Generation New Era: The UK's new birth cohort study

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week, we're looking at a major study that is following the development of children born in the UK in 2026. It's called Generation New Era, and in this episode we hear from the team leading the research: how they plan to run it, what earlier cohort studies have revealed, and what they hope to discover this time around. The study has been funded by public investment from UKRI, and their Economic and Social Research Council... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:26.6	I'm Chris Smith, and today we're going to examine a major project that's following the development of children born in the UK in 2026.
0:43.8	Thank you. in 2026. A lot of what we know about human society, health and disease, has been learned from what
0:49.0	called longitudinal studies.
0:51.7	These follow large groups of people over long periods of time to see how
0:56.0	trends emerge naturally, and the UK has led the way in this work for nearly a century. The link
1:01.7	between smoking and lung cancer was famously detected by Oxford University's Richard Dole, who followed
1:07.0	a large group of smoking and non-smoking British doctors for more than 50 years.
1:11.8	Britain was also the birthplace of the first lifelong longitudinal studies to recruit newborn
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