Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Ignoring or shouting at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can worsen the problems they face forming friendships and regulating their emotions.
Two-year-olds in England watch television, videos or other digital content for an average of two hours each day, double the daily screen time recommended by the World Health Organisation for this age group.
Researchers interested in the study of early years development and family life can now download data from the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study from the UK Data Service.
The UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies is to lead the first new UK-wide scientific study of babies in a quarter of a century. Generation New Era study will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond.
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.
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.
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.
Data from Wave 1 of Children of the 2020s, the first national longitudinal study of babies to be launched in a generation, are now available.
Four in five primary caregivers of nine-month-old babies reported cuddling, talking and playing with their little one several times a day, in the first national long-term study of babies in over two decades, led by UCL.
Being an only child doesn’t affect your development – family background matters more.
Breastfeeding matters for children’s cognitive development, but disadvantaged mothers who give birth at the weekend are less likely to breastfeed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support in hospitals, finds a new UCL study.
Inequalities in the early cognitive, social and emotional development of children in the UK, which are so important in shaping later life outcomes, have changed little between those born in the early 2000s and those born in the early 2010s. Researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies […]
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