Evie Tabor

This blog is based on our comment with @dylankneale.bsky.social in @sllshome.bsky.social journal: doi.org/10.1332/1757...

Blog from me and my wonderful colleague Dr Charis Bridger Staatz!

Photo of three babies lying on the carpet

Graphic describing some of the key features of the study: 30,000 babies will take part, it is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years, babies will be age 9-11 months at the first survey, and 3-4 years at the second survey.

Graphic showing sample sizes in the four UK countries: 16,300 babies in England, 5,000 babies in Scotland, 4,500 babies in Wales, and 4,200 babies in Northern Ireland.

Graphic describing some of the elements of the study. This includes boosts for ethnic minority and low income families, interviews with fathers as well as mothers, consent to linkage to administrative data.

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

We used brilliant data from @clscohorts.bsky.social, @usociety.bsky.social, and @elsa-study.bsky.social which allowed us to look in detail at asthma in LGBTQ+ people in the UK

The open-access article can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

Lastly, we looked at the role of smoking and found that it played only a small role (despite higher LGBTQ+ smoking rates). Further work looking at stress, discrimination, and environmental factors could be important!

Lung function was also poorer in LGBTQ+ respondents - this study is one of the first to look at this objective measure of lung health in UK LGBTQ+ people

We also found asthma disparities widened over time and seemed to emerge in late adolescence / early adulthood

We found bisexuals and LGBTQ+ women had the greatest disparities in asthma compared to their heterosexual counterparts

This work from my PhD is now out in the world! With @dylankneale.bsky.social and Prof Praveetha Patalay, I looked at asthma disparities in UK LGBTQ+ people

Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025 Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme More than 100,000 people took to the streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025 on Saturday, making it the biggest such event in the world, organisers said. The route wound through the centre of the capital’s most famous sites, taking in Regent’s Street, Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square. It concluded at Parliament Square with speakers including Heartstopper and Doctor Who actor Yasmin Finney. Continue reading...

Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 Job opportunity! 📢

I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place!

See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!

We also had three brilliant responses from colleagues at the @eppicentre.bsky.social, @usociety.bsky.social and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia reflecting on challenges and approaches in their own contexts

We use examples from the @clscohorts.bsky.social and the 1946 cohort to illustrate the challenges and opportunities of longitudinal data for research impact and discuss how the more nuanced, complex and subtle elements of impact can be understood

Screenshot of article pdf reading: COMMENTARY Re-considering ‘impact’ for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approaches to theorising and measuring the influence of cohort studies Charis Bridger Staatz, charis.staatz.17@ucl.ac.uk Evangeline Tabor, evangeline.tabor.18@ucl.ac.uk Dylan Kneale, d.kneale@ucl.ac.uk University College London, UK

New comment from Dr Charis Bridger Staatz, @dylankneale.bsky.social and me on measuring and evaluating research impact from longitudinal studies in @sllshome.bsky.social journal
doi.org/10.1332/1757...

A new working paper from me!

PhD Studentship: LGBTQ+ people and adult social care at University of Bristol Discover a PhD Studentship: LGBTQ+ people and adult social care on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

Funded PhD opportunity about LGBTQ+ people & adult social care with an incredible supervisory team at the University of Bristol consisting of Profs @jasonschaub.bsky.social & David Abbott. Applications due 15/05/25 with PhD starting September 2025. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP621/p...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!! Love and solidarity always 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

📢 CLS wants your help to shape the content of the next cohort study surveys 📢

⏱️Submit your ideas by Friday, 16 May 2025 via the links below:

👉 The joint NCDS and BCS70 web survey - buff.ly/mmTudlI

👉 The web survey of parents and carers of MCS participants - buff.ly/6YLBL5t

A poster reading: Does your work impact your health? We invite you to take part in a groundbreaking study exploring the effects of work on women's chronic health. Eligibility: Women aged 30-40 Living and working in London Works from an office/desk Either formally or self-diagnosed with a functional somatic disorder Participation involves: A 2 hour in-person interview (April-June 2025) A short drawing activity Interviews will be anonymised For the purposes of this study functional somatic disorders include: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Fibromyalgia Tension headaches/TMJ Functional Neurological disorder (FND) Hyperventilation/ breathing dyspnea Chronic dizziness and/or chest pains Multisensory sensitivity disorder This study does not cover: Neurodivergence (ADHD/ autism etc) Long-covid or covid related illnesses Endometriosis Mental health conditions (although these may be present as comorbidities) Pregnancy or gynaecological issues Disorders of the organs or bones Cancers Contact Rosie Mathers, PhD Researcher at UCL: rosie.mathers.16@ucl.ac.uk

My lovely friend is looking for participants for her PhD:

Huge thanks to my co-author
@jdcarpentieri.bsky.social for all his help and to all the fantastic scholars who inspired this short piece

We use BCS70 from @clscohorts.bsky.social as our example of a dataset which hosts unique data which could be used to really dig into topics such as LGBTQ+ health

Had the opportunity to write about fun potential ways of working with LGBTQ+ data when the data wasn't necessarily collected for studying queer people and their lives: doi.org/10.1017/S002... (open access)

A Guide to Providing LGBTQ+ Inclusive Reproductive Health Care | Pride This evidence-based guide brings together a wide range of information and practical tools for midwives, obstetricians, nurses, health visitors and birthworkers,

👀👀👀 Excited to have a read of my very clever colleagues' new book!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Internet was down for a few hours today so cracked into my copy of Jack Halberstam's In a Queer Time & Place 🤌

Preprint of one of my PhD papers is out! We looked at asthma and lung function in LGBTQ+ people in the UK #lgbthealth

A tiny thing but extra frustrating to have a funding application to do more LGBTQ health work rejected in this particular historic moment

A poster for the Queer Data Showcase's Call for Presenters. The poster includes information about the Showcase host (Mystika Glamoor), its date and location (5 June, Pleasance, Edinburgh) and co-organisers (Pride in STEM and AI Ethics & Society).

Edinburgh is hosting a QUEER DATA SHOWCASE!

We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone else who works with – or is interested in – queer data to share their ideas.

📢 The Call for Presenters is now live: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s... #data #AI #tech #LGBTQ #queer #data #Scotland