International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) Legacy

ICLS未来的活动建立在科学和社会影响，能力建设和共同资助的研究的卓越记录之上。在下一阶段，我们将集中精力确保外部可见度，以最大限度地发挥调查结果的影响-过去和未来，对利用资金的机会进行横向扫描，建立能力和领导力，并在国内和国际上扩大影响范围。我们的方法将确保ICLS继续提供一个充满活力的研究环境，灵活和适应新的机会，支持跨学科的社会和生物科学的参与，除了与一系列非学术合作伙伴的参与，在一个包容的环境中，所有的工作人员和学生都可以茁壮成长。ICLS在整个生命周期的健康科学研究方面的杰出记录，以及其关注健康不平等问题具有多方面的政策和实际影响。从生命过程的角度看待健康，意味着我们可以确定在生命的各个阶段采取行动的机会。ICLS先前的工作表明，整个生命过程对健康很重要，干预“永远不会太早，也永远不会太晚”。人们普遍认识到，预防疾病比治疗疾病更具成本效益和道德，改善人们生活的社会和经济环境是最有效的预防形式。在当前社会和卫生不平等日益加深的背景下，更有必要确定改善国民健康的跳板政策。ICLS的研究为长期可持续政策提供了宝贵的见解。过去和正在进行的国际劳工统计学家会议的研究与一系列旨在改善健康和福祉的政策领域有关，包括家庭暴力、护理系统中的儿童、青年心理健康、残疾就业差距、新的工作方式、社会护理改革、种族和性别平等以及日益扩大的经济和地理不平等。为了维持ICLS的外部知名度，我们计划继续我们受欢迎的博客组合-我们时代的孩子（130万次点击）和工作生活（50万次点击），将展示ICLS研究的新发现和建议。我们还将继续定期参与社交媒体平台，并更新ICLS网站的新闻和活动。地平线扫描活动将包括与资助者和学术界以外的合作伙伴定期互动。除了与个别机构举行定期会议外，中心亦会举办研讨会/工作坊形式的会议，分享研究成果和意见，以及共同进行研究，借此维持和建立伙伴关系。中心会透过多个渠道提升能力。所有职业阶段的中心成员都将在每月的小组会议、与合作伙伴的活动和博客上发表演讲。学生和ECR将从学徒模式中获益，从项目开始，包括提案撰写，他们将与学术同事和合作伙伴合作，直到交付研究，最终成为独立的研究人员。我们的核心目标是扩大ICLS的影响力将通过与国家和国际网络合作，通过组织和参与旨在知识交流的活动和研讨会来实现以及利用外部资金，此外还在学会会议上举行特别会议。

ICLS's future activities build on an exceptional track record of scientific and societal impact, capacity building and co-funded research. In the next phase we will concentrate on ensuring external visibility to maximise the impact of findings - past and future, horizon scanning for opportunities to leverage funding, building capacity and leadership, and extending reach nationally and internationally. Our approach will ensure that ICLS continues to provide a vibrant research environment which is flexible and adaptable to new opportunities, that supports interdisciplinary engagement across the social and biological sciences, in addition to engagement with a range of non-academic partners, within an inclusive environment in which all staff and students can thrive.ICLS's outstanding track record in scientific research on health across the lifecourse and its focus on health inequalities has a multitude of policy and practical implications. Taking a lifecourse perspective to health means we can identify opportunities for springboards for action at all life stages. ICLS's prior work demonstrates that the entire lifecourse is important for health, and intervention is 'never too early, and never too late'. It is widely recognised that prevention of illness is more cost-effective and ethical than cure, and that improvements to the social and economic circumstances of people's lives are the most effective form of prevention. In the current context of deepening social and health inequalities there is the added need to identify springboard policies for improving the nation's health. ICLS's research provides valuable insights for long term sustainable policies. Past and ongoing ICLS research is relevant for a range of policy areas aimed at improving health and well-being including family violence, children in the care system, youth mental health, the disability-employment gap, new ways of working, social care reforms, ethnic and gender equality as well as widening economic and geographic inequalities.To sustain ICLS's external visibility we plan to continue our popular portfolio of blogs - Child of our Time (1.3M hits) and WorkLife (0.5M hits), which will showcase new findings and recommendations from ICLS research. We will also continue to engage regularly on social media platforms and update the ICLS website with news and events.Horizon scanning activities will include regular interactions with funders, and with partners outside of academia. Partner relationships will be maintained and built through regular meetings with individual organisations, in addition to seminar/workshop format meetings where findings and ideas will be shared, and research coproduced.Capacity building will be achieved through several channels. Centre members at all career stages will benefit by contributing presentations at monthly group meetings, events with partners, and blogs. Students and ECRs will gain from an apprenticeship model with involvement from project inception including proposal writing where they will collaborate with academic colleagues and partners through to delivery of research, ultimately becoming independent researchers.Our core aim to extend ICLS's reach will be achieved by working with national and international networks through a commitment to organize and participate in events and workshops aimed at knowledge exchange and leveraging external funding, in addition to ad-hoc meetings at learned society meetings.