Within the four cohorts, in 2024-2025, using a method called ‘photovoice’, we invited 21 intergenerational parent and participant pairs to take pictures of their lives, and then to discuss these in small focus groups. 

This exhibition is a result of this process and provides a visual and audio immersion into the life worlds of a diverse group of participants and their parents, aged 18 to their 60s. Through their images and narratives we see how their lives are sometimes influenced by their involvement in the cohort studies but also often exceed it, as they reveal what is important to them and the details that shape their lives.

We hope this exhibition goes some way to understanding what it means to be a birth cohort participant in these very different parts of the world, whilst also helping us to re-think and re-imagine what cohort participation is or could be.