study, COVID-19 Survey 8 For example: Centre for Longitudinal Studies COVID-19 Survey and CLOSER COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9253... |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub citation: Institute for Government (IfG) Data Bites - Getting things done with data in government |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Catherine Bromley, Deputy Director of Data Strategy and Infrastructure at the ESRC, spoke about what's worked during the pandemic, what's been a challenge, and lessons for the future. As part of this session Catherine cited the CLOSER C-19 Hub in her 'what's worked well in the pandemic' slide. |
| URL | https://app.sli.do/event/ux5lwhxi/live/questions |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub featured as a UKRI Infraportal case study 'COVID-19 Response' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resource (CLOSER) brings together world-leading UK longitudinal studies with participants born throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. CLOSER's work aims to maximise the use, value, and impact of longitudinal population studies (LPS) to help improve our understanding of key social and biomedical challenges. The UK's LPS adapted rapidly in response to COVID-19 by developing and launching special questionnaires for their participants to help understand the health, social, economic and behavioural impacts of the pandemic at both a national and regional level and across all generations and ages. Alongside this, CLOSER helped capture and showcase this activity, including new surveys, data releases and the latest research and evidence. CLOSER developed the COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub to act as a one-stop resource for researchers, parliamentarians and policy makers, now and in the future. The hub includes: COVID-19 Longitudinal surveys and survey metadata - providing information about the special Covid-19 surveys launched by the UK LPS, including latest data releases. It also provides access to search and explore metadata that is available through CLOSER Discovery which contains over 9,300 COVID-19 variables and over 2,600 COVID-19 related questions COVID-19 Research, evidence and insights - bringing together the latest COVID-19 longitudinal research and evidence, including briefing notes, reports, academic publications, and articles into one easy to use interactive tool. COVID-19 Newsletters and blogs - an easily accessible platform that publishes a series of 'Perspectives Blogs' covering a wide range of topics relating to COVID-19 implications. Subjects include remote data collection on large scale longitudinal research, COVID-19 and inequality in psychological distress in the UK and an assessment of how older adults have been affected by COVID-19. |
| URL | https://www.infraportal.org.uk/case-study/covid-19-response/closer |
| Description | Cabinet Office Research Code of Practice and Accreditation Criteria |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-economy-act-part-5-data-sharing-codes-and-regula... |
| Description | Chair MQ Transforming Mental Health Data Science meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/get-involved/events/ |
| Description | Citation in 'A New Data Protection Bill: Statement of Intent' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635900/2017-08-07_DP_Bill_... |
| Description | Citation in House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Thirteenth Report of Session 2017-19: First 1000 days of life |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmhealth/1496/1496.pdf |
| Description | Citation in House of Commons Library Debate Pack Briefing (Anti-bullying week) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2017-0237/CDP-2017-0237.pdf |
| Description | Citation in House of Commons Library Debate Pack Briefing (Social Mobility in Wales) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2017-0261/CDP-2017-0261.pdf |
| Description | Citation in House of Commons Library Debate Pack: Anti-bullying week |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2018-0243/CDP-2018-0243.pdf |
| Description | Citation in House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Fourteenth Report of Session 2017-19: Impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmsctech/822/822.pdf |
| Description | Citation in Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood Case Study (CLOSER Learning Hub) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://centreforearlychildhood.org/latest-learnings/case-studies/the-value-of-longitudinal-studies-... |
| Description | Citation in The Behavioural Insights Team report 'School exclusions and youth custody' (CLOSER Consistent Schools Database) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.bi.team/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Nuffield-Foundation-Exclusions-and-Youth-Custody-Repo... |
| Description | Citation in UKRI Annual Report (2021-22) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/UKRI-180123-AnnualReportandAccounts-21to22.pdf |
| Description | Citation in UKRI report (CLOSER harmonisation resources) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is setting up a new Early Life Cohort study that will begin collecting data in the near future. Measurement of health using biomarkers is being considered, because health can be a research topic in its own right and offer the potential to aid explanations of social and economic change and outcomes. This report, commissioned by ESRC, outlines innovative methods for the collection of biomarkers and seeks to: understand which can be collected in the post COVID-19 world understand how to include objective health measures collected by study participants in the proposed new cohort study suggest the kinds of measures that would be useful. |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/publications/collection-of-biosamples-and-health-data-in-a-post-covid-world/ |
| Description | Citation in the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Eleventh Report of Session 2017-19: Evidence-based early years intervention |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmsctech/506/506.pdf |
| Description | Citation of CLOSER work in annual report of the chief medical officer |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Citation of CLOSER's measures of body size and body compisition work package (WP1) in the Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2018: Health 2040 - Better health within reach |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7675... |
| Description | Contribution to parliamentary scrutiny: CLOSER's written evidence submission published on UK Parliament website |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/43521/html/ |
| Description | Contribution to parliamentary scrutiny: CLOSER's written evidence submission published on UK Parliament website |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Informing and influencing UK Parliament to ensure the effective scrutiny of government and solutions to societal problems. Evidence = multiple citations of CLOSER's written evidence submission in the committee's final report. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/108853/html/ |
| Description | Contribution to parliamentary scrutiny: CLOSER's written evidence submission published on UK Parliament website |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Informing and influencing UK Parliament to ensure the effective scrutiny of government and solutions to societal problems. Evidence = multiple citations of CLOSER's written evidence submission in the committee's final report. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/43155/html/ |
| Description | Contribution to parliamentary scrutiny: Written evidence submission to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Reproducibility and Research Integrity inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/39747/html/ |
| Description | Contributor to The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote: Unpaid Care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0582 |
| Description | Discussion in the House of Lords of the 2017 CLOSER/APHG event on developing a long-term strategy to reduce the harm from alcohol consumption |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2017-03-30/debates/D3A93C1E-77E4-443E-980E-667FA5330175/AlcoholA... |
| Description | External reviewer for the Parliamentary Office for Research and Technology (POST) publication 'Understanding Research Evidence' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/understanding-research-evidence/ |
| Description | External reviewer of The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote: Developing Non-Academic Skills |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0583 |
| Description | External reviewer of The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote: Parental Alcohol Misuse and Children |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0570 |
| Description | House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee report: citations of CLOSER's written evidence submission |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | CLOSER's written evidence submission to the House of Lords Adult Social Care committee inquiry has been cited three times in their final report 'A "gloriously ordinary life": spotlight on adult social care'. It's another clear signal of the value and importance that policy and decision makers place on a body of evidence from multiple longitudinal population studies. It's also worth noting that we're cited among organisations that have resources and funding far in excess of CLOSER's (e.g. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Health Foundation, Age UK, OECD, NAO, DWP, DHSC, HMT, NHSD, CQC, Healthwatch England, etc.) Citation numbers are 197, 209, and 234. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31917/documents/181472/default/ |
| Description | Influencing the governments approach to accessing administrative data and linkage to longitudinal surveys |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535063/better_use_of_data_... |
| Description | Influencing the governments approach to accessing administrative data and linkage to longitudinal surveys (2) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://data.blog.gov.uk/2016/07/07/data-access-legislation-and-data-reform/ |
| Description | Joint response to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Call for Views: GDPR Derogations |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/general-data-protection-regulation-derogations.pdf |
| Description | POSTbrief: Academic Evidence on Selective Secondary Education |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PB-0022 |
| Description | POSTnote: Dietary Advice, Pregnancy & Breastfeeding - CLOSER evidence summary citation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0551/POST-PN-0551.pdf |
| Description | Panellist at the CLOSER Policy event - Tackling mental health problems in children and young people: the importance of early intervention. All-Party Parliamentary Health Group. Westminster |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Policy Paper: National Data Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | CLOSER's programme of engagement with the development of the UK National Data Strategy came to fruition with the publication of a new Framework Strategy (which reflected CLOSER's previous work and initial consultation response narrative, for example on the need for meta data and potential of linkage) and consultation. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-national-data-strategy/national-data-strategy |
| Description | Response to UK Government Mental health and wellbeing plan discussion paper and call for evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/mental-health-and-wellbeing-plan-discussion-paper-and-ca... |
| Description | Response to the UK Government Early years healthy development review call for evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-healthy-development-review-call-for-evidence |
| Description | The House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | CLOSER's written evidence was cited in the House of Lords Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry Select Committee inquiry report, which included a dedicated section on longitudinal surveys acknowledging their unique nature and value. The report recommendations clearly reflected those in CLOSER's evidence to the Committee, including the need for a new longitudinal study and improved access to the data that gambling companies hold for research purposes. |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5801/ldselect/ldgamb/79/7902.htm |
| Description | UPEN Areas of Research Interest Summary Paper |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-oxUo1w3XoONA-LvcwOtT4Ce3ECLhutt/view |
| Description | Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) report: Surfacing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within Academic-Policy Engagement |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | UPEN members and collaborators nominated individuals from across the academic-policy engagement space to provide reflections in response to the following two questions: 1 What would 'good' academic-policy engagement look like if EDI was front and centre? and 2 What is the biggest change you'd like to see to achieve EDI in academic-policy engagement? Alongside the content of the report and its recommendations, the reflections aim to spark conversation. |
| URL | https://www.upen.ac.uk/what_we_offer/reports/Surfacing%20Equity%2C%20Diversity%2C%20and%20Inclusion%... |
| Description | Wriiten evidence submitted by CLOSER to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity inquiry into the current landscape of obesity services |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.obesityappg.com/inquiries |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Media and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing inquiry into managing the impact of social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/status-of-mind/appg/inquiry.html |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into the social impact of participation in culture and sport |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-an... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into The social impact of participation in culture and sport |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/digital-culture-med... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the House of Commons Education Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/education-committee... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into Childhood Obesity |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/health-and-social-c... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee E-cigarettes inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technol... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Evidence-based early-years intervention inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technol... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted by CLOSER to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into the impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technol... |
| Description | Written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into the First 1000 days of life |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/health-and-social-c... |
| Description | (ECDP) - European Cohort Development Project |
| Amount | € 2,048,880 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 777449 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | Adolescence, digital technology and mental health care: exploring opportunity and harm. |
| Amount | £100,809 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/T046716/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Automating capturing structured content from questionnaires |
| Amount | £81,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | CLOSER GCRF Senior Research Associate Post |
| Amount | £304,886 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/R008086/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2018 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | CLOSER extension funding - April 2022 to September 2024 |
| Amount | £3,010,535 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | CLOSER review of the provision and organisation of data analysis training for users of longitudinal studies |
| Amount | £9,999 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE): Senedd ARI Policy Fellowship |
| Amount | £7,527 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) |
| Amount | £8,225,759 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) |
| Amount | £7,025,947 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2012 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) - 12 month extension (2021/22) |
| Amount | £1,223,110 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) - World Class Laboratory |
| Amount | £156,945 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | DATAMIND - A Mental Health Research Data Hub. |
| Amount | £2,031,434 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | ESRC Strategic Investments - International Networking Competition |
| Amount | £17,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Educational animations on the CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Exploring community resilience assets in Wales during the COVID-19 outbreak |
| Amount | £180,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | H2020-EU.1.4.1.1. - Developing new world-class research infrastructures |
| Amount | € 4,246,225 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 777449 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | LONGITUDINAL ADMINISTRATIVE DATA SPINE SCOPING PROJECT GRANT FOR THE SPF UK POPULATION LAB WAVE I |
| Amount | £236,901 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S016732/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Landscaping to identify the most promising longitudinal datasets for depression, anxiety and psychosis research. |
| Amount | £493,972 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Longitudinal Population Studies: State of the Data Audit |
| Amount | £36,806 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Machine learning to enhance metadata in cohort studies |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/S003916/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | Mental Health Leadership Fellowship - Renewal |
| Amount | £374,897 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | The time of their lives? Developing Concepts and Methods to Understand Loneliness in Students - Nicola Byrom PI |
| Amount | £108,788,030 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR_X002810_1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | Twins UK (2019-2023) - An Epidemiological and Genomic Resource |
| Amount | £3,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 212904/Z/18/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | UCL DIRAC to continue work on developing machine learning techniques for concept prediction from questions, using CLOSER Discovery as a training dataset. |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| Description | UCL Institute of Education (IOE) International Funds (2021-22) call |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| Description | UCL Institute of Education seed funding - longitudinal studies and political behaviour |
| Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Education (IOE) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 09/2017 |
| Description | UCL's Global Engagement Funds (GEF) 2022/23: Collaboration to support future data harmonisation for longitudinal population studies |
| Amount | £4,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | UK Birth Cohorts as a Platform for Ground Truth in Mental Health Data Science |
| Amount | £120,845 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | UKRI ESRC World Class Labs (WCL) underspend call |
| Amount | £19,718 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UKRI ESRC World Class Labs (WCL) underspend call |
| Amount | £108,791 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/K000357/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Using social media linkage for high-resolution longitudinal measurement of mental health |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Title | CLOSER Discovery |
| Description | CLOSER Discovery is a metadata discovery platform for UK longitudinal studies. It provides a granularity of information that is significantly more than is available on other comparable infrastructures. This includes: - refinement in the rendering of summary statistics of the variables in datasets - the availability of the full question or measurement , and the logic of the implementation of the data collection - tagging of all questions and variables to a consistent ontology (based on ELSST and MeSH) - rendering of the components of derived variables - consistent tagging of data collection mode - consistent tagging of life stage of the data collection - full text search of metadata elements - capacity to create lists of variables and questions (including associated metadata) for sharing and reuse - an API which can be used to harvest metadata for re-use on other platforms |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Over the period January 2017- January 2021, the number of users by both page views and number of sessions has increased by a factor of 10. There has been consistent national and international interest in replicating the platform and its functionality with on average 3-4 international studies per year approaching us for advice since 2015. As the largest infrastructure (internationally) that has publicly available interoperable questionnaire metadata, we are regularly approached for advice on the development of question banks and the representation of longitudinal metadata. A number of studies have invested in new technology to improve metadata management processes that align with both their needs and the information requirements of CLOSER. The question metadata has been requested for the development of the CESSDA Question Bank |
| URL | https://discovery.closer.ac.uk |
| Title | COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub (2021-22) |
| Description | In May 2021, we marked the one-year anniversary of the creation of the COVID-19 Taskforce with the publication of CLOSER's first Impact Case Study outlining our key areas of focus and major outputs. During the new grant extension period the COVID-19 Taskforce has continued to deliver multiple outputs and generate significant impact across CLOSER's main areas of work. Our work has primarily focused on mobilising LPS data and research, specifically: 1) Showcasing the response of LPS, 2) Tracking COVID-19 research and evidence, 3) Generating insights for policy and decision makers, and 4) Making COVID-19 LPS data discoverable). An updated COVID-19 Policy Briefing Note was produced drawing together evidence from multiple LPS over the previous year to provide insights into the impact of the pandemic on people's lives and inform policy decisions to help those most in need. Two 'COVID-19 Insights' infographics were also produced, one on the impact of COVID-19 on education to show how UK school closures during the first COVID-19 lockdown affected primary and secondary level schoolchildren and another on the impact on access to healthcare, which showed how COVID-19 widened existing healthcare access inequalities in the UK for women and people with chronic illnesses, disabilities or multimorbidities. We also enhanced our COVID-19 social media campaign through the production of new infographics and animated gifs to bring to life the scale and range of topics in our COVID-19 Hub Research Tracker. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | CLOSER's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has played a pivotal role in improving the visibility and cementing the reputation of data and research from longitudinal population studies (LPS) as robust sources of evidence for policy makers and practitioners. The COVID-19 Hub is listed as a key resource by multiple high-value/impact organisations, including The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, Campaign for Social Science (CfSS), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Our work has resulted in citations in POST briefing notes, academic papers, and featured in the Science in Parliament Journal. The COVID-19 Hub is also a Google 'Featured snippet'. |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Version-2.3-CLOSER-COVID-19-Hub-showcase-infographic.png |
| Title | Interactive tool: Overlapping items administered in six British cohorts |
| Description | This new tool provides researchers with a searchable overview of mental health measures across key UK longitudinal studies to facilitate new avenues of cross-study research |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This tool was generated by a project evaluating cross-study comparability of childhood and adulthood measures of mental health and it is informing academic work, including a CLOSER resource paper and a pre-print on socioeconomic and sex inequalities in parent-reported adolescent mental ill-health |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/CLOSER-interactive-tool-of-overlapping-items-administere... |
| Title | Landscaping international longitudinal datasets website and list of datasets |
| Description | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. As part of this project, we identified more than 3,000 longitudinal datasets worldwide and we made the list freely available on our website. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The landscaping website was a successful way to engage with people outside the partnership and to share information with them. In February 2023, we recorded over 4,400 visits and more than 6,400 page views from people based in 76 different countries. |
| URL | https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/ |
| Title | Landscaping international longitudinal datasets website and list of datasets |
| Description | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. As part of this project, we landscaped more than 3,000 longitudinal datasets worldwide and we made that list freely available on our website. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The website was a successful way to engage with people outside the partnership and to share information with them. In February 2023, we recorded over 4,400 visits and more than 6,400 page views from people based in 76 different countries. Wellcome is interested is developing the website into a platform to increase the discoverability of longitudinal datasets. |
| URL | https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/ |
| Title | The CLOSER COVID-19 Taskforce and Longitudinal Research Hub (2020-21) |
| Description | Created in May 2020, CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce was set up with the following aims: 1. Capturing the response of UK LPS to the pandemic 2. Increasing the visibility of UK LPS and research 3. Providing resources for researchers 4. Generating insights for policy and decision makers 5. Making COVID-19 data discoverable. The COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub (launched in June 2020) was developed to act as a one-stop resource for researchers, parliamentarians, and policy makers, now and in the future. The Hub contains all the new LPS COVID-19 surveys, data releases, a searchable research publications tracker, evidence briefing notes, and expert opinion, all in one place. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | In just under a year, the COVID-19 Taskforce has delivered multiple outputs and generated significant outcomes across CLOSER's main areas of work (data, research knowledge exchange, policy impact). Since its launch in June 2020, the Hub has established itself as a trusted source for information and insights across the research and policy landscapes. Several established organisations for researchers including the UK Data Service, the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, and Campaign for Social Science all cited the Hub as a key resource as well as the NHS Strategy Unit in their rapid evidence review: Prospective and longitudinal studies exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department for Education (DfE) cited the Hub in their October 2020 report: State of the nation 2020: children and young people's wellbeing research report. The Hub was also featured in a number of newsletters, including from the National Centre for Research Methods and COVID-Minds Network. Other notable highlights include: 1. Two CLOSER COVID-19 Briefing Notes showcased the response of the LPS community to the pandemic and synthesised emerging findings on the impacts of the pandemic on the UK population. Following the response to these from senior parliamentarians and policy makers, the Head of CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce was invited to write an article for the Science in Parliament Journal. 2. CLOSER's Director briefed parliamentarians on the response of LPS to the pandemic and showcased CLOSER's COVID-19 Hub at an All-Party Parliamentary Health Group webinar session. 3. CLOSER's written evidence submission to the Home Education Inquiry was accepted by the House of Commons Education Select Committee and is now published on UK Parliament. 4. In November 2020, CLOSER bought together COVID-19 metadata from seven LPS studies in one place in CLOSER Discovery to allow users to discover and explore COVID-19 questions and variables spanning topics including physical and mental health, education, employment and housing. 5. In July 2020, CLOSER hosted The future of data collection in longitudinal population studies: during and after COVID-19 webinar. The event was attended by 60 delegates representing 26 different LPS and organisations; a meeting report was also made publicly available for the wider LPS community. In September 2020 CLOSER utilised its Data Linkage Working Group to host a Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (LLC) meeting, with attendance from 24 different LPS and organisations. 6. The COVID-19 Research aTracker, part of the Hub (updated on a weekly basis), contains the latest longitudinal research and evidence, including briefing notes, reports, academic publications and articles. The Tracker now includes over 150 publications, categorised by study, topic, and geographical coverage |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/covid19-longitudinal-research-hub/ |
| Title | The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Description | The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures is designed to provide easy access to information about the mental health measures included in British cohort and longitudinal studies to maximise the uptake of existing data and facilitate mental health research. By providing details of the measures and studies, the catalogue serves as a resource for researchers 1) identifying datasets that include mental health and wellbeing measures; 2) planning harmonisation studies; 3) planning further data collection. The resource is also intended for researchers who may be less familiar with mental health or from other disciplines - demographers, economists, urbanist, linguists and others. To support these researchers, the catalogue also provides information about additional training and support for conducting longitudinal mental health research. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Benefiting researchers and funders: Our new resource will be useful for as well as principal investigators and funding bodies. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! Easy access to detailed information: Longitudinal study designs are advantageous as they allow for closely examining patterns of change and the influence of earlier life circumstances on later outcomes, as well as providing insight into causal mechanisms and processes. The Catalogue provides mental health researchers with easy access to detailed information about thousands of valuable measures of mental health in over 30 UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The search engine gives users the opportunity to explore by study, mental health topic and symptom, as well as by standard instruments, such as the General Health Questionnaire. Researchers can use the catalogue to identify specific measures collected in a range of different longitudinal study types, including representative samples, birth cohorts, twin studies, ageing studies, and studies focusing on specific mental health problems. Researchers in the early stages of their career, who may not have the opportunity to collect new data first-hand, will find the Catalogue's focus on existing data particularly helpful. The Catalogue allows users to explore established studies, quickly access detailed information about the mental health measures they have collected, and thus potentially identify previously unknown resources of use for their research. |
| URL | https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/ |
| Title | ALSPAC Harmonised Height & Weight Dataset |
| Description | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Several publications |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8208&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | BCS70 - 10 Year location of residence |
| Description | 1970 British Cohort Study: Ten-Year Follow-Up, 1980: Geographical Identifiers: Secure Access |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8211&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Consistent Schools Database (WP5) |
| Description | As part of the CLOSER's project to link educational data (Work Package 5), the 'consistent schools database' (CSD) was created to enable researchers to track the performance of schools more accurately and help paint a clearer picture of education in England. The resource provides data on school performance, alongside information on school mergers, splits, closures, openings, and changes in school status from 1999 to 2014. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | There have been requests for access to the database from researchers. For example, from a project interested in linking school choice to neighbourhood and school segregation, and a project looking at the nature and quality of schools that looked after children attend and whether this changes over time. |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/work-package-5-csd |
| Title | Harmonised Childhood Environment and Adult Wellbeing Measures in Three Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Childhood Environment and Adult Wellbeing Measures in Three Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study provides the harmonisation of childhood environment and adult wellbeing measures for BCS70. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8553 |
| Title | Harmonised Childhood Environment and Adult Wellbeing Measures in Three Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access |
| Description | The Harmonised Childhood Environment and Adult Wellbeing Measures in Three Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access provides the harmonisation of childhood environment and adult wellbeing measures for NSHD. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8548 |
| Title | Harmonised Childhood Environment and Adult Wellbeing Measures in Three Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Childhood Environment and Adult Wellbeing Measures in Three Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study provides the harmonisation of childhood environment and adult wellbeing measures for NCDS. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8552 |
| Title | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for BCS70, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. An earlier version of these data were previously made available in a joint dataset with data from the National Child Development Study and the Millennium Cohort Study. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8551 |
| Title | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access |
| Description | The Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for ALSPAC, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8208 |
| Title | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access |
| Description | The Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for NSHD, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8209 |
| Title | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Millennium Cohort Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Millennium Cohort Study provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for MCS, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. An earlier version of these data were previously made available in a joint dataset with data from the National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8550 |
| Title | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study provides the harmonised data on height, weight and BMI for NCDS, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. An earlier version of these data were previously made available in a joint dataset with data from the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8549 |
| Title | Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: 1970 British Cohort Study |
| Description | CLOSER Work Package 20 has generated harmonised measures of mental health across multiple UK cohorts. The Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) dataset provides the harmonised data on mental health for the BCS70 cohort in pre/early-adolescence. Harmonised variables are included on the following areas: emotional problems, peer problems, behavioural problems, and attention / hyperactivity problems. This dataset is made available for re-use under an end user licence. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data have formed part of a landmark report on mental health data comparability: McElroy, E., Villadsen, A., Patalay, P., Goodman, A., Richards, M., Northstone, K., Fearon, P.,Tibber, M., Gondek, D., & Ploubidis, G.B. (2020). Harmonisation and Measurement Properties of Mental Health Measures in Six British Cohorts. London, UK: CLOSER. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8882 |
| Title | Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access |
| Description | CLOSER Work Package 20 has generated harmonised measures of mental health across multiple UK cohorts. The Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) dataset provides the harmonised data on mental health for the ALSPAC cohort in pre/early-adolescence. Harmonised variables are included on the following areas: emotional problems, peer problems, behavioural problems, and attention / hyperactivity problems. This dataset is made available for re-use under special licence access. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data have formed part of a landmark report on mental health data comparability: McElroy, E., Villadsen, A., Patalay, P., Goodman, A., Richards, M., Northstone, K., Fearon, P.,Tibber, M., Gondek, D., & Ploubidis, G.B. (2020). Harmonisation and Measurement Properties of Mental Health Measures in Six British Cohorts. London, UK: CLOSER. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8880 |
| Title | Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Millennium Cohort Study |
| Description | CLOSER Work Package 20 has generated harmonised measures of mental health across multiple UK cohorts. The Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) dataset provides the harmonised data on mental health for the MCS cohort in pre/early-adolescence. Harmonised variables are included on the following areas: emotional problems, peer problems, behavioural problems, and attention / hyperactivity problems. This dataset is made available for re-use under an end user licence. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data have formed part of a landmark report on mental health data comparability: McElroy, E., Villadsen, A., Patalay, P., Goodman, A., Richards, M., Northstone, K., Fearon, P.,Tibber, M., Gondek, D., & Ploubidis, G.B. (2020). Harmonisation and Measurement Properties of Mental Health Measures in Six British Cohorts. London, UK: CLOSER. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8881 |
| Title | Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: National Child Development Study |
| Description | CLOSER Work Package 20 has generated harmonised measures of mental health across multiple UK cohorts. The Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: National Child Development Study (NCDS) dataset provides the harmonised data on mental health for the NCDS cohort in pre/early-adolescence. Harmonised variables are included on the following areas: emotional problems, peer problems, behavioural problems, and attention / hyperactivity problems. This dataset is made available for re-use under an end user licence. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data have formed part of a landmark report on mental health data comparability: McElroy, E., Villadsen, A., Patalay, P., Goodman, A., Richards, M., Northstone, K., Fearon, P.,Tibber, M., Gondek, D., & Ploubidis, G.B. (2020). Harmonisation and Measurement Properties of Mental Health Measures in Six British Cohorts. London, UK: CLOSER. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8883 |
| Title | Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: 1970 British Cohort Study provides the harmonised socio-economic measures for the BCS70, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8305 |
| Title | Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access |
| Description | The Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access provides the harmonised socio-economic measures for the NSHD, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8308 |
| Title | Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Millennium Cohort Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: Millennium Cohort Study provides the harmonised socio-economic measures for the MCS, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8306 |
| Title | Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study |
| Description | The Harmonised Socio-Economic Measures in Four Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study provides the harmonised socio-economic measures for the NCDS, now with revised metadata, expanded documentation and with the derivation code files included in the deposit. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | An earlier version of this output has been used in a number of academic publications. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8307 |
| Title | Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets - 2022 |
| Description | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. As part of this project, we identified more than 3,000 longitudinal datasets worldwide and we made a list freely available online. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The website was a successful way to engage with people outside the partnership and to share information with them. In February 2023, we recorded over 4,400 visits and more than 6,400 page views from people based in 76 different countries. Wellcome is interested in developing our website into a platform to increase the discoverability of longitudinal datasets. |
| URL | https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/ |
| Title | MCS Harmonised Socio-economic measures |
| Description | This dataset comprises harmonised socio-economic measures from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). 3 other datasets are available using the same harmonised measures; for the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), and the National Child Development Study (NCDS). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Journal articles |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8306&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | NCDS Harmonised Socio-economic measures |
| Description | This dataset comprises harmonised socio-economic measures from the National Child Development Study (NCDS). 3 other datasets are available using the same harmonised measures; for the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Journal articles. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8306&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | NCDS Training Dataset |
| Description | National Child Development Study: CLOSER Training Dataset, 1958-2013 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset is used as a resource on the CLOSER Learning Hub |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8205&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | NCDS age 16 location of residence |
| Description | National Child Development Study: Sweep 3, 1971 Census Boundaries, 1974: Geographical Identifiers: Secure Access |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8218&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | NCDS, BCS70 & MCS Harmonised Height & Weight Dataset |
| Description | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: National Child Development Study, 1970 British Cohort Study and Millennium Cohort Study |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Several publications |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8207&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | NSHD Harmionised Height & Weight Dataset |
| Description | Harmonised Height, Weight and BMI in Five Longitudinal Cohort Studies: MRC National Survey of Health and Development: Special Licence Access |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Several publications |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8209&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | NSHD Harmonised Socio-economic measures |
| Description | This dataset comprises harmonised socio-economic measures from the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD). 3 other datasets are available using the same harmonised measures; for the National Child Development Study (NCDS); the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Journal articles. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8308&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures - 2019 |
| Description | The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures is designed to provide easy access to information about the mental health measures included in British cohort and longitudinal studies to maximise the uptake of existing data and facilitate mental health research. By providing details of the measures and studies, the Catalogue serves as a resource for researchers: - Identifying datasets that include mental health and wellbeing measures - Planning harmonisation studies - Planning further data collection. The resource is also intended for researchers who may be less familiar with mental health or from other disciplines - demographers, economists, urbanists, linguists, and others. To support these researchers, the catalogue also provides information about additional training and support for conducting longitudinal mental health research. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To be added |
| URL | https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/ |
| Title | UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration |
| Description | UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) is a centralised infrastructure service for data linkage for longitudinal population studies (LPS) and a pan-UK, interdisciplinary, Trusted Research Environment (TRE) for the secure, pooled, analysis of diverse LPS data. This global first provides a national research capability for academia, policy makers and industry. UK LLC has combined data from >20 LPS with >200,000 participants. Participants' data have been linked to NHS records (primary, secondary, community care; COVID-19; civic registers; prescriptions; mental health) and geo-coded environmental exposures (pollution, green space, neighbourhood indicators). UK LLC is a collaborative endeavour of the LPS community for the benefit of the LPS and wider longitudinal research community. UK LLC has support from >20 major UK interdisciplinary studies spanning 75 years of follow-up. These studies include many flagship MRC/Wellcome Trust studies and the ESRC priority investments: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, ALSPAC; Born in Bradford, BiB; Centre for Longitudinal Studies (inc. National Child Development Survey NCDS58, British Cohort Study BCS70, Millennium Cohort Study MCS, Next Steps); COMPARE; English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, ELSA; European Prospective Investigation of Cancer, Epic-Norfolk; Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA, EXCEED; Fenland; Generation Scotland; Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression, GLAD; INTERVAL; National Study of Health and Development, NHSD46; NIHR Bioresources, including STRIDES and COPING; Northern Ireland Cohort of Longitudinal Study of Ageing, NICOLA; Southall and Brent Revisited, SABRE; Track-COVID; Twins Early Development Study, TEDS; Twins UK; UK Household Longitudinal Study, Understanding Society. The development of the UK LLC was informed by precedents from ALSPAC & Born in Bradford (through the MRC support Mental Health Pathfinder project); Generation Scotland; CLOSER (through the Data Linkage programme) and through Andy Boyd's secondment to ESRC to scope the potential for using population data for inclusive longitudinal research. The UK LLC concept was further informed through input from Data Managers from across our 'vanguard group' of contributing LPS and with public involvement (through the UK LLC public involvement strand and through insights from contributing studies participant groups). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration is intended initially as a resource to support the research programme of the Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing National Core Study. There are currently 11 approved projects using UK LLC from the LHW NCS and other National Core Studies. The research from these is ongoing. There are notable methodological outputs from the UK LLC which include: (1) a novel governance structure accommodating the needs of many (n=24) UK longitudinal studies and major data owners (Eg, NHS Digital) into a common framework; (2) novel enhancements to Secure eResearch Platform data science infrastructure (Swansea University) for their Trusted Third Party to act as a 'linkage broker' and manage participants from many studies into one data processing pipeline; (3) novel enhancements to Secure eResearch Platform data science infrastructure (Swansea University) to 'record link' participants from many studies into one pooled 'super cohort' accounting for complex overlap between study membership and shared residence (ie, where participants are members of multiple studies, where occupants of a single residence are in one or more studies); (4) a transformational data pipeline to extract records of study participants from across NHS Digital records accounting for different legal bases and changes in permissions over time; (5) a novel data access process enabling a single point of application to request access to data from 24 LPS with linked records. |
| URL | https://ukllc.ac.uk/ |
| Description | ADRN Theme Partner - Growing Old |
| Organisation | Administrative Data Research Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Invited to be partner in ADRN 'Growing old' Theme - to contribute to the identification and design of a new administrative dataset focused on ageing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ADRN has identified 4 themes to focus upon with the intention of creating new data resources. The partners identified for each Theme are tasked with identifying the most important social and economic issues in each Theme, considering the insights needed to understand and address them, and then designing new data resources to support the creation of those insights. |
| Impact | Initial design options for a new 'Growing Old' data resource. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences- Longitudinal Studies Conference Scientific Organising Committee |
| Organisation | Wellcome Genome Campus |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Rebecca Hardy is an invited member of the Scientific Organising Committee for the scientific conference in collaboration with the Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences. This has involved selecting topics, speakers and marking and selecting contributed abstracts as well as chairing and moderating sessions at the virtual conference. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team at Wellcome organised the logistics of the conference, supporting the Scientific Programme Committee in delivering the conference programme. They organised the technology for the virtual event. |
| Impact | The conference took place 9-12th March 2021. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Advisory group. Longitudinal Study of Teachers. Department for Education. |
| Organisation | Department for Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Rebecca Hardy was invited to sit on the advisory group for the Longitudinal Study of Teachers to advise on the design of the study at Advisory Group Meetings and between meetings as necessary. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The study will collect questionnaire data from a longitudinal sample of teachers. |
| Impact | First meeting of the advisory group took place in January 2021. Questionnaire and design of study developed. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | All-Party Parliamentary Group (APHG) Associate Member |
| Organisation | Parliament of UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Group is supported by an Associate Membership of 15 of the UK's leading organisations working in the health sector, who offer a insight into present developments in the healthcare sector and beyond. Associate members pay an annual subscription fee and collectively these fees provide the APHG with an independent source of funding. As an Associate Member, CLOSER represents the longitudinal research community within the APHG, attends private events with senior figures across government and the health service, co-hosts events in parliament with the APHG, and feeds longitudinal evidence into the work of the APHG. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) is dedicated to disseminating knowledge, generating debate and facilitating engagement with health issues amongst Members of both Houses of Parliament. The APHG comprises members of all political parties, it provides information with balance and impartiality and it focuses on local as well as national health issues. It is recognised as one of the preferred sources of information on health in Parliament. |
| Impact | May 2018: Tackling mental health problems in children and young people: the importance of early intervention - a joint event by the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group and CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research. January 2017: Reducing harm from alcohol consumption: developing a long-term strategy - a joint event by the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group and CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research. November 2016: Achieving a Digital NHS: What it means for healthcare, patients and medical research - panel speaker. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | CLOSER Advisory Committee |
| Organisation | Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) |
| Department | Born in Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This committee is an independent body, with Secretariat and administration duties for the setting up and running of meetings, development of agendas, and collation of papers managed by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CLOSER Advisory Committee is the independent body with responsibility to provide high-quality independent strategic advice for the management and future activity of CLOSER. Key roles of the committee include, but are not limited to: provision of expertise on funding opportunities to further develop CLOSER; advise on maximising the use of CLOSER outputs within legal and funder frameworks; provision of strategic support in development of CLOSER's communications and impact strategy; and strategically reviewing CLOSER deliverables, risks and future plans. |
| Impact | The Advisory Committee provides independant strategic advice. The group is multidiscplinary. The membership encompasses: expertise in social science and biomedical science; expertise in management of scientific infrastructure/resources; expertise in technical/information systems; and expertise in communications, public engagement and policy impact. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Advisory Committee |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This committee is an independent body, with Secretariat and administration duties for the setting up and running of meetings, development of agendas, and collation of papers managed by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CLOSER Advisory Committee is the independent body with responsibility to provide high-quality independent strategic advice for the management and future activity of CLOSER. Key roles of the committee include, but are not limited to: provision of expertise on funding opportunities to further develop CLOSER; advise on maximising the use of CLOSER outputs within legal and funder frameworks; provision of strategic support in development of CLOSER's communications and impact strategy; and strategically reviewing CLOSER deliverables, risks and future plans. |
| Impact | The Advisory Committee provides independant strategic advice. The group is multidiscplinary. The membership encompasses: expertise in social science and biomedical science; expertise in management of scientific infrastructure/resources; expertise in technical/information systems; and expertise in communications, public engagement and policy impact. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Advisory Committee |
| Organisation | NHS England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This committee is an independent body, with Secretariat and administration duties for the setting up and running of meetings, development of agendas, and collation of papers managed by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CLOSER Advisory Committee is the independent body with responsibility to provide high-quality independent strategic advice for the management and future activity of CLOSER. Key roles of the committee include, but are not limited to: provision of expertise on funding opportunities to further develop CLOSER; advise on maximising the use of CLOSER outputs within legal and funder frameworks; provision of strategic support in development of CLOSER's communications and impact strategy; and strategically reviewing CLOSER deliverables, risks and future plans. |
| Impact | The Advisory Committee provides independant strategic advice. The group is multidiscplinary. The membership encompasses: expertise in social science and biomedical science; expertise in management of scientific infrastructure/resources; expertise in technical/information systems; and expertise in communications, public engagement and policy impact. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Advisory Committee |
| Organisation | Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology [POST] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This committee is an independent body, with Secretariat and administration duties for the setting up and running of meetings, development of agendas, and collation of papers managed by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CLOSER Advisory Committee is the independent body with responsibility to provide high-quality independent strategic advice for the management and future activity of CLOSER. Key roles of the committee include, but are not limited to: provision of expertise on funding opportunities to further develop CLOSER; advise on maximising the use of CLOSER outputs within legal and funder frameworks; provision of strategic support in development of CLOSER's communications and impact strategy; and strategically reviewing CLOSER deliverables, risks and future plans. |
| Impact | The Advisory Committee provides independant strategic advice. The group is multidiscplinary. The membership encompasses: expertise in social science and biomedical science; expertise in management of scientific infrastructure/resources; expertise in technical/information systems; and expertise in communications, public engagement and policy impact. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Advisory Committee |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This committee is an independent body, with Secretariat and administration duties for the setting up and running of meetings, development of agendas, and collation of papers managed by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CLOSER Advisory Committee is the independent body with responsibility to provide high-quality independent strategic advice for the management and future activity of CLOSER. Key roles of the committee include, but are not limited to: provision of expertise on funding opportunities to further develop CLOSER; advise on maximising the use of CLOSER outputs within legal and funder frameworks; provision of strategic support in development of CLOSER's communications and impact strategy; and strategically reviewing CLOSER deliverables, risks and future plans. |
| Impact | The Advisory Committee provides independant strategic advice. The group is multidiscplinary. The membership encompasses: expertise in social science and biomedical science; expertise in management of scientific infrastructure/resources; expertise in technical/information systems; and expertise in communications, public engagement and policy impact. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Advisory Committee |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This committee is an independent body, with Secretariat and administration duties for the setting up and running of meetings, development of agendas, and collation of papers managed by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CLOSER Advisory Committee is the independent body with responsibility to provide high-quality independent strategic advice for the management and future activity of CLOSER. Key roles of the committee include, but are not limited to: provision of expertise on funding opportunities to further develop CLOSER; advise on maximising the use of CLOSER outputs within legal and funder frameworks; provision of strategic support in development of CLOSER's communications and impact strategy; and strategically reviewing CLOSER deliverables, risks and future plans. |
| Impact | The Advisory Committee provides independant strategic advice. The group is multidiscplinary. The membership encompasses: expertise in social science and biomedical science; expertise in management of scientific infrastructure/resources; expertise in technical/information systems; and expertise in communications, public engagement and policy impact. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Data Linkage Network |
| Organisation | Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) |
| Department | Born in Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER have established a Data Linkage working group for data managers and governance leads. The aim of the working group is to share insights into best practice, discuss emerging opportunities, to share useful materials (precedents, software scripts, data processing protocols) and to work together to help address shared barriers. The working group comprises representatives of the eight CLOSER studies and (to date) the collaborative partners listed above. The need for the group was identified at the 'Preparing for the Future' longitudinal research conference held in 2018. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing insights, precedents and examples of good practice. Knowledge exchange. |
| Impact | 1. Promotion of CLOSER/NHS Digital work led to the Centre for Longitudinal studies changing their approach to onward sharing arrangements with NHS Digital and leading to a successful ammendment to their data sharing contracts. 2. Established contact with the Department for Education to discuss linkage to the Longitudinal Educational Outcome (LEO) dataset. This is furthering understanding of how a linkage arrangements can be designed and implemented. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Data Linkage Network |
| Organisation | Million Women Study |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER have established a Data Linkage working group for data managers and governance leads. The aim of the working group is to share insights into best practice, discuss emerging opportunities, to share useful materials (precedents, software scripts, data processing protocols) and to work together to help address shared barriers. The working group comprises representatives of the eight CLOSER studies and (to date) the collaborative partners listed above. The need for the group was identified at the 'Preparing for the Future' longitudinal research conference held in 2018. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing insights, precedents and examples of good practice. Knowledge exchange. |
| Impact | 1. Promotion of CLOSER/NHS Digital work led to the Centre for Longitudinal studies changing their approach to onward sharing arrangements with NHS Digital and leading to a successful ammendment to their data sharing contracts. 2. Established contact with the Department for Education to discuss linkage to the Longitudinal Educational Outcome (LEO) dataset. This is furthering understanding of how a linkage arrangements can be designed and implemented. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Data Linkage Network |
| Organisation | St Thomas' Hospital |
