60 years of our lives

Call for Papers

Delegates will have the opportunity to:  

• present current work using cohort and longitudinal data,
• hear from a special panel of distinguished researchers whose careers have been influenced by NCDS  (including former directors John Bynner, Jane Elliott and Heather Joshi; and others including Harvey Goldstein, John Goldthorpe and Michael Rutter)

• catch up on the latest developments in longitudinal methods,

• network with longitudinal researchers from across the social and biomedical sciences, and
• find out about the frontiers of science using NCDS from a panel of leading researchers

Submitting your research:

We are inviting researchers to submit an abstract for a single paper, or to propose a session of 3-4 papers, to present at the conference. We welcome submissions of work using NCDS, or any other longitudinal data.

The conference will be structured around the three themes of the NCDS age 60 survey, plus a methods theme, as follows:

• health, well-being and cognition
• finances and employment
• family, relationship and identity
• applied statistical methods

We invite submissions from any disciplinary background that address any of the key questions which birth cohort studies can inform, such as the long-term effects of early life circumstances, and resilience to these; the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage; the drivers of inequalities in health and lifetime developmental trajectories; returns to and determinants of accumulation of human capital, and generational change.  

We are also giving postgraduate students the chance to showcase their research at the conference, through a poster display and competition. Students should follow the submission guidelines to put forward their ideas.

There will be an award ceremony at which a prize for the best poster will be given, and a separate ‘lifetime scientific award’ for the two most influential papers that have used NCDS.  

Submission deadline: 20 November 2017

For more information, including guidance on how to submit your paper abstract or poster idea, please visit the conference page on our website.

For any enquiries, please contact: ioe.ncdsconference@ucl.ac.uk

Please note that all delegates, including those presenting papers, will need to pay a registration fee to attend this event. There will be a discounted registration fee for postgraduate students.