Families and relationships in four British cohort studies

Dr Alice Goisis

Associate Professor of Demography and Research Director at CLS

Alice also co-leads the Family theme at CLS.

Her research interests span a number of substantive areas in social demography and epidemiology with a particular focus on whether and if so how, family processes are associated with children and adult outcomes.

Using the British Cohort Studies, her work has examined the association between advanced maternal age and child well-being, with a particular focus on whether and how it varies across different groups of the population and across cohorts.

Dr Alina Pelikh

Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Research Director at CLS

Alina also co-leads the Family theme at CLS.

She is a quantitative social demographer with expertise of handling large datasets, including population registers and longitudinal survey data. Her research interests include a range of topics across family demography, reproductive epidemiology, and social policy.

Dr Vanessa Moulton

Senior Research Fellow at CLS

Vanessa has a PhD in psychology and her work focuses on mental health, cognition and social inequalities throughout the life course.

Her work mainly uses secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets, with a particular focus on the British cohort studies.

She has published on areas including cognitive ability and skills, children’s aspirations, mental health in childhood and across the life course, wealth, social mobility and mental health inequalities.