Today is the final day of #SLLS2024 with three of the UK LLC team presenting to delegates.
Katharine Evans talked about the resources we’re developing to help researchers discover the data on offer in the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment (TRE). She outlined how researchers can build a data request https://lnkd.in/ep3DsjyN and the resources created to show how to work with the data https://lnkd.in/eDhUMBj2. Katharine emphasised that we encourage feedback and collaboration from researchers to develop the resources so we can make them as useful as possible to the data science community.
Then Emma Turner talked about her work to build sustainable data linkage pipelines, linking Longitudinal Population Study (LPS) data to administrative data. The pipelines were developed to be low burden for data owners, with systematic linkages carried out by ONS. The methodology was designed with public acceptability in mind and to have the appropriate legal basis and governance in place.
The final of our series of talks was from Director Andy Boyd who gave an enthusiastic talk outlining the development and exciting future directions of UK LLC as a national interdisciplinary resource. He acknowledged the collaboration and input of UK LLC’s partner Longitudinal Population Studies, their study participants, our collaborators (UCL, SeRP UK at Swansea University’s Population Data Science, University of Leicester and City, St George’s University of London) and all who have been instrumental in the rapid development of the resource. Andy finished by encouraging researchers to apply to use this rich data source to carry out their research for public good.
As the resource has developed over the last couple of years, it has been rewarding for our team to see the reaction of researchers at conferences like SLLS about the opportunities that UK LLC can bring to enable research for public good. There is great interest and palpable excitement across the data science community.
Thanks to UKRI, ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council and Medical Research Council who fund this effective and efficient new way of working and to the guiding hands of our many public contributors whose work is stitched across our operations, ensuring that at all times and at all stages, we consider how our work impacts, affects and benefits people across our communities.
This has been an incredibly well-organised conference. Our final thanks and a huge ‘well-done’ goes to the conference organising team at SLLS for their hard work and attention to detail. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the experience and have benefitted greatly from the event, having the opportunity to share our work as well as connect with the delegates. Can’t wait for next year!
