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Pensions and economic status among the 1958 birth cohort prior to reaching State Pension age

New research report for the Department for Work and Pensions 👇🏻

How are the baby boomers faring as they reach State Pension age? | CLS One in six (16%) baby boomers are approaching their late 60s without a private pension and low household savings.

📢New research shows that not all baby boomers are headed for a comfortable retirement, with one in six people (16%) approaching their late 60s without a private pension and low household savings.

Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4rQ9puQ

Sobering new figures on financial precarity in midlife Britain from our high-quality cohort data.

One in four report financial difficulties in midlife | CLS A CLS briefing paper shows that more than a quarter of British adults in their early 50s are ‘just getting by’ or ‘finding it quite’ or ‘very difficult’ financially.

More than a quarter of British adults in their early 50s are ‘just getting by’ or ‘finding it quite’ or ‘very difficult’ financially, while two-thirds worry about how much money they will have to live on in retirement. Read more - bit.ly/3N2ISLA

Call for papers details and illustration of mother and daughter in the park

📢 The CLS conference 2026, 22 – 23 September, London, call for papers runs until Wednesday 8 April. ⏰ Submissions must use data from at least one CLS cohort study, such as the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which has just had a new age 23 data deposit. Submit your paper: bit.ly/45SP3rO

CLS conference 2026 announcement with image of grandpa and primary age grandson.

📣 Announcing the CLS Conference 2026, celebrating 80 years of the UK’s cohort studies. Our call for papers is now open. All researchers using CLS cohort data are invited to submit and join us this September in London. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 8 April. More details: bit.ly/45SP3rO

The poor hearing makes a lot of sense 🙄

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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🚨 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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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

"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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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.

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

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

Teddy bear on a conference stall

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

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...

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.

🚩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

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

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📊 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

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...

🍿 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:

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.

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?

🚨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...
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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.

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...

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...

@clscohorts.bsky.social

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.

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

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

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...

‘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

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

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