| Department | Twins Research Cohorts from St Thomas' Hospital |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER have established a Data Linkage working group for data managers and governance leads. The aim of the working group is to share insights into best practice, discuss emerging opportunities, to share useful materials (precedents, software scripts, data processing protocols) and to work together to help address shared barriers. The working group comprises representatives of the eight CLOSER studies and (to date) the collaborative partners listed above. The need for the group was identified at the 'Preparing for the Future' longitudinal research conference held in 2018. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing insights, precedents and examples of good practice. Knowledge exchange. |
| Impact | 1. Promotion of CLOSER/NHS Digital work led to the Centre for Longitudinal studies changing their approach to onward sharing arrangements with NHS Digital and leading to a successful ammendment to their data sharing contracts. 2. Established contact with the Department for Education to discuss linkage to the Longitudinal Educational Outcome (LEO) dataset. This is furthering understanding of how a linkage arrangements can be designed and implemented. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Group |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Executive Group is responsible for overseeing and coordinating CLOSER's work and provides a decision-making function on the work of CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Four to six members are drawn from the CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team. Members represent a range of disciplines and include individuals with experience in collection and analysis of cohort data, provision of research and teaching resources, training and capacity building, as well as achieving impact. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Executive Group include, but are not limited to, discussing and providing comment on CLOSER's activities, reviewing and approving papers produced by the CLOSER Management Group, managing risk across the project, as well as supporting the Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Group |
| Organisation | Understanding Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Executive Group is responsible for overseeing and coordinating CLOSER's work and provides a decision-making function on the work of CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Four to six members are drawn from the CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team. Members represent a range of disciplines and include individuals with experience in collection and analysis of cohort data, provision of research and teaching resources, training and capacity building, as well as achieving impact. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Executive Group include, but are not limited to, discussing and providing comment on CLOSER's activities, reviewing and approving papers produced by the CLOSER Management Group, managing risk across the project, as well as supporting the Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Group |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Executive Group is responsible for overseeing and coordinating CLOSER's work and provides a decision-making function on the work of CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Four to six members are drawn from the CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team. Members represent a range of disciplines and include individuals with experience in collection and analysis of cohort data, provision of research and teaching resources, training and capacity building, as well as achieving impact. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Executive Group include, but are not limited to, discussing and providing comment on CLOSER's activities, reviewing and approving papers produced by the CLOSER Management Group, managing risk across the project, as well as supporting the Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Group |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Executive Group is responsible for overseeing and coordinating CLOSER's work and provides a decision-making function on the work of CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Four to six members are drawn from the CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team. Members represent a range of disciplines and include individuals with experience in collection and analysis of cohort data, provision of research and teaching resources, training and capacity building, as well as achieving impact. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Executive Group include, but are not limited to, discussing and providing comment on CLOSER's activities, reviewing and approving papers produced by the CLOSER Management Group, managing risk across the project, as well as supporting the Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Group |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Executive Group is responsible for overseeing and coordinating CLOSER's work and provides a decision-making function on the work of CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Four to six members are drawn from the CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team. Members represent a range of disciplines and include individuals with experience in collection and analysis of cohort data, provision of research and teaching resources, training and capacity building, as well as achieving impact. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Executive Group include, but are not limited to, discussing and providing comment on CLOSER's activities, reviewing and approving papers produced by the CLOSER Management Group, managing risk across the project, as well as supporting the Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Team |
| Organisation | Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) |
| Department | Born in Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of the Executive Team is to: • To oversee CLOSER's work, providing assurance to the funders that CLOSER delivers on its objectives. • To review and provide guidance on proposed changes in CLOSER's activities. • To provide representation from key stakeholder groups and ensure their input to CLOSER's strategy and activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | • The types of activities Executive Team members will be responsible for, on behalf of CLOSER, are: o Monitoring CLOSER's progress in delivering on its objectives. o Reviewing and approving changes to planned activities. o Supporting the CLOSER Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. o Providing insights into the funder landscape and potential funding opportunities. o Providing insights into areas for collaboration. o Fostering and maintaining effective relationships with CLOSER partners, key stakeholders, and user groups. o Managing risk across the project. o Acting as an ambassador, promoting CLOSER's work and networking on CLOSER's behalf. |
| Impact | • The Executive Team meet four times a year (three virtual meetings and one in-person meeting). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Team |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of the Executive Team is to: • To oversee CLOSER's work, providing assurance to the funders that CLOSER delivers on its objectives. • To review and provide guidance on proposed changes in CLOSER's activities. • To provide representation from key stakeholder groups and ensure their input to CLOSER's strategy and activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | • The types of activities Executive Team members will be responsible for, on behalf of CLOSER, are: o Monitoring CLOSER's progress in delivering on its objectives. o Reviewing and approving changes to planned activities. o Supporting the CLOSER Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. o Providing insights into the funder landscape and potential funding opportunities. o Providing insights into areas for collaboration. o Fostering and maintaining effective relationships with CLOSER partners, key stakeholders, and user groups. o Managing risk across the project. o Acting as an ambassador, promoting CLOSER's work and networking on CLOSER's behalf. |
| Impact | • The Executive Team meet four times a year (three virtual meetings and one in-person meeting). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Team |
| Organisation | UK Data Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of the Executive Team is to: • To oversee CLOSER's work, providing assurance to the funders that CLOSER delivers on its objectives. • To review and provide guidance on proposed changes in CLOSER's activities. • To provide representation from key stakeholder groups and ensure their input to CLOSER's strategy and activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | • The types of activities Executive Team members will be responsible for, on behalf of CLOSER, are: o Monitoring CLOSER's progress in delivering on its objectives. o Reviewing and approving changes to planned activities. o Supporting the CLOSER Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. o Providing insights into the funder landscape and potential funding opportunities. o Providing insights into areas for collaboration. o Fostering and maintaining effective relationships with CLOSER partners, key stakeholders, and user groups. o Managing risk across the project. o Acting as an ambassador, promoting CLOSER's work and networking on CLOSER's behalf. |
| Impact | • The Executive Team meet four times a year (three virtual meetings and one in-person meeting). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Team |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of the Executive Team is to: • To oversee CLOSER's work, providing assurance to the funders that CLOSER delivers on its objectives. • To review and provide guidance on proposed changes in CLOSER's activities. • To provide representation from key stakeholder groups and ensure their input to CLOSER's strategy and activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | • The types of activities Executive Team members will be responsible for, on behalf of CLOSER, are: o Monitoring CLOSER's progress in delivering on its objectives. o Reviewing and approving changes to planned activities. o Supporting the CLOSER Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. o Providing insights into the funder landscape and potential funding opportunities. o Providing insights into areas for collaboration. o Fostering and maintaining effective relationships with CLOSER partners, key stakeholders, and user groups. o Managing risk across the project. o Acting as an ambassador, promoting CLOSER's work and networking on CLOSER's behalf. |
| Impact | • The Executive Team meet four times a year (three virtual meetings and one in-person meeting). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CLOSER Executive Team |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of the Executive Team is to: • To oversee CLOSER's work, providing assurance to the funders that CLOSER delivers on its objectives. • To review and provide guidance on proposed changes in CLOSER's activities. • To provide representation from key stakeholder groups and ensure their input to CLOSER's strategy and activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | • The types of activities Executive Team members will be responsible for, on behalf of CLOSER, are: o Monitoring CLOSER's progress in delivering on its objectives. o Reviewing and approving changes to planned activities. o Supporting the CLOSER Director in coordinating the work of CLOSER. o Providing insights into the funder landscape and potential funding opportunities. o Providing insights into areas for collaboration. o Fostering and maintaining effective relationships with CLOSER partners, key stakeholders, and user groups. o Managing risk across the project. o Acting as an ambassador, promoting CLOSER's work and networking on CLOSER's behalf. |
| Impact | • The Executive Team meet four times a year (three virtual meetings and one in-person meeting). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Department | ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department for International Development (DfID) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Department | MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Research Unit Uganda |
| Country | Uganda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | UK Data Service |
| Department | Health and Lifestyle Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | UNICEF |
| Department | UNICEF UK BabyFriendly Initiative |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Department | Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School (OUCAGS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER International Advisory Group |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Department | Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (Cambridge) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Established a diverse team of senior experts to help us guide the CLOSER International project. Conducted the first meeting on November 27th and planned the next for March 18th, 2019. Members of the AG: ESRC Pamela Mason MRC Gavin Malloch Wellcome Trust Erica Pufall DfID Kerstin Hinds UNICEF, GLORI Network Prerna Banati DataFirst Andrew Kerr Centre for Longitudinal Studies Emla Fitzsimons University of Oxford, links with CSAE Stefan Dercon (Kagera HDS) IFS-EDePo Sonya Krutikova University of Southampton; COHORTS group Caroline Fall UK Data Service Louise Corti |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the AG commit to attending AG meetings on an academic term-basis, and provide input into the direction of the project. Propose new directions of work, point towards weak spots in the plan, and suggest points of contact in other institutions that we should be in contact with. |
| Impact | First AG Meeting |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | UK Data Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | Understanding Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | 1958 Birth Cohort/National Child Development Study |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Scientific Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Scientific Leadership Team is comprised of Principal Investigators, or nominated deputies, from CLOSER's original eight partner studies who provide scientific advice and guidance to CLOSER. |
| Impact | Key roles of the Scientific Leadership Team include, but are not limited to, providing comment on CLOSER's academic activity including CLOSER work packages, sharing news and innovations from the CLOSER studies and identifying areas for collaboration, commenting on CLOSER's project progress, as well as discussing issues relevant to the longitudinal community. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) |
| Department | Born in Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Department for Education |
| Department | Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England: Cohort 2 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Generation Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Department | Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | Understanding Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | 1958 Birth Cohort/National Child Development Study |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Whitehall II |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Study Network meeting 2021 |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER study partners to support knowledge sharing and networking within the consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Study Network is a forum for all CLOSER partners to come together as a consortium. The focus of the Study Network includes, but is not limited to, discussing challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating to maximise the use, value and impact of data and research findings from longitudinal population studies. |
| Impact | The Study Network brings together all 19 CLOSER partner studies to discuss challenges, scientific innovations and ways of collaborating with CLOSER. Principal Investigators and deputies from the following studies are represented: - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - Born in Bradford - English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Generation Scotland - Growing Up in Scotland - Health and Employment After Fifty - Hertfordshire Cohort Study - Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England 2 - Millennium Cohort Study - MRC National Child Development Study - Next Steps - Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ONS Longitudinal Study - Southampton Women's Survey - Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study - Whitehall II Study - Wirral Child Health and Development Study |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER role on European Commission funded European Cohort Development Project (ECDP) |
| Organisation | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Department | Department of Sociology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER input will be across the project but will particularly relate to the EuroCohort Survey methodology. The complexities of mounting a survey which is internationally comparative and longitudinal are such that there is a need to undertake preparatory scientific work at an early stage as they require longer development time compared to cross-sectional and national surveys. To ensure scientific excellence and the highest quality data which truly is representative of the populations being studied, this Work Package initiates the development of tools, templates and protocols for sampling, questionnaires, and fieldwork and data archiving processes. Given the centrality of the survey methodology to EuroCohort and the linkages to all other Work Packages, it is essential that this work be undertaken as part of ECDP. This WP, therefore, assures that by the end of ECDP further preparatory work to develop EuroCohort is manageable within a shorter timescale. This WP will also inform aspects of the costing of EuroCohort. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project is led by Professor Gary Pollock of Manchester Metropolitan University and funded through the INFRADEV call of the European Commission's research programme 'Horizon2020'. It seeks to establish the research design for a longitudinal survey of children and young people's well being across Europe. It aims to make this survey a key European Research Infrastructure. This project builds upon the MYWEB feasibility study (https://fp7-myweb.eu) that established that there was a significant demand for such a survey among policy makers, academics and practitioners. |
| Impact | Successful grant application |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CLOSER social media linkage framework collaboration |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This award is bringing together CLOSER cohort leaders from across institutions to develop a robust and secure software framework for linking social media data in UK birth cohorts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners are contributing their expertise as leaders of UK cohorts to ensure that the software framework developed by the award is as relevant and easy to deploy as possible across UK birth cohorts. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, bringing together psychologists, data scientists, software engineers and epidemiologists to develop a software framework for linking social media data in UK cohorts. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER social media linkage framework collaboration |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This award is bringing together CLOSER cohort leaders from across institutions to develop a robust and secure software framework for linking social media data in UK birth cohorts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners are contributing their expertise as leaders of UK cohorts to ensure that the software framework developed by the award is as relevant and easy to deploy as possible across UK birth cohorts. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, bringing together psychologists, data scientists, software engineers and epidemiologists to develop a software framework for linking social media data in UK cohorts. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER social media linkage framework collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This award is bringing together CLOSER cohort leaders from across institutions to develop a robust and secure software framework for linking social media data in UK birth cohorts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners are contributing their expertise as leaders of UK cohorts to ensure that the software framework developed by the award is as relevant and easy to deploy as possible across UK birth cohorts. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, bringing together psychologists, data scientists, software engineers and epidemiologists to develop a software framework for linking social media data in UK cohorts. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) - collaborator for Landscaping international longitudinal datasets project |
| Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
| Department | Centre of Global Mental Health (CGMH) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) helped with identifying datasets from low- and middle-income countries and supported the dissemination of the project on social media. |
| Impact | We submitted our report to Wellcome in Feb |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Centre for Society and Mental Health |
| Organisation | ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Centre will improve our understanding of the complex interrelationships between society and mental health, create platforms enabling new collaborations between disciplines and with societal partners, and work closely with users, communities, practitioners, and policy makers to design and assess novel evidence-based strategies for prevention and intervention. I contribute to the population mental health platforms and discussions |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Centre contributes to the dissemination of the activities of the Mental Health Leadership Fellow |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Delosis.com |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked with John Rogers at Delosis to develop the web platform for the Catalogue for Mental Health Measures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Delosis developed the Catalogue and currently maintains and updates the information to keep the tool up to date |
| Impact | The Catalogue for Mental Health Measures https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/ |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Conference on the opportunities and challenges of conducting longitudinal research in low and middle income countries |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Department | ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER International contributed to the brainstorming and planning of the conference, the design of the panels, and suggested speakers. We also will take part of the conference itself (due for late March) and present in at least two panels. |
| Collaborator Contribution | RSS is taking the lead on the organisation and preparation of the bid to the ESRC for funding. LSHTM will provide a venue for the conference. Young Lives contributed to the planning of the conference and will provide speakers. |
| Impact | The partnership has been established but the main output, which will be a conference to be had in late March, has not happened yet. CLOSER International is behind the organization of the conference and will also present in at least two panels. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Conference on the opportunities and challenges of conducting longitudinal research in low and middle income countries |
| Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
| Department | School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM (SPHR@L) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER International contributed to the brainstorming and planning of the conference, the design of the panels, and suggested speakers. We also will take part of the conference itself (due for late March) and present in at least two panels. |
| Collaborator Contribution | RSS is taking the lead on the organisation and preparation of the bid to the ESRC for funding. LSHTM will provide a venue for the conference. Young Lives contributed to the planning of the conference and will provide speakers. |
| Impact | The partnership has been established but the main output, which will be a conference to be had in late March, has not happened yet. CLOSER International is behind the organization of the conference and will also present in at least two panels. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Conference on the opportunities and challenges of conducting longitudinal research in low and middle income countries |
| Organisation | Royal Statistical Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER International contributed to the brainstorming and planning of the conference, the design of the panels, and suggested speakers. We also will take part of the conference itself (due for late March) and present in at least two panels. |
| Collaborator Contribution | RSS is taking the lead on the organisation and preparation of the bid to the ESRC for funding. LSHTM will provide a venue for the conference. Young Lives contributed to the planning of the conference and will provide speakers. |
| Impact | The partnership has been established but the main output, which will be a conference to be had in late March, has not happened yet. CLOSER International is behind the organization of the conference and will also present in at least two panels. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Conference on the opportunities and challenges of conducting longitudinal research in low and middle income countries |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Young Lives |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER International contributed to the brainstorming and planning of the conference, the design of the panels, and suggested speakers. We also will take part of the conference itself (due for late March) and present in at least two panels. |
| Collaborator Contribution | RSS is taking the lead on the organisation and preparation of the bid to the ESRC for funding. LSHTM will provide a venue for the conference. Young Lives contributed to the planning of the conference and will provide speakers. |
| Impact | The partnership has been established but the main output, which will be a conference to be had in late March, has not happened yet. CLOSER International is behind the organization of the conference and will also present in at least two panels. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDI Moving Forward |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of the documentation of the standard, contribution to the development of the model and leadership and management of the project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to networks, and expertise and advice on the development and future direction of the CLOSER search platform |
| Impact | DDI Specification - Model Driven (Q1 2015) |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | DDI Moving Forward Advisory Group |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Department | Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fortnightly meetings to co-ordinate the Moving Forward project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of information and knowledge exchange |
| Impact | 2016 Q2 DDI4 Development Draft (https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DDI4/2016+Q2+DDI4+Development+Draft+-+Comment+and+Review) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | DDI Scientific Board Review Working Group |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Department | Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER contributed to the development of the new by-laws |
| Collaborator Contribution | CLOSER contributed to the development of the new by-laws |
| Impact | A proposal was developed which was adopted into the by-laws https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/850853895/Scientific+Board+Revision+-+temporary+working+group |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | DDI Technical Committee |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Weekly meetings of the Technical Committee which oversees the maintenance and development of the Data Documentation Initiative standard |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical expertise and advice, changes to the DDI-L to meet requirements of the CLOSER Search platform |
| Impact | Amendments to the DDI-L specification have added functionality in the capture and subsequent display of metadata elements for enhanced rendering of survey questions |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | DDI Training Group |
| Organisation | Carleton University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Monthly meetings of the DDI Training Group which aims to; improve people's competence in working with DDI, develop expertise within the community for training purposes and maintain a training library with updated training material for reuse. Contributions are made to creating and evaluating training materials, planning training etc. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide training materials to be used for training events as well as providing advice and feedback for conducting training. |
| Impact | A set of training library materials and several training events. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DDI Training Group |
| Organisation | Leibniz Association |
| Department | Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Monthly meetings of the DDI Training Group which aims to; improve people's competence in working with DDI, develop expertise within the community for training purposes and maintain a training library with updated training material for reuse. Contributions are made to creating and evaluating training materials, planning training etc. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide training materials to be used for training events as well as providing advice and feedback for conducting training. |
| Impact | A set of training library materials and several training events. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | UK Data Archive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Managers Network |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purpose of the network is: - To provide members with a forum to share experiences, ideas and solutions on topics relevant to longitudinal data management. - To provide members with relevant training, specific to data management in longitudinal studies and metadata standards. - To provide members with a forum to share real-world case-studies of managing metadata. |
| Impact | The network was orginally created for the CLOSER Data Managers to share knowledge across the studies through presentations, sharing documents and discussions. It was expanded to be an external facing network in 2020 to include international longitudinal studies and the wider international data management community. The network now runs the Metadata in the Real World webinar series which takes place twice a year. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Data Resources Training Network |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER's training and capacity building lead has contributed to a forum to support collaboration between ESRC funded data services, sharing training opportunities, increasing awareness of resources and contributing to a community of practice. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The network has helped to spread awareness of CLOSER resources and training opportunities and also provided feedback into their development. |
| Impact | This work has helped to develop the Learning Hub resources via feedback from members; it has also provided a key forum for sharing practices and knowledge. It is a multidisciplinary network with member from across social science, health, geography and administrative data fields. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Harmonised Dataset Committee |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | UK Data Archive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A working group, set up by CLOSER's Executive Group, tasked with identifying and resolving any obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This working group is identifying and resolving obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets created as part of CLOSER's work packages. Issues being addressed include agreeing appropriate documentation for the datasets, access conditions and the appropriate repository for the datasets. |
| Impact | The working group have produced a guidance document called the 'data dissemination strategy', which offers a framework for the dissemination of harmonised datasets from CLOSER work packages. They have also shared best practice. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Harmonised Dataset Committee |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A working group, set up by CLOSER's Executive Group, tasked with identifying and resolving any obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This working group is identifying and resolving obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets created as part of CLOSER's work packages. Issues being addressed include agreeing appropriate documentation for the datasets, access conditions and the appropriate repository for the datasets. |
| Impact | The working group have produced a guidance document called the 'data dissemination strategy', which offers a framework for the dissemination of harmonised datasets from CLOSER work packages. They have also shared best practice. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Harmonised Dataset Committee |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A working group, set up by CLOSER's Executive Group, tasked with identifying and resolving any obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This working group is identifying and resolving obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets created as part of CLOSER's work packages. Issues being addressed include agreeing appropriate documentation for the datasets, access conditions and the appropriate repository for the datasets. |
| Impact | The working group have produced a guidance document called the 'data dissemination strategy', which offers a framework for the dissemination of harmonised datasets from CLOSER work packages. They have also shared best practice. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Harmonised Dataset Committee |
| Organisation | University of London |
| Department | Institute of Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A working group, set up by CLOSER's Executive Group, tasked with identifying and resolving any obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This working group is identifying and resolving obstacles to the publication of harmonised datasets created as part of CLOSER's work packages. Issues being addressed include agreeing appropriate documentation for the datasets, access conditions and the appropriate repository for the datasets. |
| Impact | The working group have produced a guidance document called the 'data dissemination strategy', which offers a framework for the dissemination of harmonised datasets from CLOSER work packages. They have also shared best practice. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Health Data Research UK - collaborator for Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets project |
| Organisation | Health Data Research UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | HDRUK mental health data hub - DATAMIND contributed to this project by helping to identify datasets outside academia. |
| Impact | We submitted our report to Wellcome in February 2023. This report is not publicly available yet. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | UK Data Archive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Child Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Leadership Team |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly scientific leadership team meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER. |
| Impact | We've had the past speakers for the afternoon session in the meeting: • 19th July 2012 Susan Wallace, University of Leicester on Ethics of Feedback • 29th November 2012 John Kaye, British Library on ODIN • 21st March 2013 Andy Teague, ONS on Census Beyond 2012 • 10th July 2013 Harry Hemingway, E-Health Informatics Research Centre at UCL on the Farr Institute • 5th November 2013 Knowledge Exchange Workshop on finalising Tier 3 training • 11th March 2014 Life Study - The Journey So Far • 3rd July 2014 What can Geographical Context bring to the Cohorts? Rich Mitchell • 3rd November 2014 Data Linkage, Ronan Lyons, UK Health Informatics Research Network • 10th March 2015 Tim Leunig, The Contribution Cohort & Longitudinal Studies make to Research and Policy Development in Education • 8th July 2015 Jane Tinkler, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology • 25th November 2015 Melanie Wright, ADRN - 10th March 2016 Sarah Aitchison, Head of Archives - UCL Institute of Education - 28th June 2016 Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS (UCL) - 1st November 2016 Masters of Pie (Virtual Reality company) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) |
| Department | Born in Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Department | National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Department | Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | The British Library |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | UK Data Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | Understanding Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | 1958 Birth Cohort/National Child Development Study |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Whitehall II |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University of Westminster |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Longitudinal Communications Network is established, hosted and chaired by CLOSER and is held on a quarterly basis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of the Longitudinal Communications Network discuss common challenges faced within the biomedical and social sciences communications field, share learning, encourage collaboration on communications, and promote best practice. |
| Impact | Members discuss topics including, but not limited to: study participation communications and engagement; communicating scientific research to different audiences; engaging with government and policymakers; monitoring and evaluating communications activities; using marketing and communications tools effectively and ensuring best practice. Guest speakers are often invited to share their expertise and experience to address common or topical challenges in the community |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | MQ Mental Health Research - charity partner for Landscaping international longitudinal datasets project |
| Organisation | MQ Mental Health Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. MQ assisted with landscaping international studies and they led the planning and organisation of a Theory of Change workshop for ensuring a meaningful engagement with various stakeholders about possible enrichment of datasets. This workshop aimed at supporting the delivery of the report, particularly regarding the areas of enrichment. This workshop encouraged discussions with stakeholders about data and what is needed to create a step change in early intervention in anxiety, depression, and psychosis. We sought to hear about what can be achieved, and how. |
| Collaborator Contribution | MQ delivered a full report for the workshop and contributed to landscaping international studies by contacting their international partners. They also support the dissemination of the project. |
| Impact | We submitted the report to Wellcome in February 2023. This report is not publicly available yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | National Core Study: Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing Study |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER has provided analytic input to the National Core Study programme on Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing, working towards enhacing our insights into the impact of COVID-19 and the additional societal factors contributing to this impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided CLOSER with an opportunity to inform and contribute to emerging research on COVID-19. |
| Impact | This collaboraiton is multidisciplinary, encompassing the health and social sciences. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Network: Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each partner shares learning and updates from their work, contribute to joint projects and feedback information to their wider teams. |
| Impact | The network has produced a signicant amount of informal knowledge sharing, and the following formal collaborations: Introduction to research communications: A one-day training workshop aimed primarily at early career researchers. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. Participant engagement in longitudinal studies: A one-day knowledge exchange workshop aimed at any study staff working in this area. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Network: Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each partner shares learning and updates from their work, contribute to joint projects and feedback information to their wider teams. |
| Impact | The network has produced a signicant amount of informal knowledge sharing, and the following formal collaborations: Introduction to research communications: A one-day training workshop aimed primarily at early career researchers. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. Participant engagement in longitudinal studies: A one-day knowledge exchange workshop aimed at any study staff working in this area. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Network: Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each partner shares learning and updates from their work, contribute to joint projects and feedback information to their wider teams. |
| Impact | The network has produced a signicant amount of informal knowledge sharing, and the following formal collaborations: Introduction to research communications: A one-day training workshop aimed primarily at early career researchers. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. Participant engagement in longitudinal studies: A one-day knowledge exchange workshop aimed at any study staff working in this area. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Network: Longitudinal Communications Network |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER established, chairs and hosts this network. We arrange quarterly meetings to share learning and explore ideas for joined up working. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each partner shares learning and updates from their work, contribute to joint projects and feedback information to their wider teams. |
| Impact | The network has produced a signicant amount of informal knowledge sharing, and the following formal collaborations: Introduction to research communications: A one-day training workshop aimed primarily at early career researchers. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. Participant engagement in longitudinal studies: A one-day knowledge exchange workshop aimed at any study staff working in this area. Conceptualised, organised and hosted by the Longitudinal Communications Network. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Participation in Food and Nutrition Research Infrastructure - UK Node |
| Organisation | Insitute of Food Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The national node is part of a wider European submission to be added to ESFRI 2021 Roadmap. Successful inclusion will lead to the development of a bid for formalisation of the National Node. CLOSER has been involved in discussions on the metadata infrastructure and is participating in the the co-ordinating team |
| Collaborator Contribution | The national node is part of a wider European submission to be added to ESFRI 2021 Roadmap. Successful inclusion will lead to the development of a bid for formalisation of the National Node. CLOSER has been involved in discussions on the metadata infrastructure and is participating in the the co-ordinating team |
| Impact | None for far |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in Food and Nutrition Research Infrastructure - UK Node |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The national node is part of a wider European submission to be added to ESFRI 2021 Roadmap. Successful inclusion will lead to the development of a bid for formalisation of the National Node. CLOSER has been involved in discussions on the metadata infrastructure and is participating in the the co-ordinating team |
| Collaborator Contribution | The national node is part of a wider European submission to be added to ESFRI 2021 Roadmap. Successful inclusion will lead to the development of a bid for formalisation of the National Node. CLOSER has been involved in discussions on the metadata infrastructure and is participating in the the co-ordinating team |
| Impact | None for far |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | SSM ECR sub-committee membership |
| Organisation | Society of Social Medicine and Population Health |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Charlotte Campbell is the blog officer on the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSM) sub-committee for Early Career Researchers (ECR). In this role, ECR members of the society and their research are showcased to the wider community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NA |
| Impact | "SSM ECRs featuring..." blog series |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Scientific Advisory Committee - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) project |
| Organisation | University of Groningen |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Rebecca Hardy was invited to sit on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the project funded by the NWO - Working life trajectories of young adults and mental health from a life course perspective. She provides expertise and advice to the research team on life course methods and approaches. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration aims to produce research linking working lives and mental health in young people in the Metherlands. |
| Impact | This is a multidisciplinary project across sociology, epidemiology, occupational health. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Structured Data Transformation Language Working Group (Data Documentation Initiative Alliance) |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The CLOSER Data Harmonisation Lead is an invited member of this working group that has led the adoption of a new standard for the documentation of data processing code by the international Data Documentation Initiative Alliance. CLOSER has provided direct input to the development and promotion of this new standard amongst the research data community in the UK and abroad. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL) Working Group at the Data Documentation Initiative Alliance has helped establish and promote improved standards for the capturing data processing syntax to enhance how data provenance is captured across different statistical programming languages. This collaboration has also provided CLOSER with new research collaborations, which are currently in the process of building new funding applications. |
| Impact | The working group achieved the successful outcome of having the Data Documentation Initiative adopt Structured Data Transformation Language as a new standard for use by data managers and any researcher seeking to adhere to the FAIR principles of scientific data management. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary, bringing together researchers from the social and biomedical sciences, as well as computing and statistics. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Techincal Oversite Commitee |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | UK Data Archive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly Technical oversite meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER Discovery. |
| Impact | The purpose of the group is to; • To provide strategic advice on the technical direction of CLOSER Discovery. • To provide a trouble-shooting function on areas of CLOSER Discovery where issues arise or feedback for improvements are requested. The network has produced a significant amount of informal knowledge sharing across the CLOSER studies. The committee provided advice on metadata standards, software and the direction of CLOSER Discovery including drafting the CLOSER controlled vocabulary (CV) of Topics, and has since proposed changes to the CV which were implemented. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Techincal Oversite Commitee |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly Technical oversite meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER Discovery. |
| Impact | The purpose of the group is to; • To provide strategic advice on the technical direction of CLOSER Discovery. • To provide a trouble-shooting function on areas of CLOSER Discovery where issues arise or feedback for improvements are requested. The network has produced a significant amount of informal knowledge sharing across the CLOSER studies. The committee provided advice on metadata standards, software and the direction of CLOSER Discovery including drafting the CLOSER controlled vocabulary (CV) of Topics, and has since proposed changes to the CV which were implemented. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Techincal Oversite Commitee |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly Technical oversite meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER Discovery. |
| Impact | The purpose of the group is to; • To provide strategic advice on the technical direction of CLOSER Discovery. • To provide a trouble-shooting function on areas of CLOSER Discovery where issues arise or feedback for improvements are requested. The network has produced a significant amount of informal knowledge sharing across the CLOSER studies. The committee provided advice on metadata standards, software and the direction of CLOSER Discovery including drafting the CLOSER controlled vocabulary (CV) of Topics, and has since proposed changes to the CV which were implemented. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Techincal Oversite Commitee |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly Technical oversite meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER Discovery. |
| Impact | The purpose of the group is to; • To provide strategic advice on the technical direction of CLOSER Discovery. • To provide a trouble-shooting function on areas of CLOSER Discovery where issues arise or feedback for improvements are requested. The network has produced a significant amount of informal knowledge sharing across the CLOSER studies. The committee provided advice on metadata standards, software and the direction of CLOSER Discovery including drafting the CLOSER controlled vocabulary (CV) of Topics, and has since proposed changes to the CV which were implemented. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Techincal Oversite Commitee |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Department | Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitate and fund quarterly Technical oversite meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners contribute to the discussion that informs the direction of CLOSER Discovery. |
| Impact | The purpose of the group is to; • To provide strategic advice on the technical direction of CLOSER Discovery. • To provide a trouble-shooting function on areas of CLOSER Discovery where issues arise or feedback for improvements are requested. The network has produced a significant amount of informal knowledge sharing across the CLOSER studies. The committee provided advice on metadata standards, software and the direction of CLOSER Discovery including drafting the CLOSER controlled vocabulary (CV) of Topics, and has since proposed changes to the CV which were implemented. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | The Open Data Institute - Industry partner for Landscaping international longitudinal datasets project |
| Organisation | Open Data Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. The Open Data Institute (ODI) is an independent not-for-profit institute which works with governments and organisations globally to build a world where data works for everyone. They have a proven track record of delivering world-renowned research and engagement projects addressing major health challenges with data, including Wellcome-funded mental health projects and initiatives with industry and government on data access. ODI led on landscaping longitudinal studies outside from the academic sector such as the NHS, government and industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ODI led on landscaping longitudinal studies outside from the academic sector such as the NHS, government and industry. They contributed approximately 250 longitudinal datasets to the pool of datasets we identified for this project. |
| Impact | We submitted our report to Wellcome in February 2023. This report is not publicly available yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER's data harmonisation theme lead has been providing direct support and guidance (in the form of a secondment) on the development of a new harmonised cross-study dataset that will form part of the recently established UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration has highlighted the role of CLOSER in its work and is reimbursing CLOSER for the resources shared through the secondment |
| Impact | A data harmoniation protocol (providing instruction on best practice in longitudinal data harmonisation) has been drafted as a working paper. CLOSER's data harmonisation lead has also delivered short talks at meetings involving the UK longitudinal study community. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, encompassing the health and social sciences. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UK Reproducibility Network |
| Organisation | UK Reproducibility Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER is an Affiliate Stakeholder in UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN). CLOSER staff have attended UKRN meetings including the UKRN Annual Meeting. CLOSER is in discussion with UKRN about holding a joint meeting to showcase CLOSER resources and how they can aid reproducibility in research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CLOSER is listed as an Affiliate Stakeholder on the UKRN website. UKRN have offered to co-host a meeting with CLOSER to to showcase CLOSER resources and how they can aid reproducibility in research. |
| Impact | UKRN aim is to understand the factors that contribute to poor research reproducibility and replicability, and to develop approaches to counter these. As this affects research across all disciplines, UKRN has a broad disciplinary representation. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UKRI Mental Health Networks |
| Organisation | Mental Health Research Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | In 2018, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) funded 8 mental health research networks. These networks are formed of academics, clinicians, 3rd sector representatives and those with lived experience, amongst others. They tackle a variety of mental health research subjects, ranging from youth mental health to violence and abuse, to loneliness and social isolation. The networks embrace a collaborative ethos, bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including technology, health, medicine, biology, social sciences, humanities and environmental sciences. In autumn 2022, the Mental Health Research Matters team launched a digital conversation about why mental health research matters, what good mental health research looks like and how we can all get involved to make a difference. |
| Collaborator Contribution | I am Chair of the Network Advisory Group. |
| Impact | The Networks website lists all activities, outputs and outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Understanding Patient Data (UPD) supporter |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Department | Understanding Patient Data |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER signed up as one of the organisations supporting the work of Understanding Patient Data (UPD), sharing information and engaging with their membership to help develop the team's ideas and resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Helping to develop Understanding Patient Data's ideas and resources and sharing information, for example, case studies. |
| Impact | Publication of a case study of research comparing data from longitudinal research with Hospital Episode Statistics featuring one of the CLOSER studies (the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children): https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/case-study/investigating-self-harm-young-people |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Cambridge |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER funds and facilitates the quarterly scientific leadership team meetings that bring together all the PI's of the CLOSER studies. CLOSER funds and facilitates the Executive Group meetings. Allows Cambridge to be a partner giving access to CLOSER's training and capacity building work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at leadership team meetings and the expertise from Professor Anna Vignoles in: Biomedical and social science research using cohort and other population data; research translation to ensure that cohort research outcomes are used for societal benefit; data linkage; data harmonisation and advocating the role of cohort studies in past, present and future policy debates |
| Impact | Contribution to the quarterly Leadership Team meetings. Anna Vignoles provides the role of 'senior user' in the leadership team. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Wellcome Secretariat |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CLOSER's data harmonisation lead contributed to the analysis group of the Wellcome Secretariat |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Wellcome Secretariat provided CLOSER with an opportunity to contribute to the steer of its work |
| Impact | This work has fed into the National Core Studies Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing research programme on COVID-19, in which CLOSER has continued to be involved. This collaboration was multi-disciplinary, encompassing the health and social sciences. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health - SAB member |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Department | Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health is a dedicated interdisciplinary research centre focusing on reducing anxiety and depression in young people. It uses research expertise to focus on understanding the causes of adolescent mental health problems that can inform new effective ways to offer practical help to young people. |
| Collaborator Contribution | I am a member of the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health Scientific Advisory Board |
| Impact | The centre's webite lists all ongoing activities, outputs and outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Title | Archivist |
| Description | Archivist is designed to lower the barriers to documenting data collection instruments such as survey questionnaires and link that to data outputs in DDI Lifecycle |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/archivist |
| Title | CLOSER Discovery platform |
| Description | Search and discovery platform for metadata from nine longitudinal studies |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | a. Webinar with 50+ attendees, from a range of organisations, in UK, including government (Department of Health), third sector organisations (NSPCC), government agencies (Public Health Observatory), and international organisations (Research Data Centre (Canada), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Finnish Data Archive. The attendees were predominantly research data professionals. b. Expressions of interest and enquiries from international organisations wishing to carry out similar work utilising our workflows, e,g IPUMS and USC Stevens Neuro-imaging and Informatics Institute c. Webinar with 90+ attendees from 60+ organisations The spread of organisations both in the UK and internationally was much wider, whilst universities were the main attenders, a third were from mainly international Archives, commercial organisations, government (DfE), NHS, funders independent research organisations and from the House of Commons Library. A third of attendees were from research data professionals, in contrast to the previous webinar there was significant interest from researchers (33%) and also 16 post graduate students.The range of disciplines attending also increased from the previous webinar with a stronger interest from biomedical related areas. d. Requirements for the platform have led to some important improvements in the DDI metadata standard that will be incorporated into the next version. e. CLOSER Discovery is used as one of the main examples of successful implementation of the DDI Lifecycle standard and its use in promoting research resources in presentations by the DDI Alliance. CLOSER has been invited to contribute to a number of these events, for instance at the ICPSR Data Fair. |
| URL | http://discovery.closer.ac.uk |
| Title | CLOSER Metadata Integration Environment |
| Description | Metadata Integration Environment uses Colectica's SDK to update and maintain Colectica Repository to CLOSER's standards |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/CMIE |
| Title | CLOSER Repository Ingester |
| Description | Ingests DDI 3.2 XML from Archivist and SledgeHammer into Colectica Repository |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/CLOSER-Repository-Ingester |
| Title | CLS Abridged DDI Editor for Surveys (CADDIES) |
| Description | This website edits survey metadata held in a relational database. The database schema (architecture) is based on the ddi3 xml schema, ddi3.1 for Caddies v0.11, ddi3.2 for Caddies v0.12 onwards. This means that duplication is held to a minimum and that editable fields for a given object are usually set by reference to objects in another table, in practice through menu options. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | The CLOSER metadata search platform has a number of key inputs, questionnaire, data, study and data collection metadata. CADDIES is the tool used to input metadata captured from questionnaires and in particular paper forms. CADDIES is the most efficient methods of entering this information, for the purposes of this project. The project would not have been able to capture the metadata in the time and resources available with any other tool. |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/caddies |
| Title | Colectica API framework |
| Description | The software provides a python interface for harvesting different metadata item types from a Colectica Repository |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The software has been used to support two projects one funded by ESRC, the other by STFC |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/colectica_api |
| Title | DDI 3.2 Questionnaire Profile |
| Description | XML schema profile for sub-setting DDI3.2 for use in CLOSER search platform |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | a. Definition of minimum outputs from IBM Data Collector for Survey Agencies IPSOS-MORI, Natcen for supply of machine readable outputs of data collection. b. Endorsement for profile from a range of international organisations, including ICPSR, Australian Data Archive, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and Survey Research Operations, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research (http://www.ddialliance.org/survey-metadata-reusability-and-exchange-a-call-to-action-for-questionnaire-documentation) c. Adoption of profile by ONS for the development of the Questionnaire Capture system |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/ddiprofile |
| Title | Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets |
| Description | We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. A part pf this project we identified more than 3,000 longitudinal datasets worldwide and made a list freely available on our website. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The website was a successful way to engage with people outside the partnership and to share information with them. On February 2023, we recorded over 4,400 visits and more than 6,400 page views from people based in 76 different countries. Wellcome is interested in developing this website into a platform to increase the discoverability of longitudinal datasets. |
| URL | https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/ |
| Title | Longitudinal comparison of questions and variables |
| Description | The software enables a user to create using a range of search patterns comparable questions and variables within a Study or across studies which are held in Colectica repository |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/Equivalences |
| Title | Mapper |
| Description | Web based tool for mapping questions and variables, and question and variables to topics, for ingest into a metadata repository |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | Increased efficiency of ingest of metadata into CLOSER metadata repository |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/mapper |
| Title | Puma README |
| Description | Produced from CLOSER Work Package 12 - Puma is a pipeline to mine academic publication metadata, creating a valuable research object and visual analytics from a research project publication list. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool has been promoted at conferences both in the UK and abroad - for example, at the RDA Plenaries conference in Montreal Canada in 2017. |
