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| Description | An annotated transcript of a discussion recorded on 29 March 1982 at the University of Bristol, in which three key figures associated with British cohort studies are interviewed:
- James Douglas, director of the National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) from 1946 until 1979.
- Neville Butler, co-director of the 1958 National Child Development Study, and who helped set up the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study.
- Mia Kellmer Pringle, co-director of the 1958 National Child Development Study.
In her book ‘The Life Project’, Helen Pearson quotes Michael Wadsworth describing this recording:
‘This film is a piece of social history in two senses. First, it is a record of three British national birth cohort studies – that is to say, three studies of babies born over a period of a week. But it is also social history in another sense. They span twenty-four years of British history, during which time major changes in social welfare, education and medical care have taken place.’ |