Does when you are born matter?

This seminar will explore differences in a range of key skills and behaviours - including socio-emotional development, post-compulsory education aspirations and choices, engagement in risky behaviours and wider measures of wellbeing, such as experience of bullying - between children born in different months, particularly those born at the start and end of the academic year.

This event is taking place as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011. The work presented forms part of a wider project, The impact of month of birth on the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills throughout childhood, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Following the presentation of the findings, you will have the chance to respond in a discussion chaired by world-renowned child psychology expert, Professor Terrie Moffitt. Responses will also be presented by Professor Barbara Maughan, Professor of Developmental Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and Sir Jim Rose, author of the Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum, and former HMI and Director of Inspection for Ofsted.

Places are free of charge and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.