The Young Lives project on methodological learning in low and middle income countries will produce a wide range of events, activities and outputs aimed at both generating and sharing knowledge about longitudinal research. Please see our latest news below to stay up to date with the project's developments.
2021 Conference – bringing the longitudinal community together to learn from a unique year
This week we have an exciting four day conference. From Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th of May 2021, Young Lives, CLOSER and Lancaster University Management School are co-hosting a conference on ‘Learning from longitudinal studies in low- and middle-income countries: before, during and after Covid-19’.
Over 100 researchers from around the world will be joining us to hear from over 20 speakers, each with a different perspective on longitudinal research, in this four day event. It’s a fantastic opportunity for those who work with lower-and-middle-income countries to share the lessons they’ve learned from the unprecedented challenge of Covid-19.
Attendees will get the chance to learn from some of the key voices in international longitudinal research, addressing questions such as:
- What is the role of longitudinal research in addressing Covid-19 and its aftermath?
- How can longitudinal data be linked to other data sources or combined with multiple methods to enhance their value?
- What have we learned in terms of the practical and ethical lessons for sustaining research cohorts over many years, and how has Covid-19 required us to adapt?
The four daily seminars are:
COVID-19 and longitudinal research: opportunities and challenges
Tuesday 11 May, 2pm-3.30pm BST
Speakers from the World Bank, the Economic Policy Research Centre, Young Lives, and Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence will dive into key issues on how we’ve responded to the pandemic.
How has COVID-19 changed the way we conduct research? What logistical and ethical challenges do we need to face? And how is longitudinal research going to help us respond to the crisis?
Innovation in longitudinal research
Wednesday 12 May, 2pm-3.30pm BST
This session will look at how longitudinal research can make better use of data to understand people’s behaviours. Speakers from GRADE, University of Minnesota, the Inter-American Development Bank and the French Development Agency will delve into how the risks and gains of linking new data sources into your research.
Doing and Adapting Longitudinal Research: What have we learned?
Thursday 13 May, 2pm-3.30pm BST
What does the future hold for longitudinal research? How can we be more ethical, more practical and improve our methods? Speakers from CLOSER, Young Lives, John Hopkins University, Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence and GRADE will reflect on their experiences and then look to the future.
Special session: Longitudinal evidence on skills inequality in Peru
Friday 14 May, 2pm-4pm BST / 10am-12pm PST (note 2-hour session)
This special Spanish-language showcase will focus on the ESRC-funded project: Inequality in skills in Peru. Speakers from this project will give a valuable insight into how their work has impacted on policy.
(While this session will be conducted in Spanish, a captioned recording will be available in the weeks following the conference.)
Full information, including a list of each speaker can be found here. And if you’re reading this before 14 May 2021, you may still have time to register on Eventbrite.
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