We at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies join in the sadness felt among the UCL community at the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

Information from women in the 1970 and 1958 cohort studies has been used to determine which aspects of women’s lives are linked to early menopause.

People who get moderate to vigorous exercise also have higher mental wellbeing, according to findings from BCS70.

Happy birthday for April! You’ll notice that this year’s booklet is a little different compared to previous ones we’ve sent you. We’d love to know what you think of the changes.

Information BCS70 participants have shared with the study is helping researchers understand the factors that have made people more vulnerable to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers welcomed Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge to UCL this week, and discussed the invaluable contribution longitudinal cohort studies like BCS70 have made to our understanding of early child development and the factors that shape our lives.

A new study based on BCS70 has found that people of your generation who grew up in poorer families are at much greater risk of having multiple long-term health problems in their late 40s. The research also reveals an association between physical and mental health conditions in childhood, and chronic health problems in middle age.

Children with severe behaviour and hyperactivity problems at age five tend to do less well in vocabulary assessments as teenagers, according to a new study using data from BCS70 and the Millennium Cohort Study, which follows a generation of young people born in 2000-02.

Professor Alissa Goodman, Director of the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), where BCS70 is based, has been awarded a CBE for her services to social science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.

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…