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This booklet was sent to you in April 2024. It gives you more information about the Life in Your Early 50s Survey and covers key findings from the study. This includes challenging stereotypes of only children, the link between living near fast food outlets and obesity, how behavioural problems in childhood are connected to voting in adulthood, the lasting impact of school engagement, mental health during the pandemic, and more.
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This booklet was sent to you in April 2023. It gives you more information about the Life in Your Early 50s Survey and covers findings in relation to the gender pay gap, life satisfaction and the early roots of midlife fitness. It also includes an update on the new BCS70 woodland.
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This booklet was sent to you in April 2022. It gives you more information about the Life in Your Early 50s Survey and covers findings from the COVID-19 survey and other recent research using BCS70. It also includes an update on the new BCS70 woodland.
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Your guide to taking part in the BCS70 Life in Your Early 50s Survey.
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This booklet was sent to you in April 2021. It covers discoveries from the first COVID-19 survey and key findings from the study about your health. It also explores the influence of childhood circumstances on adult happiness.
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Download the transcript for episode 6 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below.
Our last episode of the series examines how BCS70 and our study members have been faring during the pandemic and looks to the future of longitudinal research. We find out more about the COVID-19 survey, sent to over 50,000 participants in five of Britain’s cohort studies, including BCS70, and we speak to study members about their experiences of lockdown. We also find out more about the benefits of launching a new cohort study in the coming years.
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Download the transcript for episode 5 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below.
In this episode, we move into the 2010s to find out how our study members were faring in their forties. We learn how BCS70 cast light on increasing rates of mental ill-health among men, and find out more about the most recent biomedical survey where participants were given a health MOT. We also chat to one of our in-house study detectives about the role they play tracing long lost study participants.
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Download the transcript for episode 4 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below.
In this fourth episode, we move into the new millennium, when the study enjoyed a golden decade. With BCS70 greatly valued by scientists and policymakers, the study was funded to meet participants on three occasions and was regularly cited by New Labour in government policy. With this new-found recognition, researchers across the globe started using BCS70 in conjunction with other birth cohort studies to see how members of Generation X were faring compared to other generations. We also speak to study members about their careers and lives in their thirties.
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Download the transcript for episode 3 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below.
In this third episode, we move into the 1990s to find out how BCS70 and its staff survived the lean years of the 80s and early 90s, and managed to get back in contact with study members after a 10 year gap. We learn about the study’s stark findings on adults’ numeracy and literacy, which led to the government’s Skills for Life adult learning programme. We also ask study members what it was like to join the study again as adults and find out how they were getting on in the big wide world after the boom and bust years.
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Download the transcript for episode 2 of our podcast series ’50 Years of Life in Britain’, and listen below.
In this second episode, we move into the 1980s to find out how Neville Butler kept BCS70 going during a decade of austerity. We learn about the benefits of reading for pleasure for children’s English and maths skills. We also ask study participants about their teenage years and find out what it was like sharing their 19th birthday with 4,000 other people at Alton Towers.
