🚨 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. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

the race

"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." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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 ☕️

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...

🚩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

📊 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

🍿 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... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

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 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

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 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

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, who are in the same types of jobs & have similar levels of work experience, finds new research by Dr Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

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

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 1️⃣7️⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: Parental role models matter for the child penalty! Classroom exposure to peers with working mothers reduces child-related employment penalties, while exposure to working fathers tends to amplify them. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...