| URL | https://github.com/OllyButters/puma |
| Title | Social media linkage software |
| Description | The software facilitates the secure linkage and sharing of information derived from social media data in UK birth cohorts. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software facilitates the secure linkage and sharing of information derived from social media data in UK birth cohorts, providing high-resolution time series data on participants' real-life social interactions that can be processed to provide anonymised datasets available to researchers. This enriches the data available to cohorts, but also facilitates the improvement of algorithms for inferring information from social media data through linkage to high quality ground truth data in well characterised epidemiological cohorts. |
| URL | https://github.com/DynamicGenetics/Epicosm |
| Title | Software for Probabalistic Anonymisation |
| Description | Individual-level data require protection from unauthorised access to safeguard confidentiality and security of sensitive information. Risks of disclosure are evaluated through privacy risk assessments and are controlled or minimised before data sharing and integration. The evolution from 'Micro Data Laboratory' traditions (i.e. access in controlled physical locations) to 'Open Data' (i.e. sharing individual-level data) drives the development of efficient anonymisation methods and protection controls. Effective anonymisation techniques should increase the uncertainty surrounding re-identification while retaining data utility, allowing informative data analysis. 'Probabilistic anonymisation' is one such technique, which alters the data by addition of random noise. The software is designed to be used by data managers and users without the requirement of advanced statistical knowledge. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This is proof of principle software which is now being used in a Wellcome Trust funded project to develop efficient and transparent record linkage methodologies. The authors intend to apply for further funding to develop the software into a more fully featured package. |
| URL | http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/478 |
| Title | The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Description | The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures is designed to provide easy access to information about the mental health measures included in British cohort and longitudinal studies to maximise the uptake of existing data and facilitate mental health research. By providing details of the measures and studies, the catalogue serves as a resource for researchers: 1) Identifying datasets that include mental health and wellbeing measures; 2) Planning harmonisation studies; and 3) Planning further data collection. The resource is also intended for researchers who may be less familiar with mental health or from other disciplines - demographers, economists, urbanist, linguists and others. To support these researchers, the Catalogue also provides information about additional training and support for conducting longitudinal mental health research The catalogue does: Provide a search engine for finding mental health and wellbeing measures collected in existing UK longitudinal studies Present detailed information about mental health and wellbeing measures, including items, response scales, informants and reporting period Highlight statistical properties of standard measures of mental health and wellbeing Cover longitudinal and cohort studies, as well as repeated cross-sectional studies Focus on UK studies and cohorts (for now!) Point to data access policies for each study Signpost resources to support users in conducting longitudinal mental health research, including statistical courses and online training Connect users to a panel of experts in conducting mental health research (coming soon!) |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Greater visibility and discoverability of mental health measures collected by longitudinal and cohort studies New in 2022: Now have 51 studies on the Catalogue for users to discover Physical health topics to encourage research into the link between mental and physical health Social care filters to encourage research into the links between mental health problems and social care Item level detail from Covid-19 data collection Addition of an FAQs page so users can navigate the Catalogue more easily. |
| URL | https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Tipi |
| Description | Tipi provides CLOSER Topic predictions-as-a-service using variable labels. Using deep learning trained on metadata from CLOSER's repository, future variables to be added to Discovery or other metadata repositories can be automatically tagged. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Further time savings are capable for CLOSER's metadata and data enhancement programme. Tipi will reduce the workload of tagging variables from new studies to be added to Discovery by 90%. |
| URL | https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/tipi |
| Description | 'The Devil is in the Detail': Assessment and Harmonisation of Cognitive Measures in British Birth Cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference 2019. University of Potsdam, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-conference-2019/ |
| Description | 2021 Research Methods e-Festival: Accelerating impact and public good from research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This panel session brings together members of the civil service and statistics community to discuss their experiences of working with Government; Academia and public; private and third sector organisations to support and promote their research which benefits the economy and society.With expertise covering the full lifecycle of research using linked administrative; business and survey data; this panel will cover topics including the understanding public good; the importance of qualitative and quantitative impact; supporting early career researchers and engaging with policy makers and government.Panel members:Nick O'Donnell; Head of Secure Research Service Policy; Operations; Relations and Impact; Office for National StatisticsMary Cowan; Research Specialist; Office for Statistics RegulationRob Davies; UCL and Head of the COVID-19 Taskforce; CLOSERNeil Dymond-Green; Service Director; Impact; UK Data ServiceChair: James Spurr; Senior Impact Manager; Office for National Statistics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMeF2021/programme/show.php?event=30 |
| Description | 2021 Research Methods e-Festival: What is the CLOSER Learning Hub? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This session provides a demonstration of the CLOSER Learning Hub and how it can help students to use data from longitudinal studies for their dissertation. The format comprises a short introductory video (15 mins); followed by a live demonstration with interactive exercises for participants (20 mins) and a Q&A session (15 mins). The session will look in-depth at the Learning Hub's resources - learning modules; data discovery; research case studies - and how they can be applied to research for a self-led undergraduate dissertation. From understanding the benefits of longitudinal research and how it can be used to answer research questions; to accessing datasets from longitudinal studies and thinking about analysing and writing up your research; this introductory session will provide a clear guide for students considering using longitudinal studies in their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMeF2021/programme/show.php?event=22 |
| Description | 5 new things you can now find through CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the content update to CLOSER Discovery, Dr Hayley Mills highlighted five new things users can now find through the platform and describes the possibilities this opens up for researchers. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 89 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/5-new-things-in-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | A DDI Primer: An overview and examples of DDI in action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar organised as part of a wider engagement activity with users of the ICPSR Data Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/datafair/ |
| Description | A day in life -blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | blog post taking the reader through a day of my PhD viva. The blog has been reposted on CLS website, and is available at https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/dr-bozena-wielgoszewska-awarded-for-developing-new-approaches-to-research-impact/. To date the post has had 120 views on the UKDS website and on the CLS website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/a-day-in-the-life-bozena-wielgoszewska/ |
| Description | A misspent youth? How new technology is shedding light on what teenagers do all day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To coincide with the new MCS time use diary and accelerometer data release, Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) Survey Manager, Dr Emily Gilbert discussed how the use of new technology has enabled CLS to gain new insights into the lives of the millennial generation. This blog was cross-posted from the CLS website. As of 8 March, the blog has been viewed 18 times on the CLOSER website and 126 times on the CLS website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/blog-misspent-youth-technology-shedding-light-teenagers-d... |
| Description | ARMA / ONS webinar: Accelerating impact from research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In January 2022, members of the Office for National Statistics Secure Research Service (SRS) and Research Partnership teams, hosted a webinar with ARMA to discuss the challenges facing researchers looking to engage with policy makers and evidence societal and economic impact from their research using secure data. The webinar was attended by 60 delegates, representing 34 universities as well as research organisations from the private and public sectors. Rob Davies, Knowledge Mobiliser for the Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER) at UCL and Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) Fellow for the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit, discussed the growing need for Government departments and Parliamentary Select Committees to diversify stakeholder engagement, especially within the academic sector. The expansion of Areas of Research Interest into Parliamentary Select Committees has opened up opportunities for researchers to engage with policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://arma.ac.uk/working-with-the-office-for-national-statistics-accelerating-impact-from-research... |
| Description | ATI/BL/SSI Software Citation Workshop, May 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER Discovery uses DDI-Lifecycle (http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/) to provide persistent identifiers at the variable level enabling the provenance of data. Contextual metadata about the way in which the data was collected can also be used in assessing and documenting the decisions software makes about data processing and for its use in computation and analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | About CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at University of Oxford Department of Sociology focused on CLOSER's outputs and how they might be of interest to academics and students. 14 November 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | About CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk about CLOSER for staff and students at LSE's Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion 23 November 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Accessing and using 'real-world' study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the UK Data Service, CLOSER ran an open-access course on accessing and analysing longitudinal study data throughout March 2022. The course included three live webinars. As of 9 March, 216 people have registered for the course and 82 attended the first live webinar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/accessing-and-using-real-world-study-data-2022/ |
| Description | Accessing and using 'real-world' study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the UK Data Service, we designed and delivered a new open-access course on accessing and analysing longitudinal study data. 175 participants took part as of 10th June 2020, with the course remaining open for new participants. Feedback from the participants in this course was very positive with 80% of respondents rating the course 'excellent' or 'good' overall. A majority of participants said that the workshop had increased their knowledge of statistics and improved their confidence in carrying out statistical analysis. Participant feedback following the course underlined the participants' strong motivation to further develop their knowledge and skills on using and analysing longitudinal data, with many stating they would be 'quite likely' or 'very likely' to attend further sessions covering more advanced techniques. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://extend.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=655 |
| Description | Accessing transaction records for linkage in longitudinal cohort studies: how can researchers safeguard participants? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kate Shiells, Research Associate at the University of Bristol wrote a blog highlighting findings from a project exploring attitudes to sharing transaction records for linkage in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The blog covers what was learnt from the project, and how the findings could provide researchers with safeguards for recruiting and involving participants in similar projects. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 115 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/accessing-transaction-records-linkage-longitudinal-cohort... |
| Description | Advice provided to external academic unit (National Archive on Computerised Data on Aging) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A number of meetings with NACDA were held to discuss the development of methods for representing harmonised data in longitudinal studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Advice provided to external academic unit (SciencesPo, CDSP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A session was held with SciencesPo, CDSP to provide advice and support on best practice for the development of and maintenance of a metadata repository |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Advice provided to external academic unit (SciencesPo, Ethnic and Minority Migration Project) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A session was held with SciencesPo, Ethnic and Minority Migration Project to provide advice and support on best practice for the development of and maintenance of a question bank on minority ethnic questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Advice provided to government department (Central Statistical Office - Ireland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A session was held with CSO Ireland to provide advice and support on best practice for the development of and maintenance of a metadata repository |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Advisory Group on Public Dialogue on the potential for an Administrative Data Spine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An expert advisory group to help design a public dialogue exercise aiming to test public understanding and acceptability of an Administrative Data Spine for longitudinal research, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Alcohol consumption in adolescence and early adult life: What are the consequences? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The symposium opened up the dialogue between longitudinal researchers, policy makers and third sector organisations who are leading thinking in this area. By including speakers from both research and policy, it aimed to share the latest evidence on alcohol consumption among young people, review current and future policy priorities in this area, and to identify gaps in the evidence base. Networks made with policy makers and good feedback |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/alcohol-consumption-adolescence-early-adult-life-consequences/ |
| Description | Alison Park: shedding light on life outcomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park, Director of CLOSER, was some questions about the project and that's been made available on the ESRC website. The result would be a wider audience will know about CLOSER. The ESRC website will have a large volume of visitors to their website. It's hoped that people unaware of CLOSER may have visited the page and taken an interest in the project. This could increase visits to our website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/50-years-of-ESRC/outlook-at-50/alison-park.aspx |
| Description | All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG): Conception to Age Two |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The APPG Conception to Age Two chaired by Tim Loughton MP was established in 2013 to promote a holistic approach to the antenatal and postnatal periods, with specific regard to the early years and infant mental health; to hold evidence-based inquiries into best practice for an infant's first 1001 critical days to help policymakers make informed decisions on provision in this period; and to uphold cross-party consensus for this age group. The focus of this meeting was The Children and Young People's Mental Health Green Paper 'Transforming children and young people's mental health: Green Paper' issued by the Department of Education and the Department of Health in December 2017. The intended purpose for CLOSER was to highlight the longitudinal evidence in this area of inquiry to a wide range of parliamentarians and policymakers. Outcomes included a citation in the meeting minutes, requests about further information and participation and plans made for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.pipuk.org.uk/sites/default/files/Minutes%20APPG%200-2%20Jan%202018_0.pdf |
| Description | All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) Annual Dinner 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited by The Baroness Cumberlege CBE DL to attend a private dinner in the House of Lords. The All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) Annual Dinner is an opportunity to bring together APHG Officers, Advisors and Associate members to thank their supporters and discuss the future work of the group. The APHG is a high-level forum of cross-party parliamentarians and senior leaders in healthcare. It is dedicated to providing a cross-party forum for debate and engagement on health policy issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/ |
| Description | All-Party Parliamentary Health Group and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics roundtable on Health, Data and Public Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) is an all-party forum dedicated to disseminating knowledge, generating debate and facilitating engagement on health issues amongst Members of Parliament. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics is a cross-party group established by Daniel Zeichner MP to connect Parliament with business, academia and civil society to promote better policy making on big data and data analytics. During this roundtable event panel speakers discussed the potential that effective data management presents for innovation, research, patient care and staff efficiency. Panel speakers included Professor Emla Fitzsimons, CLOSER Director, UCL Social Research Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events/health-data-and-public-trust |
| Description | An Application of Search Engine Topics Through the Use of DDI-3.2 Concepts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation opened up further discussion on dissemination of processes which can assist efficiency of delivery of metadata |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi17/paper/view/295 |
| Description | An outline framework for the efficient onward-sharing of linked Longitudinal Study and NHS Digital records. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented the findings of the joint CLOSER - NHS Digital work to identify methods to onwardly share linked health records. The audience included PI's of cohort studies and regulators (UK Statistics Authority). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ijpds.org/adr2019 |
| Description | Article 'Cutting through the noise: mobilising data and generating impact during a global pandemic' in The Journal of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rob Davies, Head of the CLOSER COVID-19 Taskforce was invited to write an article for The Journal of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee on COVID-19 LPS data, research and evidence. The primary readership of this journal is Parliamentarians and parliamentary staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.scienceinparliament.org.uk/publications/science-in-parliament/ |
| Description | Article about survey and administrative data linkage in Social Research Association News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wrote an article about data linkage and how the social research community needed to engage with the Digital Economy Bill. It was printed in the December 2016 Social Research Association magazine (print only). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Article in Science in Parliament Journal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Following the response to CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce from senior parliamentarians and policy makers, the Head of CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce was invited to write an article for the Science in Parliament Journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.scienceinparliament.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sip-winter-2020-1.pdf |
| Description | Article on 'Data Skills for the 21st Century' featured in the AESIS newsletter (September edition) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on 'Data Skills for the 21st Century' written by Rob Davies featured in the September 2019 edition of the AESIS (Network for Advancing & Advancing the Societal Impacts of Science) newsletter. This article covered aspects of the ESRC Longitudinal Studies Strategic Review, highlighted CLOSER's review of training needs, and showcased the CLOSER Learning Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/3cec1320328a/aesis-sept19newsletter-1023523 |
| Description | Article on 'Evidence Informed Policy'' featured as a highlight of the year in the AESIS newsletter (December edition) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on evidence informed policy written by Rob Davies featured in the December 2019 edition of the AESIS (Network for Advancing & Advancing the Societal Impacts of Science) newsletter as one of the highlights of the year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/83746498f3d8/december19 |
| Description | BRHS Documenting data in searchable formats |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting discussed collaboration with Bristish Regional Heart Study |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Berlin EDDI Sprint |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint Technical Committee and DDI 4 Development Sprint focusing on the DDI Roadmap for 3.3 and DDI 4 post-prototype work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/620691457/Berlin+EDDI+Sprint+-+2018 |
| Description | Best practices for infrastructure development and data curation: accelerating timely and appropriate access to key research datasets Roundtable meeting convened by the Expert Advisory Group on Data Access (EAGDA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in this roundtable on 11/10/2016. The day covered: current challenges for data repositories; perspectives from the user community; towards a sustainable infrastructure for cohort and longitudinal studies; the way ahead - actions for funders. With around 30 invited participants, the roundtable was a day of focused discussion, which aimed to identify and understand the challenges for data infrastructures of managing data from cohort and longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Better survey data management with metadata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event provided an overview of best practice in using metadata to enhance data management processes.The slides have been made available on the project website TThe event was well attended and the slides have been downloaded several times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/better-survey-data-management-with-metadata/ |
| Description | Birmingham city-wide intergenerational birth cohort meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Birmingham City Council are in the early stages of establishing a city-wide intergenerational birth cohort to take place in Birmingham following up from the Commonwealth Games 2022. The draft aims of the cohort are to: • To understand the impact of the Commonwealth Games on children and their families • To evaluate the impact of actions to reduce the impact of the ' cost of living crisis' on Birmingham's population • To understand the impact of national, regional and city wide policies on health inequalities on families and communities • To inform regional and city wide decision making • To provide a comparator to cities/ statistical neighbours i.e. Bradford, Bristol • To build collaboration between Universities in Birmingham • To attract research funding into the City The team at Birmingham City Council met the CLOSER Leadership Group to discuss the project and how to link into the CLOSER network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog for CLOSER "What? Who? And, how?: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies" Following the launch of a new online catalogue which documents existing mental health and wellbeing measures collected by over 30 UK cohort and longitudinal studies, two of the platform's creators - Louise Arseneault and Bridget Bryan - showcase the search engine's potential for maximising the take-up of mental health measures in future longitudinal research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/discovering-the-depths-of-mental-health-data |
| Description | Blog - Arseneault 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wrote a blog to launch a new project Landscaping international longitudinal datasets "Landscaping longitudinal datasets from across the world for creating a step change in early intervention in anxiety, depression and psychosis" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/blog/blog-la |
| Description | Blog Discover the future - discussing the added benefits of CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A blog reporting on the progress of the search platform as well as setting out the benefits of CLOSER Discovery. At the time of submission, the blog had 153 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/discoverability-data-blog/ |
| Description | Blog Legacy metadata to future research - my journey to Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Blog describing how CLOSER Discovery can benefit early career researchers. At the time of submission, the blog had 89 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/legacy-metadata-future-research/ |
| Description | Blog contributor for Social Finance - Blending data and disciplines to improve youth mental health (Arseneault, 2022). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written for Social Finance, discussing 'Blending data and disciplines to improve youth mental health'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog for Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition. Sowing the seeds for mental health research. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog written discussing the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, what it does and how it can be used. Written by Georgia Andrews (placement student), published on the Coalition website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog for the Mental Elf. Infrastructures fit for purpose? The complex challenges in sharing mental health data (Arseneault, 2022). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written for the mental Elf discussing the complexities of sharing mental health data, and potential solutions for this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog for the UK Data Service. Harvesting mental health data from 9 decades of cohort and longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures (Arseneault, 2021). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog describing the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, how to use it and what it does. Written for UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blog introducing the CLOSER International project hosted on the CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A blog reporting on the plans for CLOSER International, and the general importance of data discoverability. Introduced the plans for the Atlas Catalogue, so it also set the scene for future developments in the project and the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/closer-international-data-discoverability-borders/ |
| Description | Blog on Boyhood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This was a blog about longitudinal studies in general to increase visitors on the website. Tweeted about during the Oscars ceremony and was retweeted many times. The blog post was also one of the most visited pages on the website during that month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2014/blog-boyhood-2/ |
| Description | Blog on the challenges and opportunities of cross-study data harmonisation hosted on the CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog reporting on the ideas presented and learning obtained about cross-study harmonisation at a CLOSER training event held at the University of Manchester, disseminated via the CLOSER website, Twitter, and CLOSER email newsletters. At the time of submission, the blog had 165 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/crossstudy-research-overcoming-obstacles-uncovering-oppor... |
| Description | Blog on the new analysis training content on the CLOSER Learning HUB hosted on the CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This blog was published to outline and promote the new module on the statistical analysis of longitudinal data that was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub. It was disseminated via the CLOSER website and received international attention as well as achieving impact on Twitter (both in the form of feedback and retweets). Interest was shown in the form of requests for additional content in future updates. At the time of submission, the blog had 127 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/longitudinal-data-analysis-module/ |
| Description | Blog: "How tall are you? And what's that in metric?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To promote Rebecca Hardy's CLOSER funded work harmonising measures of BMI across generation, Rebecca wrote a blog about the issues around harmonising data. The blog also promoted the deposit of a harmonised dataset at the UK Data Service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/tall-whats-metric/ |
| Description | Blog: ALSPAC cohort members provide invaluable input into the development of digital footprint linkage frameworks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Digital footprint records - the tracks and traces we leave behind every time we interact with the internet, digital devices, and services - have great potential to enhance longitudinal population studies as they provide very granular data, are collected at a rapid cadence, and give insights into our behaviours. In this blog, Kate Shiells (former Research Associate at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit) and Andy Boyd (Director of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration) explore their latest research, analysing feedback from study participants on the use of such data. The blog was published on 18 March 2022 and, as of 13 Feb 2023, has been viewed 72 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/alspac-cohort-members-provide-invaluable-input-into-the/ |
| Description | Blog: Blood, sweat and tears: creating the CLOSER biomarker catalogue |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the CLOSER blog Dr Milagros Ruiz and Professor Meena Kumari promote their CLOSER biomarker catalogue, a collection of all the biomarker measures available across the CLOSER studies. Meena argues that they provide a wealth of evidence that, until now, has been difficult to access by longitudinal researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2018/closer-biomarker-catalogue-published-2/ |
| Description | Blog: Building the CLOSER metadata search platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog provided an update to the consortium on the reasons behind making the CLOSER metadata search platform The blog has been read several times on the website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2015/building-closer-metadata-search-platform/ |
| Description | Blog: Collecting data with new technologies - valuable for research, or are we just collecting data for the sake of it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the CLOSER blog researcher Annette Jäckle cautions that before we rush headlong into adopting new technologies to help with survey data collection we need to recognise and address the new challenges they bring with them. The blog continues the discussion of the issues raised at CLOSER's workshop 'New technologies to measure non-health topics in longitudinal studies'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2018/collecting-data-technologies-valuable-resource-research-c... |
| Description | Blog: Defining the modern family |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Longitudinal studies are an invaluable resource for answering such questions, and monitoring whether the answers change for different generations of Britons. But they also present a challenge - harmonising measures of family composition over time and across studies. In this blog, Ian Plewis, of the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, talks about the challenges he and his colleague Pierre Walthery faced in determining how measures of family composition might be harmonised across UK longitudinal studies as part of the ESRC-funded eStat project. The purpose of this blog is to share learning on the opportunities and challenges of data harmonisation. The blog has had 32 views from across the UK, Europe and the US. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2015/defining-modern-family/ |
| Description | Blog: Developing training resources for researchers - reflections on my CLOSER internship |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Matan-Elle Cohen completed a three-month internship with CLOSER's Training and Capacity Building team in the summer of 2022. In this blog, Matan-Elle reflects on her time with the team and introduction to longitudinal population study research. This blog was published on 8 November 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it's been viewed 93 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/developing-training-resources-for-researchers-reflections-on-... |
| Description | Blog: Do young people's attitudes to alcohol make them more likely to be violent when drinking? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Carly Lightowlers, a lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University (School of Law), investigated the connection between drinking and disorder in Britain. The blog supported her presentation at the CLOSER alcohol symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2013/young-peoples-attitudes-alcohol-violent-drinking/ |
| Description | Blog: Empowering social and biomedical researchers with a new tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In the third of our standardised scales project blog series, Le Phuong Mai Pham reflects on her internship with the CLOSER Discovery team and her work to help facilitate comparative longitudinal research. This blog was published on 23 November 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it's been viewed 112 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/empowering-social-and-biomedical-researchers-with-a-new/ |
| Description | Blog: Finding data: Jane Elliott's directory of cohort directories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jane Elliott, previous Director of CLOSER, wrote some brief reflections following the MRC Population Cohort Strategy Workshop, London 6th March 2013. The blog investigated the various directories of cohort studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2013/finding-data-jane-elliotts-directory-cohort-directories/ |
| Description | Blog: From CRF to CLOSER - charting the first 10-years of the home of longitudinal research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In our first ever 'long-read', Rob Davies marks our 10-year anniversary with a look back over the past decade and how we've evolved from the early days of the Cohort Resources Facility into CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research. This blog was published on 15 December 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it's been viewed 224 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/charting-10-years-closer/ |
| Description | Blog: Generation Gifted: enriching longitudinal evidence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Heather Joshi, founder of the Millennium Cohort Study, argued on the CLOSER blog that while personal stories contain a depth of detail that cannot be collected on a grand scale, statistical evidence provides the background against which exceptional cases can be seen in wider perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2018/blog-generation-gifted/ |
| Description | Blog: Greater use of new technology to collect data can revolutionise longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the CLOSER blog Dr Andy Skinner and Chris Stone suggest that new technology has the potential to transform health data collection in the longitudinal community - and that there are already promising signs of this among early adopters. The blog follows on from the successful CLOSER workshop 'New technology and novel methods for capturing health-related data in longitudinal and cohort studies'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2018/new-technology-collect-data-revolutionise-longitudinal-st... |
| Description | Blog: Have Your Say on CODATA's Research Data Management Terminology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, CLOSER's Metadata Officer, Becky Oldroyd, introduces CODATA's Research Data Management (RDM) Terminology - a resource of over 300 clearly defined research terms designed to unite the RDM community - and highlights how you can participate in the public review process. This blog was published on 23 August 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it's been viewed 138 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/codata-rdm-terminology/ |
| Description | Blog: How longitudinal analysis helps us understand why the younger generation's living standards are faltering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts gave the keynote speech at the 2017 CLOSER conference on 1 November. Here, he explains on the CLOSER blog how longitudinal analysis helps us expand our understanding of intergenerational differences and where policy to address these might focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/giving-children-regular-bedtimes-stops-jet-lag/ |
| Description | Blog: In search of standardised scales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In the second of our blog series focusing on standardised scales, Eliška Herinková reflects on her time working as a CLOSER intern and discusses how publishing standardised scales in CLOSER Discovery can benefit researchers. This blog was published on 26 October 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 113 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/in-search-of-standardised-scales/ |
| Description | Blog: Launching an important piece of UK research infrastructure - the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Robin Flaig introduces the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) which provides a new way of working for record linkages in longitudinal research. It's a four-nations interdisciplinary infrastructure for secure cross-cohort analysis - with regularly refreshed linkages of COVID-19-relevant health records. The blog was published on 4 April 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it's been viewed 236 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/launching-an-important-piece-of-uk-research-infrastructure/ |
| Description | Blog: Living with uncertainty - The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on Born in Bradford families |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this COVID-19 Perspectives blog, Claire McIvor, Kirsty Crossley, and Bridget Lockyer detail Born in Bradford's response to the pandemic, explore key findings, and reflect on what can be learnt from the experiences of the BiB families. The blog was published on 31 March 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 233 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/living-with-uncertainty-the-impact-of-covid-19/ |
| Description | Blog: Missing those harder-to-reach - It's time to make increased use of population data to bolster research equity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andy Boyd (Director at the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration) calls for appropriate use of population data to improve inclusiveness in longitudinal research. In this blog, he explains his recently published findings for an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) commissioned report into Population Data for Inclusive Research. This blog was published on 28 March 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 143 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/missing-harder-to-reach/ |
| Description | Blog: New report reveals the power of cohort studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Alissa Goodman, Principal Investigator of the National Child Development Study, wrote a blog about how the report 'Greater Expectations: Raising expectations for our children' published by the National Children's Bureau (NCB), highlights the effects on children of the huge increase in relative poverty that has taken place over the last half century in Britain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2013/report-reveals-power-cohort-studies/ |
| Description | Blog: Overcoming 'researchers' block': using the CLOSER Learning Hub Research Case Studies for your research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER Research Fellow, Neil Kaye showcases how the Learning Hub and its series of case studies can help your research journey. This blog was published on 15 November 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it's been viewed 105 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/overcoming-researchers-block-using-the-closer-learning-hub/ |
| Description | Blog: Parental separation and adult psychological distress - why does this association exist and how has it changed over time? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rebecca Lacey, research associate at the International Centre for Life Course Studies (ICLS), discussed the part of her PhD thesis examining - Why is parental separation associated with increased reporting of psychological distress in adulthood for some children? How has this changed over time? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2012/parental-separation-adult-psychological-distress-associati... |
| Description | Blog: Participant engagement in longitudinal studies: A knowledge exchange workshop` |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Caroline Knowles, the Communications Manager at Young Lives - Oxford Department of International Development, provided an overview of CLOSER's Participant Engagement Knowledge Exchange Workshop held in January 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/participant-engagement-in-longitudinal-studies-a-knowledge... |
| Description | Blog: Pioneers in data discoverability - the CLOSER metadata search platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Rob Davies charts our CLOSER Discovery journey, from its initial aims and development, to challenges faced and innovative solutions found. The blog was published on 7 June 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 249 times. It is the most read blog on the CLOSER website since 18 March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/pioneers-in-data-discoverability-the-closer-metadata-search/ |
| Description | Blog: Scaling up CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Standardised scales are a commonly used tool in quantitative research. In this blog, CLOSER's Metadata Officer, Becky Oldroyd, highlights the benefits and challenges of using these scales, along with CLOSER's plan to create and disseminate standardised scale metadata on the UK's most detailed search engine for longitudinal population studies: CLOSER Discovery. This blog was the first in a series of CLOSER blogs exploring standardised scales. It was published on 26 September 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 234 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/scaling-up-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | Blog: Studying area effects: How the old neighbourhood may shape our old age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog on the CLOSER website which examined the affects of living in certain areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Blog: The Myth of the Working Mother |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Heather Joshi, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the UCL Institute of Education, investigated the question of what happens to children whose mothers go out to work. The blog was reposted on the IOE London Blog. The blog supported a presentation by Heather at the launch of the Campaign for Social Sciences 'Making the case for longitudinal studies' booklet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2013/myth-working-mother/ |
| Description | Blog: The Wirral Child Health and Development Study joins CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To mark the Wirral Child Health and Development Study (WCHADS) joining CLOSER Discovery, Stuart Kehl, WCHADS Research Technician introduces the study, recent findings, and COVID-19 response. This blog was published on 12 July 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 167 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/the-wirral-child-health-and-development-study-joins/ |
| Description | Blog: The disadvantage gap - children of austerity or children of adversity? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Dr Neil Kaye discusses his research examining the socioeconomic attainment gap in England from a cumulative, longitudinal and comparative perspective. This blog was published on 7 September 2022 to coincide with the British Educational Research Association conference. As of 13 February 2023, it has been viewed 112 times. The blog was also cross-posted on the IOE London blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/the-disadvantage-gap-children-of-austerity-or-children/ |
| Description | Blog: The times they were a-changin': Placing Britain's longitudinal resources in historical context |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jon Lawrence, Reader in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge, wrote a blog emphasizing the changes throughout Britain since the First World War. This blog was the first blog posted on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2012/times-achangin-placing-britains-longitudinal-resources-his... |
| Description | Blog: UCL cohorts, biobanks and big data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The UCL cohorts, biobanks and big data symposium brought together researchers from across UCL and further afield to showcase activity in this area. This blog reported on the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2017/03/29/ucl-cohorts-biobanks-and-big-data/ |
| Description | Blog: What can we learn by linking administrative records and longitudinal survey data? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Efrosini Setakis, Research Data Scientist at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies - UCL Institute of Education, provided an blog on the benefits of linking administrative records and longitudinal survey data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/what-can-we-learn-by-linking-administrative-records/ |
| Description | Blog: Where the evidence fits: How research findings are used in the policymaking process |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry, CLOSER Communications Manager, examined research impact and how research findings effect government policies. The blog came largely from a CLOSER symposium on alcohol consumption in adolescence and early adulthood where Neil Dube of the Department for Education gave a really clear overview of how civil servants go about making policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2013/evidence-fits-research-findings-policymaking-process/ |
| Description | Blog: Where's the daddy? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jeremy Davies, Head of Communications at the Fatherhood Institute, argues on CLOSER's blog that lack of data on the lives of separating and separated families is hindering effective policymaking for children and families.The blog followed on from a successful CLOSER seminar - Capturing contemporary family diversity in longitudinal datasets, Rebecca Goldman and Caroline Bryson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2018/daddy/ |
| Description | Born in Bradford telephone meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 04/02/2016 - Alison Park, CLOSER Director, and Rosie French, CLOSER Project Manager, had a telephone meeting with Born in Bradford to share knowledge and discuss future collaborations. Born in Bradford will be included in the CLOSER scoping study, that looks at including more studies in the CLOSER consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CAPE Case Study: Rob Davies, Policy Fellow (October 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In its session from 2017-2019, the House of Commons Liaison Committee explored the use of research evidence in Parliament and noted that there was a 'lack of diversity in stakeholder engagement', particularly in research expertise provided to select committees. 'This appears to be particularly the case', they concluded, 'for the academic sector which is both underrepresented when compared to other stakeholder groups, and unrepresentative of the breadth of the academic research community.'* One of the report's recommendations to make it easier for the research community to engage with select committee scrutiny was the creation of documented and published 'Areas of Research Interest' (ARIs) in the same way that government departments now do. These could both act as a signal to academic communities as to broad areas of select committee interest and knowledge needs, and potentially form the basis for discussions with UKRI about funding schemes to support academic responses. Ultimately the publication of select committee ARIs would aim to maximise the opportunity for participation by the research sector and increase the diversity of research expertise feeding into the scrutiny process. To support the implementation of these recommendations, and the development of the first ever select committee ARIs, CAPE worked with the Scrutiny Unit within the House of Commons Select Committee Team in Parliament to develop a Policy Fellowship to work on these priorities. Our CAPE fellow in this role is Rob Davies from UCL who works at CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research. In his work in the Scrutiny Unit, Rob has led on the development of the first sets of ARIs with two select committees to better understand and assess how they can support parliamentary scrutiny. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cape.ac.uk/cape-case-study-rob-davies-policy-fellow-october-2021%E2%80%AF/ |
| Description | CAPE blog: Enter the dragon: Senedd committees Areas of Research Interest pilot project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In September 2022, two Senedd committees launched the Senedd's first Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) as a new way to improve committees' engagement with the research community. ARI topics include climate change, modal shift and active travel, sustainable communities, and health literacy. In this blog Rob Davies, CAPE Policy Fellow, outlines how researchers can engage with the ARIs and how they aim to support parliamentary scrutiny. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cape.ac.uk/2022/11/11/senedd-aris/ |
| Description | CAPE blog: Updated guidance on giving evidence to a House of Commons Select Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Parliamentary select committees scrutinise a range of areas, including the work of government departments, through formal inquiries and want to hear from academics and researchers who know about the topic that they're investigating. Select committee inquiries typically involve a call for evidence inviting written submissions (known as 'written evidence'), arranging panels of witnesses to answer questions (known as 'oral evidence'), sometimes running other activities, such as surveys and publishing areas of research interest, and using this evidence to write and publish a report with conclusions and recommendations. Updated (June 2022) 'Guidance for giving written or oral evidence to a House of Commons select committee' explains how a 'typical' committee inquiry works, gives advice about how to submit written evidence or give oral evidence to a committee, sets out some of the powers of committees which are relevant to the evidence-gathering process, and explains the operation of parliamentary privilege. The language in the detailed guide has been simplified and there's now a new EasyRead version. Importantly for the research community, academics and researchers are listed as one of the key stakeholder groups and there's now clarification on "not previously published", in that whilst your written evidence should be created specifically for submission to the committee, you can refer to or attach material and research published elsewhere within a submission. The Guide include some helpful pointers "Top tips" for writing evidence submissions, including outline your expertise and how this relates to the topic, keep your evidence short and to the point, write in plain English and explain any technical terms, include your thoughts about the most important questions that the Committee should ask the Government, and (to help shape the Committee's thinking and maximise your opportunity to be invited as an oral witness), send in your evidence as early as you can - the earlier the better. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cape.ac.uk/2022/07/18/updated-guidance-select-committee-evidence/ |
| Description | CAPEcast: Beyond the usual suspects: diversifying engagement with Parliamentary Select Committees |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sarah Chaytor talks to Rob Davies, knowledge mobiliser at CLOSER (the home of longitudinal research) and currently a CAPE Fellow at the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit, and Faten Hussein a Senior Specialist at the Unit. We explore the work that the Scrutiny Unit is undertaking to understand and create systematic mechanisms to diversify engagement with their processes. In particular, we focus on Rob's work as a policy fellow supporting the development of the first ever parliamentary Select Committee Areas of Research Interest (ARI) with the International Development Committee. We also chat about the challenges and opportunities in diversifying evidence use, what structures might exist to support this, as well as what we actually mean by diversification. We finish with some top tips for researchers who want to engage with Parliament and how to mobilise your research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-432792634/beyond-the-usual-suspects-diversifying-engagement-with-parliam... |
| Description | CESSDA Expert Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is a face-to-face seminar organised by the CESSDA Tools & Service Working Group. The seminar targets CESSDA Service Provider staff developing and maintaining CESSDA Tools and Services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.cessda.eu/News-Events/Events/CESSDA-Expert-Seminar-2019 |
| Description | CLOSER & UK LLC NHS Digital Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER & UK LLC organised a workshop with NHS Digital and data managers from the UK LPS community in order to discuss record linkage applications, emerging TRE ways of working, and to discuss barriers to data sharing with the NHS. The workshop included presentations from NHS Digital on how their process works, updates on moves to TRE data use and also on how NHS D & the LPS can address shortcomings in the application and data sharing process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/nhs-digital-workshop/ |
