Lucinda Platt is y Professor of Sociology the Institute of Education and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study, a study of over 19,000 children born in 2000/2001 who are followed over time. Her research focuses on questions of ethnic minority social mobility, pay, poverty and disadvantage, and ethnic identity, as well as on child poverty and disability.  She has published widely in these areas in journal articles, reports and books. She is involved in a number of largescale studies with a specific focus on migrant and minority experience: she leads the ethnicity strand of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study; she is a co-investigator on a cross-national study of new immigrants, leading the UK element of the research; and she is a co-investigator on a major study of Turkish migrant families across generations.