Delivering the birth component of Life Study: a longitudinal pilot for the national probability sample

Lead Research Organisation: University College London
Department Name: Institute of Child Health

Abstract

A birth cohort study follows the same babies throughout their lives to understand more about how a child's early social, emotional and physical development and their family and wider environment influence their future health and well-being. These special types of studies give insights into early life influences on what is called the life course. The UK has, since 1946, established a series of such cohort studies. The proposed cohort (Life Study), which has a large sample size and an innovative design represents a unique and special way to find out how early life experiences matter for later childhood and adult life.

The study aims to recruit about 80,000 women and their partners from across the UK, 60,000 in pregnancy and 20,000 after the birth of their baby. A dual design of this nature offers significant scientific benefits, facilitating detailed investigations together with ability to generalise findings across the UK population. This application for a research award relates specifically to the design and conduct of a longitudinal pilot study for the latter group - a national probability sample referred to as the birth component of Life Study. This pilot will test the best approach to contacting parents after the birth of their baby, the response achieved and the contact retained with families across the first year of the child's life. It will also provide a 'test bed' of data that can be used to produce a 'beta test' version of the integrated dataset - combining data from the birth and pregnancy components of Life Study in a way which makes them readily accessible to the research community.

Life Study will help identify what aspects of the environment in its broadest sense protect children and maximise their life chances and the ways in which that protection operates. It will also help us understand what aspects may increase social and economic vulnerability. We wish to understand the interplay between social, economic, environmental and biological influences in early life, recognising that this needs understanding of parents' lives and the wider family and society too.

Life Study will follow all the children and their families throughout childhood and adult life so that we can see how they grow and develop and how their family circumstances change. This will be achieved in a number of ways including obtaining consent at the beginning of the study to link to future routine health and other records of the baby and parents/care-givers.

Scientists and others learn a lot from these large studies about how we can help children to get a good start in life and improve their life chances, future well being and happiness. The information collected will be anonymised so that the privacy of families can be protected and then made available to researchers to ensure we get the most benefit from it. An important feature of the study will be the ability to compare the Life Study generation with information collected from earlier generations in similar special British cohort studies.

We will make sure that families taking part are informed about the progress of the study and have access to the early findings. We will also ensure that other scientists, in the UK and abroad, policymakers and all members of the public also get to hear about Life Study findings. We have been working with members of the public from a wide range of backgrounds to help us plan the Study and ensure that it can answer questions that parents think are important.

Planned Impact

The longitudinal pilot study will be used to assist with planning for the sampling procedures, for fieldwork plans, to fine tune the questionnaires used for the 6-month and the 12-month surveys and to develop a beta test version of the integrated sample accessible to research users. The impact of the pilot relates specifically to these aims. In so doing, it will improve the efficiency and the scientific value of Life Study as a whole.

The scientific objectives of Life Study as set out in the Life Study Business Case are to deliver an academic data resource that can be used by researchers to provide policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders with critical new evidence to improve the lives, health, well-being and future social and economic capacity of children and the adults they will become.

Its design ensures that the data collected will reflect the social and ethnic diversity of the contemporary population of parents and young children and supports social, biomedical and inter-disciplinary research with data that permits key scientific and policy challenges to be addressed.

The data collected are aimed at advancing understanding of the complex interplay between biology, behaviour, and the environment during early development, and its influence on future health and well-being in areas of major importance to children and their parents. These have been subject to extensive consultation through the preparatory and pilot phases of the Study with participants, researchers, the third sector and government departments and policy makers.

Calculations have been carried out to ensure that the birth component of Life Study, when integrated with the pregnancy component, has sufficient statistical power to address future research needs, including those related to the assessment of the interplay between biology, and the social and physical environment.

We have ensured the opportunity to benefit a diverse audience by stakeholder engagement from the beginning, and will continue this by dissemination of findings through multiple public and scientific media including public engagement activities to promote the importance of the knowledge gained from Life Study, by working with CLOSER and generally ensuring the maximum translation of knowledge into public benefit through policy development. Benefits will also accrue through training opportunities and the interdisciplinary and international collaborations fostered.
 
