We explore the first decade of the 1970 British Cohort Study (1970) and the impact of its early years research on policy many years later.

Guests include:
Professor Jean Golding, BCS70 researcher during the 1970s/80s, and founder of the ALSPAC study, known as ‘Children of the Nineties’.
Dr Leon Feinstein, academic and author of one of the most well-known BCS70 studies, which influenced New Labour policy on early years education provision.
Study members, who share their memories of growing up in the 1970s, and their early recollections of participating in the study.

We explore the first decade of the 1970 British Cohort Study (1970) and the impact of its early years research on policy many years later.
Guests include:
<ul>
<li>Professor Jean Golding, BCS70 researcher during the 1970s/80s, and founder of the ALSPAC study, known as &lsquo;Children of the Nineties&rsquo;.</li>
<li>Dr Leon Feinstein, academic and author of one of the most well-known BCS70 studies, which influenced New Labour policy on early years education provision.</li>
<li>Study members, who share their memories of growing up in the 1970s, and their early recollections of participating 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

Advertisement