| Description | CLOSER Archivist demonstration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This session will provide an overview of many of the tools and service providers available to those who are interested in actively implementing DDI. Each presenter will cover the tools and/or services which they provide is a short format, which will include product demos. The intention is to help users understand what tools and services exist, and who they should talk to in order to learn more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/european-ddi-conference-2021-traini... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - A new future for longitudinal research in the wake of COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog looks at the special value of longitudinal cohort studies as they allow us to look at change from pre- COVID-19 to living with and through the pandemic. This blog is part of the COVID-19 Perspectives series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/a-new-future-for-longitudinal-research-in-the/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Adapting data collection during COVID-19 at TwinsUK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paz García, Engagement & Communications Manager at TwinsUK - the UK's largest adult twin registry and cohort researching the genetics of ageing and complex diseases since 1992 - wrote about how methods were rapidly adapted to gather data effectively from participants during the UK's lockdown as part of the COVID-19 Perspectives blog series. This was launched by Razwana Quadir, Communications & Marketing Manager at CLOSER as part of the COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub. The series main aim is to support studies in promoting and showcasing their work on COVID-19. Adapting methods re. data collection later fed into a CLOSER event on this topic to share knowledge amongst partner studies as they all had to rapidly their methods as a result of the ongoing pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/adapting-data-collection-during-covid-19-at-twinsuk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Adapting to the new normal: innovation and collaboration in longitudinal studies during COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Wong, Senior Research Study Manager at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, talks about innovation and adaptation of data collection methods in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as part of the COVID-19 Perspectives blog series and the wider discussion around adapting methods for data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/adapting-to-the-new-normal-innovation-and-collaboration/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the older population in England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, ELSA Project Manager, Kate Coughlin, outlines their COVID-19 response and how ELSA is in the position of being able to provide unique insights on the immediate and longer-term effects of the pandemic on the older population. ELSA joined CLOSER as a partner study later in the year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/elsa-assessing-impact-covid-19-older-population/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Assessment and harmonisation of cognitive measures in five British birth cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In a project funded by CLOSER and led by Dr Vanessa Moulton (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL), with support from Dr Eoin McElroy (Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leicester), 180 cognitive measures administered to participants and their families in five British Birth cohorts have been consistently documented for researchers to use in an online resource. This blog was published to support the launch of the CLOSER cognitive measures online resource and provides an overview of the measures in the resource and how to use them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/assessment-and-harmonisation-of-cognitive-measures-in-fiv... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Assessment of how older adults have been affected by COVID-19: A look at the Hertfordshire Cohort Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Elaine Dennison, Deputy Director of the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, takes a look at the lockdown experiences of the participants of the study during the First Wave of COVID-19. This blog was part of CLOSER's COVID-19 Perspectives blog series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/assessment-of-how-older-adults-have-been-affected/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Automating the documentation of data transformation processes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | George Alter, Research Professor and former Director of ICPSR, wrote about the new standard (SDTL) coming out of DDI and its relevance to improving the comprehensibility of harmonisation research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/automating-the-documentation-of-data-transformation-proce... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - COVID-19 and the inequality in psychological distress in the UK: new evidence from the first three months of the pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Apostolos Davillas and Professor Andrew Jones explore new evidence from the first three months of the UK response to the pandemic, highlighting the inequality in psychological distress in the UK as part of CLOSER's COVID-19 Perspectives blog series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/covid-19-and-the-inequality-in-psychological-distress/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - COVID-19: a defining moment for longitudinal research? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog was written in light of the UK going into lockdown in March 2020 as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by Rob Davies, CLOSER's Policy Manager. It calls for a new nationwide longitudinal study/birth cohort so that 'Generation Corona' is not forgotten in the future. It was published alongside the launch of CLOSER's COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub. CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce was also established at the time to focus on leveraging and promoting partner studies' research efforts on COVID-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/covid-19-defining-moment-longitudinal-research/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Delivering training in a rapidly changing educational landscape: Experiences from a CLOSER/UKDS course on real-world data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In February 2020, CLOSER and the UK Data Service (UKDS), ran an online workshop series designed to help students and newcomers to longitudinal research get to grips with analysing real-world study data. The course was developed by CLOSER Research Fellows Neil Kaye and Dara O'Neill, with Valerija Kolbas and Deborah Wiltshire, Senior User Support and Training Officers from the UKDS. This blog was written in light of the online workshop, looking at the key lessons learnt and future steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/delivering-training-rapidly-changing-educational-landscap... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Diet: what is it and how do we measure it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jane Maddock takes a look at diet - what it is, how and why it's hard to measure and analyse, and why bother studying it at all. This blog was published in line with the launch of CLOSER's dietary online measures guide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/diet-what-is-it-and-how-do-we/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - How the UK's longitudinal studies are helping society navigate the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Alissa Goodman, Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), discusses how CLS rapidly responded to the UK's lockdown by launching a special COVID-19 survey to capture time-critical experiences of the pandemic, and looks at the first analyses of data. This blog was part of the COVID-19 Perspectives blog series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/how-the-uks-longitudinal-studies-are-helping-society/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Metadata management: What are the community's priorities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog was written by CLOSER's Metadata Manager Hayley Mills following CLOSER's international training and workshop event for managing metadata in longitudinal studies. The blog summarised the key challenges and priorities ahead based on issues discussed during the event and what CLOSER was doing to move the agenda forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/metadata-management-challenges-future-priorities/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - PART 1: Understanding the pandemic - surveying the population during lockdown |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the first of a 3-part blog series (as part of CLOSER's COVID-19 Perspectives blog series), CLOSER Partner Study, Understanding Society, takes a look at how they rapidly adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on data collection methods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/part-1-understanding-the-pandemic-surveying-the-populatio... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - PART 2: Understanding the pandemic - looking at early research findings from COVID-19 data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In the second blog in a 3-part series by CLOSER Partner Study, Understanding Society, exploring their response and survey results to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Coates, Research Impact and Project Manager, takes a look at the implications from early research findings from their COVID-19 survey launched in 2020. It explores the economic effects, mental health, home schooling and family life, and differences in ethnicity as a result of lockdown in the UK. This mini series is part of the wider CLOSER COVID-19 Perspectives blog series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/part-2-understanding-the-pandemic-looking-at-early/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Remote data collection for large-scale longitudinal research: reflections from the pre- and lessons for the post-pandemic era |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Bonamy Oliver, Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at the UCL Institute of Education, wrote about the challenge of family psychology in 2020, and what pre-pandemic efforts to conduct detailed family assessments suitable for large-scale studies have to offer as part of the COVID-19 Perspectives blog series. This was CLOSER's most popular/successful blog in 2020, with over 890 views to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/remote-data-collection-for-large-scale-longitudinal-resea... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - The COVID-19 pandemic: A life course perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | As part of CLOSER's COVID-19 Perspectives blog series, Professor Rebecca Hardy, CLOSER Director, reflects on how a life course approach can aid understanding of the likely long-term impacts of the pandemic. She looks at the economic impact, mental health, physical health and implications for the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/the-covid-19-pandemic-a-life-course-perspective/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - The future of data collection in a rapidly changing world |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER held an online event, The future of data collection in longitudinal population studies - during and post COVID-19 to explore methodological innovations, creativity and adaptability of data collection approaches during the UK's lockdown. This blog, by Professor Rebecca Hardy, CLOSER Director, reflected on the challenges and opportunities of collecting data as a result of COVID-19, and her insights on what the future holds for longitudinal research. This blog was part of the COVID-19 Perspectives series launched by CLOSER in light of the ongoing pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/data-collection-rapidly-changing-world/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - Understanding human behaviour: the case of physical activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr David Bann discusses physical activity and the launch of CLOSER's comprehensive guide of the measures used to assess physical activity across six British longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/understanding-human-behaviour-the-case-of-physical-activi... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog - What next for Generation Scotland? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Professor David Porteous, PI for Generation Scotland, one of 11 new studies to join CLOSER, introduces the study, highlights what they've been doing in 2020 and shares what's in store next. This blog is part of a series launched to showcase the new partner studies that recently joined CLOSER to CLOSER's audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/what-next-for-generation-scotland/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In May 2018, CLOSER launched a new newsletter type - Blog alerts - which notify our audience when a new blog is published on the CLOSER website. From 15 March 2019 to 5 March 2020, CLOSER has sent 9 blog alerts. The average open rate is 45% and the average click rate is 11%. Overall the blog alerts has 369 subscribers (up from 245 as of March 2019). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: How longitudinal research can help get to the heart of 'wicked problems' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog was published to coincide with CLOSER's Evidence Week 2018 in Parliament event, in partnership Sense about Science, the House of Commons Library, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. It discussed how longitudinal research can help get to the heart of 'wicked' problems and highlighted CLOSER funded research. At the time of submission, the blog had 297 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/longitudinal-research-heart-wicked-problems/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: Lifelong consequences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog highlighted how longitudinal studies are providing vital evidence to the Science and Technology Committee, summarised the longitudinal evidence submitted to the Committee's Inquiry into early-years intervention, and argued that further longitudinal research is needed to understand how multiple risk factors interact and to assess the impact of interventions. It also featured CLOSER's work on harmonisation and data linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2018/lifelong-consequences/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: Lifelong consequences - the importance of early intervention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog summarised the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on 'Evidence-based early years intervention', highlighted CLOSER's written submission to the inquiry and that one of our recommendations (on the use that could be made of administrative data held by the government when linked to longitudinal survey data) was cited in the report. At the time of submission, the blog had 172 page views on the CLOSER website. Note that this blog was also published on the Universities Policy Engagement Network website: http://www.upen.ac.uk/blogs/?action=story&id=11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/lifelong-consequences-the-importance-of-early-interventio... |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: Longitudinal studies: a priority for long term investment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog reported on the latest developments in the longitudinal research landscape (including the advent of UKRI and ESRC Longitudinal Studies Review) and highlighted the value and importance of CLOSER and longitudinal evidence to the Government Areas of Research Interest. It also showcased two of CLOSER's products, Discovery and the Learning Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/longitudinal-studies-priority-long-term-investment/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: Priorities for a national strategy on the first 1000 days of life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog focussed on CLOSER's submission to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into the early years of a child's life and recommendations on the top priorities for a national strategy on the first 1000 days of life. At the time of submission, the blog had 232 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/priorities-national-strategy-1000-days-life/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: Social media and screen-time: To ban or not to ban; that's probably not the question |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog focussed on the Science and Technology Committee report on the impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health, the recommendations relevant to research, and CLOSER's written evidence (which was cited in the report). At the time of submission, the blog had 148 page views on the CLOSER website. Note that this blog was also published on the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) website: http://www.upen.ac.uk/blogs/?action=story&id=26 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/social-media-screen-time/ |
| Description | CLOSER Blog: Tackling mental health problems in children and young people - the importance of early intervention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog was published during mental health awareness week to highlight the CLOSER and All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) event in Parliament on young people's mental health and the vital importance of the early years and early intervention, surface the longitudinal evidence, and promote CLOSER's Learning Hub. At the time of submission, the blog had 533 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/tackling-mental-health-problems-early-intervention/ |
| Description | CLOSER COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub (Apr 22 - Mar 23) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub was launched in June 2020 to capture and showcase the rapid and extensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the longitudinal community. The Hub brings together the latest information and developments in relation to COVID-19 and acts as a 'one-stop shop' resource for researchers, parliamentarians and policy makers. The Hub contains contains COVID-19 surveys launched by UK longitudinal studies, data releases, latest research and evidence and expert opinion. The Hub was upgraded in April 2022 by adding a new design, new functionality and a new animation outlining the response of LPS to the pandemic and how CLOSER has added (and continues to add) value. As of 5 March 2023, the Research Tracker on the COVID-19 Hub contains 479 publications, briefing notes, reports, and articles. Between 1 April 2022 and 5 March 2023, the site had 1,147 users from 71 different countries, who together viewed 2,928 pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://covid-19.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER COVID-19 Update Bulletin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In June 2020, CLOSER launched a new newsletter, COVID-19 Update Bulletin to provide timely updates on the rapid response of UK longitudinal population studies in the wake of COVID-19 and the first UK lockdown. The newsletter included updates on new surveys launched by studies to track the impact of COVID-19 on their participants, data releases, the latest blogs, and emerging findings. As the initial response to the pandemic moved into a new phase, in February 2021, the update was integrated into CLOSER's primary newsletter, Longitudinal News. In total, CLOSER sent 7 issues of the COVID-19 Update Bulletin. It had an average open rate of 59% and a click rate of 25%. The newsletter had 144 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Collaborative Workshops with Maelstrom and IALSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER has organised a collaborative workshop and a pair of technical visits between CLOSER and two Canadian research organisation (Maestrom and IALSA) to foster links, share learning and explore possible joint development opportunities in terms of data harmonisation and data discoverabilty. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | CLOSER Data Linkage Community of Practice Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Boyd chairs the CLOSER Data Linkage Community of Practice Group. This group is designed to share insights relating to data linkage amongst those working in this field in longitudinal research. The group also seeks to jointly identify mechanisms to address common barriers to linkages or to develop improved ways of working. The following studies/organisations are currently represented on the working group: 1946 National Survey of Health and Development; the 1958, 1970 and 2000-01 birth cohorts; the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children; Born in Bradford; British Regional Heart Study; Department for Education; Generations Study; Hertfordshire Cohort Study; Health and Employment After Fifty Study; Million Women's Study; Growing Up in Scotland; Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing; Southampton Women's Survey; Twins UK; UK Womens Cohort Study; and Understanding Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/our-networks/ |
| Description | CLOSER Data Managers Network - Metadata management in the real world: Questionnaire Development and Data Collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was the first in a new series, Metadata management in the real world, organised as part of CLOSER's Data Management Network with support from the DDI Alliance. The webinar focused on questionnaire development and data collection, and featured talks from the Central Statistical Office-Ireland and the Norwegian Centre for Research Data. The webinar was attended by 69 delegates (68% attendance rate). It was rated 8/10 for delegate satisfaction and 7/10 for relevancy to delegates' work. The presentation slides and recordings from the webinar were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/webinar-metadata-management-real-world/ |
| Description | CLOSER Data Managers Network - Metadata management in the real world: Enhanced data services with structured metadata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was the second in a new series, Metadata management in the real world, organised as part of CLOSER's Data Managers Network. The webinar showcased new developments at Metadata Technology North America (MTNA) and the UK Data Service. The webinar was attended by 42 delegates (57% attendance rate). Presentation slides and recordings from the webinar were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Discovery Overview for UCL eResearch Domain meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | There was discussion about the way in which CLOSER development activities would be able to assist UCL in the development of researcher facing services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Discovery: Bringing Longitudinal Data into the 21st Century (eResearch Domain Event: Data Galore: Getting Access and Ethics Right!) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A brief introduction to CLOSER Discovery for a wide audience of different disciplines from UCL. The presentation included a live demonstration of Discovery and a question and answer section. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CLOSER Event - The future of data collection in longitudinal population studies: during and after COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This online meeting focused on data collection in longitudinal population studies (LPS) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the meeting was to bring representatives of LPS and survey agencies together to share information and identify solutions to tackle key challenges including the best approaches to remote data collection, and when/how safe face-to-face data collection can be resumed. The meeting was split into three sessions including a series of short talks from studies and fieldwork agencies, small group discussions, and a final feedback session. The meeting was attended by 60 delegates (95% attendance rate) representing 26 LPS and organisations. A report summarising the meeting discussions was published on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/data-collection-covid19/ |
| Description | CLOSER In the loop newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'In the loop' is CLOSER's quarterly policy update which features a round up of the latest developments in the policy landscape, open opportunities to engage with policy and decision makers, and new resources for improving subscribers' public engagement knowledge & skills. The newsletter was launched in June 2022. As of 15 February 2023, CLOSER has published 3 issues of In the Loop and the newsletter has 331 subscribers. The average open rate is 52% and the average click rate is 20%. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/our-newsletters/ |
| Description | CLOSER Infographic: COVID-19 impact on access to healthcare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This infographic draws on evidence from longitudinal population studies to show how COVID-19 widened existing healthcare access inequalities in the UK for women and people with chronic illnesses, disabilities or multimorbidities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-COVID-19-IMPACT-ON-ACCESS-TO-HEALTHCARE-V3.pdf |
| Description | CLOSER Infographic: COVID-19 impact on education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This infographic draws on evidence from longitudinal population studies to show how UK school closures during the first COVID-19 lockdown affected primary and secondary level schoolchildren. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/COVID-19-impact-of-education-infographic.pdf |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER developed the Learning Hub, an online teaching resource, to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in both academic and policy settings. It was launched on 1 November 2017. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them. But it should be equally valuable to those working in government or the third sector who are new to the field but could benefit from improving their understanding of longitudinal studies and the data they collect. As well as featuring a section introducing users to longitudinal studies, the resource also includes modules on study design, research case studies, training datasets and an analysis module, which was added to the site in February 2019. Between 1 April 2018 and 8 March 2019, the website has had 30,262 users and has been viewed 50,518 times. On average, the site has c620 users a week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER developed the Learning Hub, an online teaching resource, to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in both academic and policy settings. It was launched on 1 November 2017. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them. But it should be equally valuable to those working in government or the third sector who are new to the field but could benefit from improving their understanding of longitudinal studies and the data they collect. The platform features learning modules on introduction to longitudinal studies, study design, analysing longitudinal data, understanding metadata, data harmonisation and communicating research, as well as a series of research case studies. During this reporting period, CLOSER added two research case studies on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, and the relationship between childhood environment and adult mental well-being. CLOSER also added a new 'Getting started' page featuring a series of short demo videos explaining how the resource can be utilised to aid users' research projects. Between 12 March 2021 and 23 February 2021, the website had c83,000 users and had been viewed c130,000 times. On average, the site has c1,729 users a week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER developed the Learning Hub, an online teaching resource, to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in both academic and policy settings. It was launched on 1 November. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them. But it should be equally valuable to those working in government or the third sector who are new to the field but could benefit from improving their understanding of longitudinal studies and the data they collect. The resource includes an introduction to the different types of longitudinal studies, and how they are used for research. There is also a section describing how studies are designed, including information about sampling, the ways data are collected and the tools that are used to capture information from study participants. As they go through the different sections of the site, users can test their knowledge using interactive quizzes.The site contains resources for lecturers and trainers including a training dataset based on the 1958 National Child Development Study, which has been developed along with a series of suggested teaching exercises. As many users who are less familiar with the subject may find it easier to understand the use of longitudinal studies by reading about real-world examples, the resource includes case studies showing how longitudinal evidence has been used to address research questions, and how it has shed light on the major issues facing society, such as obesity and bullying. Since its launch it has received 4,935 users (c8% returning users). It currently (Feb 2018) receives c120 users a day (working days). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER developed the Learning Hub, an online teaching resource, to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in both academic and policy settings. It was launched on 1 November 2017. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them. But it should be equally valuable to those working in government or the third sector who are new to the field but could benefit from improving their understanding of longitudinal studies and the data they collect. As well as featuring a section introducing users to longitudinal studies, the resource also includes modules on study design, research case studies, training datasets and an analysis module, which was added to the site in February 2019. Between 15 March 2019 and 5 March 2020, the website had 61,880 users and was been viewed 94,499 times. On average, the site has c1230 users a week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER developed the Learning Hub, an online teaching resource, to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in both academic and policy settings. It was launched on 1 November 2017. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them. But it should be equally valuable to those working in government or the third sector who are new to the field but could benefit from improving their understanding of longitudinal studies and the data they collect. The platform featured learning modules on introduction to longitudinal studies, study design and analysing longitudinal data, and research case studies. During this reporting period, CLOSER added three new learning modules on data harmonisation, understanding metadata and research communications, and added four new research case studies on topics including unemployment, social media use, and alcohol consumption. Between 15 March 2020 and 17 February 2021, the website had 83,700 users and had been viewed 135,660 times. On average, the site has c1777 users a week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub (Mar 22 - Mar 23) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER developed the Learning Hub, an online teaching resource, to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in both academic and policy settings. It was launched on 1 November 2017. It is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them. But it should be equally valuable to those working in government or the third sector who are new to the field but could benefit from improving their understanding of longitudinal studies and the data they collect. The platform features learning modules on introduction to longitudinal studies, study design, analysing longitudinal data, understanding metadata, data harmonisation and communicating research, as well as a series of research case studies. During this reporting period, CLOSER added one new research case study exploring health inequalities and sexual orientation. Between 18 March 2022 and 5 March 2023, the Learning Hub had 89,222 users from 201 different countries, who together viewed 136,501 pages. The Learning Hub has consistently featured in the new 'Monthly spotlight' section on the CLOSER website homepage. This has contributed to referrals from the CLOSER website to Learning Hub increasing by 67% from August - December 2022 compared with the same period in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Analysing longitudinal data module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Analysing longitudinal data' module was updated on the CLOSER Learning Hub in February 2021 to feature a new series of animations designed to introduce users to the basics of analysing data from longitudinal studies. The animations, and the module overall, provides simple explanations of complex statistical techniques, including regression analysis, multi-level and growth curve modelling, and survival analysis can be used to answer different longitudinal research questions. During the reporting period, the module has been viewed over 3,500 times. Collectively, the four animation videos have been viewed over 500 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/analysing-longitudinal-data/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Analysing longitudinal data module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Analysing longitudinal data' module was updated on the CLOSER Learning Hub in February 2021 to feature a new series of animations designed to introduce users to the basics of analysing data from longitudinal studies. The animations, and the module overall, provides simple explanations of complex statistical techniques, including regression analysis, multi-level and growth curve modelling, and survival analysis can be used to answer different longitudinal research questions. During the reporting period, the module has been viewed over 1000 times. Collectively, the four animation videos have been viewed over 9,600 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/analysing-longitudinal-data/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Data harmonisation module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Data harmonisation' module was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub in October 2020. The module introduces users to the basics of data harmonisation and covers the difference between retrospective and prospective harmonisation. The module has been viewed over 270 times during this reporting period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/data-harmonisation/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Data harmonisation module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Data harmonisation' module was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub in October 2020. The module introduces users to the basics of data harmonisation and covers the difference between retrospective and prospective harmonisation. The module has been viewed over 200 times during this reporting period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/data-harmonisation/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Introduction to longitudinal studies module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Introduction to longitudinal studies' module on the CLOSER Learning Hub introduces users to the basics of longitudinal research. It covers what longitudinal studies are, different types of longitudinal studies, and using longitudinal studies in research. During the reporting period, the module has been viewed over 94,600 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/introduction/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Introduction to longitudinal studies module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Introduction to longitudinal studies' module on the CLOSER Learning Hub introduces users to the basics of longitudinal research. It covers what longitudinal studies are, different types of longitudinal studies, and using longitudinal studies in research. During the reporting period, the module has been viewed over 67,000 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/introduction/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Research communication module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Research communication' module was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub in October 2020. The module introduces users to the basics of communicating their research and covers why users should communicate their research, the best methods for communicating their research, academic impact, and how to maximise the impact of their research. During the reporting period, the module was viewed over 630 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/research-communications/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Research communication module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Research communication' module was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub in October 2020. The module introduces users to the basics of communicating their research and covers why users should communicate their research, the best methods for communicating their research, academic impact, and how to maximise the impact of their research. During the reporting period, the module was viewed over 200 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/research-communications/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Study design module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Study design' module on the CLOSER Learning Hub introduces users to the basics of longitudinal study design. It covers sampling, data collection instruments, methods of data collection, and sweep implementation. During this reporting period, the module has been viewed almost 10,000 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/study-design/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Study design module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Study design' module on the CLOSER Learning Hub introduces users to the basics of longitudinal study design. It covers sampling, data collection instruments, methods of data collection, and sweep implementation. During this reporting period, the module has been viewed over 4,000 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/study-design/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Understanding metadata module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Understanding metadata' module was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub in October 2020. The module introduces users to the basics of metadata and covers what metadata is and why it's important, structured metadata, documentation, and using metadata to discover variables. The module has been viewed over 350 times during the reporting period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/understanding-metadata/ |
| Description | CLOSER Learning Hub - Understanding metadata module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 'Understanding metadata' module was added to the CLOSER Learning Hub in October 2020. The module introduces users to the basics of metadata and covers what metadata is and why it's important, structured metadata, documentation, and using metadata to discover variables. The module has been viewed over 700 times during the reporting period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/understanding-metadata/ |
| Description | CLOSER LinkedIn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER started using LinkedIn in May 2022 as an additional channel for promoting our news and blogs, events, resources and job opportunities. As of 15 February 2023, the channel has 117 followers. Between May 2022 and February 2023, the channel garnered 3746 impression and an average engagement rate of 6.3%. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/closer-uk |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series I |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 29/1/2015 - the inaugural seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series inaugural event featured talks from Dr George Ploubidis, Reader in Population Health and Statistics and Chief Statistician at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (who focused on biomarkers in mid-life), and Professor Fiona Steele, Professor in Statistics at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (who focused on estimating push and pull effects of area characteristics on residential location choice using household panel data). One of the speakers asked for her postgraduate students to attend future events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-longitudinal-methodology-series/ |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series II |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The second seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series featured talks from Bianca De Stavola, Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the LSHTM Centre for Statistical Methodology (who spoke about mediation analysis for life course epidemiology), and Amanda Sacker, Professor of Lifecourse Studies and Director of the UCL ICLS (who spoke about breastfeeding and inflammatory biomarkers: the effect of different propensity score weighting strategies) We have produced video recordings of the talks on the CLOSER website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-longitudinal-methodology-series-ii/ |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series IV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the series is to highlight methodological innovations and expertise and in turn facilitate and encourage future collaborations and new research. The event was well attended and stimulated excellent discussions. The talk was video recorded and has been viewed several times. The speaker has attended, and contributed, to several of our events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-methodology-series-iv/ |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series V |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the series is to highlight methodological innovations and expertise and in turn facilitate and encourage future collaborations and new research. The fifth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series features talks from Dick Wiggins, Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the UCL Institute of Education, and Lisa Calderwood, Principal Investigator of Next Steps (previously known as the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England) and the Senior Survey Manager at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Dr Lisa Calderwood The prevention of non-response in longitudinal surveys: an overview of the literature and some ideas for future research This presentation is about the prevention of unit non-response in longitudinal surveys through improving survey practice. I will give a brief overview of the relevant theoretical and empirical literature on non-response in longitudinal surveys covering all of the main sources of non-response i.e. location, contact and co-operation and focusing primarily on evidence from major face-to-face longitudinal surveys in the UK. Recent developments such as the use of para-data, adaptive or response designs and targeted response inducement strategies will be discussed. I will highlight some gaps in our knowledge and suggest some ideas for future research and practice. Professor Dick Wiggins Co-author: Tarek Mostafa The impact of attrition and non-response in birth cohort studies: a need to incorporate missingness strategies This paper reveals the need to incorporate strategies to handle missing data by revealing the extent of attrition in the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study (BCS70) and how it affects sample composition over time. To begin with we illustrate the construction of inverse probability weights (IPWs) to adjust for the unit non-response. Secondly, we illustrate the impact of using IPWs and multiple imputation (MI) for an artificially constructed set of patterns of missingness for a substantive research question. Our findings show that when the predictive power of the response models is weak, the efficacy of using IPWs is undermined. Further, MI is effective in reducing the bias resulting from item missingness when the magnitude of the bias is high and the imputation models are well specified. We recorded the two presenations and they are available on the project website. The recorded videos and the webpage has been viewed several times. The event itself also generated a lot of interesting discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2015/latest-videos-dr-lisa-calderwood-professor-dick/ |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Longitudinal News newsletter aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from UK longitudinal population studies. It is sent once every two months. The CLOSER Newsflash is part of Longitudinal News and is sent on an ad hoc basis for important and timely announcements. As a whole between 15 March 2020 and 11 March 2021, CLOSER published 6 issues of Longitudinal News and 1 Newsflash campaigns. The average open rate during this period was 29% and the average click rate was 7%. As of 15 February 2021, the newsletter has 1,275 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Longitudinal News newsletter aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from UK longitudinal population studies. It is sent monthly during the last week of the month. The CLOSER Newsflash is part of Longitudinal News and is sent on an ad hoc basis for important and timely announcements. As a whole between 12 March 2021 and 17 March 2021, CLOSER published 12 issues of Longitudinal News. The average open rate during this period was 30% and the average click rate was 6%. As of 22 February 2022, the newsletter has 1,273 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/our-newsletters/ |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Longitudinal News newsletter aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from the longitudinal community. It is sent once every two months. The CLOSER Newsflash is part of Longitudinal News and is sent on an ad hoc basis for important and timely announcements. As a whole between 15 March 2019 and 5 March 2020, CLOSER published 4 issues of Longitudinal News and 2 Newsflash campaigns. The average open rate during this period was 30%. As of 5 March 2020, the newsletter has 1,228 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Since October 2016, CLOSER has sent three issues of the newsletter, Longitudinal News with the aim of keeping stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs. Issues sent in October 2016, December 2016 and February 2017 have focused on the latest news, research and events coming from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal and cohort studies. There are 857 individuals subscribed to the newsletter as of 2 March 2017. Since the first issue was sent, 36 new subscribers have signed up to receive future editions. The newsletter has an average open rate of 34.5% |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=591bdf6a30b8a868e16e39491&id=a33e129cf3 |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Longitudinal News newsletter aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from UK longitudinal population studies. It is sent monthly during the last week of the month. The CLOSER Newsflash is part of Longitudinal News and is sent on an ad hoc basis for important and timely announcements. On the whole, between 18 March 2022 and 15 February 2023, CLOSER published 10 issues of Longitudinal News. The average open rate during this period was 31% and the average click rate was 7%. As of 15 February 2023, the newsletter has 1,311 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/our-newsletters/ |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Longitudinal News newsletter aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from the longitudinal community. As a whole between 1 April 2019 and 7 March 2019, CLOSER published 4 issues of Longitudinal News, and during this time, the email template used for this newsletter was updated to ensure more flexible content. The average open rate during this period was 32%. As of 7 March 2019, the newsletter has 1,148 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2018 |
| URL | https://us8.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=591bdf6a30b8a868e16e39491&id=153a1d66c9 |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In August 2017, CLOSER sent out the latest issue of the newsletter, Longitudinal News with the aim of keeping stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs. The newsletter focused on the latest news, research and events coming up from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal and cohort studies. It was sent to 888 recipients. It had an open rate of 37% and a click rate of 14%. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=591bdf6a30b8a868e16e39491&id=3c1210c159 |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News - February 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In February 2018, CLOSER published the latest issue of the newsletter, Longitudinal News which aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from the longitudinal community. The subject line of the email was, 'CLOSER announces funding for new research projects, publishes biomarker measures catalogue, plus the latest longitudinal news and resources'. It was sent to 982 recipients and had a open rate of 37%, click rate of 17% and click-to-open rate of 45%. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER Longitudinal News - November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In November 2017, CLOSER published the latest issue of the newsletter, Longitudinal News which aims to keep stakeholders and interested individuals up-to-date with CLOSER's outputs and news from the longitudinal community. The newsletter featured news regarding the launch of CLOSER's Learning Hub, a summary of CLOSER's conference and relevant upcoming events. It was sent to 974 recipients. It had an open rate of 34%, click rate of 11%. and a click-to-open rate of 33%. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/reports/show?id=2543785 |
| Description | CLOSER Metadata Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training to provided delegates with an overview of different structured metadata concepts, as well as use cases including data management, question management, versioning and data sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-management-workshop/ |
| Description | CLOSER ONS visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop at the Office for National Statistics in Newport, Wales. The session began by introducing CLOSER its resources, and then focused on key learning from longitudinal studies with regard to inequality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CLOSER Partnership News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Partnership News is an internal newsletter sent to CLOSER partners and staff, 37 people in total. The aim of the newsletter is to keep these people updated on CLOSER work and outputs, such as blogs, news and policy updates, as well as highlighting any news from CLOSER studies and the longitudinal community more generally. Since the first Partnership Newsletter in September 2016, the newsletter has been published each month (29 issues in total). During the time, the email template used for this newsletter has been updated to ensure more flexible content. The average open rate is 41.4% over this period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| URL | https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/#f_folder:19885;t:campaigns-list |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert - New POSTnote: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's 'Policy Alerts' act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-new-postnote-mental-health-impacts/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Areas of Research Interest and the Rebuilding a Resilient Britain project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-areas-of-research-interest-and-the-re... |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: BEIS Areas of Research Interest 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/beis-ari-intermin-update/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: COVID-19 Areas of Research Interest for the UK Parliament |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-covid-19-areas-of-research/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Call for evidence - Science and Technology Committee inquiry into a new UK research funding agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/call-for-evidence-research-funding-agency/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Call for evidence - The role of technology, research and innovation in the COVID-19 recovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-call-for-evidence-the-role-of-technol... |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Call for evidence - Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into body image |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-body-image-inquiry/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Call for new longitudinal study on gambling behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/call-longitudinal-gambling-behaviour-study/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Call for researchers to provide expert insights to Parliament into the COVID-19 Outbreak and its impacts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/covid-19-expert-insight/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Call for submissions - Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry into the science of COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/lords-inquiry-science-covid-19/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Consultation on revising, expanding and upholding the Caldicott Principles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/ndg-caldicott-consultation/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: House of Lords Science and Technology Committee - Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-house-of-lords-science-and/?utm_mediu... |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: House of Lords Select Committee report, Gambling Harm - Time for Action |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 14 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-house-lords-select-committee-report/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Joined up data in government - the future of data linkage methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-joined-up-data-in-government/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Lords COVID-19 Committee - call for evidence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-lords-covid19-committee-evidence/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Major investment boost for science and research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-budget-2020-investment-boost/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: New call for evidence - Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into the unequal impact of coronavirus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-call-evidence-women-equalities/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Opportunity to highlight ideas and policy areas for BEIS Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-beis-committee/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Opportunity to input into review of DCMS survey needs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-opportunity-input-review-dcms-survey/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: Royal College of Psychiatrists call for more sophisticated longitudinal research studies into technology use |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/longitudinal-research-technology-use-mental-health/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: The UK National Data Strategy consultation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-the-uk-national-data-strategy/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy Alert: UK Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's regular series of 'Policy Alerts' have continued to act as a high-profile vehicle to promote the contribution and unique value of longitudinal research and position CLOSER as an authoritative source of insights for both researchers and the policy community. 16 were published over the period - these continue to attract a high level of engagement (average of 40% open rate and a marked increase in subscriptions), including on social media, and subscribers from across the research and policy landscapes and at all career stages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-arpa/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Cabinet Office announces updated Areas of Research (ARI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-cabinet-office-ari/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Call for evidence - Adult skills and lifelong learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-adult-skills/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Call for evidence - impact of the gambling industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-polisy-alert-gambling-call-for-evidence/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Challenges in using data across government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-challenges-data-government/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Department for Transport announces updated Areas of Research Interest (ARI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-dft-ari/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Department of Work and Pensions announces updated Areas of Research Interest (ARI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/dwp-announces-updated-areas-research-interest/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Government consultation: Advancing our health - prevention in the 2020s |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-advancing-health/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Government publishes Online Harms White Paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-online-harms-white-paper/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Government urged to commission new longitudinal research into impact of social media on young people's mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-longitudinal-research-social-media-young-peo... |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: NHS Digital consultation - Health Survey for England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-nhs-digital-consultation-health/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: New POSTnote research topics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-postnote-research-topics/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Preparing for a changing world |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-post-research-interests-parliament/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Queen's Speech 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/queens-speech-2019/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: Report calls for new nationwide longitudinal study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-structually-unsound-report/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: The Home Office publishes their first Areas of Research Interest (ARI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/policy-alert-home-office-ari/ |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alert: UK government's National Data Strategy - call for evidence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bespoke email alerts highlighting relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements to the longitudinal research community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-policy-alert-uk-governments-national-data-strategy... |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Policy alerts are designed to keep subscribers up to date with relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements. During this reporting period, CLOSER has sent 16 alerts. The average open rate was 38% and the average click rate is 4%. The most read alerts during this reporting period focused on a government report on the future of data linking methods, COVID-19 insight, and a report from the Science and Technology Committee on healthy ageing. The newsletter has 277 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Policy alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER launched a new newsletter, Policy alerts in March 2019. The newsletter is designed to keep subscribers up to date with relevant policy developments including calls for evidence, government consultations, and other relevant policy announcements. As of 6 March, CLOSER has sent 20 alerts. The average open rate is 47% and the average click rate is 11%. The newsletter has 189 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | CLOSER Repository: Modernising Longitudinal Study Management (ESRA 2017, Lisbon, Portugal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER Discovery is a cutting-edge search engine for the discovery of metadata on eight of the UK's cohort and longitudinal studies. The longest-running study that is documented in CLOSER Discovery has been running for over 70 years, which creates a formidable problem to document and manage. CLOSER Discovery demonstrates the importance of investing in rich metadata that describes many more aspects of data collection than traditional tools and methods. By documenting detailed information on the question routing, scales and images used and similar questions and variables across multiple studies, researchers, survey and data managers are all better informed. This then opens up new possibilities for the studies going forward. In order for CLOSER Discovery to function, it sits atop a giant metadata repository, that has been designed not only to power a search engine but provides additional functionality and automation to the studies themselves. By drawing links between multiple studies, centres and data warehouses CLOSER has begun to tear down the outdated data-silo model, which has led to so many issues inhibiting harmonisation and linkage. Data collection instrument design can be made faster and more consistent through the act of reusing entire sections of questions previously used and designed in previous studies. By documenting this process from the point of design, harmonisation can be performed more efficiently and effectively. By developing these techniques and tools using eight of the UK's longitudinal studies, they have been rigorously tested for scalability. CLOSER's metadata has a universal identifier for every single item, allowing datasets used and papers published to reference the variables they have used precisely. While questionnaire designers are able to reference the questions they have used, such as standard scales, and clearly documented how they have been altered. By having much richer and clearer metadata documented, data managers can save enormous amounts of time cleaning data that has been collected before being deposited for analysis. Also, the laborious task of creating and then maintain data dictionaries can easily be automated and standardised. CLOSER Discovery categorises all variables and questions with topics from CLOSER's controlled vocabulary. This allows more effective searching and filtering of the huge quantity of content made available. The task of apply topics to questions and variables is hugely time-consuming, but CLOSER is working with machine learning to further automate the process, enhancing the metadata without increasing costs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Will-Poynters-Presentation-at-ESRA-17.pdf |
| Description | CLOSER Seminar - What can we learn from linking area data to longitudinal studies? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was part of the CLOSER Seminars series. It explored longitudinal research that used linked area data and featured talks from Emla Fitzsimons and Nicolas Libuy (University College London) and Tiffany Yang (Born in Bradford). The session was attended by 49 delegates (73% attendance rate). Presentation slides and the talk recordings were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/seminar-linked-area-data/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminar: Using harmonised measures of income and earnings - Laura van der Erve, Alissa Goodman and Bozena Wielgoszewska |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminars series, featured talks from Laura van der Erve (Research Economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies), Alissa Goodman (Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies(CLS)), and Bozena Wielgoszewska (Research Associate at CLS). tHE session was be split into three talks; the first, given by Laura van der Erve, detailed her recent project creating a harmonised set of income measures from across the British birth cohort studies. The second and third talks highlighted two research projects that have each utilised this harmonised dataset. The event was fully booked and around 20 people attended the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/november-closer-seminar/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars - Using longitudinal data to explore young people's social media use |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was part of the CLOSER Seminars series. It focused on young people's use of social media and featured a talk from Dr Amy Orben (University of Cambridge). There were 41 delegates in attendance (69% attendance rate). Presentation slides and the webinar recording were added to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-seminars-social-media-use/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars - Whitehall II: Findings from a world-class, interdisciplinary study of ageing - Prof Eric Brunner and Dr Archana Singh-Manoux |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminars series, featured talks from Eric Brunner and Archana Singh-Manoux. Eric Brunner, Professor of Social and Biological Epideminology at UCL introduced the longitudinal study Whitehall II, focusing on how the study has aided understanding of socioeconomic inequalities. Archana Singh-Manoux, Research Director at INSERM, presented her research on cognitive ageing and dementia using data from Whitehall II. 26 people registered to attend the seminar. Presentation slides and recordings of each talk were uploaded to the CLOSER website. The two videos have been viewed a combined 95 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-seminars-whitehall/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars: Capturing contemporary family diversity in longitudinal datasets - Rebecca Goldman and Caroline Bryson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminars series (previously known as the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology), featured talks from Rebecca Goldman and Caroline Bryson. Rebecca Goldman is a Research Associate at the Fatherhood Institute. Caroline Bryson is a partner of Bryson Purdon Social Research LLP, a research partnership specialising in policy and programme evaluation. Rebecca Goldman spooke about what longitudinal studies can tell us about UK fathers. Caroline's presentation focused on what data exists on separated families. 29 people registered for this seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/Capturing+contemporary+family+diversity+in+longitudinal+datasets |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars: Exploring mental health data from British longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminars series, focused on mental health data in the British longitudinal studies. The first talk, given by Bridget Bryan, looked at the CLOSER-funded project aiming to maximise the take up of mental health measures from British longitudinal studies. The second talk, given by George B Ploubidis, covered his CLOSER research project harmonising existing mental health measures from five British birth cohort studies. The seminar had a 76% attendance rate. Recordings and slides from each talk were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-seminars-exploring-mental-health-data-british-birth/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars: Investigating cognition and cognitive ageing using longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminars series, focused on cognition and cognitive ageing research. The first talk, given jointly by Vanessa Moulton and Eoin McElroy, covered their CLOSER funded project assessing and harmonising cognitive measures collected across five longitudinal studies. The second talk, given by Marcus Richards, focused on his research looking at cognitive function in the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development. The seminar had a 62% attendance rate. Slides from the seminar are available on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/7822/investigating-cognition |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars: Patterns of alcohol use across the life course - Yvonne Kelly and Annie Britton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminar series, featured talked from Yvonne Kelly and Annie Britton. Yvonne Kelly, Professor of Lifecourse Epidemiology at UCL, presented her research on drinking patterns among young people during their early adolescence using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. Annie Britton, Professor of Epidemiology at UCL, looked at patterns of drinking over the whole life span. Around 20 people attended this seminar. The presentation slides and recordings of each presentation were uploaded to the CLOSER website. The two recordings have been viewed a combined 72 times on YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-seminars-drinking/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars: Tracking differences in physical activity and sedentary behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminar series, focused on research on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. The first talk, given by David Bann, focused on his CLOSER funded project exploring whether levels of physical activity differ by age, sex and ethnicity using data from six longitudinal studies. The second talk, given by Mark Hamer, looked at measuring sedentary behaviour in the 1970 British Cohort Study. The seminar had an 88% attendance rate. Slides and a video recording were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-seminars-physical-activity/ |
| Description | CLOSER Seminars: Using longitudinal studies to investigate diet and nutrition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This seminar, part of the CLOSER Seminar series, focused on diet and nutrition research using longitudinal studies. The first talk, from Dr Jane Maddock, detailed her CLOSER-funded project scoping the existing dietary data available in the CLOSER studies to support cross-cohort research questions. The second talk, from Dr Sarah Crozier, looked at her researching using the Southampton Women's Survey to explore the association between an unhealthy childhood diet and body composition. The seminar was fully booked with around 20 people in attendance. Video recordings of each presentation, as well as slides, were made available on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-seminar-diet-nutrition/ |
