Children of the 90s run Bristol Half Marathon to promote Focus@24+
Staff, researchers and participants from Children of the 90s donned their running shoes yesterday to publicise their latest research project at the Bristol Half Marathon.
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Children of the 90s run Bristol 10K to support The Grand Appeal
Staff, researchers and participants from Children of the 90s donned their running shoes today to raise money for Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal in the Bristol 10K.
Dyslexia and vision: the wider view
Dyslexia affects around 375,000 UK children and has a lifelong impact on learning.
€1.5m award to see how mother’s mental health affects her child’s
University of Bristol researchers have been awarded €1.5m by the European Research Council to investigate how a mother’s mental health and personality can affect her child. Despite decades of research, the causes of mental health conditions are still poorly understood due to their complexity.
Early walking in toddlers linked to stronger bones
Children who start to walk and jump earlier are more likely to have stronger bones later on in life, according to research on data from 2,327 participants in Children of the 90s.
Born Talking seminar, Monday 11 July
The Born Talking seminar series is a series of events that focus on using birth cohort data* to address questions about typical and atypical speech, language and communication. The fifth event in the series will take place in collaboration with ALSPAC and Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit on Monday 11 July 2016 at Canynge Hall, University of Bristol, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol BS8 2PS.
The children of the Children of the 90s turn 10!
For over 25 years, Children of the 90s at the University of Bristol has been charting the lives of 14,500 people born in the early 1990s in the greater Bristol area. Thanks to the amazing commitment of these research volunteers, scientists have made important discoveries that are helping treat and prevent ill health around the world.
ALSPAC mentioned in Wellcome Trust article about exciting new job opportunity
Director Jeremy Farrar explains how the Wellcome Trust are reconsidering their activity in population health and clinical research, describing these fields as having a long and proud history and mentioning ALSPAC as an example.
Child obesity risk increases almost three-fold in five generations
Children born since 1990 are up to three times more likely than older generations to be overweight or obese by age 10 according to a new study.
Mothers with troubled childhoods more likely to have children with emotional and behavioural difficulties
Mothers who had a difficult or traumatic upbringing are more likely to have children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry today.