Mental health problems like anxiety and depression were more common among younger generations before the COVID-19 outbreak — but the gap between young and old became even wider during the pandemic, according to new findings from CNC and four other cohort studies

We at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies join in the sadness felt among the UCL community at the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

Every time you take part in Child of the New Century, you make a valuable contribution to science. As we start to plan the next big survey in 2023, we’d like to get your feedback on what it’s like being part of the study.

National primary school tests that school children in England take in Year 6, do not appear to affect their happiness or wellbeing, according to findings from Child of the New Century.

Information CNC participants have shared with the study is helping researchers understand the factors that have made people more vulnerable to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers welcomed Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge to UCL this week, and discussed the invaluable contribution longitudinal cohort studies like Child of the New Century have made to our understanding of early child development and the factors that shape our lives.

Children with severe behaviour and hyperactivity problems at age five tend to do less well in vocabulary assessments as teenagers, according to a new study using data from Child of the New Century and the 1970 British Cohort Study, which follows a group of people all born in a single week in 1970.

At age 17, 9% of boys taking part in Child of the New Century (CNC) said they had carried or used a weapon, with one in four of them reporting they were gang members, according to UCL research.

Professor Alissa Goodman, Director of the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), where CNC is based, has been awarded a CBE for her services to social science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.

Substance use and antisocial behaviour are more likely to go hand-in-hand with poor mental health for teens of your generation compared to millennial adolescents growing up a decade earlier, finds a new UCL study.