Principal Supervisor: Dr Tim Morris (UCL) Co-Supervisors: Dr Emma Meaburn (Birkbeck); Professor Bonamy Oliver (UCL) Project Description Language and reading skills are key drivers of educational su…

This 2-day course will provide social scientists with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the creation of polygenic scores, critically interpret their use in studies, and integrate them into...

Join this one-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic and social issues with birth cohort data.

This 4-day course will provide social scientists with the knowledge and skills needed to analyse genetic data, critically interpret results, and integrate genetics into their research.

Birth cohort studies have a rich history of contributing to science within and between disciplinary fields, notably health and social sciences [1–4]. Here,

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

Author summary Children with obesity are more likely to have parents with obesity, too. This may be explained by environmental factors, such as prenatal conditions in utero or postnatal parental behav...

A new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) urges caution over the use of polygenic indices (PGI) data to inform educational policy and practice. We suggest next steps for policymakers ...