Past Events

SLLS Inaugural Conference 2010

Developments and Challenges in Longitudinal Studies from Childhood

22nd/23rd/24th September 2010 - Clare College, Cambridge, UK

The Society's inaugural conference and Annual General Meeting took place in Clare College, Cambridge on 22nd - 24th September 2010.

The conference comprised three keynote lectures and parallel group and poster sessions devoted to the themes of the conference.

The topics the conference addressed extended across the whole range of longitudinal and interdisciplinary life course studies.

Conference Powerpoint presentations

Pathways of Transition to Adulthood and Early Adult Well-being

Jeylan Mortimer, Minzee Kim, Frank Zhang, and Arturo Baiocchi
University of Minnesota, US

 

Birth characteristics & early-life social characteristics predict unequal educational outcomes - Data from a Swedish cohort born 1915-1929 and their grandchildren born 1973-1980

Anna Goodman (LSHTM, CHESS), Marit D. Gisselmann, Ilona Koupil  (CHESS)

 

Equivalence scales and the cost of children:
The case of household splits in Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Gunther Schmaus CEPS, Luxembourg, Sally Bould CEPS and University of Delaware, USA

 

Two interrelated processes: health and education early in life. Evidence from the Young Lives Longitudinal Study.

Mariachiara Di Cesare & Ricardo Sabates, Centre for Internationa Education (CIE), University of Sussex, UK

 

Qualitative longitudinal data and secondary analysis: researching identities, the life course and social change

Sarah Irwin, University of Leeds, UK

 

Education, Homogamy, and Inequality: A Twenty-two Year Intergenerational Perspective of Canadian Women and Men

Lesley Andres, University of British Columbia, USA

 

Access to Public Transit, Neighborhood Problems, and the Social Exclusion of Low-Income Families: Results from the Resident Relocation Survey and Making Connections Survey

Lee Fiorio, Nola du Toit, Ned English, Jizhou Fu, NORC, University of Chicago, USA

 

Data Management In Child Cohort Studies

Andy Boyd, University of Bristol, UK

 

Mixed signals: To what extent does Wage Scarring vary with the characteristics of the
local labour market?

Philip Ball, University of Nottingham, UK

 

The Outcomes for Children of Teenage and Early Motherhood: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort

Denise Hawkes, University of Greenwich, UK; Heather Joshi, Institute of Education, UK

 

Narratives of childlessness: using quantitative longitudinal data to create life histories

Roona Simpson, CRFR, University of Edinburgh, UK; Jane Elliott, CLS, Institute of Education, UK

 

Qualitative secondary analysis and working across the Timescapes project data sets

Mandy Winterton, Sarah Irwin, University of Leeds, UK

 

Depressivity over the Life Course and Across Generations – A Work in Progress

Elizabeth Cooksey, Curtis Eberwein, Rosella Gardecki, Pamela Ing, Randall J. Olsen, The Ohio State University, USA

 

Gender differences in the effect of breast feeding on adult psychological well-being

Noriko Cable, Mel Bartley, Anne McMunn, Yvonne Kelly, University College London, UK

 

Using qualitative and quantitative methods to develop ethnic identity questions in the UK

Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt, The UK Household Longitudinal Study

 

Intro to Symposium "qualilongi research“

Walter R. Heinz, University of Bremen, Germany

 

Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviours?

Report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Edited by Alissa Goodman and Paul Gregg. Contributors from IFS, CMPO and University of Oxford

 

An Evaluation of Nonresponse Bias in the Resident Relocation and Making Connections Surveys

Lisa Lee, Catherine Haggerty, NORC, USA

 

The role of fathers in child cohort studies

Harald Werneck, University of Vienna, Austria

 

School motivation as a predictor of career development: Findings from
two British Cohorts

Helen Cheng, Ingrid Schoon, Institute of Education, UK

 

The Making Connections and Resident Relocation Surveys - Longitudinal Studies Of Families In Low-Income Neighborhoods

Catherine Haggerty, Nola DuToit, Ned English, Colm O’Muircheartaigh, NORC, USA

 

Predicting Career Aspirations and University Majors from Academic Ability and Self-concept: A Longitudinal Applications of the Internal-External Frame Of Reference Model

Philip Parker, Gabriel Nagy, Ulrich Trautwein, Oliver Lüdtke, Center for Educational Science and Psychology, Germany

 

The impact of family interaction and parental involvement at school on the educational and mental health outcomes of adolescents: evidence from LSYPE

Catherine Rothon, Laura Goodwin, Stephen Stansfeld, Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary, University of London, UK

 

Talkin' bout my generation: individual perceptions of the significance of being part of the 1958 Cohort

Jane Elliott, CLS, Institute of Education, UK

 

A life-course perspective on postponement and recuperation of fertility in Europe: long-term effects of economic recession on fertility in 17 EU-countries

Karel Neels, Antwerp University, Brussells