The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is following the lives of more than 17,000 people born across England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Over the course of your lives, we have collected information on all aspects of your lives, including your health, your physical, cognitive and social development, your education and employment, and your home lives.
Your generation has been shaped by some of the most significant social, political and economic changes in the history of the UK. BCS70 strives to document the lives of the very special ‘Generation X’.
BCS70 was set up originally to help doctors understand why some babies were born with health problems and why some died so early in life. Since then the study has developed into the world’s leading source of information on what life is like for your generation.
Apply to join our new Panel Would you like to be part of a small group of study members who help us make future decisions about BCS70? We’re looking for small number of study members to join our new Study Member Advisory Panel. The Panel will meet twice a year (once online and once in […]
BCS70 is run by an organisation called the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Social Research Institute. It’s funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Managing a study as big as BCS70 requires many different jobs – our team is made up of researchers, survey specialists, data managers, administrators and communications staff.
In 2022 birthday mailing, we invited you to share your reflections and memories of taking part in the study. A big thank you to everyone who contributed – we really enjoyed reading these. Here are some of your stories and we look forward to sharing more of these with you in the future!
We hope you enjoyed following along with our ‘50 stories in 50 weeks’ online celebration of BCS70 over the course of your 50th year. Don’t worry if you missed it though – you can find all the stories here.
