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BCS70 chosen for university’s bicentenary celebrations

Employment and finances in your early 50s

Moving home and mental health

Update 2026

This year's booklet features new research using your information from the Life in Your Early 50s Survey. We also go back 40 years, back to when you were completing the Age 16 Survey — better known as Youthscan.

50 Years of Life in Britain

Our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’ explores the contribution you and your fellow study members have made to improving British science and society. The six-part series tells your story, and charts the first five decades of the study.

Celebrating 50 years of the 1970 British Cohort Study

We celebrated your 50th birthday in 2020. Learn more about how we commemorated 50 years of BCS70!

Update your contact details

Have you moved home? Changed your name? Stay a part of the study by making sure we have your most up-to-date contact details.

Frequently Asked Questions

Got any questions about the study? Check out the FAQs. If you can't find what you are looking for, please get in contact with us. We're happy to answer any questions you may have.

1970 British Cohort Study

Centre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Social Research Institute
20 Bedford Way
London, WC1H 0AL

Tel: 0800 035 5761
Email: bcs70@ucl.ac.uk