In Episode 5 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the Longitudinal Study is to research questions about social mobility and ethnicity. We’re also finding out more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society. Our Champions for this episode are Lucinda Platt, OBE from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Emma Gorman from the University of Westminster. The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by Ce...
Jun 04, 2025•28 min•Ep. 17
In Episode 4 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS and Scottish Longitudinal Studies are to research questions about people’s health and the links with where they live. We’re also finding out more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society. Our Champions for this episode are geographers Paul Norman from the University of Leeds and Tom Clemens from the University of Edinburgh. Full transcript here The Linking...
May 07, 2025•27 min•Ep. 16
In Episode 3 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS Longitudinal Study is to research questions about the links between an older person’s health and their living situation. We’re also finding out more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society since 1971. Our Champions for this episode are Professor Emily Grundy and Dr Emily Murray from the University of Essex. The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeL...
Apr 02, 2025•21 min•Ep. 15
In Episode 2 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS Longitudinal Study is to research questions about the health of immigrants, and telling you more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society since 1971. Our LS Champions for this episode are Matt Wallace and Joe Harrison, who’ve been using the LS to look at the health of immigrants, including their respective PhD research. Matt is a Reader in Social Inequalit...
Mar 05, 2025•22 min•Ep. 14
In Episode 1 of Series 3, we’re talking about how uniquely placed the ONS Longitudinal Study is to research questions of internal migration and telling you more about this unique data resource and its potential to forward our understanding of the changes to our society since 1971. Our LS Champions for this episode are two eminent Population Geographers, the aptly named Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle and Ian Shuttleworth, Professor at Queen’s University Belfast. ...
Feb 05, 2025•31 min•Ep. 13
In Episode 12 of Linking our Lives we're in conversation with Dr Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique who, together with colleages at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has used the ONS-LS to investigate how individuals and their partners in England and Wales have responded to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. Household responses to trade shocks is an IFS Working Paper by Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique, Peter Levell and Matthias Parey Read/Download a full transcript...
Feb 02, 2024•14 min•Ep. 12
In Episode 11 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Richard Patterson, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge . Richard has been using the ONS LS to investigate the impacts of funding to support cycling in urban areas and specifically to see whether there are any differences in those impacts. Further information Equity impacts of cycling investment in England: A natural experimental study using longitudinally linked individual-level Census data is research by Richard Pa...
Jul 27, 2023•14 min•Ep. 11
In Episode 10 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Orian Brook, Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Orian has been using the ONS Longitudinal Study to help investigate whether Britain’s cultural and creative industries are as open to all as some say or whether they remain dominated by the privileged few. Further information Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s is open access research by Orian Brook, Andrew Miles, Dave O'Brien...
Apr 20, 2023•15 min•Ep. 10
In Episode 9 of Linking our Lives recorded at the UK Census Longitudinal Studies Conference 2022 at Cardiff Castle, we are in conversation with Catherine Bromley the ESRC’s Deputy Director of Data Strategy and Infrastructure to find out what’s needed to create a digital research infrastructure that underpins ambitious and creative research Read/Download a full transcript
Sep 22, 2022•17 min•Ep. 9
In Episode 8 of Linking our Lives we're joined by Drs Emily Murray and Brian Beach from University College London to discuss recently submitted evidence to the UK's 2nd State Pension Age Review using findings from Emily's Health Foundation funded research project on the Health of Older People in Places . Here they talk about the research, explain why the way we measure health matters and discuss the implications for policy makers and pensioners. Read/Download a full transcript...
Jul 26, 2022•23 min•Ep. 8
In Episode 7 of Linking our Lives, we're talking to Professor Patrick Sturgis from the London School of Economics and Professor Franz Buscha from the University of Westminster. Together they have been researaching social mobility for some 15 years to try to get to grips with what we really know. In this episode they discuss how and why they have used the ONS Longitudinal Study in that work, what they have learned and what policymakers seeking to tackle inequality need to consider. Some further r...
Mar 23, 2022•26 min•Ep. 7
In Episode 6 of Linking our Lives, we're talking to Dafni Papoutsaki from the University of Brighton about research using the ONS Longitudinal Study and other secondarty data to look at who moves avay from where they grow up to try to improve their prospects and the implications of that. Further reading Moving out to move on, migration, disadvantage and social mobility Social Mobility Commission, July 2020 Read/Download a full transcript...
Feb 03, 2022•21 min•Ep. 6
In Episode 5 of Series 1 of the Linking our Lives podcast, David Green, Professor of Historical Geography at Kings College London, Nicola Shelton, Professor of Population Health at University College London and social history enthusiast and volunteer Becky Darnill discuss the research project Addressing Health: Morbidity, Mortality and Occupational Health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office - a fantastic collaboration exploring the timing and geography of ill health, and the responses of ...
Dec 16, 2021•27 min•Ep. 5
In Episode 4 of the Linking our Lives Podcast, Professor Amanda Sacker from UCL is in conversation with the UK National Statistician Sir Ian Diamond about her high profile research using the ONS Longitudinal Study and funded by the Nuffield Foundation to look at the outcomes of care experienced people. Read/Download a full transcript...
Sep 27, 2021•18 min•Ep. 4
In Episode 3 of Series 1 of Linking our Lives, Aly Sizer from the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) at UCL talks about her research on The Up-Series generation in the ONS Longitudinal Study . She explains the inspiration behind her research using the ONS Longitudinal Study to see if the children selected for the well-known and popular Up series of television documentaries were representative of the wider population and reveals what she found and what it tells u...
Jul 20, 2021•19 min•Ep. 3
In Episode 2 of Series 1 of Linking our Lives: England and Wales since 1971, we are marking 50 years of the ONS Longitudinal Study by asking how it has become such a gold mine of information about how our society has changedover time. We are in conversation with Rich Pereira, Director of Ageing and Demography at the Office for National Statistics who explains why, when it comes to data sources, the LS is regarded as ONS' jewel in the crown. Further resources Find out more about the ONS Longitudi...
Jun 18, 2021•13 min•Ep. 2
In the first episode of the Linking our Lives podcast, Nicola Shelton and Oliver Duke-Williams discuss the way in which the Government went about identifying places to support through its Stronger Towns Fund launched in 2019. Further reading: CeLSIUS Policy brief: Stronger Towns Read/Download a full transcript...
Mar 09, 2021•11 min•Ep. 1
