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Delighted to see research from our department cited in the "Milburn Review" on young people and employment! Well done to all involved.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
New findings from the Millennium Cohort Study suggest that by age 23, 1 in 5 young people report have a chronic mental health condition. Women, sexual minorities and young people who grew up in poverty have notably worse mental health than their peers. Read more here:
Tomorrow! Please join us!
TALK! TODAY!
@dominicpkelly.bsky.social will be presenting his work on the latest wave of the Millennium Cohort Study when the cohort members are in young adulthood.
The talk is part of the IOE’s Early Career Network Seminar series. Everyone is welcome- it’s at 1pm, in room 790 at the IOE!
While I was away last week, this finally arrived…
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1/7 🚨 New paper out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social !
I study how the unequal distribution of financial resources across universities in Brazil and Chile overlaps with the unequal distribution of students from different SES background.
doi.org/10.1177/2378...
New research, drawing on data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, finds people who reported long-term physical and mental health difficulties at age 42 were less likely to be employed at age 51. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/3Ruk2WY @georgeploubidis.bsky.social
The Research Handbook on Drugs and Society, edited by @tobyseddon.bsky.social, is out now! A global collection of leading scholars exploring drugs & society. 📚 #DrugPolicy #DrugResearch
➡️ Read Sample Chapter: lnkd.in/eNUeefeQ
➡️ More Info: lnkd.in/eykS5crw
➡️ Listen to Podcast: lnkd.in/eTG4QTPW
New podcast episode, to mark the publication of my Research Handbook on Drugs & Society! tobyseddon.com/2026/05/29/1...
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The young people and work report is an independent review of the increase in the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
Wealthy universities enjoy advantages in accessing resources, disproportionately benefiting high-income students who are overrepresented in these institutions. ...
This episode marks the publication of the new Research Handbook on Drugs & Society, edited by me and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. You can find out more information about the Handbook h…
Mental health difficulties among young adults in England have doubled in past decade, finds a new
@ucl.ac.uk study by CLS researchers
@dominicpkelly.bsky.social & @emlafitzsimons.bsky.social
Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4v4QZrx
Why has “media bias” become a powerful political idea?
This week’s seminar looks at the history of “liberal media bias” in the US. What changes when we see journalism as part of politics and not separate from it?
28 May, 12–1pm, Gordon Sq
tinyurl.com/m2t74hkp
@sriucl.bsky.social
@ioe.bsky.social
More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier.
A new Economics of Education Research Centre (EERC) — run by CEPEO, @cep-lse.bsky.social and @theifs.bsky.social — has been awarded a ~£3m DfE contract to build the evidence base on economic and social returns to education and skills, from early years to post-16.
www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...
A.J. Bauer will track the rightward shift of structural media criticism in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
A contract worth almost £3 million has been awarded by the Department for Education (DfE) to UCL Consultants Ltd, to establish a research centre for education economics.
