Funding call webinar: searchable register & UK LPS information hub
October 1 @ 2:00 pm
We’re excited to announce our first funding opportunity aimed at transforming discovery capabilities for UK Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS).
Join us for a one-hour webinar where we’ll introduce a new funding call designed to support the development of a searchable register of UK LPS and an information hub.
What’s the challenge?
The discovery landscape for UK LPS is currently fragmented into several offerings that focus on specific infrastructure or thematic data collections. This means that studies contribute to several platforms with high burden on maintaining profiles and definitions of their data and access pathways.
Through our consultation with studies and the wider LPS community, we have committed to funding the improvement and interconnectivity of the currently fragmented discovery landscape. This will provide efficiencies for studies and researchers in discovering LPS data and the means of access to such data.
How can we help?
Our funding call aims to support the development of a searchable register and information hub for UK LPS. The overall objective is to enhance the discovery and availability of LPS metadata for a wider audience by improving LPS data coordination, interoperability and by providing entry mechanisms to studies looking to create consolidated resource profiles.
Funding information
- Funders: Population Research UK
- Funding type: Grant
- Maximum award: £1,625,000 (100% full economic cost)
- Opening date: 1 October 2025 10:00am UK time
- Closing date: 4 December 2025 4:00pm UK time
As part of the commissioned grant, the successful applicant(s) should:
- Organise consultation with users and platform providers to align approaches and to ensure a high-quality user experience in end design;
- Organise consultation with the LPS community to agree the study-level metadata content (including access routes);
- Create a searchable register of studies using a minimum set and standard of metadata that connects to further metadata held in multiple catalogues;
- Coordinate and streamline metadata availability to provide integrated search responses and to align LPS profiles across systems;
- Embed information about existing LPS access routes into minimum requirement metadata and provide searchable links to LPS-facing code repositories;
- Signpost search functionality in existing repositories and guiding users to the correct system for their needs;
- Develop search functionality to aligned re-usable code to be accessed from the LPS register.