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UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care @ucliehc.bsky.social · 8h

New research: Early menopause and surgical menopause impact women’s labor market trajectories 💼

This study suggests that hormone therapy within the early years of the final menstruation may help women remain employed.

#menopause @elsa-study.bsky.social

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼

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the forest jar @theforestjar.bsky.social · Jun 23

the race

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · 27d

"Managers may prefer to see people at desks, but for many who take jobs while carefully calculating rents, house prices, commuting costs and childcare complexities, flexibility is not a nice-to-have feature but the difference between taking and leaving a job."
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Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all | Polly Toynbee

The dispute over hybrid working at the Office for National Statistics is becoming a key test of worker power, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 29d

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

Photo of three babies lying on the carpet

Graphic describing some of the key features of the study: 30,000 babies will take part, it is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years, babies will be age 9-11 months at the first survey, and 3-4 years at the second survey.

Graphic showing sample sizes in the four UK countries: 16,300 babies in England, 5,000 babies in Scotland, 4,500 babies in Wales, and 4,200 babies in Northern Ireland.

Graphic describing some of the elements of the study. This includes boosts for ethnic minority and low income families, interviews with fathers as well as mothers, consent to linkage to administrative data.

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · 29d

Conference coffee at #slls2025 with cohort memBEAR from @clscohorts.bsky.social ☕️

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Sep 8

Day one of @sllshome.bsky.social #SLLS2025 - come meet our friendly team, including our mascot 🐻, at our stall opposite the reception desk. Find our list of CLS colleagues taking part here: bit.ly/4lYhdXv

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · Jun 27

Some good news at the end of a long week 😊
Nice to see our work on labour market gender inequality a year into the pandemic among the most cited papers in the SLLS journal 😊 @sllshome.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social @francescafolia1.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/LLCS...

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚩Job vacancy

🏘️ #Postdoctoral #ResearchfFellow to work on #family and #housing projections using #microsimulation as part of @migrantlife.bsky.social and CPC-CG.

Closing date: 8 July 2025

Full info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

@bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Image shows a picture of a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook. Text advertises job opportunity: Post-doctoral Research Fellow* to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. This work is part of two research programmes: a) the MigrantLife project funded by the European Research Council (ERC); and 2) the ESRC Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations (CPC-CG). The Research Fellow will use microsimulation: a) to project partnership and childbearing trajectories of migrants and their descendants in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe); and b) to investigate individuals’ and couples’ housing trajectories in the UK and to project future homeownership rates.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · May 8

If you would like to propose questions or topics for the joint web survey of NCDS and BCS70, head over to our consultation webpage by 16 May 2025 to submit your ideas. bit.ly/3FDRog7

CLS | Scientific consultation: NCDS at 68 and BCS70 at 56

CLS is seeking input on the content of a joint web survey of NCDS at age 68 and BCS70 at age 56. Contribute your ideas by Friday 16 May 2025.

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · May 1

Hi 👋 I only just saw it. Looks like it has neen solved.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Apr 23

📊 REGISTER NOW Help shape the next major sweep of the 1958 and 1970 British cohort studies. Join us in-person or online: bit.ly/42DZ7T1

📆 In-person consultative conference: Thurs 8 May, 10:00-16:00, London

📆 Online consultative workshop: Thurs 1 May, 13:30-16:30

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Apr 2

🍿 Watch now: our free webinar on the age 32 data release from Next Steps, our national cohort study of millennials. Ideal for researchers with an interest in work, mental health, family and relationships:

Next Steps at age 32: explore the new data

In this webinar, explore the new data available from Next Steps, learn why this national cohort study of millennials is such a valuable research resource and...

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Mar 6

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Mar 6

Speaking at our event @chris-smyth.bsky.social says that while the overall scale of economic inactivity is unknown, ill-health is increasing is pushing it up. For the first time, young women are more likely to be economically inactive due to poor health, rather than looking after family.

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Mar 5

Out tomorrow: our @nuffieldfoundation.org report "Inequalities in Access to Professional Occupations" @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot

Why are working class & ethnic minority young people underrepresented in professional jobs? Do they not apply? OR do they apply, but just not get hired?

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

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Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social · Jan 8

New PhD position on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project on political polarization: fully funded + ~20k tax free yearly stipend. Deadline: Feb 14th! Link to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI246/p...

PhD Studentship in Politics and International Relations at University of Reading

Explore the PhD Studentship in Politics and International Relations on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for higher education. Apply now.

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Jan 8

Important findings from the latest wave of the Next Steps study 👇

Data from the Age 32 sweep suggests that women earn 12.5% less per hour than men- with even bigger gaps for mothers than fathers.

Read the report:
cls.ucl.ac.uk/millennial-w...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Dec 20

New Sociology postgraduate degrees launching at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

New Sociology postgraduate degrees launching at UCL | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society

Four new degrees will inspire students to understand the social forces that shape society and explore diverse sociological approaches to social change, cultural norms and the modern world.

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · Jan 8

Nice to see The Times covered our research on Gender Pay Gap among Millennials - highly educated and economically active generation - using Next Steps data www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
If you cannot access this link, more info at cls.ucl.ac.uk/millennial-w... and cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Millennial women earn 9% less than men in same jobs

This gender pay gap was even wider for mothers but fathers earned a similar amount to men without children, the report said

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Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social · Jan 4

‘It didn’t come as a surprise’: UK workers on being forced back into the office www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘It didn’t come as a surprise’: UK workers on being forced back into the office

Some welcome cuts to hybrid working but others feel less productive and are considering change of job or country

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Dec 19

New #NextStepsStudy research on the gender wage gap finds that women in their early 30s are more likely than men to find work stressful, suggesting that they are not accepting lower pay for less pressured and more fulfilling work.

Read more: https://buff.ly/3Boxu7a

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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · Dec 19

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, who are in the same types of jobs & have similar levels of work experience, finds new research by Dr Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

Millennial women paid less than male colleagues in similar jobs

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds a new study from UCL rese...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Dec 19

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds new #NextStepsStudy research.
Read more: https://buff.ly/3Boxu7a

@mebozena.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social

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