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Welcome to Child of our Time, a blog about the health and happiness of children living in the UK.

We are a team of researchers at the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies, University College London, tracking children’s lives using a wide range of data sets, sources and information, asking important questions based on existing and emerging evidence.

This blog is aimed at sharing our research and the research of others doing similar work, with policy makers, parents and people who work with and are interested in the outcomes of children. Its purpose is to make sure that what we find can be properly understood and taken into consideration when decisions that affect our children’s futures are being made.

You may remember the BBC programme Child of our Time that was following 25 children born at the turn of the millennium, well our research tracks the lives of thousands of children, helping us provide important and influential evidence on their their health and their happiness over time.

Our blog includes easy-to-understand summaries of recent and new research from a number of our important research projects, podcasts with researchers and others using our work, and briefings on key policy topics.

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Latest Posts

  • Time to stop physical punishment and score equal rights for children 

    Time to stop physical punishment and score equal rights for children 

    January 13, 2021
  • Breaking the cycle – how active travel to school could help tackle childhood obesity and inequality

    Breaking the cycle – how active travel to school could help tackle childhood obesity and inequality

    January 12, 2021
  • Time to diagnose autism: why earlier diagnosis could be key to children’s wellbeing and happiness

    Time to diagnose autism: why earlier diagnosis could be key to children’s wellbeing and happiness

    October 22, 2020

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