Cross-Cohort Research programme: employment, health and wellbeing

要求为纵向研究中心(CLS)领导的一个为期三年的研究计划提供资金，该计划将寻求提高我们对英国经济和健康不平等的代际传递的理解。该计划将使用CLS管理的四项队列研究的丰富数据，这些研究构成了英国世界著名的纵向研究组合的核心部分：1958年国家儿童发展研究(NCDS)、1970年英国队列研究(BCS70)、千年队列研究(MCS)和Next Steps(前身为英格兰年轻人纵向研究)。在汇集负责这些研究的顶尖学者的过程中，下文介绍的研究计划将利用CLS在设计纵向调查方面的独特经验、对每个数据集的深入了解以及中心对英国公共政策问题的洞察力。该方案还将有来自其他国家的专家外部合作者和访问学者参与，旨在加强CLS作为ESRC资源中心的工作。它将加深我们对两个最重要的主题的理解：1)整个生命过程中的健康生活方式，2)社会流动的过程和后果。该方案将侧重于跨群体比较、与政策相关的主题、前沿经验方法和跨学科合作。每个主题将包括一套相互关联的研究项目。“健康生活方式”将包括：对身体活动的代际影响；父母的工作和几代人之间肥胖率的上升；儿童心理健康轨迹和一生的后果；整个生命过程中的饮酒及其与健康和福祉的联系。“社会流动”部分将涵盖：父母童年时的财富及其与儿童发展的关系；社会流动的机制和后果；儿童和年轻人的教育和职业抱负的影响和结果。该计划将利用MCS和LSYPE计划于2015年收集的新数据。这将最大化以前ESRC投资的回报，并确保调查结果对政策制定者和实践者的相关性和及时性。这些分析还将受益于从1958年和1970年出生的队列成员收集的全面数据，从童年到成年。再加上可获得的关于队列成员父母的详细数据，这些研究处于独特的位置，可以新地揭示优势和劣势的代际传递。我们有一个经过仔细考虑的策略，以确保来自研究计划的证据被广泛的用户充分利用。将举办研讨会和会议，分享分析结果。将扩大建立良好的CLS网站(每月约有25 000名独立用户)，以展示该方案的产出，包括出版物、专题介绍和案例研究。事实证明，媒体对队列研究的报道是接触到许多目标受众的有效方式，包括政策制定者、从业者、第三部门组织和普通公众。CLS将就该计划的新出版物和发现发布新闻稿，并将进一步扩大其对社交媒体的使用，以促进这项研究。CLS认识到确保队列研究具有最大的工具性、概念性和能力建设影响的重要性。因此，拟议方案侧重于对促进社会各阶层的健康和福祉至关重要的问题。研究结果将与从业者和政策制定者讨论，从而推动公共政策辩论。我们还将监测、记录和宣传这项研究的影响，以告知研究人员和资助者，并向队列成员展示他们参与的研究对社会做出了重要贡献。

Funding is requested for a three-year research programme led by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) that will seek to improve our understanding of the intergenerational transmission of economic and health inequalities in the UK. The programme will use rich data from the four CLS-managed cohort studies that form a core part of the UK's portfolio of world-renowned longitudinal studies: the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and Next Steps (formerly the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England). In bringing together the leading academics responsible for these studies, the programme of research described below will exploit CLS's unique experience in designing longitudinal surveys, its in-depth knowledge of each of the data sets, and the Centre's insight into UK public policy issues. The programme, which will also involve expert external collaborators and visiting scholars from other countries, is designed to enhance the work of CLS as an ESRC resource centre. It will deepen our understanding of two overarching themes 1) Healthy lifestyles across the life course, and 2) Processes and consequences of social mobility. The programme will focus on cross-cohort comparisons, policy-relevant topics, cutting-edge empirical methodologies, and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Each theme will comprise a set of inter-related research projects. The 'Healthy Lifestyles' strand will cover: intergenerational influences on physical activity; parental work and the rising prevalence of obesity across generations; childhood mental health trajectories and lifetime consequences; alcohol use across the life course and its links with health and wellbeing. The 'Social Mobility' strand will cover: parents' wealth in childhood and its relationship with children's development; the mechanisms and consequences of social mobility; the influences on and outcomes of educational and occupational aspirations of children and young people.The programme will capitalise on the new data collections of the MCS and LSYPE, planned for 2015. This will maximise the return from prior ESRC investments, and ensure the relevance and timeliness of findings for policymakers and practitioners. The analyses will also benefit from the comprehensive data collected from cohort members born in 1958 and 1970 through childhood and into adult life. Coupled with the detailed data available on cohort members' parents, these studies are uniquely placed to shed new light on intergenerational transmission of advantages and disadvantages.We have a carefully considered strategy for making sure that evidence from the research programme is fully exploited by a wide range of users. Seminars and conferences will be organised to share the results of analyses. The well-established CLS website (with approximately 25,000 unique users per month) will be augmented to showcase the programme's outputs, including publications, presentations and case studies. Media coverage of the cohort studies has proven to be an effective way of reaching many target audiences, including policymakers, practitioners, third sector organisations, and the general public. CLS will issue press releases on new publications and findings from the programme, and will further extend its use of social media to promote this research. CLS recognises the importance of ensuring that the cohort studies have maximum instrumental, conceptual and capacity-building impact. The proposed programme therefore focuses on issues that are central to promoting health and wellbeing across all sections of society. Research findings will be discussed with practitioners and policymakers, thus feeding through to public policy debate. We will also monitor, record and publicise the impact of the research to inform researchers and funders, and demonstrate to cohort members that the studies they are involved in are making a vital contribution to society.