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Category: Young People

To understand why young people become NEET, we need to look back to childhood

  • 8 October 2026

Dr Nicholas Kofi Adjel discusses new research using the Millennium Cohort Study looking at how persistent childhood poverty and family adversity relate to NEET status at age 17.

Next Steps: Using linked UK longitudinal cohort data to examine unmet mental health needs

  • 23 July 2026

Corine Driessens discusses the ‘missing middle’, young people experiencing mental health problems but not accessing services. 

What can a national crime survey tell us about which children are most at risk?

  • 21 July 2026

Dr Ferhat Tura draws on the Crime Survey for England and Wales to look at which children are most likely to be victims of crime and how we keep children safe.

Opportunities for social mobility for young people in rural and coastal areas of England

  • 1 July 2026

Dr Chris Playford uses Next Steps data to explore how growing up in rural and coastal areas of England shapes young people’s opportunities.

How can we bridge the gap between lived experience and scientific practice in autism research?

  • 4 June 2026

Reesha Zahir discusses the role of co-produced research questions in the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Autistic Young People study.

Using Millennium Cohort Study data to explore who benefits from greenspace

  • 21 April 2026

Georgia Cronshaw shares her research on neighbourhood green space deprivation and how its associations with children’s developmental outcomes may differ by ethnicity.

From data to decisions: understanding the evidence behind the two-child limit

  • 7 April 2026

Eve Little explores how data and research have informed understanding of child poverty and contributed to recent policy change, including the removal of the two-child limit.

Reducing low literacy in the UK: what learners’ personal and socioeconomic factors tell us

  • 24 March 2026

Katherine Collier discusses how the Millennium Cohort Study is helping her explore the relationship between personal, social and economic factors and literacy in UK primary school pupils.

Tracking young people’s recovery and resilience post-pandemic: COSMO Wave 2

  • 13 January 2026

Professor Jake Anders is Principal Investigator of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study. In this post, he shares insights from the study’s second wave of data collection.

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