Aberdeen Cohorts

Home of the cohorts born in Aberdeen in the 1950s, 1936, and 1921

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

Opportunity for women to help with improvements in breast cancer screening

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

Merry Christmas to you all and sending you best wishes for the new year. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting year in 2020!

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

✨Exciting opportunity✨

Come and do a PhD with @DimitraBlana & @NirOren5 on novel methods for capturing human movement! Deadline: March 13 2020. 

The project is supported by an @aberdeenuni Elphinstone Scholarship, which covers the cost of tuition fees https://t.co/hrk03mvvVq

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

We've been spreading word about the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. Marj @marj_cat from the team is in Cardiff at the International Administrative Data Research conference. People are interested to hear how we work with the Children of the 50s in planning future research.

[Marj Johnston @marj_cat]

Just finished presenting our work describing co-design of research with members of the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study @ADR_2019 conference. I'm very proud of being involved with this cohort, and it's an ongoing privilege to work with them in designing future study #2019ADR

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Marj @marj_cat from the team has just been talking at the 2019 International Administrative Data Research conference about our co-design work with Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study members @ABC_Aberdeen To find out more about the study see here: https://t.co/gOhb4TiTAO

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Love working with @ABC_Aberdeen and their drive for participant involvement in science. From shaping the agenda for optimising health as we age to data donation for @genscot NextGen. Can't wait for the sound landscape and tastes of Aberdeen work 🥧🍲🍰

Read all about it

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Christmas newsletter is out! We have partnered with the Generation Scotland @genscot study which contains over 500 members of the Aberdeen Children of the 50s. Both newsletters are available here: https://t.co/hDnuEhUbSg

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

Marj @marj_cat from the team will be talking at a conference next week about workshops we ran with members of the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. For a summary of these workshops please also see here: https://t.co/uokyCS3qkl

[Marj Johnston @marj_cat]

Our abstract describing workshops we held with members of the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study is published in @ijpds We explored research priorities and acceptable data collection methods. I'll present it @ADR_2019 in Cardiff next week :-) https://t.co/LOIbMszEvU

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

In October 2020 we will run an exhibition about the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. We will be inviting members of the study to help plan this exhibition with us, and submit photographs and items they feel are important in telling their life story. More information soon 😃

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Happy Friday to you all, Marj @marj_cat here for my final day of tweeting. This morning I had a fantastic discussion about a public exhibition to be held about the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study @ABC_Aberdeen in October 2020 😀

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

Breaking news.... the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study Christmas newsletter is with the printers! It will be sent to study members in December along with a newsletter from the Generation Scotland @genscot study...

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Excited to have sent the annual @ABC_Aberdeen Aberdeen Children of the 1950s newsletter to our printers. Even better, we have partnered with Generation Scotland (who include >500 Children of the 50s in their study). Both newsletters will arrive with study members in December!

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Happy Tuesday to you all! Marj @marj_cat here again, I'm tweeting here for the week. This morning I've been working on a paper describing a study I carried out using the 1936 Aberdeen Birth Cohort @ABC_Aberdeen I examined the relationship between kidney impairment and IQ 1/

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Good morning 👋 it's Marj @marj_cat here. I'll be tweeting here this week about my work in the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, about public health and data science and about our work with the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study @ABC_Aberdeen 🙂

[Marj Johnston @marj_cat]

Early life influences are part of the research programme for the New Map of Life, @jrandellkhan tells us. Our own Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort @ABC_Aberdeen has informed my own life-course research with its very detailed birth & early life data #longevity @Longevity_Intl

[Generation Scotland @genscot]

GS is celebrating a Hundred Years of Genetics with @GenSocUK #GenSoc100

[Jess Butler @JessButler284]

Good intro to using Scottish government data for research (with mention of @ABC_Aberdeen following 12,000 Aberdonians since they were born in the 1950s! 👶🧒🧑👨👴)

[Dr Dimitra Blana @DimitraBlana]

✨ Want to start your weekend on an inspiring note? ✨
Have a look at the work we do @AbdnCHDS, designing innovative data science solutions to health and care problems 👇 https://t.co/GYiHTG0E9c

[NHS Grampian Archives @NHSGArchives]

A couple of volumes from Chalmers Hospital in Banff listing parts of the body x-rayed in 1947. The hospital bought its first x-ray equipment in 1914, but it used so much electricity that the lift installed in 1929 couldn't be used at the same time.

#WRD2019 #WorldRadiographyDay

[Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @AbdnCHDS]

Great working with @ABC_Aberdeen and all of the participants. Their donation of data about their lives impacts our understanding of health, wellbeing, society. @adr_uk @HDR_UK @aberdeenuni_smd @NHSResearchScot @Opportunity_NE1

[Aberdeen Cohorts @ABC_Aberdeen]

Our talk about the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study at the Festival of Social Science @aberdeenuni last night is in the paper! Thanks to all who came along 😀

[The Press and Journal @pressjournal]

It is one of the biggest studies of its kind ever carried out by researchers in Scotland.

https://t.co/WadU41LBAn

[Dr Dimitra Blana @DimitraBlana]

This was a brilliant event, well done Marj and Krzys! 👏
Here are a few photos, if you missed it...