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  • CLOSER presents a Study Spotlight on SWS

    The SWS Study Spotlight is live on the CLOSER website and will be featured in Longitudinal News.

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  • Poorer diet quality associated with higher adiposity outcomes

    Dietary data has been collected at many time points in the SWS, before pregnancy and during pregnancy from the mums and up to age 8-9 years in the children. Researchers were able to make use of this longitudinal data to consider patterns in diet over time. They used statistical models to find that women and…

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  • Blood pressure measurement and adverse pregnancy outcomes

    A recent paper published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology used Southampton Women’s Survey data to explore whether a current definition of high blood pressure in pregnancy is appropriate. 3003 SWS mothers had at least three blood pressure measurements taken in pregnancy. Associations were explored with pregnancy and birth outcomes: development of pre-eclampsia,…

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  • Recent Phases of the SWS

    Young people aged 17 to 19 years In this phase of the SWS, we are interested in learning about diet, physical activity and other health behaviours as well as experiences with education, social media, and relationships with friends and family, among people of your age. We invited some of the SWS young people to complete…

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  • NEW PHASE OF THE SWS

    Earlier phases of the Southampton Women’s Survey (SWS) have helped us to understand the things that influence the way children and young people grow and develop. We now want to find out about the lives of the SWS young people in late adolescence and early adulthood. We are interested in learning about diet, physical activity…

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  • Alcohol intake make be linked to premenstrual syndrome

    The paper “Premenstrual syndrome and alcohol consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis” received a great deal of media coverage including newspaper articles in The Southampton Daily Echo; The Daily Mail; The Scotsman; The Daily Telegraph; The Sun; The Kuwait Times; Science Daily and The Scottish Daily Mail. For further information see the University of Southampton’s…

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  • Competition – YOUNGER Category

    1st PRIZE Tommy Whitehead 2nd PRIZE Abigail Tebb 3rd PRIZE Estelle Nelson 4th PRIZE Amy Sweetham Runner Up Lewis Mitchell Runner Up Peter Maddams

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  • Competition – OLDER Category

    1st Prize Faith Pressey 2nd PRIZE Holly Dadson 3rd PRIZE Sam Mackenzie 4th PRIZE Hannah Wiffin Runner Up Aeryn Giles Runner Up Amy Keall Runner Up Antony Maynard Runner Up Isabel Palmgren Runner Up Loobie Lisa-Marie Bailey Runner Up Mason Coster Runner Up Nicole Jackson Runner Up Sofia Mahmood

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  • Competition

    In March 2012 we organised a colouring competition for the children in the SWS, in two age categories. The children were asked to produce a picture on the theme of “The Southampton Women’s Survey and ME!”. We received many very colourful pictures and  were able to award prizes to some of the artists. Congratulations to…

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  • Photography Exhibition

    Magda Segal, a professional portrait/reportage photographer, has taken photographs of about 50 women who have participated in the Southampton Women’s Survey. Magda spent a day with the women and documented their lives in a series of pictures. Photographs of twelve of these women were exhibited at the Southampton City Art Gallery and then at the…

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  • Southern Daily Echo

    In early September 2005, the SWS featured twice in major articles in the Southern Daily Echo. In their weekend magazine on September 3rd a three-page spread focused on the photographs of SWS women taken by Magda Segal. The photos captured aspects of the lives of some SWS women and 18 photographs were reproduced in the…

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  • HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visits the MRC, ERC

    The SWS is based at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton, previously known as the MRC, ERC (Epidemiology Resource Centre). This was established in 2003 following reconfiguration of the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit. Like the Environmental Epidemiology Unit which preceded it, the Resource Centre is closely associated with…

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SWS Newsletters

SWS Newsletter 2017
SWS Newsletter 2012
SWS Newsletter 2006