Corine Driessens discusses identifying the characteristics of the ‘missing middle’, young people experiencing mental health problems but not accessing services, using the Next Steps cohort.
Category: Young People
Dr Ferhat Tura, from Bournemouth University, draws on the Crime Survey for England and Wales to look at which children are most likely to be victims of crime, and why disabled children in particular need more attention in how we keep children safe.
Dr Chris Playford, from the University of Exeter, uses Next Steps data to explore how growing up in rural and coastal areas of England shapes young people’s chances of entering managerial and professional occupations at age 25, and the role that moving region plays in those outcomes.
In the first of two blog posts by researchers from University College London, Reesha Zahir discusses the integral role of co-produced research questions in the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Autistic Young People (M-WAY) study.
Georgia Cronshaw, a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology at University College London, shares her research on neighbourhood greenspace deprivation and how its associations with children’s developmental outcomes may differ by ethnicity.
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.
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.
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.
Michaela Pawley, a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, reflects on the emotional challenges of working with sensitive secondary data and shares practical steps for researcher wellbeing.