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Linking our Lives: England and Wales since 1971: a podcast about research making use of the ONS Longitudinal Study

  1. 06/04/2025

    Researching ethnicity and diversity: championing the ONS Longitudinal Study

    In Episode 5 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the Longitudinal Study is to research questions about social mobility and ethnicity. We’re also finding out more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society. Our Champions for this episode are Lucinda Platt, OBE from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Emma Gorman from the University of Westminster.   The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support. Read a full transcript of this episode Find out more about Lucinda Platt and her research Find out more about Emma Gorman and her research

  2. 05/07/2025

    Researching health and place: Championing the ONS Longitudinal Study

    In Episode 4 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS and Scottish Longitudinal Studies are to research questions about people’s health and the links with where they live. We’re also finding out more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society. Our Champions for this episode are geographers Paul Norman from the University of Leeds and Tom Clemens from the University of Edinburgh.   Full transcript hereThe Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support. Find out more about Paul Norman and his research Find out more about Tom Clemens and his research

  3. 04/02/2025

    Older people’s health and living situation: Championing the ONS Longitudinal Study

    In Episode 3 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS Longitudinal Study is to research questions about the links between an older person’s health and their living situation. We’re also finding out more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society since 1971. Our Champions for this episode are Professor Emily Grundy and Dr Emily Murray from the University of Essex. The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support. Read a full transcript of this episode Find out more about Emily Grundy and her research Find out more about Emily Murray and her research

  4. 03/05/2025

    Researching the health of immigrants: championing the ONS Longitudinal Study

    In Episode 2 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS Longitudinal Study is to research questions about the health of immigrants, and telling you more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society since 1971. Our LS Champions for this episode are Matt Wallace and Joe Harrison, who’ve been using the LS to look at the health of immigrants, including their respective PhD research. Matt is a Reader in Social Inequality at the University of Salford and Joe is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Matt’s interested in the health differences between international migrants, the children of migrants, and non-migrants and how these differences affect wider population health. Joe’s current PhD research aims to increase understanding of the different life courses experienced by the Pakistani community and their descendants in the United Kingdom and Norway. The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support. Read a full transcript of this episode Find out more about Matt Wallace and his research Find out more about Joe Harrison and his research

  5. 02/05/2025

    Researching internal migration: championing the ONS Longitudinal Study

    In Episode 1 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS Longitudinal Study is to research questions of internal migration and telling you more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society since 1971. Our LS Champions for this episode are two eminent Population Geographers, the aptly named Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle and Ian Shuttleworth, Professor at Queen’s University Belfast. Tony and Ian have worked separately and together for more than 30 years using the ONS LS on questions related to internal migration. They’re also planning to use the soon-to-be released 2021 Census data in important new research tracking trends in migration intensity.  The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support. Read a full transcript of this episode Find out more about Tony Champion and his research Find out more about Ian Shuttleworth and his research

  6. 02/02/2024

    Household responses to trade shocks

    In Episode 12 of Linking our Lives we're in conversation with Dr Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique who, together with colleages at the Institute for Fiscal  Studies, has used the ONS-LS to investigate how individuals and their partners in England and Wales have responded to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s.  Household responses to trade shocks is an IFS Working Paper by Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique, Peter Levell and Matthias Parey  Read/Download a full transcript

  7. 07/27/2023

    How equal are the impacts of cycling investments?

    In Episode 11 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Richard Patterson, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Richard has been using the ONS LS to investigate the impacts of funding to support cycling in urban areas and specifically to see whether there are any differences in those impacts. Further information Equity impacts of cycling investment in England: A natural experimental study using longitudinally linked individual-level Census data is research by Richard Patterson, David Ogilvie, Anthony Laverty  and  Jenna Panter and is published in SSM Population Health Read/Download a full transcript

  8. 04/20/2023

    Britain’s cultural and creative industries: open to all or dominated by the privileged few?

    In Episode 10 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Orian Brook, Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Orian has been using the ONS Longitudinal Study to help investigate whether Britain’s cultural and creative industries are as open to all as some say or whether they remain dominated by the privileged few. Further information Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s is open access research by Orian Brook, Andrew Miles, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor and is published in the British Sociological Association Journal  Culture is bad for you, Inequality in the cultural and creative industries is a book by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor and is published by Manchester University Press and the audio book is is on Spotify  Read/Download a full transcript

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Linking our Lives: England and Wales since 1971: a podcast about research making use of the ONS Longitudinal Study

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  • Channel
    UCL
  • Creator
    Centre for Longitudinal Study and User Support (CeLSIUS), UCL
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
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    © Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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