International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health: Transition Funding

在过去十年中，ESRC国际社会和健康生命过程研究中心（ICLS）一直致力于统一社会科学和生物科学的方法。ICLS的工作需要多学科的方法-我们的团队包括流行病学，社会学，生物学，统计学，心理学，临床科学和人口学方面的专业知识的研究人员。我们的工作着眼于人们生活的社会环境如何在生命过程的各个阶段转化为健康状况不佳和不利的社会后果-“生活如何进入皮肤”。国际劳工统计学家委员会的工作旨在提高人们对从童年到健康和富有成效的工作生活以及晚年保持健康和福祉的垫脚石的理解，在过渡阶段，该中心的核心目标是：-在4个领域提供我们的科学方案：儿童和青少年健康和福祉;工作和退休;社会-生物界面;和转化研究-最大限度地发挥中心研究方案的影响-建立纵向数据定量分析和交流研究结果的能力重点是最大限度地发挥我们过去和未来研究的影响，并培养ICLS研究人员的影响准备。国际劳工统计学家会议有三个关键的战略优先事项：-建立分析定量纵向数据集的能力;-在社会科学和生物科学之间架起桥梁;-扩大我们的国际影响力。然而，仍然缺乏具备分析这些复杂数据所需技能的科学家。国际劳工统计学家会议的一个优先事项仍然是建设这一领域的能力。我们知道，人们生活的环境会影响皮肤，但我们对这种情况是如何发生的知之甚少--社会环境是如何进入细胞和分子，导致疾病和早逝的？我们的方法有助于发展的想法，如何最好地结合联合收割机收集的信息在纵向研究中，社会环境，心理特征和生物概况的方式，从社会和生物学的角度来看，在理论上是合理的。在过渡阶段提出的科学计划建立在以前的ICLS工作的基础上，围绕四个研究流组织。儿童和青少年的健康和福利-这里的重点是从出生到青春期获得良好健康和教育成就的途径-工作和退休-审查了男女在有偿和无偿工作方面的角色变化对健康的影响，以及从事“低质量”工作的健康后果--社会-生物界面--为关于使用生物数据解决社会科学感兴趣的问题的效用的辩论提供信息，例如使用遗传信息是否增加了我们对因果关系的理解？国际劳工统计学家会议研究的转化要素-探讨如何将国际劳工统计学家会议的工作纳入干预措施和试验。国际劳工统计学家会议的影响活动将建立在迄今为止所开展的成功工作的基础上，并将其扩大，这些工作的重点是：一）确定潜在的受益者;二）利用一系列在线和离线平台分享我们的研究计划和研究结果;和iii）与团体和个人建立关系和合作，以最大限度地发挥我们工作的潜力，产生影响。在过渡阶段，我们预计早期、当前和新的工作将对政策和实践产生更直接的影响。我们希望我们关于高质量工作的政策证据能够产生经济和社会影响，创造更健康，更有弹性的劳动力，减少社会不平等。

For the last decade the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) has worked to unite approaches from the social and biological sciences. ICLS's work necessitates a multidisciplinary approach- our team includes researchers with expertise in epidemiology, sociology, biology, statistics, psychology, clinical sciences and demography. Our work looks at how the social circumstances in which people live translate into poor health and unfavourable social outcomes across all stages of the lifecourse - 'how life gets under the skin'. ICLS's work aims to improve understanding about the stepping stones from childhood towards a healthy and productive working life and the maintenance of health and wellbeing in the later years.During the transition phase the core aims of the Centre are: - to deliver our scientific programme in 4 areas: child and adolescent health and wellbeing; work and retirement; the social-biological interface; and translational research- to maximise the impact of the Centre's programme of research- to build capacity in the quantitative analysis of longitudinal data, and in the communication of findingsEmphasis is given to maximising the impact of our research, past and future, and to fostering impact readiness amongst ICLS researchers. ICLS has three key strategic priorities;- to build capacity in the analysis of quantitative longitudinal datasets;- to bridge the social and biological sciences;- to extend our international reach.The UK is renowned for its wealth of studies that collect information on large numbers of people from birth and throughout their lives. However, there continues to be a shortage of scientists with the requisite skills to analyse these complex data. A priority for ICLS continues to be building capacity in this area. We know that the contexts in which people live gets under the skin, but little is known about how this happens - how do social circumstances get into the cells and molecules to cause disease and early death? Our approach helps to develop ideas on how best to combine information collected in longitudinal studies, on social circumstances, psychological characteristics and biological profiles in ways that are theoretically plausible from both social and biological perspectives. The scientific programme proposed during the transition phase builds on previous ICLS work and is organized around four streams of research.- Child and adolescent health and wellbeing - here the focus is on the pathways to good health and educational achievements from birth through to adolescence- Work and retirement - where the health consequences of changing roles of men and women in relation to paid and unpaid work are examined, as are the health consequences of working in 'poor quality' jobs - The social-biological interface - informing the debate on the utility of using biodata to address questions of interest to the social sciences e.g. does using genetic information add to our understanding of causal relationships?- Translational elements of ICLS's research - exploring how ICLS's work could be incorporated into interventions and trials.ICLS's impact activities will build on and extend the successful work undertaken to date which has focused on: i) identifying potential beneficiaries; ii) sharing our research plans and our findings using a range of on and offline platforms; and iii) building relationships and working with groups and individuals to maximise the potential of our work to have impact. In the transition phase, we expect earlier, current and new work to impact even more directly on policy and practice. We expect our policy evidence on good quality jobs to have both economic and societal impact, creating a healthier and more resilient workforce and reducing social inequalities.