About the event

We will also highlight some examples of mental health research using these resources, illustrating different research designs and methods which will help you to shape your own research questions. We will showcase the value of taking a life course approach and mapping trajectories as well as comparing differences across cohorts, which raises the complex issue of measure harmonisation.

This online webinar is free to attend and will be live and attendees will have the opportunity to put questions to our panel of experts.

Studies included:

1958 National Child Development Study
1970 British Cohort Study
1989-90 Next Steps, a cohort of young people
2000-2 Millennium Cohort Study

Webinar aims

Outline mental health measures and data available in the CLS cohorts
Walk through the process for accessing mental health data in the CLS cohorts
Illustrate some of the seminal work in mental health using the CLS cohorts
Highlight the types of mental health research that can be done using longitudinal cohorts

Webinar presenters

Praveetha Patalay, Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing, CLS and MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing
Vanessa Moulton, Senior Research Fellow, CLS
Morag Henderson, Associate Professor in Sociology, CLS

Presenter bios

Praveetha Patalay is Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing at University College London and leads the mental health theme at CLS. Her research interests include the measurement of mental health, development, risk and protective factors of mental health through the life course and drivers of health inequalities, with an interest in examining these across different contexts including across cohorts.

Vanessa Moulton 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.

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