| Description | CLOSER Training - Accessing and using 'real-world' study data: A Stata-based introduction for newcomers to longitudinal research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the UK Data Service, CLOSER ran an open-access course on accessing and analysing longitudinal study data. The first of three webinars, held on 24 February 2021, was attended by 125 delegates from across the UK and internationally. Just over 200 people registered on the course, with presence from 20 different countries, including: Uruguay, Italy, Lithuania, Indonesia, the US, India, Hong Kong, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan and Qatar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/accessing-and-using-real-world-study-data-a/ |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter (Mar 21 - Mar 22) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER website in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. As of 17 February 2021, the account has 5869 followers. Since March 2021, the account has gained over 420 new followers. From March 2021 to March 2022, the account has sent over 600 tweets, which has garnered over 898,500 impressions. During this period, the account has accounted for 2721 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter (Mar 22 - Mar 23) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal population studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER websites in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. As of 15 February 2023, the account has 6,129 followers. Since March 2022, the account has gained over 200 new followers. From March 2022 to Feb 2023, the account has sent over 600 tweets, which has garnered over 438,000 impressions. During this period, the account has accounted for over 2570 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter highlights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER Twitter highlights email is sent on a weekly basis and highlights the most interesting and important tweets posted or retweeted to the CLOSER Twitter feed each week. It features posts from CLOSER, our partner studies and relevant accounts within the longitudinal population study research community. Between 18 March 2022 and 15 February 2023, CLOSER sent 30 campaigns. The average open rate is 37% and the average click rate is 6%. As of 15 February 2022, the newsletter has 183 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter highlights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In May 2018, CLOSER launched 2 new category of newsletter, including the CLOSER twitter highlights. This emails are sent on a weekly basis highlighting the most interesting and important tweets sent by CLOSER and our partners over the course of the week. As of 7 March 2019, CLOSER has sent 31 Twitter highlight emails. The average open rate is 35% and the average click rate is 7%. As of 7 March 2019, the newsletter has 91 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://us8.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=591bdf6a30b8a868e16e39491&id=6b52b0fc17 |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter highlights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER Twitter highlights email is sent on a weekly basis and highlights the most interesting and important tweets posted or retweeted to the CLOSER Twitter feed each week. Between 15 March 2020 and 16 February 2021, CLOSER sent 40 campaigns. The average open rate is 37% and the average click rate is 6%. As of 16 February 2021, the newsletter has 155 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter highlights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER Twitter highlights email is sent on a weekly basis and highlights the most interesting and important tweets posted or retweeted to the CLOSER Twitter feed each week. It features posts from CLOSER, our partner studies and relevant accounts within the longitudinal population study research community. Between 12 March 2021 and 22 February 2022, CLOSER sent 36 campaigns. The average open rate is 36% and the average click rate is 5%. As of 16 February 2021, the newsletter has 161 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | CLOSER Twitter highlights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER Twitter highlights email is sent on a weekly basis and highlights the most interesting and important tweets posted or retweeted to the CLOSER Twitter feed each week. Between 15 March 2019 and 5 March 2020, CLOSER sent 45 campaigns. The average open rate is 36% and the average click rate is 6%. As of 5 March 2020, the newsletter has 131 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | CLOSER Webinar - Examining cognition within and across longitudinal studies: Introducing CLOSER's cognitive measures guide |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar focused on CLOSER's cross-study data guide to cognitive measures available within and across five UK longitudinal studies. The resource is an output of the CLOSER project, Assessment and harmonisation of cognitive measures in British birth cohorts. The webinar featured talks from Vanessa Moulton and Eoin McElroy who explored how and what was documented as part of the cognitive measures guide, as well as the approach the researchers took to retrospectively harmonise the measures. The session also include a live demonstration of the online guide. The webinar was attended by 41 delegates (79% attendance rate) and it was rated 9/10 for delegate satisfaction and 7/10 for relevancy to delegates' work. The presentation slides and a recording of the session were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/examining-cognition-within-and-across-studies-introducing-closers/ |
| Description | CLOSER Webinar - Introducing Our Future Health: A world-leading platform for early detection and prevention research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This session was jointly organised by CLOSER and Our Future Health. It introduced the Our Future Health project to the academic community and provided insight into its background, aims and objectives, and the opportunities it offers researchers. It featured talks from Alison Cave, Andrew Roddam and Alison Park. The session was attended by 115 delegates (70% attendance rate). Presentation slides and recordings from the session were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/our-future-health/ |
| Description | CLOSER Webinar - The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar showcases the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures which is an online catalogue documenting the existing mental health measures collected in over 30 UK longitudinal studies. The catalogue is an output from CLOSER's research project, Maximising the take-up of mental health measures from UK cohorts and longitudinal studies. The webinar featured talks from Prof Louise Arseneault and Bridget Bryan who discussed the project and provided a live demonstration of the online resource. The webinar was attended by 55 delegates (58% attendance rate). The session was rated 9/10 for both delegate satisfaction and relevancy. Presentation slides and a recording of the session were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/the-catalogue-of-mental-health-measures-discovering-the/ |
| Description | CLOSER Webinar: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective: Born in Bradford and TwinsUK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The webinar was the first in CLOSER's series exploring longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective. It featured talks on Born in Bradford, from Prof Rosie McEachan, and TwinsUK, from Dr Claire Steves. The session was attended by 51 delegates (74% attendance rate) and it was rated 8/10 for both delegate's satisfaction and its relevancy to their work. Presentation slides and recordings of the talks were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introducing-longitudinal-biomedical-studies-from-a-social-science/#me... |
| Description | CLOSER YouTube channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER uses YouTube to host video content from events, such as conference keynote presentations, seminar presentations and webinars, as well as short interviews with researchers. As of 17 February 2022, the channel has 394 subscribers. Between March 2021 and March 2022, CLOSER uploaded 43 new videos including talks from CLOSER events, demonstration videos of CLOSER resources, and new animations for the CLOSER Learning Hub. During the reporting period, CLOSER videos have been viewed 34,600 times, totalling 883 hours of viewing time. The channel has gained 174 new subscribers during this period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCql8spTlgcEl0PnhPVIdFlw |
| Description | CLOSER YouTube channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER uses YouTube to host video content from events, such as conference keynote presentations, seminar presentations and webinars, as well as short interviews with researchers. As of 5 March 2020, the channel has 90 subscribers. Between March 2019 and March 2020, CLOSER uploaded 5 videos of presentation recordings from our CLOSER Seminars sers. All together, these 5 videos has been viewed 247 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCql8spTlgcEl0PnhPVIdFlw/videos?view=0&sort=dd&flow=grid&view_as=sub... |
| Description | CLOSER YouTube channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER uses YouTube to host video content from events, such as conference keynote presentations, seminar presentations and webinars, as well as short interviews with researchers. As of 2 March 2018, the channel has 28 subscribers. Between October 2017 and February 2018, CLOSER uploaded 14 videos - including two keynote presentations from the CLOSER conference on inequalities and a webinar on CLOSER Discovery. All together, these videos has been viewed 818 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCql8spTlgcEl0PnhPVIdFlw |
| Description | CLOSER YouTube channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER uses YouTube to host video content from events, such as conference keynote presentations, seminar presentations and webinars, as well as short interviews with researchers. As of 12 February 2021, the channel has 179 subscribers. Between March 2020 and March 2021, CLOSER uploaded 18 new videos including webinar recordings, demonstration videos for CLOSER Discovery, and new animations for the CLOSER Learning Hub. All together, these 18 videos has been viewed 910 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCql8spTlgcEl0PnhPVIdFlw |
| Description | CLOSER YouTube channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER uses YouTube to host video content from events, such as conference keynote presentations, seminar presentations and webinars, as well as short interviews with researchers. As of 15 February 2023, the channel has 780 subscribers. Between March 2022 and Feb 2023, CLOSER uploaded 21 new videos including talks from CLOSER events, demonstration videos of CLOSER resources, and a new animation showcasing the CLOSER COVID-19 Hub. During the reporting period, CLOSER videos have been viewed 59,750 times, totalling 1,845 hours of viewing time. The channel has gained 362 new subscribers during this period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCql8spTlgcEl0PnhPVIdFlw |
| Description | CLOSER blog - 50 years of linking our lives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 50th anniversary of its foundation, Jo Tomlinson gives an overview of the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS) study, what it does, and forthcoming plans for 2021. This entry was part of a wider series of blogs introducing studies that joined the CLOSER consortium as part of its September 2020 expansion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/50-years-of-linking-our-lives/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Growing Up in Scotland: before, during and after COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Line Knudsen (ScotCen Research Director) introduces the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study, gives an overview of its response to COVID-19, and looks ahead to the future. This was an entry in a wider series of blogs introducing studies that joined the CLOSER consortium as part of its September 2020 expansion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/growing-up-in-scotland-before-during-and-after/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Have cultural occupations always been socially exclusive? Evidence from the ONS Longitudinal Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An analysis of ONS Longitudinal Study (ONS LS) data on social exclusion in creative occupations by Dr Orian Brook and Dr Dave O'Brien (both University of Edinburgh) and Dr Mark Taylor (University of Sheffield), looking at related issues such as the legitimacy of the sector, implications for representation, and the value of our culture. Their original insights were incorporated in Arts Council England's latest 10-year plan by the Policy and Evidence Centre, run by NESTA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/have-cultural-occupations-always-been-socially-exclusive-... |
| Description | CLOSER blog - How useful do young people think Relationships and Sex Education is? Evidence from LSYPE2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In Autumn 2021, the UK Department for Education published a research brief which used data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England 2 (LSYPE2) to examine the cohort's attitudes to Relationships and Sex Education and experiences of sexual risk-taking. In this blog, Rushda Khandker (Senior Research Officer at the Department of Education and Survey Manager for LSYPE2) explored the key findings of the brief. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/how-useful-do-young-people-think-relationships-and/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Introducing ELSA - The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Kate Coughlin (Project Manager) introduced the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), its work on COVID-19 and its future aims. This was one of the most popular entries in a wider series of blogs introducing studies that joined the CLOSER consortium as part of its September 2020 expansion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/introducing-elsa-english-longitudinal-study-ageing/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Memory Matters in NICOLA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, Dr Charlotte Neville (Project Officer) introduced the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA), and its role and impact in the global battle against dementia. This entry was part of a wider series of blogs introducing studies that joined the CLOSER consortium as part of its September 2020 expansion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/memory-matters-in-nicola/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Next Steps is now part of CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this blog entry, Dr Morag Henderson (Acting Principal Investigator) introduced the Next Steps cohort and its key insights, as well as referencing the research potential of the complete set of variable data that had recently been uploaded to CLOSER Discovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/next-steps-is-now-part-of-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Part 1: New to CLOSER - introducing the Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In part one of a two-part mini-series, Catherine Linaker (Senior Research Fellow) introduced the Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) study and its data, whilst also highlighting the study's response to COVID-19 and longer term aims. This was an entry in a wider series of blogs introducing studies that joined the CLOSER consortium as part of its September 2020 expansion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/introducing-heaf/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Part 2: The impact of COVID-19 on middle-aged people in England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In part two of a two-part miniseries introducing Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF), Stefania D'Angelo (medical statistician and PhD student at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton) details the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the study's data collection, focus and findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/part-2-the-impact-of-covid-19-on/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog - Working at the intersection of academia and policy: reflections on my CLOSER internship |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Charis Bridger Staatz completed a three-month internship with CLOSER's policy and research teams in early 2021. In this blog, Charis reflected on her time with the CLOSER team, her work on the Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing National Core Study (LH&W NCS) and how her experiences - including communicating research and learning to code in R - will aid her future research efforts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/working-at-the-intersection-of-academia-and-policy/ |
| Description | CLOSER blog alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER blog alerts are sent out to promote each blog published on the CLOSER website. During this reporting period, CLOSER sent 20 blog alerts. The alerts have an average open rate of 37% and an average click rate of 10%. The alerts have 444 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | CLOSER blog alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER blog alerts are sent out to promote each blog published on the CLOSER website. During this reporting period, CLOSER sent 9 blog alerts. The alerts have an average open rate of 35% and an average click rate of 4%. The alerts have 522 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | CLOSER blog alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In May 2018, CLOSER launched 2 new category of newsletter, including the CLOSER blog alerts. This emails are sent as alerts to let our audience know we have published a new blog to our website. As of 7 March 2019, CLOSER has sent 15 blog alerts. The average open rate is 38% and the average click rate is 12%. Overall the blog alerts have accounted for 436 unique page views on the CLOSER website. As of 7 March 2019, the blog alerts has 245 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://us8.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=591bdf6a30b8a868e16e39491&id=4b1f32ab8d |
| Description | CLOSER blog alerts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER blog alerts are sent out to promote each blog published on the CLOSER website. During this reporting period, CLOSER sent 13 blog alerts. The alerts have an average open rate of 36% and an average click rate of 8%. The alerts have 474 subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | CLOSER conference - Inequalities: a longitudinal perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER held its biannual conference in November 2017. The conference brought together researchers from across disciplines to showcase the contribution longitudinal research has made to our understanding of inequalities. It explored what longitudinal evidence can tell us about societal inequalities. There were around 90 presentations over the two days, which shed light on different areas of society, from education and income, to health and life expectancy. Throughout the event, the c130 delegates had the opportunity to hear from leading experts from across the social and biomedical sciences, consider the potential for cross-study comparisons in their own research, network with colleagues from across disciplines, sectors and locations; and learn about the latest resources for research. The delegates ranged from academic researchers, postgraduates, policymakers and third sector organisations. The keynote speeches were by Lord David Willetts, Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation, and Professor Kate Pickett, University of York. These were live streamed and to date have received 54 and 38 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/conference |
| Description | CLOSER conference - The importance of early years, childhood and adolescence: Evidence from longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER hosted its first scientific conference at the British Library which attracted 184 delegates from around the world. The event brought together researchers from across disciplines to showcase outstanding longitudinal research in the importance of early years, childhood and adolescence. There were 48 speakers and 34 posters. Presentations from the CLOSER Work Packages included: Bann D, Johnson W, Hardy R. Childhood socioeconomic position and body mass index across adulthood: coordinated analyses of individual participant data from two British birth cohort studies (WP1); Belfield C. Intergenerational income persistence: do poor children grow up to be poor adults? (WP2); Cumberland, P. Chianca, A. Rahi, J. Understanding the origins of visual health inequalities (WP4). Posters from the CLOSER Work Packages included: Rajatileka, S. A pilot study to investigate the effects of sample processing methodology on plasma proteome analysis in longitudinal studies (WP3); Rajatileka, S. A review of informed consent in the CLOSER cohorts (WP3). The conference also served as the launch of the beta version of CLOSER Discovery, kicking off a period of user testing before the resource is finalised in 2017. CLOSER Discovery was well received by the biomedical and social science academics present at the conference. The evaluation forms showed an average satisfaction rating of 8/10 and a relevance rating of 7/10. Some comments from delegates included: - I thought the whole event was well organised with a wide range of interesting talks. There was plenty of opportunity to network. - The information and discussion on harmonization across cohorts was really interesting and useful. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/conference2015/ |
| Description | CLOSER linkage special meeting: The COVID-19 Super Cohort workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This online workshop introduced the Super Cohort - a secure environment where multiple longitudinal population studies can be efficiently linked with UK-wide NHS COVID-19 data and then accessed for rapid response to COVID-19 research priorities. It included introductory talks from Robin Flaig and Andy Boyd, as well as breakout sessions allowing delegates to contribute to the development of the Super Cohort model. The session was attended by 38 delegates (75% attendance rate). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/super-cohort-covid-workshop/ |
| Description | CLOSER session at National Centre for Research Methods 2016 Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER session at the 2016 NCRM, developed and chaired by Alison Park. The session focused upon the value of comparing data from different longitudinal studies, or different waves of the same study, and the challenges involved. Presentations 1 (harmonising measures of body size, Prof Rebecca Hardy, UCL) & 2 (harmonising measuresof socio-economic status, Dr Claire Crawford, Warwick) described CLOSER-funded projects that have compared data from a number of different UK cohort studies via retrospective harmonisation of key measures. Key learning from these projects was described. Presentations 3 (a schools database and linkage to longitudinal data, Dr Bilal Nassim, UCL IOE) & 4 (Using CLOSER Discovery, Prof Alison Park, UCL IOE) described two new CLOSER resources and were aimed at helping researchers who are interested in cross-study or cross-wave comparisons. Presentation 4 was also relevant to anyone with an interest in the content of different longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2016/programme/session.php?id=N3 |
| Description | CLOSER visit to Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 23/2/2016 Andy Boyd visited key staff HSCIC at HSCIC in Leeds to discuss the application delays being faced by a number of CLOSER studies and help establish what evidence the HSCIC are looking for and how they want it presented. One immediate outcome from the event is that HSCIC have offered to come to London and hold an application 'clinic' for CLOSER studies, to help develop their individual HSCIC applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CLOSER webinar: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective - ALSPAC & Generation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The webinar was the second in CLOSER's series exploring longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective. It featured talks on the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children from Prof Nic Timpson and Generation Scotland from Prof David Porteous and Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie. The session was attended by 44 delegates (63% attendance rate) and it was rated 9.5/10 for delegate's satisfaction and 7.5/10 for relevancy to their work. Presentation slides and recordings of the talks were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introducing-longitudinal-biomedical-studies-from-a-social-science-2/ |
| Description | CLOSER webinar: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective - SWS & HCS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The webinar was the third in CLOSER's series exploring longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective. It featured talks on the Southampton Women's Survey by Prof Janis Baird and the Hertfordshire Cohort Study by Prof Elaine Dennison. The session was attended by 26 delegates (44% attendance rate) and it was rated 9/10 for delegate's satisfaction and 8/10 for its relevancy to their work. Presentation slides and recordings of the talks were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/sws-hcs-webinar/ |
| Description | CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER website is the 'window' into CLOSER and so reflects the breadth and depth of CLOSER's activity, including how CLOSER maximises the use, value and impact of Longitudinal studies. Content on the website includes: news stories and blogs on longitudinal research, CLOSER's research outputs, news from the constituent studies within CLOSER (c30-70 page views); forthcoming and previous events, organised by CLOSER and it's studies and partners; signposting to CLOSER's tools (Discovery and the Learning Hub); and resources from CLOSER and its studies, such as CLOSER Resource Reports (themselves outputs from CLOSER research or events), summaries of longitudinal evidence, submissions to parliamentary and other consultations. Users can also sign up for CLOSER's bimonthly e-newsletter. As a whole between 1 October and 27 February the site had 8,743 users, who together viewed over 33,000 pages. Over 60% of these were returning visitors. The site averages c130 visitors a day on working days. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://closer.ac.uk |
| Description | CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER website is the 'window' into CLOSER and so reflects the breadth and depth of CLOSER's activity, including how CLOSER maximises the use, value and impact of Longitudinal studies. Content on the website includes: news stories and blogs on longitudinal research, CLOSER's research outputs; forthcoming and previous events, organised by CLOSER and it's studies and partners; signposting to CLOSER's tools (Discovery and the Learning Hub); and resources from CLOSER and its studies. Users can also sign up for CLOSER's portfolio of newsletters. During this reporting period, CLOSER has launched the COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub on the website showcasing the longitudinal research community's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a whole between 15 March 2020 and 11 March 2021, the site had 50,770 users, who together viewed 110,483 pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | http://closer.ac.uk |
| Description | CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER website is the 'window' into CLOSER and so reflects the breadth and depth of CLOSER's activity, including how CLOSER maximises the use, value and impact of Longitudinal studies. Content on the website includes: news stories and blogs on longitudinal research, CLOSER's research outputs, news from the constituent studies within CLOSER (c30-70 page views); forthcoming and previous events, organised by CLOSER and it's studies and partners; signposting to CLOSER's tools (Discovery and the Learning Hub); and resources from CLOSER and its studies, such as CLOSER Resource Reports (themselves outputs from CLOSER research or events), summaries of longitudinal evidence, submissions to parliamentary and other consultations. Users can also sign up for CLOSER's portfolio of newsletters. As a whole between 1 April 2018 and 7 March 2019, the site had 23,757 users, who together viewed 68,789 pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | http://closer.ac.uk |
| Description | CLOSER website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER website is the 'window' into CLOSER and so reflects the breadth and depth of CLOSER's activity, including how CLOSER maximises the use, value and impact of Longitudinal studies. Content on the website includes: news stories and blogs on longitudinal research, CLOSER's research outputs; forthcoming and previous events, organised by CLOSER and it's studies and partners; signposting to CLOSER's tools (Discovery and the Learning Hub); and resources from CLOSER and its studies, such as CLOSER Resource Reports (themselves outputs from CLOSER research or events), summaries of longitudinal evidence, submissions to parliamentary and other consultations. Users can also sign up for CLOSER's portfolio of newsletters. As a whole between 15 March 2020 and 5 March 2020, the site had 37,817 users, who together viewed 80,424 pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://closer.ac.uk |
| Description | CLOSER website (Mar 21 - Mar 22) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER website is the 'window' into CLOSER and so reflects the breadth and depth of CLOSER's activity, including how CLOSER maximises the use, value and impact of Longitudinal studies. Content on the website includes: news stories and blogs on longitudinal research, CLOSER's research outputs; forthcoming and previous events, organised by CLOSER and it's studies and partners; signposting to CLOSER's tools (Discovery and the Learning Hub); and resources from CLOSER and its studies. Users can also sign up for CLOSER's portfolio of newsletters. As a whole between 12 March 2021 and 17 March 2022, the site had 42,896 users, who together viewed 94,386 pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk |
| Description | CLOSER website (Mar 22 - Mar 23) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER website is the 'window' into CLOSER and so reflects the breadth and depth of CLOSER's activity, including how CLOSER maximises the use, value and impact of longitudinal studies. Content on the website includes: news stories and blogs on longitudinal research; CLOSER's research outputs; forthcoming and previous events organised by CLOSER and it's studies and partners; signposting to CLOSER's tools (CLOSER Discovery, Learning Hub and COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub); and resources from CLOSER and its studies. Users can also sign up for CLOSER's portfolio of newsletters. During this reporting period, the CLOSER website underwent developments to the site's functionality, navigation and accessibility to enhance the user experience and showcase key resources for researchers. Between 18 March 2022 and 5 March 2023, the site had 44,624 users from 193 different countries, who together viewed 100,156 pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk |
| Description | CLOSER's Metadata Portal: Improving Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation about CLOSER Discovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi18/paper/view/381 |
| Description | CLOSER/UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap Town hall meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER and UKRI hosted an event to update the community on the activities of UKRI, and their place in it, and to discuss the current opportunity for the community to put forward their views and to shape the UK research strategy. The discussions were intended to inform participants of how to engage with the UKRI roadmap process, make an effective case and what that information will be for, and to provide their views on future direction by discussing infrastructure requirements, up to 2030. 18 academics attend the event, including study leads and PIs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER: maximinsing the potential of the UK longitudinal studies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rebecca Hardy gave a seminar to the AGE research group at the University of Newcastle highlighting the benefits of longitudinal studies and the CLOSER resources to clinicians, researchers and postgraduate students interested in ageing and geriatrics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CLOSER_UK Twitter (Mar 19 - Mar 20) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER website in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. As of 5 March 2020, the account has 4547 followers. Since March 2019, the account has gained just over 900 new followers. Between 15 March 2019 - 5 March 2020 the account has sent just over 770 tweets, which has garnered over 1.3 million impressions. During this period, the account has accounted for 3646 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | CLOSER_UK Twitter (Mar 20 - Mar 21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER website in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. As of 12 February 2021, the account has 5302 followers. Since March 2020, the account has gained over 640 new followers. From March 2020 to March 2021, the account has sent over 600 tweets, which has garnered just under 1.3 million impressions. During this period, the account has accounted for 4821 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | CLOSER_UK twitter (April 18 - Mar 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER website in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. As of 7 March 2019, the account has 3562 followers. Since 1 April 2018, the account has gained just over 800 new followers. Between 1 April 2019 - 7 March 2019, the account has send just over 600 tweets, which has garnered over 1 million impressions. During this period, the account has accounted for 3876 page views on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | CLOSER_UK twitter (Oct 17 - Feb 18) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER website in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. At the end of February 2018, the account had just over 2,600 followers. Between October 2017 and the end of February 2018, the account sent 501 tweets which garnered 467.1k impressions. The CLOSER_UK profile was visited 13,530 times and was mentioned by other users 587 times. The account had an average engagement rate of 1.1%. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | CLOSER_UK twitter account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER twitter account aims of promote CLOSER's outputs, research and events as well as sharing news from the CLOSER consortium of longitudinal studies and partners. The majority of CLOSER's tweets link to the CLOSER website in an effort to increase traffic to the main website. At the end of September 2017, the account had just under 2,300 followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK |
| Description | COVID-19 Hub animation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This animation was created to coincide with the COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub new website launch. The animation explores the response of the UK's longitudinal population studies to the pandemic and showcases the COVID-19 Hub. It features on the homepage of the COVID-19 Hub and also features on the CLOSER YouTube. Since it was published on 5 April 2022, the video has been viewed 152 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwn7kmyNncw |
| Description | COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dialogue: Policy Engagement for LH&W NCS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/covid-19-longitudinal-health-wellbeing/ |
| Description | COVID-19 Perspectives: Cutting through the noise: mobilising data and generating impact during a global pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In May 2020, Rob Davies (Head of the CLOSER COVID-19 Taskforce) highlighted the need to harness the power of longitudinal population studies to help understand the immediate and long-term impacts of the pandemic on individuals, families and communities and called for the creation of a new national birth cohort study to ensure that valuable data from a generation born during a global pandemic is not lost. As the UK moves into a new phase of its COVID-19 response he explores what happened over the past year and how our work ensured that longitudinal data and research will remain at the forefront of the country's response to the pandemic, now and in the future. This blog was reposted/featured by the IOE, Science in Parliament and the UCL COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/cutting-through-the-noise-mobilising-data-and-generating/ |
| Description | CRASSH seminar - Andy Boyd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andy Boyd hosted a seminar at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social SCiences and Humanities, University of Cambridge) which explored the ethico-legal challenges faced by the research community when using routine health and social administrative records in a secondary context. There were several requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CSDI: What can the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) do for comparative surveys? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colloboration with DDI Training Working Group collegues at NSD and Gesis to present "What can the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) do for comparative surveys?" at the Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) workshop. It provide an introduction to the metadata standard DDI with focus on the work products of the DDI Alliance. It will include an overview of the background of DDI, who is using the standard, and for what purpose. Study and variable description with DDI (Hayley Mills) The DDI standard allows the documentation of metadata from the high level of a study or project, to the lower level of an individual variable. This presentation will; i) describe how DDI represents these, ii) give the advantages of documenting metadata in this way, including for discovery and harmonisation; and iii) provide examples of where this has been achieved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://csdiworkshop.org/2021-virtual-csdi-workshop/ |
| Description | CeLSIUS meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 02/02/2016 - Alison Park, CLOSER Director, met with Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS. They discussed the feasibility of including the ONS Longitudinal Survey as a CLOSER study. Nicola Shelton was asked to speak at the next Leadership Team meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Chair of annual Social Research Association conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired annual SRA conference which allowed various opportunities to network and promote longitudinal research and CLOSER resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjt1P2ur7... |
| Description | Challenges for Data Harmony |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop aimed to: • facilitate sharing of ideas across the CLOSER harmonisation WPs • develop best practices for data harmonisation • discuss delivery of teaching materials for the tier 1 and tier 3 training on data harmonisation. Many downloads of presentations from our website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/challenges-data-harmony/ |
| Description | Challenges for data linkage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aims of this knowledge exchange workshop were to share ideas across the CLOSER data linkage teams and develop best practice, and to discuss delivery of teaching materials for training on data linkage. The slides have been made available on the closer website and the webpages have been visited several times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/challenges-data-linkage/ |
| Description | Children and Young People Mental Health Coalition: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | An interactive webinar hosted by the Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition (CYPMHC), open to their members. Webinar describing the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, with an opportunity for attendees to use the Catalogue, as questions and make suggestions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Co-Chair of European DDI Conference Program Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The activity has given CLOSER an international profile and networking opportunities that has led to a number of invitations to participate in research bids and activities such as international workshops |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.eddi-conferences.eu |
| Description | Collaboration meeting with MIDUS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss collaboration and potential joint bid with MIDUS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Combining social and bio-medical data collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop featured presentations from a range of UK longitudinal studies discussing their approaches to combining the collection of both social and biomedical data. Each presentation looked at the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches used, looking particularly at cost, response rates and data quality. There were 30 delegates in attendance. Of the feedback received, 64% of respondents gave a rating of 9 or above when asked how satisfied they were with the event (with 10 being deemed 'very satisfied'). Presentation slides from the event were made available to view from the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-data-collection-workshop/ |
| Description | Conference Symposium on 'Harmonising data for comparative research: New findings and resources on mental health, cognition, physical activity & epigenetics from the CLOSER consortium' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We organised and ran a symposium of 5 talks on the theme of longitudinal data harmonisation, disseminating learning from the CLOSER harmonisation work packages. The symposium was held as part the Society of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies' 2019 international conference in Potsdam, Germany. Our symposium was praised at other subsequent talks at the conference and we received interest from attendees in obtaining further information and guidance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference paper: Secular Trends in Childhood Emotional and Behavioural Problems: Evidence from the British Birth Cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference 2019. University of Potsdam, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-conference-2019/ |
| Description | Conference paper: Sociodemographic Predictors of Mid-Life Cognitive Ability: A Cross Cohort Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference 2019. University of Potsdam, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://42c71b67-918c-4b66-8cd9-2893eab1f523.filesusr.com/ugd/df1448_ca14cf7e6e6a4a07aa951bfb86655c0... |
| Description | Conference papers: Congruence over time and populations: Exploring the use of retrospectively harmonised mental health and cognition variables in the British birth cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SLLS conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference presentation: Harmonisation of mental health measures in the British birth cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at "Preparing for the future II: international approaches to challenges facing the longitudinal population studies reservation. University College London". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Preparing-for-the-future-II-Full-report-FINAL.pdf |
| Description | Consent to health record linkage on longitudinal studies: commonalities and differences accross UK cohort and household panel studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER research was used as part of presentations on consent to data linkage at the International Sociological Association World Congress 2014 in Yokohama, and the ESRC's Methods Festival 2014 in Oxford More enquiries and interest around CLOSER |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Contribution to Edinburgh International Science Festival 2016 event, Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Birth cohort studies are a British speciality, and these ambitious pieces of research reveal how our childhood impacts the course of our lives, and the many factors that influence our economic, social and personal development. Helen Pearson, editor for Nature and author of the forthcoming The Life Project, director of CLOSER Prof Alison Park, Prof Chris Dibben, and Dr George Ploubidis, Chief Statistician at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, discuss these observational studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-international-science-festival-life-lessons/ |
| Description | Contribution to Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Research Methods course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology staff about assessing and using longitudinal and cross-sectional research. It covered the key uses and limitations of longitudinal and cross-sectional research, including key types of data collection and how longitudinal data differs from quantitative survey data collected only at one point in time. It also covered issues around causality and assessing the relative importance of effects, and how longitudinal data can be combined with qualitative data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Contributor to the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST) Annual Horizon Scan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to contribute to the POST Annual Horizon Scan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/type/horizon-scanning/ |
| Description | Cross-Government Family Analysis Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER coordinated the MONTH 2015 meeting for the Cross-Government Family Analysis Group, a group of government researchers from across a range of departments who study issues relating to the family. Meghan Rainsberry provided an introduction to longitudinal studies and CLOSER's resources for researchers, and Lucinda Platt and Tina Haux presented early findings from their analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study on the effects of parental separation on child development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Cross-study comparisons: The value and challenges of data harmonisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a blog by Prof Alison Park reflecting on the 2017 Longitudinal Studies Review. In the blog, Prof Park argues that work led by CLOSER to enhance the UK's longitudinal studies by improving their comparability will be vital to their future sustainability. The blog was published on 1 August 2018. As of 8 March, it has been viewed 188 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/crossstudy-comparisons-challenges-data-harmonisation/ |
| Description | Cross-study research: Opportunities, challenges and examples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop, hosted by the University of Manchester, aimed to provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges inherent in cross-study research. It focused particularly on data harmonisation. The event was led by Prof Rebecca Hardy and featured talks from Dr Natasha Wood, Dr Vasiliki Bountziouka, Prof Tarani Chandola, Dr Graciela Muniz-Terrera and Dr Dara O'Neill. The workshop was attended by 18 people. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), the average rating for satisfaction and relevancy was 9. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/crossstudy-research-opportunities-challenges-examples/ |
| Description | DDI Lifecycle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation / overview of DDI-Lifecycle standard |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/european-ddi-conference-2022-introd... |
| Description | DDI Lifecycle: Moving Forward |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop extended and built upon progress made during the year to develop and implement the model in a community-driven way. Work will also continue on fine-tuning the production framework to automate as much as possible in a model-driven environment for the development of the standard. There was a focus on incorporating enhanced data citation into the DDI model-based specification. With funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the University of Kansas and the University of Michigan are bringing together experts in data citation who will use the week at Dagstuhl to model data citation across the research data life cycle. Representatives from other metadata standards collaborated with DDI modelers in adding comprehensive citation support to the DDI model. A taxonomy for the role of contributor to a dataset was also developed. This work will provide a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization of the different metadata standards. Deliverables from the workshop included drafts of the model and its documentation, which will be made available for public review, and mappings to other standards. The workshop also produced a set of best practices for citing data at all levels and providing attribution to all dataset contributors. These best practices could be applied to other metadata standards in other disciplines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/14432 |
| Description | DDI Lifecycle: Moving Forward |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop provided a forum for interested participants with both a substantive and technical focus to contribute to a re-envisioned model-driven DDI specification. Deliverables from the workshop included a report. The workshop began the development of a re-modelling of DDI, this is described in Developing a Model - Driven DDI Specification [http://www.ddialliance.org/system/files/DevelopingaModel-DrivenDDISpecification2013_05_15.pdf] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=12432 |
| Description | DDI Lifecycle: Moving Forward (Part 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop will extend and build upon progress made during the year to develop and implement the model in a community-driven way. This enables a distributed development effort, with different groups able to work on parts of the model somewhat independently. The stages in the process include a first stage in which domain experts do simple modeling using forms to express the normative aspects of their piece of the model, with output consisting of a useable UML representation plus a Word document or PDF. The workshop defined the scope, structure, and documentation. The output developed by domain experts was captured in a development platform and also generated system binding to other expressions like XML. This technology preview will permit the DDI Alliance to actively engage with other standards and groups and bring them into the community and the conversation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/13442 |
| Description | DDI Lifecycle: Questions and Instruments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DDI Lifecycle addresses the needs of metadata management not only for archives and data disseminators, but also throughout the data lifecycle, from data collection and survey design through the end stages. It is also a useful tool for understanding how related data sets fit together, whether as a longitudinal or repeat cross-sectional effort, or through ad-hoc comparison and harmonization. A range of topics will cover a broad description of the specification, as well as providing focus on specific aspects of the standard for metadata and data management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://codata.org/initiatives/data-skills/ddi-training-webinars/european-ddi-conference-2021-traini... |
| Description | DDI Moving Forward: Facilitating Interoperability and Collaboration with Other Metadata Standards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The intent of the model-driven endeavor is a robust and sustainable solution for the future and a solid foundation for expansion of the standard. Therefore it is important that DDI is developed carefully and in alignment with best practices in metadata development. The DDI metadata standard should not exist in isolation but should participate with other standards in a larger framework characterized by interoperability and collaboration. To realize these goals, this year's workshop will bring together representatives from other metadata standards to provide an external review of current DDI work, with an emphasis on the model-driven approach, the production framework, and the substantive content of the standard. Progress made so far will be examined in light of the high-level goals and design principles for the model-driven specification. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/15433 |
| Description | DDI Moving Forward: Improvement and Refinement of Selected Areas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the workshop was the continuation of the development of a new model for DDI. The workshop focused on testing and validating the model and led to improvements in the capability of the model, the implementation better documentation for future dissemination and the capturing, rendering and utilisation of use cases. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=16433 |
| Description | DDI Technical Committee Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Development activity related to release of new version of standard DDI-Lifecycle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DDI Train the Trainers library working group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working group to continue to improve and expand the DDI training library created at the Train the Trainers workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | DDI Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss followup work from previous activity (Dagstuhl Train the Trainers event) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DDI: Facilitating Process and Metadata-Driven Automation in the Social, Economic, and Behavioural Sciences with the Data Documentation Initiative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop will provide an introduction to using the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard to enable many of the processes common to the social, behavioural, and economic sciences, from the conceptualization of surveys through data collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination. The focus of the workshop will be on the "Lifecycle" branch of DDI, version 3.2, which provides a detailed model of the metadata needed to support both human-driven and automated processing. The workshop will be organized in a task-oriented manner, with participants actively documenting real-world use cases in order to learn how best to employ the DDI model and associated technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/14422 |
| Description | DOHaD conference - The development of the obesity epidemic across age, time and socioeconomic position: evidence from five UK birth cohort studies (Rebecca Hardy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER team attended the The International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) 2017 conference. Professor Rebecca Hardy presented on 'The development of the obesity epidemic across age, time and socioeconomic position: evidence from five UK birth cohort studies'. The presentation generated a lot of interest in CLOSER's exhibition stand and the team staffing the stand fielded questions about Rebecca's CLOSER-funded research and further questions more generally about CLOSER's work. There were over 126 visitors to the exhibition stand across the three days and several approaches from project leads on how to join CLOSER or get their study data into CLOSER Discovery. The CLOSER staff at conference encouraged delegates to engage on social media - this resulted in 31 new followers, 22,353 impressions on Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.dohad2017.org/scientific-program/#Monday |
| Description | Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) - Train the Trainers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to develop training materials for data managers and researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=18393 |
| Description | Data harmonisation and the value of cross-cohort analysis: an overview of the new CLOSER programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jane Elliott, previous Director of CLOSER, and Will Johnson, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, presented on'Data harmonisation and the value of cross-cohort analysis: an overview of the new CLOSER programme' at the 'ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health - 23rd Centre Day'. The speakers presented to a large audience and the talks generated interesting feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/icls |
| Description | Data harmonisation round table |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this harmonisation roundtable was to reflect on progress being made by CLOSER's different harmonisation work packages, with a view to providing input into the harmonisation strand of the ESRC's LS Review and gathering intelligence to inform harmonisation activity being planned for CLOSER's two year extension. The attendees included representives from the relevant work packages plus the ESRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Data sharing and patient records - creating vital resources for health research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This blog provided information to the wider consortium about data sharing and patient records. The blog has been read several times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2014/data-sharing-patient-records-creating-vital-resources/ |
| Description | Delivered a pilot CLOSER training session for the UCL-Birkbeck MRC Doctoral Training Partnership. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a pilot CLOSER training session for the UCL-Birkbeck MRC Doctoral Training Partnership on understanding government and parliament, the policy process, and how to achieve policy impact with your research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Delivered a training session for the UCL Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a training session on using social media (Twitter) to achieve impact for the UCL Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/soc-b-biosocial-doctoral-training/about-programme |
| Description | Delivered a training session for the UCL Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a training session on using Twitter to achieve policy impact for the UCL Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Delivered a training session for the UCL-Birkbeck MRC Doctoral Training Partnership. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a training session on using Twitter to achieve policy impact for the UCL-Birkbeck MRC Doctoral Training Partnership. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Demographic shifts and population mental healt: a life course perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | About 500 memebrs of the public wahted my talk the the Institute of Demography, Economy and Geography, Spanish National Research Council via Twitter, Vimeo and other media paltforms. About 50 Academics were present at the talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://demografia.tv/video/d4785fa5d6c99d8/Prof-George-Ploubidis-Demographic-shifts-and-population-m... |
| Description | Demonstration of CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of CLOSER Discovery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iassistdata.org/conferences/iassist-virtual-2021/ |
| Description | Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Social Justice Expert Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rob Davies, CLOSER Public Affairs Manager, attended a workshop to challenge and refine DWP analysis and conclusions on social justice. The round table discussion examined DWPs existing plans. 15 people attended, included Longitudinal study, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Designing a framework for extraction Primary Care electronic records for longitudinal population studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | With support from the CLOSER cohort consortium (Work Package 14) we have established an expert working group of data managers from longitudinal population studies. The exert working group is designing a framework primary care extraction protocol tuned to the needs of the longitudinal community. The expert group will use this framework to engage industry (GP software providers) and the NHS in order to realise an implemented software product. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/research-fund-2/data-linkage/framework-linking-sharing-social-media-data-hi... |
| Description | Digital Economy Act 2017: Cabinet Office Discussion event in support of the consultation on the Digital Government Codes of Practice and regulations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated in the Digital Economy Act 2017: Cabinet Office (Better use of Data team from the Government Digital Service) Discussion event in support of the consultation on the Digital Government Codes of Practice and regulations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-economy-act-part-5-data-sharing-codes-and-regula... |
| Description | Documenting Questions: A Crash Course. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop for understanding the best way to document questionnaires using DDI-Lifecycle. The workshop raised awareness of best practice in preparation for implementation of better systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi17/paper/view/311 |
| Description | Documenting harmonisation and question provenance using DDI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk led to discussions on how CLOSER and UK Data Service could collaborate more closely and exchange thinking Further activity is planned between CLOSER and UK Data Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Documenting harmonisation and question provenance using DDI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk raised questions on the possibility of ONS / UK Data Service collaboration on improving ONS harmonised question availability and discovery and possibilities of integrating DDI into outputs from the Electronic Data Capture Further contact and information sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Documenting harmonisation and question provenance using DDI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of the wider applicability of using DDI and structured metadata to provenance and publish ONS Harmonised questions either by ONS or through the UK Data Service I have been invited to talk to BIS about their metadata management strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Documenting longitudinal data and questions with structured metadata (DDI-L) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk raised the need for better management of metadata and data A return visit, to talk to the more technical staff and proposals for a pilot project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ESRC Blog: Disadvantage and worklessness: a longitudinal perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 'Improving lives: Helping Workless Families' sets out proposals to improve outcomes for children who grow up in workless families and face multiple disadvantages. It draws on analysis of three longitudinal studies in the CLOSER consortium - Understanding Society, the Millennium Cohort Study, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. I inspired the life-course approach taken by the DWP and blogged about the report and value and importance of longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.esrc.ac.uk/2017/04/19/disadvantage-and-worklessness-a-longitudinal-perspective/ |
| Description | ESRC Blog: Engaging with policymakers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Based on my two decades of experience in communications, public affairs and stakeholder management, this blog shared some practical advice and tips for engaging with policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.esrc.ac.uk/2017/03/17/engaging-with-policymakers-some-tips-to-help-you-on-your-journey/ |
| Description | ESRC Data and Infrastructure team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was given to the ESRC Data and Infrastructure team and covers metadata in 2 minutes, concepts and idea, standards, a short introduction to CLOSER Discovery and where metadata sits in the wider research infrastructure landscape |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ESRC Final Year Student Conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This conference is an opportunity for ESRC-funded doctoral students to meet other final year students from across the UK, to share ideas, form connections and networks, and ultimately be inspired by the workshops, activities and opportunities on offer. Meghan Rainsberry ran a workshop on The value of the UK's longitudinal resources and participated in a careers panel. CLOSER also exhibited at the event. There was considerable interest in CLOSER's workshop and exhibit stand. Students came with very specific questions relating to their own discipline or research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ESRC First Year Student Conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry, CLOSER Communications Manager, and Samantha Parsons will be presenting on "Everything you always wanted to know about longitudinal resources* (*but were too afraid to ask)". This sparked much interest and discussion afterwards. Real interest from students and more visitors (and Twitter followers) on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/esrc-first-year-student-conference/ |
| Description | ESRC Future Data Services Expert Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Member of the ESRC FDS Expert group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/what-we-offer/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/future-data-services/ |
| Description | ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) Centre Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented 'How to make friends and influence policy' at the ICLS 40th Centre day and participated in a panel discussion on how academics can influence policy. Other panel members were Ellen Flint, Head of Scientific Strategy, Department for Work & Pensions and Michael O'Toole; Chief Executive, Mentor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iehc/research/epidemiology-public-health/research/icls/events/CD-31-OCt-17-agen... |
| Description | ESRC-UCL roundtable discussion: Exploring strategies for policy engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable discussion on: 1. Effective approaches for supporting academic-policy engagement (including ESRC's approach to supporting research engagement with public policy) 2. Policy engagement and policy capabilities in different contexts and disciplines (local/regional/national/international) 3. Capabilities and career pathways for researchers and brokers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Edinburgh Study of Youth Transition and Crime - Study Scientific Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributing record linkage and study management expertise to the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transition and Crime. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Engagement with the Cabinet Office on the 'Better Use of Data in Government' workstream |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park and Rob Davies took part in a number of meetings and workshops with Cabinet Office officials as part of the 'Better use of Data in Government' workstream and subsequent consultation in the context of new proposed legislation (the Digital Economy Bill 2016-17). These discussions led to the formal recognition by the Government in their official response to review the proposed legislation to ensure it that it maximises the potential for accessing administrative data for various types of valuable research including longitudinal studies in a way that does not complicate existing processes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535063/better_use_of_data_... |
