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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
People with greater genetic risk of weight gain and those from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to be overweight or obese across adulthood, with associations becoming larger from adolescence to midlife, finds a new study led by researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
The charity Youth Support have kindly made Generations available to view on the web.
Three generations of children from less privileged homes have reached middle age at greater risk of being overweight or obese than their better-off peers, according to findings published in PLOS Medicine.
Mental health problems like anxiety and depression were more common among younger generations before the COVID-19 outbreak — but the gap between young and old became even wider during the pandemic, according to new research based on five UK longitudinal studies.
Rates of psychological distress increased between mid-adolescence and early adulthood for members of Generation X, according to a new study.
The latest issue of the National Institute Economic Review takes an in-depth look at evidence from the British birth cohort studies, with a special focus on how economic circumstances are transmitted from one generation to the next.
The Millennium Cohort Study’s ‘sister’ project in France has finally secured funding for the first round of data collection.
A major report, published by the Tenant Services Authority with support from Joseph Rowntree, is one of the first pieces of large-scale research to use all four of Britain’s cohort studies, three of which are managed by CLS. Its findings challenge current government policy on social housing
Professor Heather Joshi, the founding director of the Millennium Cohort Study, has been awarded the CBE in the New Year honours list. Professor Joshi, who is now Professor Emerita of Economic and Developmental Demography in Education at UCL Institute of Education, received the award for her contribution to longitudinal and women’s studies. She was director […]
Children who eat breakfast daily are less likely to become obese, new research suggests.
A new podcast series celebrating 50 years of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) begins today (Thursday 25 June). Over the next six weeks, ‘50 Years of Life in Britain’ will explore the contribution the BCS70 study members have made to improving British science and society.
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