Re-thinking Participation in Birth Cohorts
Schedule
Wed Jun 17 2026 at 03:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
UCL East - Marshgate | London, EN
About this Event
Re-thinking Participation in Birth Cohorts: Conference and Exhibition
This half-day conference provides an opportunity for diverse academics and researchers who work with longitudinal birth cohort studies to come together to reflect and discuss further the important but often neglected issue of ‘participation’ in birth cohort studies.
Agenda
Overview
Info: This half day conference provides an opportunity for
diverse academics and researchers who work with
longitudinal birth cohort studies to come together to
reflect and discuss the important but often neglected
issue of ‘participation’ in birth cohort studies.
Longitudinal birth cohorts, which follow participants
and their families all their lives, have been and are an
invaluable research resource, yet the question of what
it means to be a lifelong participant is underexamined.
Our half day conference aims to open new avenues
for considering this valued and vital form of research
participation and the new challenges and opportunities
that come through re-thinking what it means to be a
birth cohort participant.
Half day public conference
Info: Our half day public conference will include presentations
from the Directors of two leading birth cohort studies in
the UK and a social scientist who has worked for over 20
years with the Pelotas Birth Cohort Study in Brazil.
Talks – followed by a Q and A– will include the following:
Photovoice exhibition launch of the ‘Lifeworlds of Birth Cohorts’
Info: The end of the day will culminate in the Photovoice
exhibition launch of the ‘Lifeworlds of Birth Cohorts’,
which showcases research undertaken by UCL
researchers with birth cohort participants in
Generation R in Rotterdam, ALSPAC in Bristol,
Generation 21 in Porto and the Pelotas Birth
Cohort Study in Pelotas. Drawing from the creative
engagement of birth cohort participants themselves
the exhibition comparatively explores what it means
to be a participant in these four regional locations.
It showcases the intricacies of daily life for cohort
participants across the global north and south and the
similarities and diversities of lives across generations,
providing a window to help reimagine what cohort
participation is or could be.
Drinks reception
Info: The conference will end with a reception.
Where is it happening?
UCL East - Marshgate, 7 Sidings Street, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00