| Description | European DDI Conference 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EDDI is designed to provide forum where DDI users from Europe and the world can gather to showcase their work and their progress toward DDI adoption, as well as discuss any questions or challenges they may have about the standard. The UCL IOE Metadata team made various useful contacts who have helped with the development of the Uniform Search Platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/eddi14-6th-annual-european-ddi-user-conference/ |
| Description | European DDI Conference 2019 (Metadata Disclosure Framework: open science vs privacy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation will offer up a framework that could be actioned in both DDI-Codebook and DDI-Lifecycle elements (or by extensions to the existing standards) to allow the publication of variable statistics that meets the demands of open science and the FAIR principles, but respects the privacy and disclosure requirements of data providers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European DDI Conference 2019 (The challenges and opportunities of documenting longitudinal data and questionnaires) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | New functionality in Discovery which makes these lists both persistent and identifiable allow them to be referenced in publications, working papers, and in multi-centre collaborations, increasing both efficiency and research transparency. This presentation will report on these new and planned future features of CLOSER Discovery as well as the successes and problems faced in using the DDI-Lifecycle metadata standard to achieve these ambitions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European DDI User Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER successfully gave three presentations at the 8th Annual European DDI Conference (EDDI), including an introduction to CLOSER Discovery. The EDDI conference took place in Cologne, Germany between 6 and 7 December 2016. About the conference EDDI is focused on developing a standard for documenting metadata in a consistent and reusable format. This year's conference discussed the current usage and implementation of DDI. Presentations covered a wide range of topics including; early and mature implementations, the interplay of DDI with other standards and technologies and critiques of DDI. Lessons learnt from the development of a DDI-based discovery platform CLOSER's technical lead, Jon Johnson, presented CLOSER Discovery to EDDI for the first time. In addition to giving a basic introduction to the project, he also discussed a number of the advanced features that CLOSER Discovery has made available. Lessons from a large-scale metadata archiving team using DDI-lifecycle CLOSER's Metadata Officer, Hayley Mills presented the lessons CLOSER has learnt about managing large-scale metadata ingest. Hayley offered a number of 'top tips' acquired from her own experiences, which cover expected cost and time commitments, advised styles of verification and validation, and the type of personalities working with metadata requires. Archivist and Mapper: Simplifying and modernising questionnaire entry CLOSER's Technical Manager, Will Poynter introduced Archivist and Mapper - two bespoke tools, created by CLOSER, which support the large-scale management of metadata. Both tools are open-source and are available to view. Will also demonstrated Archivist to interested delegates during the poster session. In addition, CLOSER presented a poster on principles to effective metadata entry, which have been recently updated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/8th-annual-european-ddi-user-conference/ |
| Description | European Survey Research Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER has been developing a suite of tools and software using both in-house and commercially available solutions that begin to tackle come of the obstacles involved in documenting and utilising longitudinal metadata. The presentation will report on the successes and problems faced in using the DDI-Lifecycle metadata standard to achieve these ambitions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/programme?sess=218#436 |
| Description | Evening Event: What's on the Menu? Food Choices in Contemporary Life (CLOSER and The British Library) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | From food risks and health issues to eating for pleasure, delegates joined Professor Hazel Inskip, the leader of a major social study (Southampton Women's Survey) that assessed the diet and body composition of thousands of women over time, award-winning food writer Felicity Cloake, and chef, blogger and author Anthony Warner (also known as The Angry Chef) in conversation with Polly Russell on how we make food choices and the impact these choices have. On 26 April 2018, CLOSER co-hosted an evening event with the British Library, as part of their Food Season, discussing food choices and what the longitudinal research tells us about peoples food choices. The event sold 176 tickets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bl.uk/events/whats-on-the-menu-food-choices-in-contemporary-life |
| Description | Event in Parliament: Achieving a Digital NHS: What it means for healthcare, patients and medical research - Alison Park on panel as speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park spoke on the importance of data linkage at the event - Achieving a Digital NHS: What it means for healthcare, patients and medical research. Alison was joined by fellow panellists Professor David Hughes, Director of Information Analytics, NHS Digital, and Malcolm Senior, Director of Informatics, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The event was chaired by Sir Kevin Barron MP. CLOSER colleagues networked with parliamentarians and NHS staff as part of CLOSER's efforts to advocate for data linkage on behalf of the UK's longitudinal studies. Over 70 delegates attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/events/achieving-digital-nhs-what-it-means-healthcare-patients-... |
| Description | Evidence Week in Parliament 2018 expert panel discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The first ever Evidence Week held in the UK Parliament in June 2018 looked at how research evidence supports effective scrutiny and reasoned decisions. The CLOSER Director participated in an expert panel session on 'Are we looking at what people need to know?'. The discussion covered a range of topics, including the need to make more use of administrative data and the value of longitudinal research in understanding society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Evidence-Week-October-final-report-2018-pri... |
| Description | Evidence Week: How longitudinal research can help get to the heart of 'wicked problems' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | As part of Evidence Week in Parliament, CLOSER worked with the UCL Public Policy team to host a session exploring how longitudinal research can help aid our understanding of 'wicked problems', focusing particularly at obesity. The session was chaired by Prof Alison Park, and featured talks from Prof Rebecca Hardy, Prof Emla Fitzsimons, and Prof Hazel Inskip as well as a panel discussion on the issues raised. Around 20 people attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://senseaboutscience.org/activities/evidence-week-programme/ |
| Description | Exhibited at BERA 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER ran a exhibition stand at the British Educational Research Association conference in Liverpool in September 2022. The CLOSER stand showcased our work and resources including CLOSER Discovery and the Learning Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/british-education-research-association-2022-conference/ |
| Description | Exhibited at IASSIST 2022 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER ran an exhibition stand at the 2022 IASSIST conference (in-person) in Sweden from 7-10 June. The team running the stand spoke to over 50 delegates, gaining 23 new sign-ups to the CLOSER newsletters. • CLOSER's work received positive feedback from many attendees, both at the stand and during conversations at social events. Attendees were particularly interested in Discovery and the Learning Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/iassist-2022-conference/ |
| Description | Exhibited at the 2021 ESRA conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER ran a virtual exhibition stand at the 2021 ESRA conference which ran every Friday in July 2021. The closer stand showcased our work and resources including CLOSER Discovery, the Learning Hub, and cross-study data guides. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/european-survey-research-association-2021-conference/ |
| Description | Exhibition stand at DOHaD 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had an exhibitor stand at the 2019 DOHaD conference. The team shared information about CLOSER's work and answered questions from attendees. A total of 264 people visited the stand. Over the course of the conference, CLOSER gained 21,400 impressions, had 36 retweets, 122 likes on Twitter and 25 new newsletter subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition stand at ESRA 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had an exhibitor stand at the 2019 European Survey Research Association conference. The team shared information and answered questions from attendees. There was particular interest in CLOSER Discovery, the Learning Hub, and harmonised datasets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition stand at Learning from longitudinal studies in the UK and LMIC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had an exhibitor stand at an evening event on longitudinal studies in the UK and low- and middle-income countries. The team shared information and answered questions from attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition stand at Royal Economic Society conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had an exhibitor stand at the 2019 Royal Economic Society conference. The team shared information about CLOSER's work and answered questions from attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition stand at Understanding Society Scientific Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had an exhibitor stand at the 2019 Understanding Society Scientific conference. The team shared information and answered questions from attendees. There was particular interest in CLOSER Discovery, the Learning Hub, and harmonised datasets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition: Civil Service Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Civil Service Live is a programme of learning events organised by Cabinet Office and delivered in partnership with Dods. The conferences are days filled with engaging, interactive and thought provoking sessions, led by dynamic, expert and inspirational speakers. It brings together Civil Servants working in government departments and agencies, and private sector organisations to learn, network and collaborate; sharing ideas to help make best practice the norm. CLOSER attended this event in Bristol as part of the Data Innovation showcase. The team met with a wide range of civil servants, the vast majority of whom had not heard of longitudinal studies. CLOSER showcased Discovery, as well as the UK's longitudinal resources more broadly. The civil servants we spoke to said they learned a great deal more about the studies, and one agreed to take part in alpha testing for CLOSER Discovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.civilservicelive.com/ |
| Description | Exhibition: ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event was targeted at SDAI grant holders and policymakers. It showcased SDAI projects and the impact they have made on policy to date.We exhibited at this event, showcasing longitudinal data resources and evidence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding/funding-opportunities/secondary-data-analysis-initiative-sdai-open-cal... |
| Description | Exhibition: Life Study launch at the House of Lords |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER exhibited at this event, sharing information and answering questions from MPs, Peers and civil servants on the UK's longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Exhibition: Public Health Science conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had a exhibitor stand at the national Public Health Science 2015. We engaged with academics, practitioners and students from an array of public health disciplines and received great interest in the project. People were particularly interested in the means of accessing cohort and longitudinal data, and the creation of CLOSER Discovery - the metdata search portal which will hold metadata from the 8 CLOSER studies. Several delegates asked for more information about the metadata search portal and expressed interest in using the product. Delegates were encouraged to use the cohort and longitudinal studies in their research. Since the conference we have had several more Twitter followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ukpublichealthscience.org/?p=28 |
| Description | Exhibition: Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER exhibited at the Society for Social Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting 2016 in York. The programme included three days of lectures and workshops, with many presentations from researchers using CLOSER studies. CLOSER was able to engage with the biomedical community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/society-social-medicine-60th-anniversary-annual-scientic-meeting/ |
| Description | Exhibition: Wellcome Longitudinal Studies Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER had an exhibitor stand at the Longitudinal Studies Conference 2018 at Wellcome Genome Campus (30 May - 1 June). CLOSER shared information and answered questions from attendees involved in epidemiology, biomedicine and the social sciences. The stand had 32 visitors, registered 10 newsletter signups, 2 new signups for each of the new products (blog, research highlights, twitter highlights), 14 new Twitter followers and on social media generated 20.6k Twitter impressions. There was particular interest in CLOSER Discovery and Harmonised data sets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-events/longitudinal-studies-2018/ |
| Description | Expert Panel on Cross-National Comparisons of Educational Inequalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Following presentations related to the recent OECD funded project: Development of Inequalities in Child Educational Achievement: A Six Country Study, I was invited to take part in an online expert panel to discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of undertaking cross-national longitudinal research comparing educational inequalities. More than 50 participants attended and an interesting debate sparked several questions from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://population-europe.eu/events/understanding-and-comparing-inequalities-skills-development-inte... |
| Description | Expert acknowledgment: Research for Parliament 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Experts helped POST identify 30 areas of change to help the UK Parliament prepare for the future. Research for Parliament 2021: expert acknowledgments (Rob Davies, UCL Public Affairs and Policy Impact Lead and Head of the CLOSER COVID-19 Taskforce). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/an-introduction-to-research-for-parliament-2021/ |
| Description | External Reviewer: POST Research Briefing 'Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Part of the POSTnote series of briefings for parliamentarians, 'Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults' outlines direct and indirect mental health consequences of the pandemic, the groups most affected and their mental health outcomes. The briefing also discusses policy approaches to protect mental health and how healthcare services can adapt to improve the support available. Rob Davies, Head of CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce, contributed to the POSTnote on behalf of CLOSER and our partner studies and acted as an external reviewer. This latest POSTnote cites mental health research from a wide array of UK longitudinal population studies, highlighting the vital insights these studies offer to better our understanding of the far-reaching impacts of the pandemic. Longitudinal studies noted in the briefing include: 1958, 1970, 2000-01 British birth cohorts and Next Steps Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Understanding Society: the UK Household Panel Survey The briefing features longitudinal evidence on a range of topics, including the mental health inequalities in healthcare, economic, and social disruption during the pandemic, as well as the experiences of home-carers and older adults instructed to shield, and the impacts of the pandemic on risky behaviours, including alcohol consumption, disordered eating and self-harm. All of the longitudinal research cited in the latest POSTnote can be found in our COVID-19 Research Tracker - an easy-to-use, interactive tool containing pandemic-related academic publications, briefing notes, and reports using data from the UK and Ireland's longitudinal population studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0648/ |
| Description | Extract2DDI - open source software to extract DDI-Lifecycle from SPSS and Stata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Building on the open source code base, developed at the UK Data Archive and subsequently further enhanced at Cornell in 2017, to develop a SPSS and Stata to DDI Codebook tool (https://github.com/ncrncornell/ced2arddigenerator). CLOSER has extended the functionality to support DDI-Lifecycle 3.2 Instance format and DDI 3.3 Fragment format. To address concerns about potential sensitivity of specific variables in a dataset, functionality has been added to exclude for specified variables its summary statistics. The software is currently at beta and available at https://github.com/CLOSER-Cohorts/Extract2DDI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Extraordinary Ordinary Britain: Guided walking tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER, in collaboration with London Walks, is pleased to offer this guided walking tour as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science. About In March 1946, as the country reeled in the aftermath of World War II, British scientists set out on an extraordinary mission - to interview the parents of all babies born in a single week. Little did they know that they would continue to follow those babies throughout their entire lives, inspiring a 70-year tradition of tracking generations of British people from birth to death. The UK's longitudinal studies have collected information on every aspect of their participants' lives - from their family, to education and employment, health and how they age. The studies have been credited with discoveries ranging from the negative effects of smoking during pregnancy, to the effect of poverty on child development. The walk was led by experienced Blue Badge Guide Kim Dewdney and covered the Bloomsbury area, highlighting the history and findings of the UK's longitudinal studies, stories from the lives of the people involved, and how these remarkable studies have shaped and been shaped by modern British history. The event received excellent feedback with 24 people registering for the walk. Due to the success of the walking tour it is planned to be repeated again. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/extraordinary-ordinary-britain-walking-tour/ |
| Description | Facilitating Shared Survey Metadata across the Life-Cycle in Longitudinal Studies - A UK Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk encouraged others to look at ways in which they could learn and potentially replicate from recent developments in the UK which brought together stakeholders to create a common understanding of what the benefits of shared metadata are, and led to an agreement on a common way forward. I have been asked to give further talks at other institutions on this subject |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi14/paper/view/155 |
| Description | Filling in the gaps to boost evidence on vulnerable children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In her blog, Dr Alison Teyhan, Senior Research Associate for the Project to Enhance ALSPAC through Record Linkage at the University of Bristol argued that linked data could be the solution to keeping 'looked after' children included in cohort studies. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 239 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/filling-gaps-boosts-evidence-vulnerable-children/ |
| Description | Five reasons why I liked ECSR conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blog post describing my experiences when attending the European Consortium of Sociological Research Conference in Lausanne |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/bozena-ecsr-conference/ |
| Description | Following lives - a guest post from the FCO Science & Innovation Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This blog outlined a visit from Sunil Kumar to CLOSER - it was reblogged from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Science & Innovation Network blog. It has been read several times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2014/lives-guest-post-fco-science-innovation/ |
| Description | Freakonomics Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Described on Freakonomics website as 'In this special episode of Freakonomics, M.D., host Bapu Jena looks at a clever new study that could help answer one of parenting's most contentious questions.' I discussed my recently published research using the Millennium Cohort Study which estimates the causal impact of breastfeeding on children's development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-important-is-breastfeeding-really/ |
| Description | From 1911 to 2013: Renewing UK Birth Cohort Studies Metadata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on the Uniform Search Platform outlining the problems around inputting questionnaire metadata by Jon Johnson, Senior Database Manager at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Dr Jack Kneeshaw, UK Data Archive. The presentation was at the IASSIST conference in 2013 in Cologne, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.iassist2013.org/ |
| Description | From 7 Up to Social Science: How longitudinal stories help us understand our lives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social scientists and the team behind 7 Up discussed how thinking longitudinally can help people understand the changes in society. The event was part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2015. In total 179 people registered for the event, from across academia, the London film community and the general public. Guests scored it a 9/10 for satisfaction. The audience asked excellent questions and the talks generated great discussions at the event and on twitter. The event was captured on video and made available on the CLOSER website. Some comments from attendees: "Science events can be too dry but this was the exact opposite, probably due to the mix of scientific and non-scientific panel members." "The insights from the study participant and the 7Up participant really brought the subject alive. The visual aids were also very interesting, particularly the photographic composition used by Prof. Alison Park. All speakers were very engaging!" "The event was very well run. The introduction at the start was very easy to understand and the graphics were very nice. The example of the photo cohort was a nice feature as well. As someone who knows abit about cohort studies anyway the most interesting bit of the event for me was hearing from the 2 different study members themselves. It was nice to hear the personal stories to be able to put the work that I do into some context." Over 180 people registered for the event from a wide array of backgrounds - the general public, the third sector, academics. The event has received excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/from-7-up-to-social-science/ |
| Description | Functioning well in later life: What is the evidence from longitudinal studies? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This symposium brought together experts in healthy ageing from some of the UK's leading longitudinal studies. The presentations have been downloaded many times on the project website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/functioning-life-evidence-longitudinal-studies/ |
| Description | GDPR: protection or peril for research in the public interest? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a blog by Andy Boyd, Data Linkage and Information Security Manager at the University of Bristol, exploring what the new GDPR legislation could mean for data used for research. The blog was published on 18 September. As of 8 March, it has been viewed 340 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/gdpr-protection-peril/ |
| Description | Geographical data in cohort and longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This session aimed to explore what and how it can be used with longitudinal studies to explore innovative new avenues for research. Split into two sessions, the first explored what and how geographical data can be used with longitudinal studies to explore innovative new avenues for research. The second part of this workshop consisted of Alison Park presenting a demonstration of CLOSER Discovery. 22 people registered to attend this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/geographical-data-longitudinal-studies/ |
| Description | Government Longitudinal Champions Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry and Alison Park presented to the government longitudinal champions on CLOSER, its resources (including CLOSER Discovery), and the impact of the UK's longitudinal studies. There was good representation across departments, and several longitudinal champions agreed to participate in alpha testing for CLOSER Discovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Guest blog for the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN): A new dawn in evidence-informed policy? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Davies R (2019) "A new dawn in evidence informed policy?", Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) blog series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.upen.ac.uk/blogs/?action=story&id=40 |
| Description | Guest lecture: University of Westminster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest lecturer (MA Public Relations, PR in Society module). 20 students attended my guest lecture: Influencing Power, which sparked questions and a lively discussion afterwards, and students reported increased awareness and understanding of the subject area and excitement for what the future holds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RCDAV16 |
| Description | Guest lecture: University of Westminster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest lecturer (MA Public Relations, PR in Society module). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RCDAV16 |
| Description | HSCIC Policy Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attendees from across the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, ALSPAC, Understanding Society, the UK Data Archive, the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS), the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, the ESRC and CLOSER watched a presentation from Garry Coleman, Head of Data Access, on the developments at HSCIC regarding data linkage. The members discussed how to progress the data linkage issues. The team at CLOSER developed a good working relationship with the team at HSCIC. Andy Boyd on behalf of CLOSER is taking these issues forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Harmonisation of Mental Health Measures in the British Birth Cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference 2019. University of Potsdam, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-conference-2019/ |
| Description | Harmonising mental health measurements from the British birth cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop, led by Prof George B. Ploubidis, focused on a CLOSER research project harmonising measures of mental health from across five longitudinal studies. The event featured talks from Dr Praveetha Patalay, Dr Eoin McElroy, Dr Aase Villadsen and George B. Ploubidis. The event was attended by 42 delegates (75% attendance rate). Slides from the day were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/harmonising-mental-health-measures/ |
| Description | Have "Questions"? We Have a Structure for Them |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training event on documentation of Questions in social surveys |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi16/paper/view/269 |
| Description | House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Brexit Science and Innovation summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to and participated in The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Brexit Science and Innovation summit, which aimed to identify actions needed now to mitigate risks and exploit opportunities for UK science, research and innovation after Brexit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-c... |
| Description | How CLOSER can help the UK's longitudinal population studies meet the challenges facing them in the future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following CLOSER's conference, Preparing for the future: tackling the key challenges facing the UK's longitudinal population studies, CLOSER's Interim Director, Dr Lisa Calderwood, reflected on some of the key themes raised at the event, and how CLOSER can help the UK's longitudinal population studies to meet these challenges and maximise the value of these important research resources. The blog was published on 4 February 2019. As of 8 March, it has been viewed 154 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/closer-uks-longitudinal-population-studies-meet-challenge... |
| Description | How metadata can drive new ways of doing research and collecting data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER Technical Lead, Jon Johnson wrote a blog about how metadata can help drive new ways of conducting research and collecting data, while highlighting how CLOSER Discovery is improving discoverability and enabling new ways of managing and utilising questions and data. As of 6 February 2020, the blog has been viewed 318 times in total. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/metadata-drive-ways-research-collecting-data/ |
| Description | How to... do this longitudinal stuff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In August 2019, Dr Jane Maddock wrote a blog focused on her project reviewing the quantitative analytical training needs for users of longitudinal studies. The review was commissioned by the ESRC. Jane's blog covered the report's findings, as well as Jane's own experience as a developing longitudinal researcher. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 267 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/quantitative-analytical-training-needs-blog/ |
| Description | IOE Blog article: COVID-19: a defining moment for longitudinal research? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Expert opinion from academics at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), the UK's world-leading centre for education and social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2020/05/15/covid-19-a-defining-moment-for-longitudinal-research/ |
| Description | IOE Impact Meet-Ups Online: Policy Impact during the Pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The IOE Research Development Team and the IOE Research Engagement and Impact Group are bringing experts, doctoral students and early career researchers together online to focus on making authentic impact a key consideration in research projects from their inception. Rob Davies, CLOSER's Public Affairs Manager and Head of CLOSER's COVID-19 Taskforce gave an insightful talk and answered questions on Generating policy impact during the pandemic. The talk was introduced by Rebecca Hardy, Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at UCL and Director of CLOSER, a research centre which aims to maximise the use, value and impact of UK's longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ioe-impact-meet-ups-online-policy-impact-during-the-pandemic-tickets-... |
| Description | IOE blog: Maximizing the use and impact of the UK's longitudinal research data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As CLOSER marks its 10-year anniversary, Rob Davies looks back over the evolution of the home of longitudinal research in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2023/01/24/maximizing-the-use-and-impact-of-the-uks-longitudinal-researc... |
| Description | Impact discussion: Rob Davies and Charlotte Sausman (UKRI/ESRC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on policy impact and mobilising research as part of a series of discussions conducted by UKRI/ESRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://esrc.ukri.org/about-us/governance-and-structure/senior-leadership-team/charlotte-sausman/ |
| Description | Impact for beginners with Rob Davies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The seminar will focus on engaging with the UK government and parliament and how to mobilise your research in the policy landscape, what influences policy and decision makers, and some tips and resources to help you on your journey to policy impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/impact-for-beginners-with-rob-davies-tickets-277500229657 |
| Description | In Search of Standardised Scales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Standardised scales (also known as summated scales or validated questionnaires) are a group of related questions that measure an underlying concept (e.g., wellbeing, relationship satisfaction, self-esteem). These scales are frequently used in quantitative research because they allow researchers to reliably measure the same concept across samples and over time. Metadata for standardised scales (e.g., title, author, questions) can be difficult to obtain as information is often scattered across multiple sources, and permission is sometimes required to access the scale. Some scales have multiple variants (i.e., versions which include a smaller subset of questions), and information about the original scale may be hard to locate. It is also challenging to find information about where these scales have been used in research studies. CLOSER aims to make this information more easily accessible to researchers by adding standardised scale metadata to the DDI-compliant metadata platform CLOSER Discovery. The first step in this process included gathering metadata for several of the standardised scales used by the CLOSER studies and displaying these on the CLOSER Technical Wiki: https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/CLOS/Scales. This poster will highlight the importance of standardised scale metadata, the steps taken to create this metadata, and the progress made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Industrial Forum, DATAMIND (Arseneault, 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DATAMIND hosted an Industry Forum meeting to understand what types of data are needed to answer important questions, what services DATAMIND might offer and how we can work together in a collaborative way to improve the lives of people living with poor mental health in the UK. Presentation on the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, and how this contributes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Infographic: CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This infographic was created to complement news of a content update to CLOSER Discovery. The infographic summarises the content available in Discovery covering the number of studies in the tool, as well as the number of questionnaires, variables, survey questions, and COVID-19 metadata available for researchers to search, explore and assess. The infographic was published as part of the main news item about the update and is also re-used regularly on CLOSER's social media channels to promote Discovery. The news page has been viewed 289 times as of 16 February 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/new-data-added-to-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | Infographic: From CRF to CLOSER - Charting our first decade in numbers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This infographic was created to complement Rob Davies' blog celebrating CLOSER's 10 year anniversary. The infographic charts our first decade in numbers focusing on 9 areas - building a unique partnership, increasing data discoverability, providing detailed contextual insights, cultivating knowledge exchange, training the community, inspiring the next generation of scientists, responding to a global pandemic, producing resources for collaborative research, and reaching audiences across the globe. The infographic was published alongside the blog and, as of 16 February 2023, been viewed 228 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/10-year-anniversary-v2.1.png |
| Description | Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017 - Abstract no. 263 Investigating educational attainment at age 16 years in adolescents who are looked after or in need using record linkage and a birth cohort study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017, in Manchester, UK, brought together the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference and the Farr Institute International Conference. Andy Boyd contributed to abstract number 263 - Investigating educational attainment at age 16 years in adolescents who are looked after or in need using record linkage and a birth cohort study - as part of his data linkage work for CLOSER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/rt/printerFriendly/939/979 |
| Description | Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017 - Abstract no. 368 Results from a linkage consent campaign: do respondents differ from non-respondents and do consenters differ from non-consenters? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017, in Manchester, UK, brought together the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference and the Farr Institute International Conference. Andy Boyd contributed to abstract no. 368 - Results from a linkage consent campaign: do respondents differ from non-respondents and do consenters differ from non-consenters? - as part of his data linkage work on behalf of CLOSER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/rt/printerFriendly/939/979 |
| Description | Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017- Abstract no. 657 Investigating the accuracy of parent and self-reported hospital admissions: a validation study using linked hospital episode statistics data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017, in Manchester, UK, brought together the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference and the Farr Institute International Conference. Andy Boyd contributed to Abstract no. 657 - Investigating the accuracy of parent and self-reported hospital admissions: a validation study using linked hospital episode statistics data - as part of his data linkage work on behalf of CLOSER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/rt/printerFriendly/939/979 |
| Description | Informing a Westminster Hall debate on dementia and Alzheimer's disease (Jim Shannon, Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prior to the debate, Rob Davies (Public Affairs Manager) sent Jim Shannon a briefing note - elements of which he cited in the debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/ed7245c5-0581-46d8-89da-781fe841f689 |
| Description | Integrating the social and biological |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The overall objective of this KEW was to discuss ways that CLOSER can improve and promote interdisciplinary research, and explore what can be learnt from previous experience of working across disciplines. Many of the cohort studies included in CLOSER have been used for both social and medical research. Great discussions on how to integrate social and biological research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/integrating-social-biological/ |
| Description | International Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DDI Moving Forward: Production Framework and Bindings. The overall goal is to achieve a solid basis for a DDI 4 prototype. This workshop will extend and build upon the progress made during the past 4 years of development. It focuses on the production framework and specific bindings of the model. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=17423 |
| Description | International Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DDI Moving Forward: Integration of Core Components / DDI-based Infrastructure Vision. The overall goal is to achieve a solid basis for a DDI 4 prototype. This workshop will extend and build upon the progress made during the past 4 years of development. It focuses on the integration of Data Description and Data Capture, and related modeling. Additionally, a plan for a DDI-based infrastructure for the empirical social sciences will be developed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/evhp/?semnr=17433 |
| Description | Introduction to CLOSER Discovery: A resource for biomedical researchers (Bristol) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the launch of CLOSER Discovery - a search engine that allows researchers to explore the content of eight longitudinal studies, this workshop aimed to introduce biomedical researchers to the website. CLOSER's Will Poynter and Meghan Rainsberry led the session which included a full demonstration of the search engine, plus a look at the data available and what was coming next in regard to updates and improved functionality. Delegates were also able to ask questions and provide feedback. We received positive feedback following the event with 100% of respondents rating it as 'Very helpful' and stating they would be 'Very likely' to use the website in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-to-closer-discovery-a-resource-for-biomedical/ |
| Description | Introduction to CLOSER Discovery: A resource for social science researchers (Bristol) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the launch of CLOSER Discovery - a search engine that allows researchers to explore the content of eight longitudinal studies, this workshop aimed to introduce social science researchers to the website. CLOSER's Will Poynter and Meghan Rainsberry led the session which included a full demonstration of the search engine, plus a look at the data available and what was coming next in regard to updates and improved functionality. Delegates were also able to ask questions and provide feedback. We received positive feedback following the event with 100% of respondents rating it as 'Very helpful' and stating they would be 'Very likely' to use the website in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/intro-closer-discovery-bristol/ |
| Description | Introduction to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for teaching and research (Cardiff) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hosted at Cardiff University, this session provided delegates with an overview of CLOSER and our work within the longitudinal research community including CLOSER's resources - the Learning Hub, Discovery and CLOSER's work on data harmonisation and linkage. It also introduced longitudinal studies and their value to academic and government activity. 37 people, from the Welsh government and from academia, registered to attend this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/eventintroduction-closer-longitudinal-resources-teaching-research-2/ |
| Description | Introduction to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for teaching and research (Manchester) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hosted by the University of Manchester, this workshop aimed to introduction delegates to CLOSER's range of longitudinal resources and highlight opportunities for life course and intergenerational researcher. It was led by Alison Park who covered the following topics - about longitudinal studies, overview of findings, accessing the data, and resources including the CLOSER Learning Hub. In total, 17 people registered for this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-closer-longitudinal-resources-teaching-research-3/ |
| Description | Introduction to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for teaching and research (Scottish Government) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hosted by the Scottish Government, the aim of this workshop was to introduce longitudinal studies and the value they can add to government activity, and to explore CLOSER's resources that can support users of longitudinal data. It was split into two sessions - the first session, chaired by Scotland's Chief Statistician, featured informative presentations of the CLOSER studies, plus two Scottish specific studies and the value they add to the policy process. The second session focused on CLOSER's resources and how they can help analysts make greater use of longitudinal evidence. 80 delegates registered for this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-closer-longitudinal-resources-teaching-research/ |
| Description | Introduction to communicating research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This introductory workshop provides a basic overview of some of the key communications skills and methods available to researchers today. Great feedback from the evaluation forms |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-communicating-research/ |
| Description | Introduction to the UK's longitudinal resources (Bristol) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop, led by CLOSER's Meghan Rainsberry, introduced delegates to a range of longitudinal resources and highlighted opportunities for life course and intergenerational research. The session included a general overview of longitudinal studies, an overview of their findings and impact, plus information about accessing longitudinal data and finding other related resources, such as CLOSER Discovery. Of the feedback received following the workshop, 75% of respondents gave a rating of 9 when asked how satisfied they were with the event (with 10 being deemed 'very satisfied'). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-uk-longitudinal-resources/ |
| Description | Investigating obesity in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The webinar was aimed at those who would like to know more about sources of data available for investigating obesity. It focused particularly on longitudinal, cross-sectional and consumer data. The session explored the range of longitudinal data available, including an example of how researchers can utilise harmonised data for cross-study investigations, the use of cross-sectional data sources currently available from the UK Data Service, and the value of using consumer data. The webinar featured presentations from Prof Rebecca Hardy (UCL), Dr Vanessa Higgins (UK Data Service), and Dr Michelle Morris (Consumer Data Research Centre). The webinar was part of a collaborative series with a number of ESRC-funded resource centres. The webinar had a 51-56% attendance rate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/investigating-obesity-uk-data/ |
| Description | Invitation to present about CLOSER's data harmonisation work at the Harnessing FAIR Data Symposium by the Science and Engineering South Consortium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invitation to present about CLOSER's work on data harmonisation and other data related activities in the context of the FAIR data principles to a multi-disciplinary audience at Queen Mary University London in September 2018. The talk given was subsequently further disseminated online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/ses/wp-content/uploads/sites/79/2018/10/DaraONeill_HarnessingFA... |
| Description | Invited talk at Office of National Statistics' reproducible research event (Love Data Week 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present a talk on documenting and code sharing in the context of producing derived and harmonised variables at the Love Your Code event at the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in London. Attendees included researchers, data producers, funders, third sector organisations, journal publishers and private industry. The event was co-led by the ONS and UK Data Service. My talk led to additional collaboration with the UK Data Service in the form of a joint submission of a talk to an international conference in summer 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Joint CLOSER and All-Party Parliamentary Health Group Parliamentary seminar: Reducing harm from alcohol consumption: developing a long-term strategy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Seminar at Portcullis House for Parliamentarians and other senior stakeholders in health, to discuss the development of a strategy to reduce harm from alcohol consumption. The event, hosted by CLOSER and the All Party Parliamentary Health Group, concluded by calling for a national strategy to try to tackle the issue. Baroness Walmsley chaired the event. Speakers were: Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Chair of Liverpool Health Partners and Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance; Professor John Marsden, Senior Academic Advisor for the Alcohol Drug and Tobacco Division, Public Health England; Clive Henn, Senior Alcohol Advisor, Public Health England; Yvonne Kelly, Professor of Lifecourse Epidemiology, University College London; Dr Zulfiquar Mirza, Emergency Medicine Consultant, West Middlesex University Hospital. Attendees included: Members of Parliament and the House of Lords, Royal Colleges, Think Tanks, Statutory Organisations, charities and academics. A day later, MPs held a debate in the House of Commons on alcohol harm. Much of the discussion focused around the impacts on children living with heavy drinking parents, but what do we know about very young children themselves who may be drinkers, or even getting drunk? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/events/reducing-harm-alcohol-consumption-developing-long-term-s... |
| Description | Keynote lecture: The value of longitudinal studies for social science research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Meghan Rainsberry provided the closing plenary lecture of the British Library's Doctoral Open Day for the Social Sciences. 147 students attended the event, which sparked a lively discussion of the scientific and societal value of the UK's longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bl.uk/events/doctoral-students-open-day-2017-social-sciences |
| Description | King's College London - Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. Mental health data resources in UK longitudinal studies: A meta data analysis. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A seminar given at the SGDP Centre, King's College London. About the use of the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures and data from UK longitudinal studies. Opportunity for questions and discussion from academics and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | King's College London - Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. What? Who? And how? Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at King's College London, SGDP Centre (to academics and students) about the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. Opportunity for questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | King's College London Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. What? Who? And how? Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies London, UK Arseneault January 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | King's College London - Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. What? Who? And how? Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies London, UK, January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Knowledge exchange meeting with the Government Statistical Service's Harmonisation Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a knowledge exchange visit by the Government Statistical Service's Harmonisation Team to CLOSER in November 2018 arranged and led by Dara O'Neill and involving other members of CLOSER and the CLOSER work package research teams. During the meeting, experiences and learning were shared and opportunities for further collaboration were identified. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Knowledge exchange seminar with the Senedd committee integrated teams: Committee Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) - beyond written and oral evidence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge exchange seminar with the Senedd committee integrated teams: Committee Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) - beyond written and oral evidence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Launch event for the Catalogue for Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We organised an event to officially launch the new Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, which has been created as part of a collaboration between the Mental Health Leadership Fellow and CLOSER. We invited a diverse range of academics, students and charity sector representatives to this event. The Catalogue is designed to provide easy access to information about the mental health measures included in British cohort and longitudinal studies to maximise the uptake of existing data and facilitate mental health research. The Catalogue features over 4000 measures of mental health and wellbeing and has measures of over 20 mental health and wellbeing topics. With this Catalogue we aim to assist Early Career Researchers and those outside of the mental health field to easily search for mental health and wellbeing data from a wide range of cohort |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Learning Hub animations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In July 2018, CLOSER launched a series of five bite-size animations to teach non-experts the basics of longitudinal studies. The animations were designed to raise awareness of the use and value of longitudinal research, and the fundamental elements of study designs. The five videos are mapped to key sections of CLOSER's online educational resource, the Learning Hub. The animations cover the following topics; an overview of longitudinal studies, types of longitudinal studies, data collection tools, sampling, and using longitudinal data to research. The videos were uploaded to the CLOSER YouTube channel. As of 8 March the videos have been viewed the following number of times; an overview of longitudinal studies (2,388 views), types of longitudinal studies (939 views), data collection tools (490 views), sampling (291 views), and using longitudinal data for research (415 views). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/animations |
| Description | Learning Hub research case study: Sexual orientation and health inequality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This research case study on the Learning Hub showcases what longitudinal population studies can tell us about how health inequalities can differ by sexual orientation. The case study examines research investigating the health inequalities experienced by members of different sexual minority groups and heterosexuals. The researchers, based at the University of Essex Institute for Social and Economic Research, used data from Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the topic. The case study and it's promotional news item have been viewed over 250 times collectively (as of 3 March 2023). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/researchcasestudies/sexual-orientation-and-health-inequality/ |
| Description | Learning Hub website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Learning Hub is an online teaching resource to introduce longitudinal studies to non-experts in academic and policy settings. The resource includes an introduction to the different types of longitudinal studies, and how they are used for research. The Hub is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those who teach them, although should also be valuable when introducing longitudinal studies to those working in the governmental or third sectors. It includes: • an introduction to the different types of longitudinal studies, and how they are used for research; • a section about study design, including information about sampling, the ways data are collected and the tools that are used to capture information from study participants; • a training dataset based on the 1958 National Child Development Study, which has been developed along with a series of suggested teaching exercises; • a discussion of key longitudinal findings about obesity, bullying and social mobility (the number of topics will increase over the next few months); • a route through the site content through the lens of particular topics - currently bullying and health behaviours (again we will be adding new content in the next few months - on mental health and wellbeing, social and political participation, and social mobility); • a glossary of key terms. Between its launch in August and 30 September it received 1,953 page views and 133 users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Learning Hub: Analysing longitudinal data animations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Featured on the Learning Hub, as part of the analysis learning module, this animation series introduces different statistical methods and methodological approaches to analysing longitudinal data. The four animations in this series focus on: an introduction to analysing longitudinal data, regression analysis, multi-level and growth curve analysis, and survival analysis. The videos also feature on the CLOSER YouTube channel and are regularly posted on the CLOSER social media channels. As of 3 March 2023, the animations have collectively been viewed over 54,000 times. In May 2022, CLOSER added translated subtitles to the animations in Chinese (Mandarin), French, Portuguese and Spanish. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/learning-modules/analysing-longitudinal-data/ |
| Description | Learning from longitudinal studies in LMICs - before, during and after COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with Young Lives and the Lancaster University Management School, CLOSER ran a 4-day conference exploring longitudinal studies in low- and middle-income countries before, during and after COVID-19. Panel sessions focused on the role of longitudinal research in addressing COVID-19, how longitudinal data can be linked to other data sources to enhance their value, and what we've learnt regarding the practical and ethical lessons for sustaining research cohorts over many years. Over 250 delegates registered for the conference. Videos and presentations slides were uploaded to the CLOSER website post-event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/learning-from-longitudinal-studies-in-lmics-before-during/ |
| Description | Lecture (UCL IEHC Early Career Forum) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a lunchtime lecture at the UCL IEHC Early Career Forum on using social media for policy impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lecture (Westminster University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Rob Davies gave a lecture at Westminster University on understanding government and parliament, how to achieve policy impact with your research, and CLOSER's work in the policy landscape arena. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) (University of Bamberg) visit to CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The team from the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) at the University of Bamberg visited CLOSER and CLOSER provided advice about running their National Educational Panel Study. After these discussions they produced a poster and attended the CLOSER conference in November later that year. There has been continued discussions between the team at Bamburg and CLOSER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Lessons Learnt From the Development of a DDI-Based Discovery Platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation at the European DDI Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi16/paper/view/240 |
| Description | Life Lessons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park was one of four speakers at 'Life Lessons', an evening discussion event (March 29th) focused on longitudinal studies and the insights they offer. The event was part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival (which in 2016 took as its theme 'Building Better Worlds'). The other speakers were: Helen Pearson (Nature), Professor Chris Dibben (Edinburgh) and Dr George Ploubidis (UCL IOE). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/life-lessons |
| Description | Life course research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This one-day workshop provides an introduction to life course research across multiple disciplines, looking specifically at uses of cohort and longitudinal data. Great discussions and evaluation forms |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/managing-cohort/ |
| Description | Longitudinal Gambling Study roundtable workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Arranged and participated in a working group to discuss and advise on a new longitudinal study on gambling behaviour, bringing together researchers, PIs, funders, the Gambling Commission and other representatives from the Gambling Industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Longitudinal Methodology Series III |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the series is to highlight methodological innovations and expertise and in turn facilitate and encourage future collaborations and new research. The event was video recorded and made available on the project website. The video of the event has been viewed several times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-methodology-series-iii/ |
| Description | Longitudinal Methodology Series IX - Centre for Longitudinal Studies Missing Data Strategy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The ninth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series features talks from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) Missing Data Strategy team - George Ploubidis, Professor of Population Health and Statistics, Dr Tarek Mostafa, Research Officer and Brian Dodgeon, Research Fellow. George Ploubidis, Tarek Mostafa and Brian Dodgeon Missing data handling in longitudinal studies: Evidence for the 1958 British birth cohort. Selection bias, in the form of incomplete or missing data, is unavoidable in longitudinal surveys. It results in smaller samples, incomplete histories, lower statistical power and it is well known that unbiased estimates cannot be obtained without properly addressing the implications of incompleteness. However, statistical methods exist which enable users to exploit the full richness of longitudinal data and address sources of bias. We present the first results from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Missing Data Strategy using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) which follows the lives of 17,416 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1958. Also known as the 1958 Birth Cohort Study, it collects information on physical and educational development, economic circumstances, employment, family life, health behaviour, wellbeing, social participation and attitudes. Since the birth survey in 1958, there have been ten further 'sweeps' of all cohort members at ages 7, 11, 16, 23, 33, 42, 44, 46, 50 and 55. Within Rubin's framework we present three papers where we clarify the situations where complete case analysis and methods that operate under the Missing At Random assumption return unbiased results. We present a three step empirical/data driven approach that maximises the plausibility of the Missing At Random assumption in NCDS and quantify the effect of strong departures from MAR. Our findings have implications for missing data handling in the 1958 cohort and other longitudinal studies as they will help inform the selection of auxiliary variables and allow researchers to effectively communicate the assumptions underlying popular MAR methods such as Multiple Imputation, Full Information Maximum Likelihood and Inverse Probability Weighting. The event was fully booked with 30 delegates. We recorded the two presentations and they are available on the project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/latest-videos-longitudinal-methodology-series-centre/ |
| Description | Longitudinal Methodology Series VI seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The sixth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series featured talks from Lorraine Dearden, Director of the Education Sector at the IFS and Professor of Economics and Social Statistics at the UCL Institute of Education, and Dr Gundi Knies, Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). The aim of the series is to highlight methodological innovations and expertise and in turn facilitate and encourage future collaborations and new research. Thirty people registered for the seminar and both talks have been recorded and made available on the CLOSER website. Both talks stimulated fascinating discussions about data linkage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/events-training/previous/ |
