Learning Lives is a major research project which aims to deepen understanding of the meaning and significance of formal and informal learning in the lives of adults, and to identify ways in which the learning of adults can be supported and enhanced. Researchers will conduct a series of life-history interviews with 120 adults over a 30-month period, to gain a detailed understanding of their learning biographies. Coupled with the interviews will be panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The project is particularly interested in the relationships between learning and migration, learning and work and unemployment, learning in the family and the local community, and in the learning biographies of older learners.