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| Description | Papers from James Douglas’ research during the years after he retired as director of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) in 1979. Among the handwritten notes, Douglas explains that ‘On retirement I was given a project grant of one year to study continuities and discontinuities in disadvantage’ but that this evolved to become ‘an evaluation over 30 years of the impact of selective education on the life chances of this generation’.
This file contains:
- a successful funding application to the Medical Research Council (MRC) for a project entitled ‘Continuities in Biological and Social Disadvantage from Birth to 26 Years’;
- correspondence with the MRC regarding funding;
- correspondence with the LSE regarding Douglas being appointed as Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, for the duration of his research project;
- correspondence with other researchers, and with staff at the NSHD;
- handwritten notes and typed draft chapters;
- a photocopy of a draft, handwritten chapter entitled ‘The educational achievement of children with chronic physical illness’;
- notes from a ‘Litchfield Lecture’ given by Douglas at Oxford University in 1981, entitled ‘Some continuities & discontinuities in health and development from birth to adult life’;
- notes from a talk given by Douglas at Goldsmiths University in 1980, about his current research project;
- notes and slides from a talk given by Douglas at the Colston Symposium, held at the Department of Child Health, University of Bristol, 28-31 March 1982. |