About the event
This webinar highlights the value of using lifecourse data to support physical health research using relevant measures available in four British cohort studies:
- 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS)
- 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
- Next Steps
- Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
Why attend?
Learn about the types of physical health information collected, and examples of what we’ve already learned about physical health from the cohorts to help shape your own research questions.
The session will include:
- an outline of physical health data and measures available in the CLS cohorts, including objective and self-reported anthropometrics, biomarkers, health behaviours and linked administrative data
- an explanation of the process for accessing the data and resources
- a showcase of research using physical health measures in the cohorts
- an overview of research opportunities that the data can offer
- a Q&A with our expert panel.
Who should attend?
This webinar will be beneficial for students, academics, third sector and policy individuals from across disciplines, and all career stages, who are interested in using physical health measures from the cohorts in their research. No prior experience of the data is required.
It will also be of interest to those wishing to conduct cross-cohort analyses.
Who is presenting?
George Ploubidis
Professor of Population Health and Statistics, and Director of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study
Charis Bridger Staatz
Senior Research Fellow
Vanessa Moulton
Senior Research Fellow
Matt Brown
Senior Survey Manager
Draft timings
Which studies are covered?
1958 National Child Development Study
The 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) is following the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1958.
1970 British Cohort Study
The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is following the lives of around 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970.
Next Steps
Next Steps follows the lives of around 16,000 people in England born in 1989-90.
Millennium Cohort Study
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is following the lives of around 19,000 young people born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000-02.