| Description | Longitudinal Methodology Series VII - Dr Nicola Shelton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The seventh seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series features a talk from Dr Nicola Shelton, Director of CeLSIUS, Head of Health and Social Surveys Research Group and Reader in Population Health. Nicola's talk will cover an introduction to using the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) supported by CeLSIUS and results from two ongoing projects, RenEWL: REsearch Network into Extended Working Lives and NEETS in the LS. Her talk will investigate: What's in the LS Data linkage Sample attrition How to access the data Research Network into Extended Working Lives NEETS in the LS The event was attended by around 30 researchers from a range of career stages. We recorded the two presentations and they are available on the project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-methodology-series-vii/ |
| Description | Longitudinal Methodology Series VIII - Lucinda Platt & Marta Favara |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The eighth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series features talks from Lucinda Platt, Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Marta Favara, Quantitative Researcher at Young Lives, University of Oxford. Professor Lucinda Platt Producing a harmonised survey for cross-national research in four European countries: issues and approaches. Cross-national comparative survey offer a range of analytical benefits for understanding both institutional differences between countries and their impacts and truly cross-national phenomena, such as the recent increase of intra-EU migration with the expansion of the EU. Yet they are not straightforward to implement, due to differences in sampling frames and in approaches to data collection, as well as the difficulties in constructing a questionnaire that suits different national contexts. These challenges are exacerbated when attempting to survey specific and compare the responses of specific groups, such as migrants. This paper presents the implementation of a short panel survey of recently arrived migrants in four European countries. It discusses the specific challenges to harmonised data collection and how (and the extent to which) these were resolved. Dr Marta Favara Young Lives: An extensive longitudinal study into children & youth around the world. Methodological challenges, strengths and weaknesses Young Lives is an longitudinal study of childhood poverty following the lives of two cohorts of children - an Older Cohort born in 1994-95 and a Younger Cohort born in 2001-02 - in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam over 15 years. The first survey took place in 2002, with three further rounds of data collection in 2006-07, 2009-10 and 2013-14. The fifth round of data collection is currently in the field. Young Lives is a unique longitudinal cross-country study that focuses on low and middle income countries. Although the benefits of longitudinal cohort studies is well established, the process of designing and implementing the questionnaire, and the challenges attached to it, are different from those faced by longitudinal studies in developed countries. The objectives of this presentation is to briefly document this process and reflect on the different limitations and challenges in a developing countries context. Young Lives is a living example of how these challenges have been addressed over the past five rounds of data. The event was fully booked with 30 researchers from various career stages. We recorded the two presenations and they are available on the project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/latest-videos-longitudinal-methodology-series-viii/ |
| Description | Longitudinal measurement equivalance - new comparative methods training for the CLOSER partner studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER hosted a training event for research staff in the CLOSER partner studies on measurement equivalence testing using structural equation modelling/confirmatory factor analysis. The training covered methods for examining and validating comparability of assessment instruments and the data they generate between studies and across time periods. The event was led by Dr. Daniel Seddig, interim professor for empirical social research at the University of Passau. In total, 39 people registered to attend the training. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-measurement-equivalence-training/ |
| Description | Longitudinal metadata: Developing a sustainable future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER Discovery is a search engine that allows researchers to explore the content of eight UK longitudinal studies. Following its launch in January 2017, CLOSER were keen to explore opportunities to expand the Discovery repository and incorporate metadata from additional longitudinal studies based within the UK. This workshop provided delegates with a clear and detailed overview of what it means to be a part of Discovery, from the overall advantages of joining down to the day-to-day practicalities of adding data to the repository. It featured presentations on the advantages of joining CLOSER Discovery, what is involved in joining the repository, the practicalities of documenting historical metadata and a study's perspective on joining. The event was attended by 21 people. Of the feedback received, a large majority (92%) gave a rating of 8 or above when asked how satisfied they were with the event (with 10 being deemed 'very satisfied'. Videos of the four presentations were made available on the CLOSER website and YouTube channel. As of 27 November 2017, they have been viewed a combined 55 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-metadata/ |
| Description | Longitudinal resources for teaching and research: an introduction to CLOSER (Manchester) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was hosted by the University of Manchester Q-STEP Centre and the Data Skills and Training Research Group, Cathie Marsh Institute. It was facilitated by CLOSER's Alison Park. The workshop introduced undergraduate and postgraduate course leaders and lecturers to longitudinal studies in order for them to incorporate content about longitudinal studies (including methods, findings and analysis) into their curricula. The session covered an overview of CLOSER's work in training and capacity building, plus a demonstration of CLOSER Discovery. Delegates also took park in discussions about how longitudinal research could be embedded into existing teaching provisions. The session was well received by the delegates. Of the evaluations received, all respondents reported it was "very relevant" to their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-resources-for-teaching-and-research-an-introduction/ |
| Description | Longitudinal studies have a bright future - we must make our voice heard |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this blog, CLOSER Director Professor Rebecca Hardy argues that, longitudinal population studies need to fight for their place in an increasingly crowded data landscape, but advances in technology and infrastructure mean the future is bright for these unique resources. The blog was published on 27 February 2020 and, as of 3 March 2020, it has been viewed 119 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/longitudinal-studies-bright-future-voice-heard/ |
| Description | Longitudinal surveys and administrative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk as part of an event on May 12th 2016 at the University of Stirling on Using Administrative Data for Economic Research. This was funded by the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics. Its aim was to provide information on obtaining access to Admin data and promoting its use in research (the workshop was "targeted" at economists, but a broader group attended). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006 |
| Description | Longitudinal: impacting on policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Harry Aagaard Evans, Senior Programme Manager at NHS England and Improvement, and member of the CLOSER Advisory Committee, blogged about his top tips for researchers looking to engage with the policy community. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 278 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/longitudinal-impacting-policy/ |
| Description | MIxed modes blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog on the CLOSER website by Annette Jackle (Understanding Society, University of Essex) describing a CLOSER-funded resources report that she authored on the use of mixed modes for collecting survey data. The blog was also promoted in CLOSER's email newsletter, which is sent to members of the CLOSER partnership in September 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/news-opinion2017mixed-modes-stay/ |
| Description | MQ Mental Health Data Science Meeting. A new tool for maximising the take up of mental health measures. Edinburgh, UK, September 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Louise Arseneault and Bridget Bryan contribute a presentation at the MQ Mental Health Data Science Meeting in Edinburgh, UK, on September 2019. The title of the presentation was "A new tool for maximising the take up of mental health measures." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow Lunchtime Seminar Programme - Will Poynter and Jon Tebbett presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jon Tebbett and Will Poynter presented an overview of CLOSER products, and in particular CLOSER Discover, at a lunchtime seminar in Glasgow on 9 February 2017. The talks generated an excellent discussion where attendees were encouraged to use Discovery and provide feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/events/headline_483463_en.html |
| Description | Media interview: BBC World Service Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Alison Park worked with the BBC World Service to put together an episode of The Forum that explained the value of a longitudinal perspective. The Forum is the World Service's flagship discussion programme, featuring prominent speakers from different countries and disciplines. The episode focused on the long view - the small changes that shape a person over a year, a society over decades, or which alter the genetic make-up of humans over tens of thousands of years. Prof Park spoke alongside two other guest speakers: Tom Mosser, an American painter who created at least one self-portrait per day for an entire year, and Professor Eske Willerslev from Denmark, who is a pioneer in the field of sequencing the genomes of ancient humans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/bbc-world-service-features-closer-director-alison-park/ |
| Description | Medium blog: Why we need longitudinal research to address the impacts of COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Data and evidence from longitudinal studies will be vital to the UK's COVID-19 response. Harnessing the power of existing longitudinal studies will help to understand the immediate and long-term impacts on individuals, families and communities, providing valuable information for research and policy throughout and after the pandemic. Crucially, due to the unique nature of longitudinal studies, it will also be possible to track the longer-term consequences and impacts for years to come. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://medium.com/policy-postings/why-we-need-longitudinal-research-to-address-the-impacts-of-a-cov... |
| Description | Meeting between CLOSER and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Ian Cope (Director, Census) and Emma Rourke (Director, Public Policy Research) aimed at identifying areas of mutual interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting between Rosie French (CLOSER), Heather Joshi (CLS) and Prof Gary Darmstadt , Prof Sarah Hawkes (UCL Centre for Global Health) and Elias Nosrati on the 17th February. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meeting between Rosie French (CLOSER), Heather Joshi (CLS) and Prof Gary Darmstadt , Prof Sarah Hawkes (UCL Centre for Global Health) and Elias Nosrati on the 17th February. Prof. Darmstadt has secured Gates Foundation funding to commission a series of 5 Lancet papers on gender and health. There will be a paper on data and evidence and it's been acknowledged that UCL hosts the world's best data for this kind of analysis. Prof. Darmstadt visited CLOSER and CLS to learn more about the UK population cohorts and CLOSER. Elias Nosrati is at Cambridge studying for his PhD in the political economy of public health, and working with 1946 cohort data on looking at the impact of gender on health outcomes. The meeting output was the Prof Darmstadt and Elias Nosrati will use CLOSER Discovery and the CLS website to learn more about what data is held by the UK birth cohorts on gender and health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss collaboration on data infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with NACDA. Discuss collaboration related to https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-sbe-lead-agency-opportunity/ Alignment between US and UK studies, Focusing on measures of mental health pre, during and post pandemic? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss collaboration on data infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with NIHR BioResource for Translational Research, University of Cambridge to They have been using Nesstar to document and produce catalogues as DDI's to go to HDR-UK or pdf's to go to researchers and very interested in changing over to Colectica to document our data in a more fluid manner. Opinion regarding this product; how difficult it was to integrate, publish etc. Interested in potentially having CLOSER publish our catalogues as they are longitudinal due to us constantly updating information on our participants with new surveys. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss collaboration on data infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Care Policy & Evaluation Centre, LSE. Advice on a catalogue of social care measures |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss collaboration on data infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Generation Victoria, nterested in the CLOSER infrastructure, Colectica and back end workflow / pipeline |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss collaboration on data infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Sikt (Norwegian Data Archive) Interested in workflow using Colectica and organisation of repository. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to developing a national data sharing infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion (23/09/2021) Data sharing frameworks suitable for LMIC settings and conference (03/11/2021- 04/11/2021) Malawi Research Ethics Workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to developing a national data sharing infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Australian Data Archive Advice on implementing Colectica, data harmonisation and content |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to developing a national data sharing infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with France Cohortes Would like to understand how we organized with the cohorts to build and enrich the discovery platform and what kind of partnership we have with Colectica. Advice for starting to build a catalogue. Adice on development of infrastructure, technical, cultural |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to developing a national data sharing infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with CSO Ireland Advice/ideas on how to implement documenting standard classifications to an externally facing Colectica portal using DDI - to encourage the use of these. Similar to the idea about adding standardised scales. Would also like to be kept up to date with any training, webinars and DDI questionnaire working group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to developing a national data sharing infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies, Australian Institute of Family Studies Planning to use Colectica for Longitudinal Studies of Australian Children. How the tool has been useful in our longitudinal studies content development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to international data infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting (4/10/2021) with Jane Fry (Data Services Librarian) and colleagues from MacOdrum Library Carleton University to discuss options for replacing Nesstar, their curation process and using Colectica. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting to provide advice to international study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting (18/08/2021) with Anne-Sophie Oehrlein and Stein Annika from GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences about exchanging experiences in documenting data with Colectica |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Alberta's Tomorrow Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry, CLS and CLOSER Communications Manager, held a teleconference with Sharon Basaraba, Science Communications Advisor for Alberta's Tomorrow Project (a longitudinal study in western Canada established in 2000). This teleconference was to support Sharon's research into engaging researchers and making data accessible. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Meeting with Evaluation through follow-up (EFT) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss collaboration with Evaluation through follow-up (EFT) study and use of DDI-Lidfecycle for data management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry, CLOSER Communications Manager, met with Prof Marcus Richards, Deputy Director NSHD, and Stephanie Pilling, Research Manager to share learning to inform the development of their communications strategy in advance of their Scientific Advisory Group annual meeting. Meghan also reviewed and commented on their presentation to their SAG in advance of the meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Meeting with The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to discuss how longitudinal evidence could help inform their work. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to discuss how longitudinal evidence could help inform their work on housing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government |
| Description | Meeting with Tim Reddel, Australian Dept of Social Security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Tim Reddel to discuss CLOSER's work (with a particular focus on training and capacity building, harmonisation and data discovery) to inform decisions being made by the Australian Dept of Social Security regarding their own longitudinal portfolio. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Uruguay Longitudinal Survey team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 3/3/2016 - Alison Park, CLOSER Director, met with Mathias Nathan (Universidad de la República), Christian Beron and Cecilia Toledo (INE-National Statistical Office) from Uruguay to discuss CLOSER's activities and relevant lessons for longitudinal research in Uruguay (the team are all involved in a new cohort survey in that country). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Meeting with Young Lives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry, CLOSER Communications Manager, met with Caroline Knowles, Young Lives Communications Manager to share best practice in online communications to inform Young Lives' redevelopment of their online activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Meeting with the Education Policy Institute (EPI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park and Rob Davies met with the leadership of the Education Policy Institute (EPI): Rt Hon. David Laws (Executive Chairman), Natalie Perera (Executive Director and Head of Research) and Peter Sellen (Chief Economist) to discuss respective work programmes and mutual interests. This discussion led to a number of subsequent activities, including a bespoke meeting with the EPI and Millennium Cohort Study team to discuss opportunities to work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://epi.org.uk/about/ |
| Description | Meeting with the department of Health Obesity Policy team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rob Davies secured a meeting with the Department of Health (DH) Obesity policy team, following a number of weeks of correspondance. Rob Davies and Alison Park met with the author and chief analyst of the Government's childhood obesity strategy. We discussed the evidence and promoted cross cohort work on BMI and gave them a briefing note on the obesity finding from longitudinal studies. Rob Davies continued to engage with the team at DH with more research, findings and latest news taking every opportunity to promote the longitudinal research and the multiple factors linked to obesity longitudinal evidence demonstrates. This was supported by Twitter activity on specific days e.g. obesity conferences. All of this resulted in longitudinal evidence being cited in the government strategy and the Soft Drinks Industry Levy document. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546588/Childhood_obesity_2... |
| Description | Meetings with Growing Up in New Zealand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meghan Rainsberry, CLS and CLOSER Communications Manager, met with Clare Ward (Superu) and Polly Atatoa Carr (Growing Up in New Zealand) on separate occasions to share learning and best practice from the UK's cohort studies on engaging policymakers and capturing impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Mental health harmonisation meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We contributed to this event held at King's College London, which brought together researchers involved in the CLOSER work packages on the theme of harmonising mental health and cognition-related measures. New opportunities for collaboration and best practice sharing emerged out of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Metadata Management Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop which included talks from data managers working on social and biomedical longitudinal studies sharing their experience of working with structured metadata. They also discussed how their teams are addressing some of the challenges that can come with it. There was also a group discussion about future needs for metadata and data management, as well as identifying potential barriers to making progress in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-management-workshop/ |
| Description | Metadata Sharing: Rights and Obligations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on metadata attribution |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi18/paper/view/348 |
| Description | Metadata Uplift - PDF/Excel to Structured DDI Documentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk and demonstration of CLOSER Archivist software |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-uplift-pdf-excel-to-structured-ddi-documentation/ |
| Description | Metadata management in the real world: ESRC Future Data Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was the third in a new series, Metadata management in the real world, organised as part of CLOSER's Data Managers Network. The webinar focused on introducing the ESRC's Future Data Services programme and gave delegates a chance to contribute potential priorities for the ESRC. The webinar was attended by 34 delegates (53% attendance rate). Presentation slides and recordings from the webinar were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-management-in-the-real-world-esrc-data/ |
| Description | NISRA DDI Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to discuss metadata management in National Statistical Agencies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NISRA Seminar (Data Documentation-Now You've Got your Data-What do you do with all that metadata?) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This seminar will provide an insight into Metadata and Data Management from both an academic and National Statistical Institute perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | National Centre for Longitudinal Data (NCLD) in the Australian Government meeting - Rosie French and Alison Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 19th December 2016 a meeting took place between Rosie French, Alison Park and Adam Rowland of the National Centre for Longitudinal Data in the Australian Government to discuss new approaches to maximise the value of Australia's longitudinal data looking to CLOSER as a model. Information shared on CLOSER Discovery and Public Affairs work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | National Centre for Research Methods E-Festival: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: A tool for discovering mental health data in UK longitudinal studies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar given at the ESRC National Centre for research Method's e-festival. Interactive session discussing the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. Opportunity for those attending to use the Catalogue. Sparked questions and suggestions for the Catalogue afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Data Strategy Roundtable event. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rob Davies represented CLOSER and the longitudinal research community at the National Data Strategy Roundtable event in London. Included delivering a short presentation followed by work to help shape the future National Data Strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-data-strategy |
| Description | National Surveys of Sexual Activities and Lifestyle - Study Scientific Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributing record linkage and study management expertise to the National Surveys of Sexual Activities and Lifestyle. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | New analysis module on the CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This new analysis module provides an introduction to methods of longitudinal data analysis aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate audiences, as well as educators. It has received coverage in the former of a news release, a blog, and a Twitter promotion campaign. The response has included requests for additional content which is now under development and due to be added to this resource. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://learning.closer.ac.uk/analysis/ |
| Description | New technologies to measure non-health topics in longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Drawing on evidence from across the longitudinal studies in CLOSER, and beyond, this workshop discussed the evidence gathered to date on the use of new technologies to measure non-health topics. Presentations explored many different methods that can be used to measure key variables more accurately, or perhaps in a less burdensome way, or to respond to new and emerging research needs in non-health areas. The workshop aimed to identify innovative new technologies that can be used to generate new science. Delegates also discussed the implications for data quality and key methodological research needs. It was attended by 29 people. Of the 20 evaluations received, 60% rated being 'Very satisfied' with the event and 50% believed it to be 'Very relevant' to their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/new-technologies-measure-non-health/ |
| Description | New technology and novel methods for capturing health-related data in longitudinal and cohort studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop aimed to explore and discuss the use of new technologies and methods for capturing health-related data in longitudinal studies. Delegates heard experiences of techniques already in use in the CLOSER's consortium of studies, and from researchers developing new approaches to capturing a variety of health data from participants' in their day-to-day lives. Delegates also discussed issues relating to these new techniques, and ideas and requirements for future developments within this field. There were 33 people in attendance. Of the 19 evaluations received, 26% rated the event as 10/10 in terms of satisfaction and relevance to their own work. Many commented that they found the the presentations and discussions very useful. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/technology-health-kew/ |
| Description | NewMR Blog: Big data, what is it and will it be here to stay? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided an accessible description of what the buzz phrase "Big Data" means and how should organisations of all kinds be dealing with big data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://newmr.org/blog/big-data-what-is-it-and-will-it-be-here-to-stay/ |
| Description | NewMR Blog: Open data, what does it mean and why do we need it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided an accessible insight to open data, using a practical example. By demystifying the term, the aim was to calm concerns that open data poses a security risk. Also the post allowed CLOSER to engage more closely with the Open Data Initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://newmr.org/blog/open-data-what-does-it-mean-and-why-do-we-need-it/ |
| Description | NewMR Blog: Why should I use international standards? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provides a simple introduction to digital international standards, including a brief historical analogy using the industrial revolution. The aim was to convince more organisations to commit to using international standards rather than bespoke solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://newmr.org/blog/why-should-i-use-international-standards/ |
| Description | News: CLOSER funding extended to September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a news article announcing that our funding had been extended by the ESRC until September 2024. The news was published on 31 March 2022 and, as of the 13 February, has been viewed 266 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/closer-funding-extended-to-september-2024/ |
| Description | News: Health and Employment After Fifty study joins CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a new item announcing the addition of the Health and Employment After Fifty Study to CLOSER Discovery. The news was published on 16 January 2023 and, as of 13 February 2023, has been viewed 131 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/heaf-study-joins-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | News: New Learning Hub case study explores health inequalities and sexual orientation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published this news article to announce the addition of a new research case study on the Learning Hub. The case study showcases what longitudinal population studies can tell us about how health inequalities can differ by sexual orientation. The news was published on 8 November and, as of 13 February 2023, has been viewed 143 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/new-learning-hub-case-study-explores-health-inequalities/ |
| Description | News: New data added to CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a news article announcing a new content update on CLOSER Discovery which added over 12,000 variables to the research tool. The news was published on 26 July 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, has been viewed 288 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/new-data-added-to-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | News: Pioneers in data discoverability - taking it to the next level |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a news item detailing the Discovery team's trip to Paris to attend the 14th Annual European Data Documentation Initiative (EDDI) User Conference. The news was published on 28 November 2022 and, as of 13 February 2023, has been viewed 47 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/pioneers-in-data-discoverability-taking-it-to-the/ |
| Description | Newsletters for the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To maintain contact with various stakeholders, we send newsletters every season. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER has developed a suite of tools and software using both in-house and commercially available solutions that begin to tackle some of the obstacles involved in documenting and using longitudinal metadata. The presentation will report on the successes and problems faced in using the DDI Lifecycle metadata standard to achieve these ambitions. This will be delivered as three presentations on: questionnaire metadata capture and annotation the mapping of questions, variables, keywords and concepts a demonstration of the latest functionality available for the research community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | OECD Governing better through evidence-informed policy making workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated in the OECD Governing better through evidence-informed policy making workshop and helped to develop a strategic agenda for the OECD on how to connect policy evidence on what works and what doesn't work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.oecd.org/gov/evidence-informed-policy-making.htm |
| Description | ONS releases new data standards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the ONS release of new data standards, CLOSER's Technical Lead, Jon Johnson wrote a blog to explore why such standards matter and how they might be enforced. The blog was published on 24 February 2020 and, as of 3 March 2020, it has been viewed 145 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/ons-data-standards/ |
| Description | On alcohol consumption across the life-course and risk of cardiovascular disease: Lessons learned |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog focused on the impact of alcohol on the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Dara O'Neill, Steven Bell and Annie Britton blogged about their research which found that inconsistently moderate drinkers, former drinkers and non-drinkers each have greater risk of developing coronary heart disease compared to consistently moderate drinkers. The blog was cross-posted from the BMC Blog Network. As of March 2019, the blog has been viewed 21 times on the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/alcohol-consumption-lifecourse-risk-cvd/ |
| Description | Online training course on accessing and analysing longitudinal data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We developed and ran a joint training course online in collaboration with the UK Data Service aimed at introducing new users of longitudinal data to methods for accessing and analysing datasets from existing longitudinal studies, including using the CLOSER NCDS training dataset. The course ran over multiple weeks and comprised live interactive webinars and homework tasks for participants. The materials (including video and worksheet content) are made available for continued usage by participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalog=UCLXCLOSER |
| Description | Overview of CLOSER Discovery for Society for Social Medicine & Population Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A range of questions were asked and there were a large (@50) follow up viewing of the recording |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/overview-of-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | Panel member at Understanding Society: Generating policy impact from bio-social research. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Panel member for a discussion on key opportunities and challenges for impact through biosocial research. This included assessing research impact plans, which attendees had produced during the day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-society-generating-policy-impact-from-bio-social-resear... |
| Description | Panellist on a panel discussion focussing on the ways in which longitudinal studies research impact can be maximised. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to contribute to a panel of experts to reflect on how the LS Research Support Units might be best able to maximise their impact going forward and how CLOSER might like to see the work progress. The panel consisted of representatives from think tanks, third sector organisations and academia. Each panellist had 5 minutes to express their views followed by a general discussion of around 30 minutes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://calls.ac.uk/event-entry/calls-hub-conference-2018/ |
| Description | Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) event in Parliament: Childhood Obesity - Rebecca Hardy as a panel speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Rebecca Hardy took part in a panel discussion on obesity at an event held in Parliament hosted by the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST). Rebecca talked about findings from CLOSER's work package on obesity and the importance of longitudinal research to track changes over time. A summary of the discussion at the event is now available. Approximately 90 delegates attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/bicameral/post/post-events/childhood-obesity... |
| Description | Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Annual Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Committee's annual event is a significant event in the Parliamentary calendar. Parliamentarians and leaders of the scientific establishment and industry assemble to hear an address and discuss areas of mutual interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scienceinparliament.org.uk |
| Description | Participant engagement in longitudinal studies: A knowledge exchange workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The objectives of the event were to share knowledge and innovative ideas about participant engagement in a relaxed atmosphere, discuss common challenges, and ultimately build capacity among study staff from both a top-down and bottom-up approach. The event attracted an international audience of staff who work on longitudinal study's. The evaluation forms showed an average satisfaction rating of 9/10 and a relevance rating of 9/10. Some comments from delegates included: -Bringing people together to share their experiences ... which helped to highlight the diverse nature of longitudinal studies and the different challenges they face -It was interesting to see the wide range of cohort studies from across the UK and other countries. Hearing from other studies (not just longitudinal studies) allowed you to think a little bit differently about how you engaged your participants. -Many research teams are apprehensive about monetary incentives and hearing about how these work, how they are evaluated, and issues on ethics, equity was immensely useful |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/participantengagementkew/ |
| Description | Participation in event "The value and future of birth cohort studies for social science and policy" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This half-day roundtable examined the future need for birth cohort studies in a rapidly changing society, and policy context, and in the context of the increasing availability of a wide range of new types of data, innovations in data collection methods, and potential restrictions on public funding for research. The central focus was the scientific and policy issues of the future, and how the series of birth cohorts for which Britain is renowned could be developed to address these. Discussion will include the feasibility of, and trade-offs inherent in the future design of existing and new cohorts, including those involving administrative data resources, and biomarker collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-value-and-future-of-birth-cohort-studies-for-social-science-and-p... |
| Description | Participation in UCL biosocial centre for doctoral training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER organises an annual communications training workshop for PhD students in the Biosocial Centre for Doctoral Training, a collaboration between UCL, Essex and Manchester. The 2017 workshop was on research impact. It included an introduction to CLOSER and use of longitudinal studies and data by myself, and presentations on REF and creating an impact plan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Participation in the launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The APPG for the Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) was launched in Parliament on 27 February 2018. Rob Davies (CLOSER Public Affairs Manager) was invited to attend to represent CLOSER and the longitudinal community. Proceedings included appointment of officers and a roundtable discussion on what we know and need to know in this area of inquiry and the next steps for the APPG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/419807964889685/posts/742144042656074 |
| Description | Policy Connect Health Group meeting in Parliament on the Ageing Society and Future of Ageing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting and discussion in Parliament. Speakers from the Kings Fund, Centre for Better Ageing, Age Tech Accelerator, UKRI and Baroness Masham (chaired by Lord Bichard). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events |
| Description | Poster presented at Research Data Alliance conference in Montréal, Canada - Olly Butters (Work package 12) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Olly Butters had a poster accepted on his CLOSER funded work on 'Publication metadata augmentation' at the Research Data Alliance conference in Montréal, Canada. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/PUMA_First_results/5382712 |
| Description | Preparing for the future II: international approaches to challenges facing the longitudinal population studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This one-day conference brought together over 100 members of the international longitudinal population studies community in order to unearth best practice, and identify ways to tackle shared challenges. It was a collaborative and interactive event with a strong focus on problem solving. The day consisted of sessions focused on new forms of data collection, data harmonisation, data linkage, data discoverability, and participant engagement. The topic choices were informed by the result of a consultation exercise with the longitudinal community. Each session involved short presentations of exemplar work in the given area, followed by facilitated group discussions and the chance for delegates to share their own experiences. The day's proceedings were written up into a report that is available to view on the CLOSER website. The event had an attendance rate of 94% and delegates, on average, rated the conference 9/10 for satisfaction and 8/10 for relevance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/preparing-future-longitudinal-conference-2020/ |
| Description | Preparing for the future III web conference report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This web report summarises discussions from the CLOSER conference, Preparing for the future III: Tackling key challenges facing the LPS in a post-COVID world, held in January 2022. The report was published in Spring 2022 and consists of the key talking points together with presentation videos, slides and illustrated summaries from each theme all in one place. As of 16 February 2022, the web report has been viewed 471 times in total. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/preparing-for-the-future-iii-conference-report/ |
| Description | Preparing for the future III: tackling key challenges facing longitudinal population studies in a post-covid world |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This three-day online conference brought together over 300 members of the international longitudinal population studies (LPS) community to identify ways to tackle shared challenges in a post-covid world. It was a collaborative, interactive event with a strong focus on sharing best practice and problem solving. The program focused on five main topics - the impact of COVID-19 on LPS, data linkage, new forms of data collection, influencing policy, and participant and public engagement. There were also two plenary panel sessions, a poster session, and time for networking. Videos, slides and illustrated summaries of the presentations have been made available on the CLOSER website. On average, delegates rated the event 9/10 for both their satisfaction and its relevancy to their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/2022-conference/ |
| Description | Preparing for the future: tackling the key challenges facing the UK's longitudinal population studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This one day conference, hosted by the Wellcome Trust, brought together around 70 delegates from across the longitudinal community, in social and biomedical sciences. During the day delegates discussed key issues in new forms of data collection, data harmonisation, data linkage, biosample management, impact, and engagement with policymakers. These topic choices were informed by the result of a consultation exercise with the UK's longitudinal studies. Each session involved group discussions and the chance for delegates to share their own experience, as well as help identify potential solutions to the issues raised. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being highest), the average rating for both satisfaction and relevancy was 8. CLOSER will be publishing a report summarising the day's learning at the end of March 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/closer-collaborative-conference/ |
| Description | Presentation - Quarterly funders' meeting: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation ESRC Data Strategy group - Arseneault 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures to the ESRC Data Strategy Team in February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation about CLOSER and longitudinal data to government Deputy Directors of Analysis Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about how longitudinal data might contribute towards departmental analysis and reserach planning, to regular Deputy Directors of Analysis Network meeting, chaired by John Pullinger (the National Statistician). 7th December. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation and workshop with the House of Commons Library, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and Select Committee staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park (CLOSER Director) and Alissa Goodman (CLS Director) gave a presentation on longitudinal studies and research to teams working for the House of Commons Library, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and Parliamentary Select Committees. This was followed by a discussion on mutual interests and how best to ensure parliamentary briefings include longitudinal evidence. This and subsequent engagement has resulted in citations in recent parliamentary briefings with further engagement planned for later in 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at Ann Freud Centre - Arseneault 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Anna Freud Centre Transformation Seminar Series. Social relationships and their impact on mental health and wellbeing. Online meeting. January 2021. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqEvDgRx5jY). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqEvDgRx5jY |
| Description | Presentation at Born Talking Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about CLOSER and our work as part of Born Talking series, which focuses on using birth cohort data about speech, language abd communication to inform policy and practice. 23 May 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://borntalking.org/2016/05/28/seminar-4/ |
| Description | Presentation at EPOP conference using longitudinal data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper at Elections, Parties and Opinion Polls (EPOP) annual conference in Nottingham. "Political engagement: Evidence from the UK's longitudinal studies". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-socsci/epop-2017/papers.aspx |
| Description | Presentation at Gentofte Hospital - Arseneault 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented research findings at Gentofte Hospital Copenhagen in Denmark. Robust tests of the impact of childhood bullying victimization on mental health problems: Implications for policy, practice, and research Monday October 3rd 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at a training workshop at the University of Manchester on 'CLOSER: Our role and the resources we offer for cross-study research' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation at the University of Manchester to an audience of just over 20 attendees from diverse research backgrounds and from third-sector organisations on the resources that CLOSER has developed and makes available to researchers and students to facilitate their understanding and undertaking of longitudinal and cross-study research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/CLOSER-Our-role-and-the-resources-we-offer-for-cross-stu... |
| Description | Presentation at international conference on research reproducibility & transparency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented on 'Enhancing the usability & transparency of longitudinal & cross-study data through infrastructure & collaboration: Experiences from the CLOSER consortium' at the 'Reproducibility, Replicability and Trust in Science' conference in September 2020 which enabled idea sharing and networking with researchers and practioners in the area of open science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-events/reproducibility-replicability-trus... |
| Description | Presentation at the Epigenetics Workshop: Statistical approaches and developments for harnessing the value in DNA methylation data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The MRC-IEU at the University of Bristol held a workshop on statistics in epigenetics, on the 26th of November 2018 at Engineer's House, Bristol. In this workshop, we described recent key statistical advances for analysing DNA methylation data, including how to efficiently analyse epigenetic changes over time and my talk on "Characterizing changes in DNA methylation across development: a longitudinal, multi-cohort investigation". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On January 23rd 2020, Louise Arseneault and Bridget Bryan gave a talk at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre on the Catalogue for Mental Health. The title of the presentation was: "What? Who? and how? Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at the North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference at Cornell Univesity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 people attended the presentation of my paper "Climate Change and Agriculture: Farmer Adaptation to Extreme Heat" at the 2018 NEUDC Conference at Cornell. This lead several additional conversations regarding my research and CLOSER International's work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at the SRA annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Social Research Association's annual conference provided a platform for the presentation of the Learning Hub animations on Analysing Data from Longitudinal Studies. These were included in an online space as part of a wider symposium on using innovating methods in research. The event had more than 350 attendees and the animations elicited a lot of positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://the-sra.org.uk/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Charlotte Campbell completed a presentation at the SLLS 2022 conference "Growing Up and Growing Older Across Societies: Harnessing the Power of Comparative Research". The talk was part of the session on Ageing and was titled "Predicting functional ability, hospital admissions, and mortality using a novel measure of intrinsic capacity in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-2022-annual-international-conference |
| Description | Presentation for DATAMIND (HDR UK hub) (Arseneault, 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, given to people associated with DATAMIND (HDR UK hub). Opportunity for discussion and questions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation introducing the Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the final year BSc Dissertation students included demonstration of the Learning Hub, introduction of the new Learning Hub animation and subsequent Q&A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation of CLOSER discovery platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | The presentation raised questions on the functionality of the discovery platform Researchers were interested in utilising the platform for scoping research projects and finding information on the variables and questions in teh 8 longutidinal studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Characterizing the Human Methylome Across the Life Course' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference 2019. University of Potsdam, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-conference-2019/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'Synthesizing a Map of the Human Methylome across the Life Course' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We presented a poster presentation on the 'Synthesizing a Map of the Human Methylome across the Life Course' at the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease conference in Melbourne, Australia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/dohad-2019-investing-healthy-future/ |
| Description | Presentation on 'The CLOSER UK longitudinal study consortium: Opportunities & outputs from our cross-disciplinary collaboration' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We presented a poster presentation on the 'The CLOSER UK longitudinal study consortium: Opportunities & outputs from our cross-disciplinary collaboration' at the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease conference in Melbourne, Australia. It allowed engagement with many researchers who were not previously aware of the research resources available from the UK longitudinal study community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to the UKDS Health Studies Users Conference on the Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of a wide programme of talks and presentations on resources and outputs of research using health studies data, I presented an introduction and demonstration of the CLOSER Learning Hub. The event took place online, with more than 100 attendees, and the presentation was followed by a Q&A with the audience in relation to the utility of the Learning Hub for research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-studies-user-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Presentation to the Welsh Government Longitudinal Studies Network on the CLOSER Learning Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Welsh Government's Longitudinal Study Network on the CLOSER Learning Hub as part of a general discussion and overview of CLOSER's resources and their applicability to policy makers. This was followed by a discussion and Q&A on specific uses for Welsh longitudinal research and potential ways forward for the devolved administration there. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Press release - Childhood socioeconomic position and adult mental wellbeing: evidence from British birth cohort studies (Work Package 9) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER issued a press release in October based on a research paper from work package 9. Although the release coincided with the publication of the report in the PLOSone journal, it did not receive any media coverage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/mental-wellbeing-generation-linked-childhood-background-s... |
| Description | Press release - Impaired vision has increased for generations of teenagers since the 1960s, new study finds (Work Package 4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER issued a press release in September based on a research paper from work package 4, which had been published in the JAMA Ophthalmology journal a month earlier. The release was not covered by any media outlets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/impaired-vision-increased-generations-teenagers-1960s-stu... |
| Description | Press release - Men from poor backgrounds have lower earnings and are twice as likely to be single as those from rich families (Work Package 2a) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) issued a press release based on a CLOSER funded research paper, from Work Package 2a, entitled, 'Intergenerational income persistence within families'. The release received coverage in the print and online versions of the Guardian, as well as online on BBC News, Channel 4 News, The Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Mirror, Express and Harper's Bazaar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2017/men-poor-backgrounds-earnings-single-rich-families/ |
| Description | Press release: Child obesity risk increases almost three-fold in five generations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Children born since 1990 are up to three times more likely than older generations to be overweight or obese by age 10, according to a new study. This press release was based on the journal article, How has the age-related process of overweight or obesity development changed over time? Coordinated analyses of individual participant data from five United Kingdom birth cohorts, by William Johnson, Leah Li, Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh. It was published in PLOS Medicine in May 2015. CLOSER recorded 33 pieces of press coverage resulting from this press release, however the true total is likely to be significantly higher. Key priority media who covered the story were the Daily Mail, BBC Online and BBC London Radio. It was also picked up by numerous regional and international media outlets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2015/child-obesity-risk-increases-threefold-generations/ |
| Description | Promoting longitudinal research to All Parliamentary Party Health Group and health sector leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | At the APHG and Health Foundation publication launch 'A healthier life for all: the case for cross-government action' Rob Davies and David Bann (UCL Institute of Education researcher) represented CLOSER and longitudinal studies. They promoted longitudinal research to members of the audience through individual interactions and secured a further meeting with APHG to discuss future joint working. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/ |
| Description | Psychological distress over the life course: Evidence from the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Annual Population Association of America meeting, Austin, April 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public lecture: Secrets of staying sharp in older age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | At this evening public lecture, Professor Ian Deary answered the question 'Why do some people's brains and thinking skills age better than others?' Prof Deary shared learning from the Lothian Birth Cohort and his project with Age UK, The Disconnected Mind. The lecture was exceptionally well received by the public. A video of the talk has been made available on the CLOSER website and has been viewed over 175 times to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/evening-lecture-secrets-staying-sharp-older-age/ |
| Description | Quarterly Social Research Association newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article by Alison Park ('Working with longitudinal data: how CLOSER can help') in June 2015 Social Research Association publication 'Research Matters'. Following publication we had an increase in visits to the CLOSER website. The SRA are an organisation we haven't worked with before, this provided an opportunity to network with a new key group of researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.the-sra.org.uk/whats-new/research-matters/ |
| Description | Question - How do we document validated questionnaires and their usage? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Validated questionnaires (or standardised scales) are a set of question items designed to quantify one or more indirectly measured concepts. They are validated to ensure researchers can reliably measure the same concept across samples, and over time. For intra- and inter-study comparison, it is valuable to know where and when validated questionnaires have been used and how. Metadata for this can be difficult to obtain as information is often distributed across multiple sources and little information is available about where the questions have been used. CLOSER aims to make this information more easily accessible by adding validated questionnaires to CLOSER Discovery (discovery.closer.ac.uk), and moreover, link the question items to where they have been used. This presentation will set out how CLOSER intends to use DDI, to structure this metadata within CLOSER Discovery and the Colectica repository. It will detail the considerations and reasoning used to find a workable solution; however, we would value input on whether this is the optimal approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Question driven harmonisation of data - The variable cascade in practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at an international conference of data managers and allied professionals. There were a number of questions and follow up conversations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | RCUK/GO-Science Areas of Research Interest Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated in the RCUK/Go-Science workshop on the government department Areas of Research Interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/areas-of-research-interest |
| Description | Raising the Metadata Bar - Technology, culture and resourcing (Lessons from documenting UK Longitudinal Studies) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to iAssist conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Rapid Evidence Review and Expert Meeting on Informal Care Provision and Receipt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Government has committed to publishing a Green Paper on the future of adult social care in 2018. The Government Office for Science is working with the Department of Health, Cabinet Office and others to bring together the best available evidence to inform the developing paper. As part of that process they undertook a rapid evidence review from November 2017 to January 2018 on Informal care. I contributed to this in a number of ways: sourced, summarised and shared the relevant longitudinal research, brokered discussions between policymakers and academics, and participated in an 'Expert Meeting on Informal Care Provision and Receipt' which brought together experts with Government analyst and policy leads to discuss the state of the evidence on informal care. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Recent developments in survey metadata capture, discovery and harmonisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on how other similar organisations could use our experience to improve data and metadata management in other large scale studies Invited to participate in other conferences and events to share out experiences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=105 |
| Description | Record linkage in social research for policymaking: evidence, methods and issues arising within longitudinal population studies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andy Boyd chaired a session at the British Academy's "Realising the promise of big data in social research for public policy making." event to inform policy makers about the potential for research using Big Data approaches within longitudinal research. I also took part in the event panel session. This promoted the ALSPAC resource (as an exemplar) and the CLOSER programme. It raised awareness about the potential for linkage informed cohorts, but also the barriers faced. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | SLLS workshop: Longitudinal studies in low and middle income countries: international showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the 2021 SLLS conference, CLOSER ran a post-conference workshop with the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. The workshop showcased longitudinal studies in low- and middle-income countries. The session recording was shared with members of the SLLS after the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-longitudinal-studies-in-low-and-middle-income/ |
| Description | Science Centre exhibit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We won a competition funded by the Alan Turing Institute to develop a "curiosity toolkit" in collaboration with Bristol science centre We The Curious, as part of the programme for their new Open City Lab. The toolkit allows visitors to We The Curious to contribute to research using the tools used by scientists themselves. In this case, we developed a series of activities around the question, "Can machines understand emotion?". The centrepiece is a large high-resolution touch screen where visitors can interact with a machine learning model, attempting to teach it to recognise emotions in facial expressions, an example of human-in-the-loop machine learning. This stems directly from our research using machine learning to infer emotion from digital footprint data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://jeangoldinginstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/tag/we-the-curious/ |
