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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.

25/07/2025

✨We're on The One Show!✨

Children of the 90s will feature on The One Show on Monday (28th July) at 7pm on BBC 1 - featuring our very own Professor Nic Timpson 🎬

We will be sharing the recording next week so don't worry if you can't catch it live! 🥰

The One Show

23/07/2025

💡New Children of the 90s research: Genetic analysis of 5.1 million individuals predicts risk of adult obesity from childhood.

Analysing genes at a young age could support early strategies to prevent obesity in later life, according to a new paper published in Nature Portfolio Medicine today.

The research looked at genetic information from over 5 million individuals and developed a 'polygenic risk score' (PGS) which is reliably associated with adulthood obesity.

Children of the 90s data was used in the research to test the score. It found that the new PGS was twice as effective as the previous best method of predicting a person's risk of obesity.

Read about the research here 🔗 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/obesity-people-children-bristol-copenhagen-b1239200.html

17/07/2025

From Weston-super-Mare to Switzerland - and back (to visit us!) 🇨🇭

We recently welcomed Bernice to one of our Focus on Mother clinics - all the way from Switzerland.

Bernice was a health visitor in the 90s and helped recruit some of our original mothers - as well as being an original mother herself!

After moving to Switzerland 30 years ago, Bernice and her daughter still make the trip back to visit Children of the 90s - and we couldn't be more grateful 🥰

14/07/2025

Kate signed up to the study in 1991 when pregnant with her son Tom - and now works at Children of the 90s in the Engagement Team!

✨Then & Now✨

11/07/2025

"When I got to the stage of being made a Professor, I was the only female professor in any science field in Bristol."

Our founder, Jean Golding, was on the Bristol Data Stories podcast talking about her early life and career, how the Children of the 90s study came into being, what's changed since the early nineties, and her favourite discoveries to date.

Listen to the full episode through the link below! 🌟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-nOrlHvKE

08/07/2025

Have you ever had your grip strength tested? 💪

It was brilliant to see Jorja in our clinic a few weeks ago for her 11 years COCOs visit, which included a DXA scan and a grip strength test.

Grip strength is a good indicator of your health, as it can be associated with health outcomes like type 2 diabetes and overall muscle strength.

Thank you for coming in, Jorja! 🫶

04/07/2025

Don’t forget to complete your 2025 questionnaire! 📝  Once completed we’ll send you a £10 shopping voucher as a thank you 🙂  Look out for your questionnaire via email (hard copies available on request) - open to all our original Children of the 90s.   Thank you to all our participants for continuing this important research! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻  

27/06/2025

"Benson really enjoyed his visit - all the team were great with him. His favourite toy was the little dolly and now he's got a teddy to go home with so he's very happy!"

Naomi and her family recently visited for a 6 month COCOs appointment.

Baby Benson was happy to take home his COCOs teddy - one of the many gifts he'll receive from us over the next 11 years! 🥰

If you'd like to book your COCOs visit simply email: coco90s@childrenofthe90s.ac.uk

25/06/2025

Did you see us on ITV News West Country last night? 🎥

Enjoy this trip down memory lane with archive footage and interviews with some of our first participants💫

24/06/2025

*TONIGHT!*

Children of the 90s will feature on ITV News West Country tonight (6-6:30pm)! 🎥

Tune in to see some familiar faces and archive footage from the 90s 📼

19/06/2025

"When I set up Children of the 90s, I told people it would last seven years. When its success became obvious, I quietly added a zero to the end, so seven became 70." Founder Professor Jean Golding OBE.

In the early 90s, a pioneering health study aimed to sign up every pregnant mother in Bristol and the former county of Avon. Almost 35 years later, findings from the Children of the 90s study has saved thousands of lives.

In a recent article in Nonesuch magazine, hear from the scientists behind the breakthroughs, and the participants who volunteer their vital data:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/stories/magazine-summer-2025/intergenerational-impact/

Image 1: Founder Professor Jean Golding OBE.

Image 2: Melanie Davis (left) with her daughter Melissa (right) and her grandchildren.

Image 3: Professor Nic Timpson, Principal Investigator, Children of the 90s.

Image 4: Professor Giles Yeo MBE, University of Cambridge, has used the Children of the 90s dataset for his own research, as have many other researchers from around the world.

Illustrations by MARY FLORA HART 🎨

12/06/2025

Our data featured in a Channel 4 news piece on Friday: 'Excluded children more likely to offend, charity finds'.

The programme featured research funded by the Youth Endowment Fund and conducted by researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Hull.

They used Children of the 90s data linked to education and local police records to investigate whether the known connection between school exclusion and suspension and later involvement in violence and other offending persists (after taking other risk factors into consideration).

“We have been able to look at how suspension, exclusion and persistent absence are related to both officially recorded offending and self-reported violence. Even after taking factors such as child behaviour and family socio-economic circumstances into account, the connection between offending and being out of school – either voluntarily or through exclusion - remains."

"This suggests that school exclusion and suspension are key risk factors for violence and offending in their own right, and are not simply reflections of other underlying issues."

“This study highlights that these children are a vulnerable group in need of high-quality support. Meeting these needs early would likely reduce the need for suspension and exclusion, keep children attending, and potentially reduce later harm to society through violence and other crime," comments research authors Drs Alison Teyhan and Rosie Cornish, from Bristol Medical School.

Channel 4 News

To watch the report in full:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I60dkc-zZM

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