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Want to take part? If you aren't sure, get in touch! Children of the 90s are a group of nearly 20,000 young people, born in 1991 and 1992 in and around Bristol.

If you were born around Bristol between April 1991 and December 1992 - you might be in the Children of the 90s research project and eligible to get involved! Scientists have studied these young people to aim to help discover the causes of the most important health and social problems facing the world today so that we can help prevent those problems. Taking part is voluntary and 100% confidential. It includes attending our research centre, filling out questionnaires and in the future giving us permission to use the routine information that's collected on all of us by health, social and other services and official organisations. If you were born in 1991 or 1992 in Bristol or Weston send us a message and we'll let you know how you can take part. Discoveries made by scientists working on Children of the 90s are making a difference to lives around the world.

20/03/2026

'Having moved away from Bristol at a young age, Children of the 90s certainly connects me back to the city I was born in.

I really enjoy being involved and seeing all the incredible research that's carried out. I'm proud to be a part of it!'

Thank you to Sam and the thousands of you who remain committed to Children of the 90s - even after moving away.

And thanks to puppy Wilma too for taking part in our photoshoot! 🐶

13/03/2026

Wishing you a very happy early Mother's Day! 🌷

Thank you to all the mothers involved in Children of the 90s - we couldn't do it without you.

12/03/2026

Children of the 90s couldn't function without our amazing staff. Juliet has been working with us for 16 years and loves to meet participants and their children in the COCOs clinic.

She said: "It's absolutely lovely to be a part of a project that is so crucial to improving the health of future generations. And we're lucky that so many of our participants feel the same!"

Thanks for all you do, Juliet! 😊

06/03/2026

Celebrating new research - by women, for women! ♀️

🔴 A new study by Dr Gemma Sharp aims to help improve the lives of those suffering with heavy menstrual bleeding through real-time data capture and a new menstrual fluid biobank

🔴A new focus group, led by Dr Anna Murray, will investigate women’s experience of menopause to better understand what causes symptoms and find better treatments for menopausal women in the future

Look out for opportunities to get involved in both studies in the coming months 📆

27/02/2026

Thanks for coming to see us on your 5th birthday, Hugo! 🥳

We were so pleased to welcome Hugo and his mum Hannah to our COCOs clinic last week.

It means a lot to us when our participants take the time to come and see us, but particularly on their birthdays! Thank you so much both for giving your time 🩵

If you're interested in COCOs, you can learn more through our website 👶

20/02/2026

New research: Childhood obesity may not cause 'lifelong risk'

Researchers in Australia have found that different genes affect obesity in childhood compared to teenage years and adulthood.

The lead author on the study, Dr Geng Wang, said: “Parents often worry when a child gains weight early or grows differently from others, but our findings suggest that genetic variation can influence these changes."

“When using these results to consider health, our results suggested body size differences in younger children don’t necessarily reflect lifelong obesity risk.”

They used Children of the 90s data from 6,291 children between the ages of one and 18 years.

Read more, including about possible links to diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease later in life, in the BBC article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp85v2jn26no

12/02/2026

New milestone: 1,000 women have attended our latest G0 mothers' clinic!

A huge thank you to the women who have come to the G0 cognitive, vision and hearing clinic at Southmead. This will help researchers learn more about how your vision, hearing and memory change over time.

We sent our final email invitations out earlier this month, but the clinic will run until April, so we welcome you to get involved.

Already received an invite but haven’t booked yet? There’s still time - get in touch and help us reach our goal of 1,300 participants!

11/02/2026

New discovery: how does indoor mould impact children's lungs? 🦠🏠🫁

A new study using Children of the 90s data has found that if you were exposed to serious indoor mould when you were 5, you were more likely to have reduced lung function into your teenage years.

As well as this, you were more likely to have an asthma diagnosis at age 15 and 24.

These links between mould and lung health were still there even once other factors like socioeconomic status and smoking were considered.

Read the Daily Mail article on this paper through the link in our bio 📰

10/02/2026

They grow up so fast 🥹

Throwback to when we had one of our oldest Children of the Children of the 90s (COCOs) in our clinic! Coby is pictured here with his mum Josie, one of our original Children of the 90s.

Thank you both for being part of the study, we appreciate you 🫡

06/02/2026

2016: What did we discover? 💫

Interested in learning what we discovered a decade ago? Here's a snapshot of the findings we uncovered thanks to your participation! 👏

🎬Drinking in films: What we did -

• When participants were 15, we asked them whether they had seen 50 films, randomly selected from a list of 366 popular ones. We also asked about their alcohol use.
• We recorded the amount of time (in seconds) that alcohol was seen in each film.
• We analysed information about the child’s behaviour which we had gathered when they were 7 and 13.
• We compared all this information with what the parents of participants told us about their own alcohol use when their children were 12.
• We also compared it with other information about the parents’ lives from pregnancy onwards.

🎮Video games: What we did -

• We looked at what participants told us about their video game use in a questionnaire when they were aged eight or nine.
• We compared this with the results of an interview we did with participants when they were aged 15 about behaviour and depression.

😴Chronic fatigue syndrome: What we did -

• We looked at information participants and their parents gave us about tiredness and energy in questionnaires when they were aged 16.
• We reviewed what parents told us about their family situation and living conditions when their children were aged 8-10.
• We matched this up with school absences recorded during year 11 on the National Pupil Database. This was possible thanks to the large number of participants who’ve allowed us to link to their school records.

#2016❤️

29/01/2026

So lovely to hear comments from participants about their experiences of visiting Children of the 90s! 💛

Thank you to all who filled out our Participant in Research Experience Survey - your comments help us improve.

Take a look at our current clinics through the link in our bio 🔗

27/01/2026

Brilliant to see Ellena and her son Arthur in our COCOs clinic a few weeks ago! Thank you both for taking the time to come and help medical research - we appreciate you 👏

Ellena's mum Clare took some pictures with Children of the 90s a while back and her photos are up in our waiting area. Arthur was pretty excited to see his grandma on the wall!

If you want to get involved with COCOs, click the link in our bio - we'd love to see you 🎈🧸

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Learning & Research Building (Level 1 Atrium), Southmead Hospital
Bristol
BS105FN

Website

http://www.childrenofthe90s.ac.uk/

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