Prestigious £4.5m Wellcome Discovery Award boosts Bradford research to tackle childhood health inequalities

The internationally renowned Born in Bradford research programme has received a prestigious £4.5m Wellcome Discovery Award to fund an ambitious eight-year study aimed at addressing childhood health and wellbeing inequalities. The newly funded project, BiBBS Achieve, will build on the success of Born in Bradford’s Better Start (BiBBS) birth cohort—an innovative early childhood study in the UK that […]

Bradford initiatives showcased to Children’s Commissioner for England

Bradford played host to Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, who found out how community insights, world-leading research and people’s experiences are shaping services in Bradford District and Craven and across West Yorkshire. Dame Rachel visited Miriam Lord Primary School and Farcliffe Family Hub in Manningham before meeting researchers from the Bradford […]

Born in Bradford’s Age of Wonder Portrait Series on Permanent Exhibition at the BRI

Portraits of Born in Bradford’s Age of Wonder participants are on permanent exhibition at the BRI. BiB: Age of Wonder is a seven-year project documenting the journey through adolescence for all teenagers in Bradford by using surveys and health measures in schools to learn about teenagers’ opinions on key topics such as mental health and […]