We’ve now reached the end of our year-long celebration of the 1970 British Cohort Study. Over the past 50 weeks, we’ve traversed five decades of British social and political history, to tell the story of BCS70. Over to you, BCS70 heroes, for the final word in our 50 stories in 50 weeks journey…

From this summer, we hope to start catching up with you all to find out how your generation is faring in your early 50s. The survey will take place over at least 12 months, and at first we’ll be asking study members to take part via a video call.

Over 18,000 study members, then aged 19, 30, 50, 62 and 74, completed this first COVID-19 survey, providing invaluable insights into the varying ways the crisis impacted them. Here’s a summary of our researchers’ initial findings.

The COVID-19 Survey was the first time that we asked you to complete the same survey at the same time as participants in four other studies (born in 1946, 1958, 1989-90 and 2000-02).

As our look back at BCS70 through the 2010s draws to a close, let us whisk you away on a tour of the decade just gone by.

The information you provided during the Age 46-48 Survey has been used in a range of important research exploring the factors associated with good and poor health in midlife.

The Age 46-48 Survey included a range of measurements and assessments about your health, for the first time since childhood.

Celebrating 50 years of the 1970 British Cohort Study – With five decades of invaluable service to British science and society, what has it been like for BCS70 study members to take part? This week we speak to Fiona.

BCS70 has been an important source of evidence on midlife mental health, helping to improve our understanding about why it’s such a vulnerable period for adults.

The Age 42 Survey included a vocabulary task, which was a shortened version of an exercise that you had taken when you were 16. On average, study members correctly matched 55% of words at age 16 and 63% at age 42.