Blog from me and my wonderful colleague Dr Charis Bridger Staatz!

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

This work from my PhD is now out in the world! With @dylankneale.bsky.social and Prof Praveetha Patalay, I looked at asthma disparities in UK LGBTQ+ people

Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place! See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!

New comment from Dr Charis Bridger Staatz, @dylankneale.bsky.social and me on measuring and evaluating research impact from longitudinal studies in @sllshome.bsky.social journal doi.org/10.1332/1757...

A new working paper from me!

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

Funded PhD opportunity about LGBTQ+ people & adult social care with an incredible supervisory team at the University of Bristol consisting of Profs @jasonschaub.bsky.social & David Abbott. Applications due 15/05/25 with PhD starting September 2025. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP621/p...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!! Love and solidarity always 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

📢 CLS wants your help to shape the content of the next cohort study surveys 📢 ⏱️Submit your ideas by Friday, 16 May 2025 via the links below: 👉 The joint NCDS and BCS70 web survey - buff.ly/mmTudlI 👉 The web survey of parents and carers of MCS participants - buff.ly/6YLBL5t

My lovely friend is looking for participants for her PhD:

Had the opportunity to write about fun potential ways of working with LGBTQ+ data when the data wasn't necessarily collected for studying queer people and their lives: doi.org/10.1017/S002... (open access)

👀👀👀 Excited to have a read of my very clever colleagues' new book! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Internet was down for a few hours today so cracked into my copy of Jack Halberstam's In a Queer Time & Place 🤌

Preprint of one of my PhD papers is out! We looked at asthma and lung function in LGBTQ+ people in the UK #lgbthealth

A tiny thing but extra frustrating to have a funding application to do more LGBTQ health work rejected in this particular historic moment

Edinburgh is hosting a QUEER DATA SHOWCASE! We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone else who works with – or is interested in – queer data to share their ideas. 📢 The Call for Presenters is now live: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s... #data #AI #tech #LGBTQ #queer #data #Scotland

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds new #NextStepsStudy research. Read more: https://buff.ly/3Boxu7a @mebozena.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social

Sending all my love on yet another difficult day 🏳️‍⚧️

Apparently I give such primary school teacher vibes that a barista just asked me if the wodge of A3 coloured card I was holding was 'for work'

Sharing a PhD opportunity at KCL for a student interested in multiple long-term conditions (or multimorbidity) in minoritized groups (ethnic, sexual, gender minority groups)

One week to go! Join us for our flagship free webinar on how to get started using our #UKCohortStudies in your research. Don't miss out: https://buff.ly/40Ww5yJ

In an attempt to make sure I actually finish it, I'm publicly committing myself to sharing a resource I'm making of UK datasets which include LGBTQ vars

Someone pointed out I hadn't actually posted on here yet so please enjoy a picture of my housemates' cat

📢📢📢 new paper by @evietabor.bsky.social exploring implications of different measurement strategies for sexuality 'Mainly heterosexual, bisexual, or other?': pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39303000/ 🏳️‍🌈 interesting evidence on the sociodemographic characteristics of sexual minorities in UK survey data