| Description | Science Po Workshop (Metadata management in longitudinal and international comparative studies workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This one-day workshop is aimed at all members of the scientific community that have special interest in metadata and data management of longitudinal and international comparative studies. French and European specialists will showcase their projects and exchange on best practices in this area. A special focus will be given to the documentation of the ELIPSS panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar Longitudinal Methodology Series seminar - Dr Natasha Wood and Dr Noriko Cable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The thirteenth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series features talks from Natasha Wood and Noriko Cable. Dr Natasha Wood is a Research Assistant at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Healthy Ageing at UCL. Dr Noriko Cable is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health, UCL. Natasha Wood spoke about cross cohort analysis of childhood evironment and adult mental wellbeing whilst Noriko Cable dicussed overcrowding and health in relation to data harmonisation and research application. The seminar was attended by 24 people. Videos of the two presentations were made available on CLOSER's website and YouTube channel. As of 27 November 2017, Natasha Woods' video has had 28 views and Noriko Cable's talk has had 22 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-methodology-series-wood-cable/ |
| Description | Seminar Longitudinal Methodology Series seminar - Dr Vasiliki Bountziouka and Chris Belfield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The twelfth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series features talks from Vasiliki Bountziouka and Chris Belfield. Vasiliki is a Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Chris is a Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Vasiliki's talk focused on trends in visual function in childhood whilst Chris Belfield spoke about deriving harmonised measures of income across and within cohort studies. The seminar was attended by 23 people. Videos of each of the presentations were made available on the CLOSER website and YouTube channel. As of 27 November 2017, Vasiliki Bountziouk's video has had 41 views and Chris Belfield's video has had 15 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/longitudinal-methodology-series-seminar-dr-vasiliki-bountziouka/ |
| Description | Seminar presentation on CLOSER's harmonisation learning and outputs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER contributed a talk on a session on best practice in cross-cohort research and this resulted in CLOSER being invited to take part in an on-going working group on this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Seminar: Investigating cognition and cognitive ageing in longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Seminar hosted by Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER), University College London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/7822/investigating-cognition |
| Description | Seminar: Longitudinal Methodology Series seminar - Dr David Bann and Dr Leah Li |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The tenth seminar in the CLOSER Longitudinal Methodology Series featured talks from David Bann and Leah Li. David Bann is a Lecturer at UCL and Co-Investigator of the National Child Development Study (NCDS). Leah Li is a Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Child Health. The seminar was attended by 30 delegates and video recorded and made available on the CLOSER website. The video has so far (as of 10/01/17) had 16 further views on YouTube. Speakers Dr David Bann Using longitudinal studies to examine changes in health inequality: cross-cohort differences in body mass index inequality In order to understand and ultimately reduce health inequalities, high-quality evidence is required to quantify how they have changed across time-both as individuals age and comparing different generations. However, there are numerous challenges of such analyses, including potentially problematic differences in measurement, sampling, and missing data, and considering how to quantify socioeconomic inequality. We present work investigating how socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index (BMI) have changed across adulthood, using data from three national British birth cohort studies (initiated in 1946, 1958, and 1970), and discuss the challenges encountered which likely apply to other studies of health inequality. Dr Leah Li Changes in the association of life-course Body Mass Index trajectories with adult blood pressure across two British birth cohorts Recent increases in the prevalence of obesity and more rapid gains in Body Mass Index (BMI) have been observed for all life stages. The impact of secular changes in lifetime BMI trajectories on cardiovascular disease risk factors is little studied. This talk is based on our work using the 1946 and 1958 British birth cohorts. We investigated associations between life-course BMI trajectories and adult blood pressure (BP) levels across two generations. BP did not increase despite higher levels of adult BMI in the younger cohort. A stronger association was found between BMI trajectory and BP in mid-adulthood in the younger cohort. We will discuss the possible explanations for the strengthening BMI/BP association, and the implications in the context of the obesity epidemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2016/latest-videos-longitudinal-methodology-series-david-bann-a... |
| Description | Sheffield Hallam University workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Joint CLOSER/UKDS workshop. 13:00 Using longitudinal surveys to explore childhood and families: An introduction to longitudinal studies; Joint CLOSER resources; what data are available? Practical: searching for data using the CLOSER portal. Professor Alison Park, CLOSER. 14:00 Introduction to data resources at the UK Data Service: Data held by the UKDS, Finding and accessing data from the UKDS service and website demo, Practical: finding and exploring data on the UKDS website. Dr Sarah King-Hele, UK Data Service 15:00 Close |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Society for Lifecourse and Longitudinal Studies (SLLS) International Conference 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER hosted a symposium at the SLLS conference, that took place on 9th - 11th October, on 'The benefits, limitations and challenges of cross-cohort analysis'. The symposium was the first session on the third day of the conference and was well attended. Presentations from other Work Packages included: Johnson W, Li L, Kuh D, Hardy R. The development of the obesity epidemic across age and time: evidence from five UK birth cohort studies; Work Package 6 presented a paper on back casting deprivation indicators from 2001 to 1991. Rosie French and Jonathan Tebbett also attended the conference to maintain a CLOSER stand and to encourage conference attendees to find out more about the programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.slls.org.uk/ |
| Description | Society for Lifecourse and Longitudinal Studies (SLLS) International Conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER hosted two symposia at the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies conference in Dublin. One was led by Andy Boyd from ALSPAC and looked at the challenges and value of data linkage. This session included talks from researchers working on CLOSER Work Packages 5 and 7; Gundi Knies (WP7) talked about understanding the mechanisms of consenting to data linkage and BIlal Nasim (WP5) presented work on linking cohort studies in CLOSER to the National Pupil Database. The second symposium, led by Alison Park, looked at the differing approaches to participant engagement from a number of cohort and longitudinal studies. Growing Up in New Zealand's approach was presented by Susan Morton who shared insights into how the study has taken steps to ensure their sample is representative by engaging with the indigenous population. Lynn Molloy gave an overview of ALSPAC's participant engagement approach, including the role of Participant Advisory Panel in the study. Lisa Calderwood spoke about the efforts made to keep the Millennium Cohort Study participants engaged through their teenage years - a critical point for attrition. We also had an exhibition stand at the conference advertising CLOSER and our products. The symposia were well received and the conference provided an excellent opportunity to promote CLOSER's work. The conference was attended by over 300 delegates and all three symposia were well attended. We have received several more visitors to our website and more Twitter folllowers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-international-conference-2015/ |
| Description | Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies conference 2016 - symposium 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER presented a symposium and staffed an exhibition stand at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course (SLLS) conference 2017 in Bamberg, Germany. CLOSER hosted a symposium that looks at the harmonisation and comparison of measures of body mass index, physiological and physical function, and wellbeing across different longitudinal studies. The symposium reported on three CLOSER-funded harmonisation and comparative projects involving a number of different UK cohort studies. The first two papers examined the relationship between childhood and adult socioeconomic position (which have themselves also required harmonisation) and body mass index (Paper 1) and adult mental wellbeing (Paper 2). In each case, the paper explored whether and how this relationship varies between cohorts. Paper 3 examined how measures of physiological function and physical performance (examples include blood pressure and lung function) vary according to the measurement equipment used, and established whether correction factors can be applied to enable harmonised analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/society-longitudinal-life-studies-conference-2016/ |
| Description | Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies conference 2016 - symposium 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER's Work Package 11, Exploiting the existing biomarker data available in CLOSER: social position, age and allostatic load, also hosted a symposium on 'Understanding Allostatic load' hosted by Professor Michaela Benzeval.. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2016 |
| URL | http://www.slls.org.uk/past-conferences |
| Description | Speaker at UKBiobank Health-Related Data Linkage Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop discussed the value of obtaining information in UKBiobank that might be of relevance for social science and environmental health research via linkage to existing datasets, web-based questionnaires and/or remote monitors (e.g., phone apps). The workshop enabled the UKBiobank team to better understand the needs of the social science community with the intention that more social science researchers will use the resource. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Speaker at the British Society for Population Studies 2018 annual conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I discussed the complexity of policymaking and explore the importance of narrative and storytelling, focusing on the 'wedding cake' approach as a potential method. Drawing on academic literature, official reports and recent examples of how this approach has directly influenced policy, I challenged the audience to think differently about how to communicate their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/Assets/Documents/bsps/Abstracts-book.pdf |
| Description | Sponsor and exhibition: 2021 SLLS conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER was a sponsor of the 2021 SLLS (online) conference and ran a virtual exhibition stand throughout the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/identity-and-transformation-studying-lives-in-times-of/ |
| Description | Sponsored 2022 SLLS conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER sponsored the poster session at the 2022 SLLS conference and created a bespoke webpage for conference delegates to learn about our work and resources. The page was viewed 32 times around the time of the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/slls-2022/ |
| Description | Sponsored the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies online mini-conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER sponsored 'Celebrating 10 years of the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS)' online mini-conference in October 2020. To mark their 10 year anniversay, SLLS put together a an exciting programme combining both pre-recorded and live events. CLOSER also provided a pre-recorded demonstration of the Learning Hub for attendees to view throughout the week of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/slls-10/ |
| Description | Strategies for (re)creating Questionnaires in DDI-Lifecycle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A series of questions were raised and interest was high for those participating who are likewise interested in scaling questionnaire capture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Successful cohort leadership and management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this workshop is to bring together members of cohort teams to reflect on the current leadership and management of these studies, and to identify what additional support and resources are needed to continue to develop this part of our research infrastructure. It is also an excellent opportunity for individuals to make connections with other people working on similar studies. Great networking between studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/successful-cohort-leadership-management/ |
| Description | Super Cohort: a new resource for LPS COVID-19 research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Boyd & Robin Flaig hosted an online workshop with support from CLOSER to describe the initial design and development of the UK LLC to the longitudinal community and to gain feedback on needs and design opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Supported the development of a new Government Statistical Service (GSS) user engagement strategy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The provision of high-quality, accessible statistics and data is vital to the effective functioning of policy and decision-making processes in the UK. In its report published following the inquiry into the governance of official statistics, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) recommended that the UK Statistics Authority should develop a strategy for engaging all users of official statistics. In response to that recommendation, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Best Practice & Impact division (BPI) is leading a project to develop a Government Statistical Service (GSS) wide user engagement strategy and implementation plan. As part of this effort, GSS wanted to give the users of statistics a voice in the way statistics and data are produced and developed. To help them achieve this, they invited us to talk to the project team about our experiences and ideas in a short semi-structured telephone interview. The ONS User engagement strategy for statistics - ensuring official statistics meet society's needs was published in February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/user-engagement-strategy-for-statistics-ensuring-offici... |
| Description | Survey metadata Barriers and Opportunities: Smoothing the journey from questionnaire development to archival documentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on archiving questionnaire documentation Great networking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Symposium at the 2017 Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During the 2017 Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies conference, CLOSER organised a symposium titled, Longitudinal Data Harmonisation and Linkage in the UK. The session included five presentations and it was chaired by Alison Park. The papers presented included 'Trends in Visual Function in Childhood Over a Quarter Century of Social Change in the UK (Vasiliki Bountziouka), Allostatic Load: Components and Construction Across the CLOSER Studies (Meena Kumari), Understanding Young People's Views About Consenting to Data Linkage (Andy Boyd), Is Study Self-Belief Associated With GCSE Outcomes? (Morag Henderson), and Data Discovery, Linkage and Harmonisation: How CLOSER Can Help (Alison Park). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Symposium at the 2018 Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the 2018 SLLS Conference in the University of Milano-Bicocca, CLOSER coordinated and ran a symposium on the subject of cross-study comparisons. The symposium provided first-hand accounts of researchers' experience in undertaking cross-study investigations, sharing important insights and practical guidance on the processes involved in performing such integrated studies of longitudinal change. It comprised the following talks: 'Socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index across the life course in four generations: evidence from the British birth cohort studies' by Rebecca Hardy, 'Childhood circumstances and adult mental wellbeing: The role of partnerships based on evidence from three British birth cohorts' by Natasha Wood, 'Social contexts of adolescent well-being in the UK over time' by Noriko Cable, and 'Cross-study research: Evaluating the opportunities and obstacles in integrating longitudinal data from diverse sources' by Alison Park and Dara O'Neill. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.slls.org.uk/2018-conference |
| Description | Tackling mental health problems in children and young people: the importance of early intervention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a joint event focusing on young people's mental health and the importance of early intervention. It was held in Parliament in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group. Chaired by The RT Hon Norman Lamb MP, the session featured talks from Luciana Berger MP, Sarah Brennan (Chief Executive Officer, Young Minds), Louise Arseneault (Prof of Developmental Psychology, KCL), and Helen Gilburt (Research Fellow, King's Fund). The session also included time for discussion over the key points raised by each speaker. Around 30 people attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.healthinparliament.org.uk/events/tackling-mental-health-problems-children-and-young-peop... |
| Description | Talk about CLOSER harmonisation work at HM Treasury Mini-Conference about social mobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Claire Crawford invited to speak about her CLOSER funded work on mobility at this event, aimed at social researchers and economists in Westminister and organised by the Government Economic and Social Research Team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk at British Library Social Sciences Doctoral Open Day 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Alison Park gave the closing talk at this annual British Library event, on 'the value of the UK's longitudinal resources'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Technical Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Technical Committee to review current status of DDI 3.2 and development of schema for DDI 3.3 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An interactive webinar hosted by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, discussing the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. Opportunity for users to explore the Catalogue, ask questions, and give suggestions about the Catalogue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Past, Present and Future of Legacy Metadata Documentation at CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of best practice and knowledge transfer of scaling up archival projects to capture metadata from large scale surveys |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi17/paper/view/299 |
| Description | The benefits, limitations and challenges of cross-cohort analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | A symposium at the SLLS conference 2014. Sparked discussions and questions afterwards. More visits to the closer website and visitors the exhibition stand that was at the event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://media.wix.com/ugd/df1448_c9e5f8a53da14e01b80b526a0ad50919.pdf |
| Description | The extraordinary story of our ordinary lives: Guided walking tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the 2017 ESRC Festival of Social Science, CLOSER ran a guided walking tour through the Bloomsbury area of London, highlighting the history and findings of the UK's longitudinal studies, stories from the lives of the people involved, and how these studies have shaped and been shaped by modern British history. The tour was led by Blue Badge Guide, Kim Dewdney. Ten members of the general public took part in the tour. In the feedback, one guest said the tour was "a really engaging way to learn about the cohorts and longitudinal studies". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/extraordinary-story-ordinary-lives-guided-walking-tour/ |
| Description | The obstacles and opportunities of longitudinal data harmonisation: Experiences from CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was delivered as the opening talk at a symposium on 'Survey Data Harmonization: Potentials and Challenges', held at the European Survey Research Association's annual conference in Zagreb, Croatia. It led to new collaborations with the symposium organisers, the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program' from Ohio State University and the Polish Academy of Sciences. It also led to linking up a researcher from GESIS (at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) with researchers involved in the CLOSER harmonisation work packages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The power and perils of narrative: making the best use of the British Birth Cohort studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Jane Elliott's Inaugural lecture. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Jane Elliott used a vivid narrative case study to illustrate the detailed information that the British Birth Cohort studies collect about individuals and their circumstances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://www.ioe.ac.uk/newsEvents/93773.html |
| Description | The rise of the obesity epidemic: How had the age-related process of overweight or obesity development changed over time? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine seminar series, Prof Rebecca Hardy presented findings from CLOSER's investigation into the rise of the obesity epidemic in the UK across five generations. Rebecca Hardy is Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics and a programme leader at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/rise-obesity-epidemic-bristol-seminar/ |
| Description | The wider impacts of attending university |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a blog from Chris Belfield, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, in which he discussed the role of higher education in determining the future income and living standards of female graduates. The blog was published on 26 October. As of 8 March, it has been viewed 60 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/wider-impacts-attending-university/ |
| Description | Top 10 ESRC blogs from 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | My blog 'Engaging with policymakers - some tips to help you on your journey' for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) was the most popular ESRC blog in 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.esrc.ac.uk/2017/12/19/top-10-esrc-blogs-from-2017/ |
| Description | Twitter thread on the value and impact of longitudinal research in low and middle income countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We kick-started a bi-weekly section in CLOSER's twitter web presence, where Francisco Oteiza presents examples of the value and impact of longitudinal studies from low and middle income countries. The plan is to take a research paper and summarise it in 4-6 tweets, pointing towards the valuable insights raised and the data used. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/CLOSER_UK/status/1089858180891533313 |
| Description | UCL Data Dialogues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UCL Series to share best practice and to network with your UCL colleagues who have expertise in data management, processing, curation, analysis and knowledge generation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/events/2020/feb/ucl-data-dialogues |
| Description | UCL IOE Blog: Cutting through the noise: mobilising data and generating impact during a global pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Blog 'Cutting through the noise: mobilising data and generating impact during a global pandemic' published by UCL IOE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2021/06/08/cutting-through-the-noise-mobilising-data-and-generating-impa... |
| Description | UCL Institute of Education (IOE) blog: Social media and screen-time: To ban or not to ban; that's probably not the question |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This blog focussed on CLOSER's instrumental contribution to the Science and Technology Committee report on the impact of social media and screen-use on young people's health, the recommendations relevant to research, and CLOSER's written evidence (which was cited in the report). At the time of submission, the blog had 210 page views on the IOE website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/social-media-and-screen-time-to-ban-or-not-to-ban-tha... |
| Description | UCL Lunch Hour Lectures: Why early life matters: insights from longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This lecture shares insights from the UK's world-renowned longitudinal studies, shedding light on how our childhoods shape our adult lives, for better and for worse. The talk was well attended and generated excellent discussion from a wide-ranging audience. The talk was well attended and generated excellent discussion from a wide-ranging audience - students, the public, academics from across disciplines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/ucl-lunch-hour-lectures-early-life-matters-insights/ |
| Description | UCL Public Policy Team: special meeting looking at Policy Engagement learning landscape and needs at UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session seeks to gain a better understanding and unpack current perceptions around academic-policy engagement training that currently exist, and explore areas that UCL would like to see further development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVONiDR-c=/?invite_link_id=373189439154 |
| Description | UCL cohorts, biobanks & big data event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The principle aim of the event is to bring together UCL researchers at all career levels who work on cohorts to help promote connection, collaboration and knowledge sharing, whilst providing a showcase for UCL's successful curation and interrogation of some of the UK's largest cohorts. Alison Park spoke about innovations in data collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:hdy-izh4kysf-kcp4ee/ucl-cohorts-biobanks-big-data-event |
| Description | UK-Japan Methods workshop in Kyoto, Japan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave an invited talk at the workshop "CLOSER: maximising the potential of the UK longitudinal studies" and participated in networking activities. This is part of the UK-Japan Scientific Network for Users of Longitudinal studies. A follow-up event is being held in London in March 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UKAN training: Anonymisation Decision Making Framework (ADF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CLOSER Data Linkage Community of Practice and UK LLC arranged for the UK Anonymisation Network to provide expert training in their Anonymisation Decision Making Framework (ADF). This training was funded by CLOSER and was designed to give LPS Data Managers a conceptual understanding as to how to evaluate and mitigate disclosure risk. The training focused on the ADF as a framework and then explored in a workshop how this relates to data phenomena within the longitudinal field (eg, repeat assessments over time, managing complex linkages, depositing data within TREs, withdrawal of consent). The training ran across four dates and was attended by 28 delegates (100% attendance rate). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/ukan-adf-training/ |
| Description | UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre - Rosie French and Will Poynter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rosie French and William Poynter met with Emma Lawrence (UCL) and Phil Quinlan (Nottingham) to discuss ways of including cohort data in the UKCRC Tissue Directory. The UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre is an initiative to improve access to human tissue samples for research purposes in the UK. This is to meet the increasing need to make samples available to researchers. To facilitate this, the Centre is creating an online Tissue Directory which will hold the information for collections across the UK. Outputs: UKCRC invited and attended workshop on collecting and storing Biosamples in cohorts (October 2016) CLOSER invited and attended 'Nottingham in Parliament' event where UKCRC had a stand CLOSER Discovery included on the cohort pages of the UKCRC directory |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UPEN blog: Enter the dragon: Senedd committees Areas of Research Interest pilot project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In September 2022, two Senedd committees launched the Senedd's first Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) as a new way to improve committees' engagement with the research community. ARI topics include climate change, modal shift and active travel, sustainable communities, and health literacy. In this blog Rob Davies, CAPE Policy Fellow, outlines how researchers can engage with the ARIs and how they aim to support parliamentary scrutiny. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://upen.ac.uk/blogs/?action=story&id=304 |
| Description | UPEN/Research Impact Canada seminar: Engaging with Government and Parliament |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | First webinar jointly organized by Research Impact Canada (RIC) and Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN). Join our panelists for this exciting presentation about the research-policy interface and successful engagement with government bodies. This session will feature researchers with experience collaborating with government as well as professional staff supporting those collaborations. This session will be of interest to academic and professional university staff, as well as policymakers from all levels of government. Panelists: - Kate Dommett, Senior Lecturer in the Public Understanding of Politics, The University of Sheffield, UK - Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Director of The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Canada - Shawna Teper, Community and Government Relations Officer, York University, Canada - Rob Davies, Public Affairs Manager, University College London, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1Ar3RigMQqeXqgqSJCFTug |
| Description | USING SECONDARY DATA IN RESEARCH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a free event at Bristol University funded through an ESRC research grant and organised in collaboration with the Jean Golding Institute for Data Science at the University of Bristol. The target audience was academics and postgraduate research students interested in secondary data analyses. Alison Park presented on behalf of CLOSER, focusing on the resources it has created for those interested in using longitudinal data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding family life, work life balance and the care of children: a symposium on cross-national |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this event is to bring together researchers with an interest in cross-national research on family life and the care of children. The specific focus will be on comparisons between Britain and France and on the opportunities for research provided by the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the Étude Longitudinale Française depuis l'Enfance (ELFE) study. Numbers will be limited to ensure time for discussion and exchange of ideas. Great international networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Understanding impact workshop - Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2015. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop looked at the impact process from start to finish, with a focus on influencing the policy development process and the REF (Research Excellence Framework). Speakers included Meghan Rainsberry (CLOSER), Richard Bartholomew (former DfE and GSR) and Vicky Jones (HEFCE). The speakers slides and practical exercises have been made available on the event web page. Delegates actively engaged in the practical exercise and the workshop received excellent feedback. CLOSER and Understanding Society have agreed to collaborate on rerunning the workshop in the future. The workshop was well attended and the slides have been viewed many times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/understanding-impact/ |
| Description | Understanding metadata management in longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop, led by Jon Johnson and Hayley Mills, explored how metadata and open standards can be used to actively manage longitudinal study data and resources. The first day gave delegates an overview of different structured metadata concepts as well as use cases including data management, question management, versioning, and data sharing. The second day included talks from data managers working on social and biomedical longitudinal studies. There was also a group discussion on future needs for metadata and data management, as well as identifying potential barriers to making progress in this area. The event was well attended. The attendance rate for day one was 90% and 96% for day two. Delegates rated the event as 10/10 for satisfaction and relevance. Slides from the event were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-management-workshop/ |
| Description | Uniform Search Platform: Update #1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog updated the wider consortium on how the main product of the project was progressing Google analytics tells us the blog has been read several times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2014/uniform-search-platform-update-1/ |
| Description | Unlocking the potential of mental health measures in the British birth cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof George B. Ploubidis wrote a blog for the CLOSER website focused on his work harmonising measures of mental health collected across the British birth cohorts. The blog covered obstacles related to harmonisation, the process of harmonising measures, invesitgating sources of error, and future plans for the project. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 391 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/unlocking-potential-mental-health-measures-british-birth-... |
| Description | Up Close and Policy session: Events in Parliament |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In January, UCL's first Up Close and Policy session of 2018 had a focus on parliamentary engagement and brought together Rob Davies, Public Affairs Manager for CLOSER and Dr. Sarah Bunn, Adviser on Biological Sciences & Health, at the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, to discuss how they worked together to deliver an event in parliament in partnership with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Childhood Obesity. A blog summarising the event included Rob's top tips and highlighted the CLOSER Learning Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-policy/public-policy-news/up-close-and-policy-parliament-jan-2018 |
| Description | Using multiple longitudinal studies for age-period-cohort investigations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop, led by Dr Will Johnson (Loughborough University) focused on the use of multiple longitudinal studies for age-period-cohort investigations. The event featured talks from Dr Andrew Bell, Dr Alice Goisis, and Dr Anamaria Brailean, and included a practical activity which asked delegates to draw a hypothetical APC figure. The event was attended by 34 delegates. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being highest), the average rating for satisfaction was 9 and for relevancy was 8. Presentation slides from the workshop were uploaded to the CLOSER website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/age-period-cohort-workshop/ |
| Description | Using the Colectica REST API to access CLOSER Discovery metadata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER ran a two-day, online training workshop on using the Colectica REST API to access CLOSER Discovery metadata. Led by Colectica, the training aimed to help familiarise data managers, researchers and programmers with the skills needed to explore and use longitudinal study metadata in novel ways. In total, 38 people registered to attend the training. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/using-the-colectica-rest-api-to-access-closer/ |
| Description | Utilising DDI 3.2 in the Survey Process with IBM SPSS Data Collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of how other similar organisations could use our experience to improve data and metadata management in their own organisations Request for further information and advice on interfacing between universities and survey agencies in the area of data and metadata management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/programme2015?sess=105 |
| Description | Visit and Meeting Regarding Longitudinal Studies (Singaporean National Institute of Education) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We hosted a visitor from the Singaporean National Institute of Education to share and discuss best practice on longitudinal study design, meta-data capture and harmonisation possibilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit from Encuesta de Nutrición, Desarrollo Infantil y Salud, Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, Chile |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We hosted a visit from two visitors from the Chilean civil service, sharing and discussing experiences and best practice in data collection, management, harmonisation and dissemination. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Visit with UK Reproducibility Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER held a networking meeting with one of the joint leads of the UK Reproducibility Network and the UCL Pro-Vice-Provost for Library Services. As a consequence of this meeting, CLOSER became a partner in the UK Reproducibility Network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | We all see the value in combining social and biomedical data collection, so let's ensure we can do it effectively. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER published a blog by Matt Brown, Survey Manager at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in which he discusses the value in combining social and biomedical data. He argues that we need to share expertise and learning across the social and biomedical sciences - on both scientific opportunities and operational challenges - to unlock the huge potential of combining social and biomedical data. The blog was published on 22 August 2018. As of 8 March 2019, it has been viewed 146 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/social-biomedical-data-collection-matt-brown/ |
| Description | Webinar - Department of Global Health & Social Medicine: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar Association of Children and Adolescent Mental Health - Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar CLOSER - Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar Closing the Gap Mental Health Network - Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health - Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar Loneliness & Social Isolation in MH Research Network - Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar UK Data Service- Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies: The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have developed a searchable catalogue to help people find information about existing measures of mental health and wellbeing in UK cohort and longitudinal studies. The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures compiles and organises information about mental health measures in over 30 (and counting!) UK cohort and longitudinal studies. It features descriptions of the studies and the measures of mental health and wellbeing they have collected, as well as information about statistical resources and training. The catalogue improves the visibility and accessibility of these measures, making it easier for researchers from across different disciplines to make use of the incredibly rich mental health data currently available in the UK's longitudinal studies. Our new resource will be useful for researchers from across different disciplines and career stages. The Catalogue may be particularly useful for early career researchers utilising data that has already collected and researchers less familiar with the mental health field - but it may also hold some surprises for experienced mental health researchers! This is an interactive session showing some of the features of the Catalogue. Bring your laptop, IPad of mobile phone so you can try it out! Learning points Delegates can expect to take away from this webinar: - Appreciate the value of cohort and longitudinal studies for mental health and wellbeing research; - Discover new data resources and mental health measures; - Learn how to use the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar: A step-by-step guide to applying and accessing linked data in the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar introduced the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and the new Trusted Research Environment for accessing longitudinal COVID-19 data linked with health and environment data. This webinar took delegates through a step-by-step guide to applying for and accessing the linked data held within the TRE. The session covered the three-step application process, how to tailor your data requests, how data is provisioned and the range of tools and support available. The webinar also covered how a panel of study representatives and members of the public are involved in the application process and the legal documentation you and your institution will need to comply with our Data Access and Acceptable Use Policy. Videos and slides were made available after the event. Videos and slides from the webinar can be found below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/webinar-ukllc-trusted-research-environment/ |
| Description | Webinar: Impact for beginners - Mobilising research in the policy landscape with Rob Davies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The seminar focused on engaging with the UK government and parliament and how to mobilise research in the policy landscape, what influences policy and decision makers, and some tips and resources to help researchers on their journey to policy impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSLcQVUObK8 |
| Description | Webinar: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective: ELSA & NICOLA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The webinar was the fourth in CLOSER's series exploring longitudinal biomedical studies from a social science perspective. It featured talks on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing by Paula Zaninotto and the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing by Frank Kee. Videos and slides were uploaded to the CLOSER website after the event. The videos have a combined view count of 150+ on YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/elsa-nicola-webinar/ |
| Description | Webinar: Introducing longitudinal population studies - The ONS Longitudinal Study and LSYPE2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar showcased two of the CLOSER partner studies - the ONS Longitudinal Study and the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England 2. The webinar focused on the studies' backgrounds, data collected, data access arrangements, and exemplar research case studies. The event was attended by 64 delegates (60% attendance rate). Of the 11 evaluation forms completed, the majority of delegates rated it as 10/10 for satisfaction and relevancy. Videos and presentation slides were uploaded after the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/ons-ls-lsype2-webinar/ |
| Description | Webinar: Introducing longitudinal population studies from a biomedical science perspective - Understanding Society and Growing Up in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The first webinar in our series exploring social science focused longitudinal population studies from a biomedical research perspective featured talks on Understanding Society and Growing Up in Scotland. The event was attended by 33 delegates (45% attendance rate). Of the 13 evaluations received, the majority of respondents rated it as 8.5/10 for satisfaction and 9/10 for relevancy. Videos and presentation slides were made available after the event. The videos have been viewed a combined 96 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/usoc-gus-webinar/ |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar gave attendees the opportunity to find out more about the beta website, what is next in development, as well as ask the CLOSER technical team questions. 95 delegates registered for the webinar. The feedback, using the chat function, was incredibly positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/webinar-introduction-to-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to CLOSER Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar introduced CLOSER Discovery, a search engine that allows researchers to explore the content of eight longitudinal studies, to users. It included a full demonstration of how to use the website as well as an overview of upcoming content updates and plans to improve its functionality. Attendees also had the chance to ask questions about the platform. There were 96 registrations for this event. Of the 8 evaluations received, 70% reported being 'Very satisfied'. A video of the webinar was made available via CLOSER's website and YouTube channel. It has had 217 views as of 27 November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/webinar-closer-discovery/ |
| Description | Webinar: Introduction to CLOSER Discovery and its latest features |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar introduced CLOSER Discovery, a search engine that allows researchers to explore the content of eight longitudinal studies, to users. It also focused on the latest content and features of the website. Attendees also had the chance to ask questions about the platform. There were 31 registrations for this event. A video of the webinar was made available via CLOSER's website and YouTube channel. It has had 21 views as of 14 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-closer-discovery-latest-features/ |
| Description | Webinar: Investigating mental health in the UK - what data can I use? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was one of a series of webinars about data available for research, ESRC data resources: Discovering data and how to use them. This webinar will focus on mental health data. This webinar was jointly organised by the UK Data Service and CLOSER. The speakers included Sally McManus, NatCen Associate in Health Policy, and Eoin McElroy, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Leicester. The webinar focused on key features of the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Studies, examples of research uses and how to access the data, data from the UK longitudinal studies including research use cases and access, and other useful data sources for exploring mental health in the UK. The webinar had a 53% attendance rate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/webinar-investigating-mental-health-uk-data/ |
| Description | Webinar: Metadata management in the real world - Managing Metadata Quality at CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was the fourth in the Metadata management in the real world series, organised as part of CLOSER's Data Managers Network. In this webinar, the CLOSER Discovery team (Jon Johnson, Jenny Li, William Norley, and Becky Oldroyd) showcased a selection of our current and in-development tools, which enable CLOSER and our partners to collaborate efficiently. The webinar was attended by 35 delegates (55% attendance rate). Presentation slides and recordings from the webinar were uploaded to the CLOSER website. In total, the videos have been viewed over 100 times. Of the 12 evaluation forms received, the majority of delegates rated the session 8/10 for satisfaction and relevancy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://closer.ac.uk/event/metadata-management-in-the-real-world-ddi-tools/ |
| Description | Wellcome LPS COVID Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contributing record linkage and study management expertise to the Wellcome LPS COVID Steering Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Welsh Government Longitudinal Studies Network meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Charis Bridger Staatz and Rob Davies on CLOSER's Internship and COVID-19 Taskforce and Hub followed by Q&A/discussion session at the Welsh Government Longitudinal Studies Network meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mobile.twitter.com/CharisStaatz/status/1440738658701623297 |
| Description | What can the language used in essays written at age 11 tell us about children's future social mobility? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference Presentation at the European Consortium of Sociological Research Conference in Lausanne (12-14 September 2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | What can we learn from British Birth Cohort studies? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Seminar held at the Australian Institute of Family Studies on 15 February 2013. Professor Elliott provided an overview of the 1958, 1970 and Millennium Cohort studies in Britain and introduced some of the landmark research that has been carried out using such longitudinal evidence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://aifs.gov.au/publications/family-matters/issue-92/institute-seminars |
| Description | What? Who? And how? Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies (webinar at London School of Economics). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An interactive webinar given to individuals from London School of Economics (LSE) discussing the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. Opportunity for those attending to use the Catalogue during the session, and ask questions/give suggestions for the future of the Catalogue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | What? Who? And, how?: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the launch of the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, an online resource documenting existing measures of mental health and wellbeing collected by over 30 UK longitudinal studies, two of the platform's creators - Prof Louise Arseneault and Bridget Bryan - showcased the search engine's potential for maximising the take-up of mental health measures in future longitudinal research. As of 03 March 2020, the blog has been viewed 228 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/discovering-the-depths-of-mental-health-data |
| Description | Why am I getting old and fat? Age-period-cohort effects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following a CLOSER workshop exploring the use of multiple longitudinal studies for age-period-cohort (APC)investigations, Dr Will Johnson wrote a blog for the CLOSER website illustrating how longitudinal studies can help us understand APC effects. The blog was published on 6 March 2019. As of the 8 March, it has had 133 page views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/blog/fat-ageperiodcohort-effects/ |
| Description | Why metadata is awesome: How DDI-Lifecycle can be used to enhance data management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk engaged participants in thinking about utilising and embedding metadata in their data production processes It forms the |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/better-survey-data-management-with-metadata/ |
| Description | Work Package 2a Press Release: 'Getting a degree doesn't just lead women to earn more - they work more, pay more tax and marry higher earners' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Press Release covered the Work Package 2a working paper entitled: 'The impact of higher education on the living standards of female graduates'. This paper was authored by Chris Belfied and Laura van der Erve from IFS. The paper highlighted how Higher Education can affect graduates' future income other than simply through the wage rate. Graduating from university increases the likelihood a female graduate has a partner who also has a degree by more than 20 percentage points. This, in turn, results in partners who are more likely to be in work and have higher earnings. The press release was picked up on 25th October 2018 by The Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6314111/Female-graduates-marry-husbands-richer-earn-30-themselves.html), The Daily Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/10/25/women-degrees-likely-marry-high-earners-ifs-says/), The Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-women-graduates-who-gain-a-first-class-husband-w03wsx9ps) and The i. Laura van der Erve, one of the co-authors of the paper, also gave radio interviews on TalkRADIO (25/10/18) and LOVE SPORT Radio (26/1018). The press release also gained considerable traction on Twitter, with Dylan Wiliam, a teacher and education researcher with a 78.7k following, retweeting the link. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13636 |
| Description | Working Group to Propose Restructuring of the DDI Scientific Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The goal is to restructure the Scientific Board so it is active and engaged throughout the year -- beyond the annual meeting -- and optimally functioning as the scientific and technical body of the Alliance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Working with longitudinal resources - Introduction to CLOSER (Edinburgh) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hosted by the University of Edinburgh, this workshop aimed to introduce delegates to CLOSER's range of longitudinal resources and highlight opportunities for life course and intergenerational research. It was led by Alison Park who covered the following topics - overview of longitudinal studies, CLOSER Discovery, CLOSER Learning Hub and CLOSER's work in data harmonisation and linkage. In total, 19 people registered for this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/event/eventlongitudinal-resources-social-edinburgh-workshop/ |
| Description | Workshop - Questionnaires/Questions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In 2014, DDI Lifecycle 3.2 introduced a robust schema for managing and documenting full questionnaires, further improvements have been added in DDI-L 3.3 such as the ability to support measurements. Since then, many organisations have adopted the standard and started implementing questionnaire and question documentation as an integral part of capturing the data lifecycle. The development of software tools has built up substantial community knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of the current version of the DDI-Lifecycle standard. The workshop will be an opportunity for those using and developing software to create and reuse questions and questionnaires to discuss their experiences and bring together that knowledge to: Develop best practice for implementation Develop best practice for interchange Provide ideas for revisions, extensions, and feed into future versions of DDI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop on 'Longitudinal cross-study research: Opportunities, obstacles & the role of data harmonisation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We organised and ran a training event on data harmonisation at the Joint Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health and the International Epidemiology Association European Congress in Cork, Ireland. This involved hands-on training, and dissemination and evaluation of research experience in this area. Participants were equipped with completing data harmonisation in their own research work going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop/Roundtable Discussion on Longitudinal Data Harmonisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We organised and ran a roundtable discussion with researchers from different third level institutions across the UK who had contributed to CLOSER's data harmonisation work packages. We discussed best practice and identified solutions and resources of benefit to researchers undertaking similar work. The event led to plans for collaboration on new outputs, including academic publications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Cross-cohort research - Opportunities, challenges and examples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We created a workshop to provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges inherent in cross-cohort research, with a particular focus on data harmonisation. We video recorded all the presentations (4 30 minute presentations), the slides are available on the website, the research papers referenced in the talks are available, a report of the talk was also written and is available on the website. The event was organised by the project team. The event was very well attended and vastly over subscribed - plans are in motion to repeat the event due to its success. The videos on the project website have been viewed several times. The feedback from the event was excellent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/cross-cohort-research-opportunities-challenges-and-examples-2/ |
| Description | Workshop: Cross-cohort research: opportunities, challenges and examples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The review provided an update of the Cross-cohort research: opportunities, challenges and examples event. The review was written by Professor Rebecca Hardy and edited by Ryan Bradshaw. Presentations - http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/cross-cohort-research-opportunities-challenges-and-examples-2/ The webpage has had over 150 unique page views since posting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/2015/event-review-crosscohort-research-opportunities-challenges... |
| Description | Workshop: ESRC Doctoral Student Conference (Liverpool) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Around 350 delegates from across the UK attended this conference for ESRC-funded doctoral students. Forty speakers took part in a range of plenaries and workshops. CLOSER presented in the workshop on the ESRC's data resources. The workshop showcased the major ESRC-funded resources for data for research, and covered: Finding data for your research question, finding supporting information, different access routes to data, and getting training and help. CLOSER also spoke to many students at its exhibition stand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nwdtc.ac.uk/conference-2016/ |
| Description | Workshop: Enabling use of DOIs for data citation in longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the British Library, CLOSER held a workshop on 4 May 2018 exploring DataCite UK and the use of digital object identifiers (DOIs) for data citation. This workshop gave CLOSER study partners and stakeholders an opportunity to learn more about using DOIs to reference datasets, and how they can make it easier to cite and track the usage of cohort study data. The workshop had 22 attendees from across UK longitudinal studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop: Introduction to the UK's longitudinal resources (UCL Doctoral School) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This workshop introduced UCL doctoral students to a range of longitudinal resources and highlight opportunities for life course and intergenerational research. Participants learned what the datasets cover, how they've been used, and what research resources are available - with plenty of time for questions. The workshop received overwhelmingly positive evaluations from delegates. It received a unanimous overall rating 4/4 (excellent), and one student commented that "This course should be compulasary for MSc students in Social Epidemiology". This workshop has been delivered annually since 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/introduction-to-the-uks-longitudinal-resources/ |
| Description | Workshop: Life course epidemiology: Introduction to theory and methods with practical application |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Rebecca Hardy, Professor Diana Kuh and Dr Rachel Cooper (MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL) hosted this workshop which provided an introduction to the concepts and models in life course epidemiology. It provided participants with the knowledge to start applying life course ideas to their research. The workshop was as the Society for Social Medicine's 58th annual scientific meeting so reached a large and diverse audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-events/ssm-2014-oxford |
| Description | Workshop: Mixing modes and measurement methods in longitudinal studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Drawing on evidence from across CLOSER's longitudinal studies, this workshop discussed the latest evidence gathered on the effect of mixing modes and measurement methods on response, measurement issues and survey costs. The session focused on the implications for analysis of measures collected in different ways either across individuals at the same point in time or within individuals over time. Building on these discussions, the workshop identified what further research is required in relation to both the design and analysis of mixed mode data collection. The workshop was attended by 27 delegates. It received an average satisfaction rate of 9.2 and an average relevance rate of 8.8 from the evaluation forms. The conference organisers also produced a short report reviewing the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/mixing-modes-measurement-methods-longitudinal-studies/ |
| Description | Workshop: Review of methods for determining pubertal status |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Puberty has a significant impact on both mental and physical health, and therefore cross-sectional and cohort studies are increasingly interested in assessment of pubertal status. Currently there are limited acceptable methods used for reliably assessing puberty in boys and girls. The MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit in Southampton is undertaking a project to summarise and evaluate the literature on pubertal assessment methodologies. The MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit in Southampton is hosting a workshop, funded by CLOSER and the Society for Social Medicine to present their initial findings, generate discussion and learn from the expertise and experiences of the workshop delegates. The day will consist of four short talks from experts, with plenty of time for discussion and a 'snowballing' activity to gain consensus and represent the range of views at the workshop. The event was well attended with around 25 delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/review-of-methods-for-determining-pubertal-status/ |
| Description | Workshop: Using geographical data in longitudinal studies: Value, challenges & examples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Using linked geographical data in longitudinal studies opens up a multitude of new and exciting research opportunities. This session aimed to explore the key issues and challenges faced when linking the two data sets. How do the characteristics of our local neighbourhoods effect our socioeconomic chances, health and wellbeing over the course of our lives? Answers to these questions can be found by linking geographical data - such as levels of local air pollution, quantity of green space, and crime rates - to survey data collected by longitudinal studies. This workshop covered how data users can use linked geographical data in longitudinal studies to explore innovative new avenues for research. The workshop was attended by 29 delegates. It received an average satisfaction rate of 8.2 and average relevance rate of 8.2 from the evaluation forms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/geographical-data-workshop/ |
| Description | Workshop: Working with biological samples in cohort studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Biological samples such as blood, urine and saliva are collected routinely by many cohort studies. This represents considerable investment in terms of collection costs and ongoing storage costs. During this workshop we addressed the ethics and legislation surrounding collecting and working with human tissue. We discussed specimen collection, processing, storage and sample analysis. Data collection and data management were also addressed. 34 delegates registered for the workshop which was held in Bristol, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.closer.ac.uk/event/biological-samples-workshop/ |
| Description | • Symposium (three presentations) at the Instituto Federal de Pernambuco (IFPE) 2019 conference in Sao Paulo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We organised a symposium at the IFPE conferecne in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Work on harmonisation of mental health measures in the British borth cohorts and a comparison of lifelong mental health across generations was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |