Our centre
Director: Professor Emla Fitzsimons
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) leads the scientific development and operational management of a unique series of UK national longitudinal studies.
Our core studies are:
- 1958 National Child Development Study
- 1970 British Cohort Study
- Next Steps
- Millennium Cohort Study
- Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study
- Generation New Era
Our associate studies are:
- COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities Study
- Growing Up in the 2020s study
- Growing up in Digital Europe
- Children of the 2020s study
We are part of the UCL Social Research Institute based at the IOE.
We are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and receive co-funding from a number of different funding bodies and government departments.
Our studies
Find out more about CLS’ unique series of nationally representative UK longitudinal studies.
Centre for Longitudinal Studies website
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News
Following a new generation to understand childhood and inequality
How research on babies and families can inform early years policy before inequalities widen.
13 Apr 2026
Worked more, still got less
We explore retirement readiness, gender gaps in pension wealth, and the real-life consequences of inequality across the life course.
23 Mar 2026
A Time Telephone, tiny furniture and babies’ beginnings: IOE artefacts feature in UCL200 exhibition
Artefacts from IOE’s social research and policy impact feature in UCL’s Two Centuries Here exhibition, exploring UCL’s past, present and future since its founding.
11 Mar 2026
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Social Research Institute
UCL Institute of Education
University College London
55–59 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0NU
Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS)
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