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About

  • Purpose
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  • Management and funding
  • Meet the team

About

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.

 

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Purpose

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’.

History

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.

Management and funding

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.

Meet the team

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.


Update your contact details

Have you moved home? Changed your name? Stay a part of the survey by ensuring we’ve got your most up to date contact details.

FAQs

Got questions about the study? Check out the FAQs. If you can’t find what you are looking for, contact 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