Description Achievements
The following conclusions were reached at a meeting of collaborators [http://bit.ly/2TjmOzr]
• Life Study catalysed inter-disciplinary approaches to the life course and achieved significant scientific momentum and direction.
• It created a strong interdisciplinary community of scientists from across medical, social and physical sciences as an important legacy for future birth cohort studies.
• The impressive outputs of Life Study's innovative methodological developments and pilot studies were widely disseminated.
• Life Study protocols, standard operating procedures and questionnaires represent an asset for future birth cohort studies and are available on, and continue to be downloaded from, UCL Discovery [http://bit.ly/2UqB6e8]
Exploitation Route The following conclusions were reached at a meeting of collaborators in relation to strategic considerations and implications for design of and need for future birth cohort studies [http://bit.ly/2TjmOzr]. These conclusions and other related evidence were considered by an independent Longitudinal Studies Strategic Review commissioned by ESRC [http://bit.ly/2SJELlp]
Design of future birth cohort studies
• Clarity about the purpose of future birth cohort studies is essential, notably whether their development should be driven by interdisciplinary scientific and policy questions, or the desire to create a multipurpose data resource.
• It will be important to identify where future birth cohort studies can add most value and how they can best exploit the exciting potential for understanding heterogeneity in early life using innovative exposome and phenotypic data capture alongside rapidly developing 'omics technologies.
• The design of future birth cohort studies needs to take into account representativeness, available sampling frames, scale required, and feasibility of innovative measures in diverse settings and populations.
• The involvement of parents and families in the design and conduct of future birth cohort studies is critical.
• Greater understanding of barriers to participation in birth cohort studies, and of the contribution that social networking, communication technologies and public partnerships can make to this, is required. Clarity on ethical aspects of incentives to encourage participation is needed, especially in a NHS setting.
• Participant burden may be increased by the aspirations inherent in interdisciplinary innovative birth cohort studies, requiring careful prioritisation of the breadth, depth and timing of information to be collected.
• The UK still needs a new birth cohort study capable of bringing world leading science to populations and populations to science from a life course perspective.
• A new birth cohort study is essential if we are to understand and address some of the most pressing social, economic and public health issues confronting the lives and life chances of current and future generations of children and their families, and ensure that science is funded and used for their benefit.
• A prospective focus on pregnancy and the first year of life remains a key priority for such a birth cohort study, reflecting the continued relevance of this ambition for interdisciplinary science developed within Life Study.
Strategic considerations
• Consistent and sustained commitment by funders to birth cohort studies and life course research is crucial.
• Enabling science to innovate at a population level through birth cohort studies is a strategic priority: current funding and governance infrastructures need to change.
• The time needed to realise impacts of a new UK birth cohort study will vary according to the nature of those impacts and this requires recognition as part of a long term sustainable funding strategy.
• Funders should consult and work with the scientific community in order to understand fully the scientific options and impacts before reaching a decision to stop the funding of birth cohort studies that are in progress, and to avoid loss of hard-won funds.
• The scientific community needs to communicate clearly and widely about the critical importance of innovative birth cohort studies and life course research to the public, policy makers and funders.
• A review of access to sampling frames derived from birth registration records for research is urgently required. At present, NHS registration records appear to provide the only feasible approach for a national probability birth cohort, given the selective eligibility and timing of registration for child benefit payments.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy

Education

Environment

Healthcare

URL http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1485681/
 
Description ESRC DTA
Amount £279,588 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/J500185/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2015 
End 09/2019
 
Description Life Study-Augmenting Recruitment and Retention of Resident and Non-resident Fathers and Partners
Amount £1,370,000 (GBP)
Funding ID KID42046 
Organisation Nuffield Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2015 
End 11/2019
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation Cardiff University
Department School of Psychology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation Imperial College London
Department School of Public Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation King's College London
Department Institute of Pharmaceutical Science
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Department Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation Swansea University
Department Institute of Life Science
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation University College London
Department Department of Psychology and Human Development
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation University College London
Department Institute of Child Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation University of Bristol
Department School of Social and Community Medicine
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation University of Leicester
Department Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation University of Southampton
Department MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study (CD) 
Organisation University of St Andrews
Department School of Geography & Geosciences
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution Scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, informatics, biostatistics
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation Cardiff University
Department School of Psychology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation Imperial College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University College London
Department Institute of Education (IOE)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of Leicester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of St Andrews
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description The Life Study scientific advisory committees 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution scientific leadership, development of hypotheses, innovative methodology
Collaborator Contribution scientific leadership and expertise in social science, genetic epidemiology, lifecourse epidemiology, ehealth, environmental epidemiology, environmental sciences, psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, immunity, clinical peadatrics and obstetrics, biostats. There are a large number of additional contributions made by academics and other experts from around the UK and internationally who do not receive any funding from the grants, and are therefore not listed here.
Impact Multidisciplinary: economics, sociology, developmental psychology, environmental sciences, education, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, clinical paediatrics, clinical obstetrics, informatics, bioinformatics, genetics and epigenetics, biochemistry;
Start Year 2009
 
Description BHRUT AGM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Health professionals
Results and Impact 140 people present - mixture of patients/active members of the public/staff/stakeholders. Few questions about the study in particular about the centre and where it will be built. Overall very positively received

Greater awareness among stakeholders and staff at BHRUT.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Life Study Launch Event Feb 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 150 people attended a House of Lords launch event for Life Study which comprised brief presentations from the chair of the APPG on medical research who hosted the event, senior members of the funders and study team. The event sparked questions and discussion and raised the profile of Life Study among politicians.

tbc
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description NELFT AGM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Health professionals
Results and Impact 130 people present at the event. Spoke to many NELFT staff (HV and nursing) - lots of networking opportunities

Greater awareness among stakeholders and staff at BHRUT
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description NICHD Jan 2015 (PE) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Talk to an audience of approx 40 followed by Q&A

Enquired about the possibility of the Life Study Director doing a follow up presentation at NICHD to address some of the more MRC/medical type questions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description NIHR GOSH open day Nov 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Over 200 members of the public attended with various science related activities running. LS had a stand more for information giving purposes. Engagement team present and project office team members. NIHR staff also present

Good opportunity to showcase LS to wider science community. Good opportunity to raise the profile of LS to the wider general public
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Senior Managers Briefing BHRUT 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 100 senior managers present - lots of Q&A - especially about how the trust fits in with the research

More buy-in from senior management team at the trust - increased awareness of Life Study overall
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014