We are about to apply for an ESRC Research Centre Grant, which will fund a cross-institutional (international) research centre for three years, with Coventry University acting as a 'hub' for collaborative working across the other centre sites. We would like to include ALSPAC as one of the national sites in this networked research centre, and cost into the project the price of one data analyst, to be employed by and based at ALSPAC for the three years that the Centre is funded (if the application is successful). This would enable us to identify research questions and specific hypotheses as a team and then ask the ALSPAC statistian to create and clean the data file and conduct the analysis agreed by the research team, with the statistian's input into this process too. This individual would be named as a coauthor on all outputs which draw on his/her work (i.e. all the activity associated with this specific work package within the centre). Broadly, we are interested in modelling the developmental relationships between key variables of interest, with a view to understanding some of the wider factors which appear to impact on children's school attainment, and their basic skills (reading, writing and mathematical abilities) in particular.