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| Description | Papers regarding plans for the future of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), and future data collections. These discussions were happening because Douglas was due to retire in 1979, and the MRC Unit for the study of Environmental Factors in Mental and Physical Illness was being disbanded.
This file includes:
- Minutes and related papers of a Medical Research Council (MRC) 'Group to Advise on the Future of the National Survey of Health and Development', culminating in a final report and recommendations (1977). The recommendations included that the study should either move to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), or to the Department of Community Medicine at Bristol.
- A proposal by researchers at the LSHTM to take over the running of the NSHD (1979). Their proposal included the observation that 'A major deficiency in the National Survey is the almost complete absence of ethnic minorities, since the sample was born in this country in 1946 before substantial immigration took place.' The proposal therefore included plans to set up a parallel study of immigrant families.
- A proposal from Professor J.R.T. Colley at the University of Bristol to take over the running of the NSHD.
- Formal responses from Unit staff, on the proposals from the LSHTM and from Professor Colley in Bristol.
- Various notes and memos written by NSHD staff, and drafts of papers.
- An extract of minutes from the MRC Neurosciences Board, regarding the proposals of the Advisory Group's report (1978).
- Correspondence with the MRC regarding the different proposals and their upcoming decision.
- Minutes of meetings within the Unit. |