Southampton
Women’s
Survey
Learn more about the dietary and lifestyle factors that influence
the health of women and their children
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…
For further information about the Southampton Women’s Survey contact Dr Hazel Inskip. Sue Nottingham, Press Officer, External Relations, University of Southampton 023 80594993 or email svn1@soton.ac.uk
A Southampton woman taking part in a unique medical research survey in the city has just given birth to the 1,000th baby born to women participating in the project. Kerrie Bennett is one of thousands of local women taking part in the Southampton Women’s Survey, which aims to examine the influences on the health of…
In February 2002, the SWS took part in the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Hope Wessex Medical Research Charity. 25 SWS women visited the Civic Centre for a reception with the Mayor. One of the women was born on the day that the charity was launched, and another had given birth to a…
Ten thousand Southampton women have now taken part in the largest study of women’s health and lifestyle ever carried out in the UK. The pioneering medical research project started in 1998 and aims to recruit all Southampton women aged 20 to 34 years to learn more about the dietary and lifestyle factors that influence the…
On Monday July 23rd 2001 the Mayor of Southampton, Councillor Christine Kelly visited the Southampton Women’s Survey. She had chosen the Hope Trust as her charity of her year as Mayor and so came to see the work that the Trust has been doing. Some of the funds for the SWS have come through the…
In June 2001, the SWS was featured throughout the week on BBC’s City Hospital. This showed our research team at work on different parts of the SWS Children’s Follow-Up. Various pregnancy stages were filmed at Princess Anne Maternity Hospital, where Chantelle Carter was shown having a heel scan at her 11 week visit – she…
From this week, Southampton women between the ages of 20 and 34 will be able to register for the groundbreaking Southampton Women’s Survey on the Internet. The survey, which is open to all women in Southampton aged 20-34, is being undertaken to assess women’s health, diets and lifestyles with a view to improving the health…
Women visiting Southampton Balloon and Flower Festival next weekend will get the chance to sign up to help in a pioneering study that could influence future public health policy worldwide. Six thousand women have so far been recruited to the Southampton Women’s Survey. This unique project is expected to produce important findings both on women’s…
From the inside of a woman’s fridge to the outside of her house, a new exhibition of photography by Magda Segal provides a compelling insight into women’s lives today. The photographs, which are currently on show in Southampton City Art Gallery and transfer to the Wellcome Institute in London in late June, are part of…
Would you want the inside of your fridge to be exhibited to the outside world? Even Hello! magazine doesn’t go that far, but this was precisely the challenge facing 12 Southampton women whose everyday lives were photographed as part of the Southampton Women’s Survey. The results-including sweating vegetables, half-eaten cakes, and even Ratty the rat-now…
A unique collaboration between medical research and art will form part of a major photographic exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery next month. Southampton’s Women, photographed by Magda Segal, focuses on some of the women who are participating in the Southampton Women’s Survey. The Survey is one of the largest and most significant focused research…