Researching ethnicity and diversity: championing the ONS Longitudinal Study
Lucinda Platt and Emma Gorman explore the Longitudinal Study's unique position to investigate social mobility and ethnicity, enhancing understanding of societal changes in this interview episode.
7 May 2025
Researching health and place: Championing the ONS Longitudinal Study
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 (https://researchpodcasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Linking-Our-Lives-S3-E4-Transcript.pdf)
The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/research/epidemiology-and-public-health/research/health-and-social-surveys-research-group/studies-10), the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support.
Find out more about Paul Norman and his research (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenvironment.leeds.ac.uk%2Fgeography%2Fstaff%2F1083%2Fdr-paul-norman&data=05%7C02%7Ccaitlin.mullin.16%40ucl.ac.uk%7C341ff29795dd48fcd03c08dd7b81e380%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638802520095810669%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FsusTuy%2F7q3OXueIkelRFWyCMgHYMNcXdVoy%2Bwz1LlM%3D&reserved=0)
Find out more about Tom Clemens and his research (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.research.ed.ac.uk%2Fen%2Fpersons%2Ftom-clemens&data=05%7C02%7Ccaitlin.mullin.16%40ucl.ac.uk%7C341ff29795dd48fcd03c08dd7b81e380%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638802520095826036%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4LCogPXl2wfD2c3wDFe2W4WpP8VHxr4l%2FPX3OnbMNCc%3D&reserved=0)
2 Apr 2025
Older people’s health and living situation: Championing the ONS Longitudinal Study
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 CeLSIUS (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/research/epidemiology-and-public-health/research/health-and-social-surveys-research-group/studies-10), the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support.
Read a full transcript of this episode (%20https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearchpodcasts.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F12%2FLoL-Champions-S3-E2-Transcript-pdf.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ccaitlin.mullin.16%40ucl.ac.uk%7C6745ce6e4b044ee4038a08dd67c0d2b2%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638780800342341621%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fb4cC8yOc%2BE15lULp%2Bt7nUos3BIa6REwQBlOOtH0GSQ%3D&reserved=0)
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Find out more about Emily Murray and her research (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.essex.ac.uk%2Fpeople%2FMURRA22816%2FEmily-Murray&data=05%7C02%7Ccaitlin.mullin.16%40ucl.ac.uk%7C6b78c10d81bd4dc9f14c08dd617ed0d8%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638773919641952850%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8lsldR%2FGSshskv6VOlx%2F3hWpmv5YAsiwGKCUzJ%2BMdkY%3D&reserved=0)
5 Mar 2025
Researching the health of immigrants: championing the ONS Longitudinal Study
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 Inequality at the University of Salford and Joe is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
Matt’s interested in the health differences between international migrants, the children of migrants, and non-migrants and how these differences affect wider population health. Joe’s current PhD research aims to increase understanding of the different life courses experienced by the Pakistani community and their descendants in the United Kingdom and Norway.
The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/research/epidemiology-and-public-health/research/health-and-social-surveys-research-group/studies-10), the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support.
Read a full transcript of this episode (https://researchpodcasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/LoL-S3-E1-LS-Champions.pdf)
Find out more about Matt Wallace and his research (https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/matt-wallace)
Find out more about Joe Harrison and his research (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-sustainable-development/people/jh383/)
5 Feb 2025
Researching internal migration: championing the ONS Longitudinal Study
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.
Tony and Ian have worked separately and together for more than 30 years using the ONS LS on questions related to internal migration. They’re also planning to use the soon-to-be released 2021 Census data in important new research tracking trends in migration intensity.
The Linking our Lives Podcast is produced by CeLSIUS, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support.
Read a full transcript of this episode (https://researchpodcasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/LoL-S3-E1-LS-Champions.pdf)
Find out more about Tony Champion and his research (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/tonychampion.html)
Find out more about Ian Shuttleworth and his research (https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/ian-shuttleworth)
2 Feb 2024
Household responses to trade shocks
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...
27 Jul 2023
How equal are the impacts of cycling investments?
In Episode 11 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Richard Patterson, from the . 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...
20 Apr 2023
Britain’s cultural and creative industries: open to all or dominated by the privileged few?
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...
22 Sept 2022
Creative and ambitious research: what digital data infrastructure do we need for that?
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...
26 Jul 2022
Measuring health: does it matter how we do it?
In Episode 8 of Linking our Lives we're joined by Drs Emily Murray and Brian Beach from University College London to discuss using findings from Emily's Health Foundation funded research project on the . Here they talk about the research, explain why...
23 Mar 2022
Social mobility - what do we really know?
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...
3 Feb 2022
Moving out to move on: migration, disadvantage and social mobility
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...
16 Dec 2021
Addressing health: lessons from the past about ill health in the workplace
David Green, Nicola Shelton and Becky Darnill
27 Sept 2021
Why data is key to reducing inequalities for the care experienced
Professor Amanda Sacker and Sir Ian Diamond discuss the role of data in understanding the persistent inequalities experienced by people who spend a childhood in care.
20 Jul 2021
Documenting lives: using the ONS LS to test the representativeness of TV's Up series
Aly Sizer discusses her research using the LSN to see if the children selected for the tv documentary Up series is representative of the wider population.
18 Jun 2021
A gold mine of information: 50 years of the ONS LS
Rich Pereira, Director of Ageing and Demography at the Office for National Statistics talks about the ONS Longitudinal Study and why it's a great resource for researchers and policymakers
9 Mar 2021
Stronger Towns: have the funds been allocated fairly?
Nicola Shelton and Oliver Duke-Williams discuss the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government identified and funded towns through its Stronger Towns Fund.
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