At UK LLC, we are now entering a new phase. We have permissions in place to extend our purpose to support any research in the public good and to link longitudinal population research study collected data to participants’ NHS health records, socio-economic records and environmental and place-based data from across the UK’s four nations.
We are guided in this by the data managers and wider teams at our partner Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) and by participants and public contributors who are embedded across critical functions of our Trusted Research Environment. Each LPS has or will (prior to any wider use starting) contact their participants about this and ensure participants are informed and understand their rights.
We are encouraging applications from both longitudinal researchers and analysts who use large datasets as part of their research and are interested in the depth of detail present in linked Longitudinal Population Study datasets.
With over 325,000 participant records in our Trusted Research Environment, datasets can be viewed via UK LLC Explore, and UK LLC Guidebook providing a comprehensive user guide and growing set of data documentation. Applications are made via the UK LLC Application System and our Trusted Research Environment is currently free to access for early adopters.