The study is a cross-organisational collaboration led by the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), the Sutton Trust and the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
The team combines world-leading expertise in education, social mobility and the design, management and analysis of longitudinal cohort studies.
CEPEO and CLS lead on the design, management and delivery of the study.
Kantar Public are conducting the fieldwork, along with NatCen Social Research (Wave 1 only).
The Sutton Trust is leveraging its extensive experience in research communications and policy influence to lead on maximising the impact of the findings.
COSMO is led by a team of experts from across education and social mobility research.
Principal investigator
Dr Jake Anders
UCL CEPEO
Co-investigator
Prof Lisa Calderwood
UCL CLS
Co-investigator
Dr Claire Crawford
UCL CEPEO
Co-investigator
Carl Cullinane
Sutton Trust
Co-investigator
Prof Alissa Goodman
UCL CLS
Co-investigator
Prof Lindsey Macmillan
UCL CEPEO
Co-investigator
Prof Praveetha Patalay
UCL CLS
Co-investigator
Prof Gill Wyness
UCL CEPEO
UCL team
Dr Tugba Adali
UCL CLS
UCL team
Dr Xin Shao
UCL CEPEO
Research team
Erica Holt-White
Sutton Trust
Research team
Kevin Latham
Sutton Trust
Research team
Dr Rebecca Montacute
Sutton Trust
Research team
James Yarde
Sutton Trust
