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UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC)
Introduction
{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) is the national Trusted Research Environment (TRE) for longitudinal research. Led by the Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh, in collaboration with UCL, SeRP UK, Swansea University, University of Leicester and St George's, University of London, it is a collaborative endeavour with many of the UK's most established longitudinal population studies (LPS). UK LLC's mission is to provide a data linkage resource to its partner LPS and to provide a simple one-application process to UK based researchers applying to access linked longitudinal data. The data in the UK LLC TRE is provided by over 280,000 participants who volunteer to be part of their LPS. The LPS retain control of who can access their participants' linked data and all permissions set by participants remain in place."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"For more information please visit: "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"http://www.ukllc.ac.uk","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"www.ukllc.ac.uk"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The LPS collaborating in UK LLC are: Airwave Health Monitoring Study, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), Born in Bradford (BIB), English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC) Norfolk Study, Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA (EXCEED), The Fenland Study, Generation Scotland, Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression Study (GLAD), The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), Next Steps, Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA), MRC National Survey of Health and Development Cohort/1946 Birth Cohort (NSHD/1946BC), National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) BioResource COVID-19 Psychiatry and Neurological Genetics (COPING) Study, Southall and Brent Revisited (SABRE) (non-linked data only), TRACK-COVID Study, TwinsUK, Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), Understanding Society - the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Active Users: 60 | Active Projects: 25 | Pricing: Centrally funded - currently no charge at the point of access."}]}]}