Author: Ian Bowes

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…

Local nurse, Debbie Scully, who is both working on, and taking part in, Southampton’s pioneering Women’s Survey, has just given birth to a baby boy. Debbie, whose pregnancy was monitored as part of the study, gave birth to Jeremiah at the Princess Anne Hospital. The Southampton Women’s Survey is studying 20,000 women in the city,…

The much publicized “millennium baby boom” – and the accompanying prediction of New Year chaos in maternity hospitals – is not going to happen, according to researchers involved in The Southampton Women’s Survey, a large-scale survey which aims to identify pregnant women early in pregnancy. According to data gathered by the researchers in the last…

The Southampton Women’s Survey, one of the most important surveys of women’s health ever to be undertaken, this week launches the first in a series of regular newsletters to ensure that the community is aware of the good progress that is now being made. From photographic exhibitions to pregnancies within the Survey Team, the newsletter…

As part of the Southampton Women’s Survey, we are working with professional portrait/reportage photographer Magda Segal to record a day in the life of some of Southampton’s women. The photographs are intended to document the diversity of young women’s lifestyles and diets and record daily life as it is lived by women in Southampton. The…

Charley, the first baby of 3,000 to be studied as part of the ground-breaking Southampton Women’s Survey, was born at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton on Wednesday 30 December. His mother, Lisa Portsmouth, participated in the survey before she became pregnant, and then was interviewed and received extra ultrsound scans during pregnancy. Lisa and…