Network Events

Cross-Disciplinary Exchange

During virtual seminars on a topic of shared interest, network members present and discuss multi-disciplinary approaches and research on a particular biosocial theme. This provides a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange, reflection, and critique across academics representing a wide variety of life science disciplines. We believe this sort of regular exchange is crucial to improving and enriching life course research, by promoting a space for equitable dialogue, collaboration, and inspiration.

Talks and Podcast Response

Below you can view the talks presented by network members during our online seminars. Alongside each talk, guest speakers from that week have recorded a podcast response to share their thoughts and feelings on their peer’s work. We hope you will enjoy exploring these cross-disciplinary exchanges in your own time.

Please note, talks and podcast responses are grouped by seminar theme. In some cases, you can view the talks as a PowerPoint presentation, in others as a filmed video. On the right hand-side you will find the podcast response to the presentation.

Comparative Methodologies in Birth Cohorts

Multidisciplinary environmental health birth cohort research in Mexico City – ELEMENT, MEXPOS and NESTSMX

PRESENTERS

Elizabeth F.S Roberts + Martha M Téllez-Rojo

RESPONSES

Sahra Gibbon + Rosie Mathers

Generation XXI and bullying behaviour among 10-year-old children

PRESENTERS

Silvia Fraga + Susana Silva

RESPONSES

Elizabeth F.S Roberts + Martha M Téllez-Rojo

Why do families participate in cohort research? A pilot study

PRESENTERS

Sahra Gibbon + Rosie Mathers

RESPONSES

Silvia Fraga + Susana Silva

Measuring Adversity and Risk Pt. I

Adversity, Stress and Psychological Development in the Pelotas Birth Cohort Studies

PRESENTERS

Joseph Murray

RESPONSES

Robbin Jeffries

The Social Dimensions of Adversity in Intergenerational Epigenetic Research

PRESENTERS

Martine Lappé + Robbin Jeffries Hein

Measuring Adversity and Risk Pt. II

Troubling Vulnerability: Neurobiological Risk and the Adverse Milieu in Environmental Epigenetics

PRESENTERS

Angela Marques Filipe, Stephanie Lloyd + Alexandre Larivée

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Inflammation

PRESENTERS

Rebecca Lacey

RESPONSES

Angela Marques Filipe

Staging the Lifecourse

A journey through the challenges of exploring childrearing using British birth cohorts

PRESENTERS

Emily Emmott

A Science of Hope? Tracing Emergent Entanglements between the Biology of Early Life Adversity, Trauma-informed Care, and Restorative Justice

PRESENTERS

Ruth Müller + Martha Kenney

RESPONSES

Emily Emmott

Staging the Lifecourse Pt. II

Introducing ‘Trajectories’: a biosocial collaboration with the Healthy Early Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) in South Africa

PRESENTERS

Michelle Pentecost 

What (if anything) is going on? Social media use and mental ill-health among young people – teasing out associations using longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study 

PRESENTERS

Yvonne Kelly

Biosocial theory and the politics of developmental disruption: Reflections on interdisciplinary practice in the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort study

PRESENTERS

Dominique Béhague 

Toxicity and Pollution in Birth Cohort Research

Air pollution, noise and the built environment and their association with Cardiometabolic health in ALSPAC

PRESENTERS

Ana Gonçalves Soares

The placenta, an evolving bio-object? Enacting toxicity as process in epigenetic research on toxicants

PRESENTERS

Sophia Rossman

“Passing Down Pollution”: Thinking with Epigenetic Environmental Health

Early Career Researcher Seminar Series

NESTSMX Behind the Scenes: Biosocial Collaborations with a Mexican Birth Cohort Study

PRESENTERS

Faith Cole

CHAIR

Martine Lappé

The Sociality of Sleep: Conversations with Midlife Working-Class Women from Mexico 

PRESENTERS

Erica C. Jansen + Astrid N. Zamora

CHAIR

Michelle Pentecost

Why do women go through menopause? An evolutionary approach

PRESENTERS

Megan Arnot

CHAIR

Emily Emmott

Cesarean Sections and Neurodevelopment, a longitudinal analysis in Mexico

PRESENTERS

Jimena Fritz + Hector Lamadrid 

CHAIR

Elsa Lorthe

Working behind the scenes of the ELEMENT study – a data and cohort management perspective 

PRESENTERS

Laura Arboleda Merino 

CHAIR

Evie Tabor

Biosocial approaches to LGBTQ+ health inequity: the case of asthma

PRESENTERS

Evangeline Tabor

CHAIR

Yvonne Kelly

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Pain at Early Adolescence: A Study in the Generation XXI Cohort

PRESENTERS

Arminé Abrahamyan

CHAIR

Sahra Gibbon

How do mental and physical health change around transitions into sandwich care? Results from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

PRESENTERS

Baowen Xue

CHAIR

Rebecca Lacey