Category: Press
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Photography Project (Ref 99/00)
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…
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Christmas Baby (Ref 98/206)
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…
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First Press Release (Ref 98/00)
The way people live affects their health throughout life. Surprisingly little is known about the lifestyles of young women in Britain today. We do not know how their employment, child care responsibilities, family life, patterns of exercise and housing alter their diets and body weight and hence influence their health through life. If a woman…