VIRTUAL EVENT: Longitudinal biomedical studies, a social science view: Born in Bradford and TwinsUK

In this webinar, Professor Rosie McEachan will introduce Born in Bradford, a study which tracks the health and wellbeing of over 13,500 children and their parents, born at the Bradford Royal Infirmary between March 2007 and December 2010.

The health of these children is tracked from pregnancy, through childhood and into adult life.

Dr Claire Steves will discuss TwinsUK, the UK’s only adult twin registry and the most clinically detailed in the world. The registry is comprised of 13,000 identical and non-identical twins from across the UK, aged between 16 and 98 years old, with the average age being 55.

The current research focuses on the genetics of complex disease, in particular, age-related diseases such as osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and eye disease.

Last year, The Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement (CLOSER) welcomed 11 new longitudinal studies to their consortium, broadening the range of biomedical and social science disciplines represented. 

Together with the studies, they are working to help increase opportunities for interdisciplinary work across the longitudinal population research community. 

CLOSER webinar series

The CLOSER webinar series aims to highlight how social scientists can make the most of data collected from longitudinal biomedical studies. The series will showcase a number of biomedically-focused studies and will explore what they can offer social science research.

Over the next few months, CLOSER will host three hour-long webinars, with each one providing the opportunity to learn about two biomedical studies. Each study presentation will cover an introduction to the study, an overview of data collected, how to access the data, research case studies and a Q&A.

Links

• Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources
• Social Research Institute

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