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Five decades of British science and social history charted in new podcast series

25 June 2020

A new podcast series celebrating 50 years of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) begins today (Thursday, 25 June).

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is a birth cohort study following the lives of around 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. It is based in 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Education鈥檚 Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

Over the next six weeks, 鈥50 Years of Life in Britain鈥 will explore the contribution the BCS70 study members have made to improving British science and society. The six-part series will tell their story, and chart the first five decades of the study.

The podcasts will take listeners on a journey through British social and political history. With participants reminiscing about their involvement in the study, they鈥檒l also tell us what it鈥檚 been like to grow up, learn, work, love and reach middle age in modern Britain.听

We鈥檒l hear from the academics and staff who have driven the study forward, and the researchers whose findings have influenced public policy and scientific debate. We鈥檒l also speak to the policymakers and politicians whose thinking has been shaped by the study鈥檚 most important discoveries.

In addition, the series will look to the present and future. We鈥檒l hear how cohort members have fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, and discover how BCS70, and cohort studies in general, can help us understand the short and long term impacts of the pandemic.听

Professor Alice Sullivan, BCS70 Director, said: 鈥淚鈥檇 really like to wish the cohort members a very happy 50th birthday year. We鈥檙e so grateful for everything they鈥檝e done for science and for helping to shape our understanding of the society we live in.听

鈥淭hrough this podcast series, we celebrate their invaluable contribution, and the work of the academics and staff who kept the study going through turbulent times, and have helped it flourish in recent years.鈥

Episodes will be published every week on from Thursday 25 June. Subscribe to 鈥50 Years of Life in Britain鈥 and look out for upcoming episodes on , and .听

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