On October 14th 2025, Romana travelled to Cardiff to attend the Generation New Era consultation event.
Generation New Era is a new and upcoming cohort study which will be tracking the development and growth of babies born in summer 2026 across childhood (and hopefully longer!). Importantly, the study will explore the impact of children growing up in “the digital world”.
The consultation event asked researchers to come together to review the proposed questions to be asked to parents in the first wave of data collection. Researchers fed back on topics such as parent health, child development, and parent-infant interactions.
The event provided valuable insight into planned work, and allowed Romana to feed back on how to assess the role of technology during these pivotal early stages.