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From 1 November 2024, the best ways to keep in touch with us and get updates on our work are:
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🔔The latest Longitudinal News is out now! Check out the latest #longitudinal news, research & events including:
- Our new interactive briefing note tool
- Videos/slides on using standardised scales & lists in CLOSER Discovery
- @PopRes_UK workshops
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✍️How researchers present their findings to policymakers is critical to generating policy impact.
Our new tool helps you produce a concise briefing note to capture policymakers’ attention & give your research a better chance of entering the policy debate.
closer.ac.uk/interactive-bri…
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🔔Calling all longitudinal population study researchers…
Capture policymakers' attention with our new interactive briefing note tool to help you showcase your most policy-relevant findings!
✍️Find out more and start using the tool:
closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/ne…
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We're delighted to see our evidence submission cited in the @HLFoodObesity report on fixing the UK food system.
The report finds that obesity and diet-related disease are a public health emergency & calls on UK Government to develop a long-term strategy to fix our food system.
ALT A couple food shopping together. Text reads: CLOSER evidence submission cited by the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee in 'Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system' report (Oct 2024)
1/8 Today we publish our report calling for the Government to make a plan to fix our broken food system so we can all live healthier lives. 🌱💪
Explore our key findings: ukparliament.shorthandstorie… ⬇️
🔔Are you on LinkedIn? So are we!
Follow us there for our latest news and blogs, job opportunities, events, resources for longitudinal population study research and more: tinyurl.com/closer-linkedin
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🔔Videos and slides now available from our recent webinar showcasing the standardised scales and lists features on CLOSER Discovery!
Catch up on how you can make the most of this functionality to help find longitudinal data that meets your research needs! closer.ac.uk/event/mmitrw-st…
ALT Text reads: Webinar Metadata management in the real world: Using standardised scales and lists in CLOSER Discovery Videos and slides available: closer.ac.uk/mmitrw-sept-24
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🆕 Our latest data collections and new editions are now available, with new data from the @EURightsHub, the Millennium Cohort Study @CLScohorts, the @WVS_Survey and more!
See the link below for the full list 👇ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/10/…
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🤔Have you signed up for one of our Early Years' webinars yet?
🔵Health, Nutrition and Green Space
🟢Language and Communication
🟣Social and Emotional Development
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Calling the longitudinal research community... @ESRC welcome applications to join their advisory group for data infrastructure and data skills, and help shape their future investment in social science-led data infrastructure!
Deadline to apply: 3 Dec
#PopTwitter #EpiTwitter
Join our advisory group for data infrastructure and data skills!
This is an opportunity to help shape our future investment in data infrastructure by providing advice which underpins new investment decisions or strategic programmes.
Apply here: orlo.uk/KicsZ
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🚨We have extended the deadline on this vacancy 🚨
An amazing opportunity to join our team as a Senior Research Fellow!
#academicjobs #AcademicTwitter #newvacancy #BradfordJobs #adolescentmentalhealth
🌟 🌟 NEW JOB VACANCY 🌟 🌟
A fantastic opportunity to come and work with us as a Senior Research Fellow to develop and contribute towards a research agenda examining the role digital and social media plays in adolescent mental health.
jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
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We're delighted to be featured this week as one of @Uni_of_Essex's 60 stories to celebrate this inspiring institution's 60th Anniversary.
The video and website below highlight how we strive to help researchers use data to influence policy and improve people's lives.
In a world of misinformation the @UKDataService is an institution that values data integrity.
Lead partner the @UKDataArchive, based at Essex, is home of UK's largest collection of social sciences data and a beacon of trust for data.
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Calling all LPS researchers - check out these @PopRes_UK workshops happening across the UK in October/November.
Input from these workshops will help shape PRUK funding opportunities that will be coming up in 2025 👇
Calling all researchers! Join us at one of our stakeholder workshops across the UK this October & November to help shape the future of longitudinal population studies (LPS). 🌍
📅 Dates in Belfast, Leeds, Edinburgh, Bristol & London.📝Register here: [pruk.ac.uk/workshops/]
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Baby boomers are more likely to experience multiple health problems in their later years than previous generations, according to new @UCL @OxfordDemSci research by @laura_gimeno1 @GeorgePloubidis @alicegoisis @drjenndowd
Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4gRBMUl
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British people are healthier in midlife than their US peers, despite being more likely to judge their health as poor, finds new #BCS70 @Add_Health study led by @ucl researchers, @CharisStaatz @GeorgePloubidis published today in @IntJEpidemiol
Read more - cls.ucl.ac.uk/british-adults…
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Last week I closed the conference season with the #ECR24 Conference and Training Event by @CLOSER_UK. It was an amazing opportunity to present our work and to discover new insights on #mentalhealth and #inequality in (unusual) sunny #London! Thanks for the excellent organization!
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Registration is now open for the 16th European DDI Users Conference, held at the heart of the Alps in Chur, Switzerland from 2-6 December 2024.
Details: bit.ly/3zyFi58
ALT Timeline for the EDDI2024 conference in Chur Switzerland 2-6 December 2024. Registration details at https://bit.ly/3zyFi58bit.ly
🔔The latest issue of Longitudinal News is out now! Check out the latest #longitudinal news, research & events including:
- #StudySpotlight on @TheWCHADS
- Reflections on our CLOSER internship blog
- Materials from our summer metadata management webinar
mailchi.mp/9793d9f2b139/ln-2…
ALT A family of smiling outside their house. Text reads: Longitudinal News - September 2024 - Study Spotlight: The Wirral Child Health and Development Study - Blog: Working at the intersection of academia and policy - Event: Materials from our latest metadata management webinar
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Good to be at #SLLS2024 in person. Our workshop with
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@JaneenBaxter7 on longitudinal and linked data for #lifecourse research relevant to policies is tomorrow @SLLShome
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📅Join us at one of our upcoming training events to learn how you can share your expertise with Parliament!
In each session, we'll be joined by a Member of the @UKHouseofLords who will discuss the value of research evidence for parliamentary scrutiny.
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Interested in working with Parliament as a researcher?
Join our new Parliament for Researchers sessions with Members of @UKHouseofLords to find out more.
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Media and misinformation, 9 October: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
Health, 22 October: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
