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.

 

Guests include:
Professor George Ploubidis, Research Director and Chief Statistician at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, discussing his work looking at the rising levels of depression among Generation X in middle age.
Professor Mark Hamer, Professor of Sport and Exercise Medicine at UCL, providing insights on the Age 46 Biomedical Sweep – including why study participants were asked to stand on one leg.
Mary Ukah, BCS70 Cohort Maintenance Officer, on how she manages to trace study members we have lost touch with.
Study members, who share their memories of life in the 2010s, and taking part in the study.

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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Guests include:
<ul>
<li>Professor George Ploubidis, Research Director and Chief Statistician at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, discussing his work looking at the rising levels of depression among Generation X in middle age.</li>
<li>Professor Mark Hamer, Professor of Sport and Exercise Medicine at UCL, providing insights on the Age 46 Biomedical Sweep &ndash; including why study participants were asked to stand on one leg.</li>
<li>Mary Ukah, BCS70 Cohort Maintenance Officer, on how she manages to trace study members we have lost touch with.</li>
<li>Study members, who share their memories of life in the 2010s, and taking part in the study.</li>
</ul>

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), which has been following the lives of 17,000 people born in Great Britain during a single week in 1970. This podcast series takes listeners on a journey through British social and political history, and explores BCS70’s numerous contributions to British science and society. Across six episodes, the series tells our study members’ story and charts the first five decades of the study.

Produced by Fresh Air Production

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), which has been following the lives of 17,000 people born in Great Britain during a single week in 1970. This podcast series takes listeners on a journey through British social and political history, and explores BCS70&rsquo;s numerous contributions to British science and society. Across six episodes, the series tells our study members&rsquo; story and charts the first five decades of the study.
Produced by Fresh Air Production

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