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Constellations, challenges and circular perspectives.

11th Aug 2025

The UK LLC Citizen Panel Hybrid Workshop 2 @Edinburgh Futures Institute, 25 June 2025 Introduction Constellation. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘constellation’? I tend to think of the stars in...

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Public Good

11th Aug 2025

Steve shares his thoughts as part of our series of reflections from some of our Citizen Panel members on the second workshop held recently at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh.The series also includes contributions from Lidis (Citizen Panel Lead), Farheen...

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Hats off to Hybrid: Reflections on the one-day UK LLC Citizen Panel meeting 25th August 2025

11th Aug 2025

Sarah shares her thoughts as part of our series of reflections from some of our Citizen Panel members on the second workshop held recently at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh.The series also includes contributions from Lidis (Citizen Panel Lead), Farheen...

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My journey at the Citizen Panel Workshop # 2

11th Aug 2025

Farheen reflects on her experience as a Citizen Panel member attending online at the second workshop held recently at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh.The series also includes contributions from Lidis (Citizen Panel Lead), Sarah and Steve. My journey at the...

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Talking with: Olayemi Amusile

25th Jul 2025

Earlier this week we checked in with Olayemi to find out how she's been getting on since joining us in June and what her experience at UK LLC has involved. This is the second year that we have taken up...

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My journey to UK LLC’s Public Involvement Programme

1st Jul 2025

My name is Michael (he/him). In this blog I am going to talk about what I have done as a public contributor for UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). I’ll set out some of what led me to UK LLC...

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What you can expect from UK LLC when starting a project in their Trusted Research Environment 

1st Jul 2025

In this blog, health data scientist and researcher Joseph Lam, shares his experience of working in the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment and the support received as a user. Joseph’s PhD involves assessing and evaluating data linkage strategies to reduce...

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Why new UK LLC linkages to Welsh participant data is great news for research 

1st Jul 2025

In this blog, Emma Turner, UK LLC’s Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow based at the University of Bristol, talks through the benefits of linking to Welsh NHS records available for research, as the latest data intake into the UK...

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Three ways to connect with other UK LLC users 

1st Jul 2025

“The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.” - John Bardeen In the words of two-time Nobel Prize recipient, John Bardeen, collaborating with other researchers can...

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Bringing policies to life – a day with the UK LLC Citizen Panel

21st Mar 2025

In this blog, Katharine Evans, UK LLC Senior Data Manager, talks about taking part in the Citizen Panel workshop. Please also view our other blogs in this mini-series from Salma, Jonathan, Sarah, Farheen, Alan and Citizen Panel Lead, Dr Lidis Garbovan. I’ve worked at...

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