Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) Age 62 Sweep are now available to download from the UK Data Service.
While parenthood is linked with better mental health, new UCL research reveals social and economic circumstances also matter.
Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE) is the UK pilot of a major European initiative to create internationally harmonised data for research on child development and wellbeing.
Growing Up in the 2020s is the country’s first comprehensive long-term study tracking adolescents’ development and educational outcomes following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Teens from ethnic minority backgrounds and deprived neighbourhoods were particularly at risk of being exposed to high levels of air pollution during childhood, with potential long-term impacts on their health.
Adolescents from deprived neighbourhoods with psychological difficulties are less likely to attend hospital for mental health-related issues than their advantaged peers with similar problems.
Data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) Age 51 Sweep are now available to download from the UK Data Service.
For the first time, large-scale DNA sequence data on three UK birth cohort studies has been released, creating a unique resource to explore the relationship between genetic and environmental factors in child health and development.
Increasing access to parks and gardens may not be enough to help teenagers in urban areas get a healthy amount of sleep.
Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience.
A third fewer baby boomers were in the labour market at age 62 than at age 55, with retirement being the most common reason for leaving the workforce.
Private school pupils in England no longer perform better in GCSE English, Maths and Science than their state school peers from similar backgrounds.
People born in the late 1940s and 1950s in England, the US and Europe are more likely to experience multiple health problems in their later years than their earlier born counterparts.
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