Foundation projects funded under PRUK

Prior to commissioning the Hub Leadership Group and Hub Team, ESRC and MRC commissioned three PRUK projects, one of which has been completed and two are ongoing as of August 2024.

Longitudinal Population Studies Data Audit Report 2022 (CLOSER)

CLOSER has completed a comprehensive audit (PDF, 481kB), gathering information across UK LPS on the status of individual study data. Gathering and summarising the information currently available will help the funders to gain a good understanding of what would be required to support data sharing with the wider research community.

Training opportunities

The UK Data Service is delivering a programme of work to develop and expand existing LPS data management training opportunities to enable wider sharing and use of LPS resources. This programme of work is being developed in collaborative consultation with LPS teams to help ensure that needs are appropriately met and existing expertise and best practices in training are identified and shared.

Coverage of Longitudinal Population Studies in the UK

An interdisciplinary project has been commissioned to understand coverage in UK LPS. The project’s aim is to develop the means to provide consistent, reliable information for potential users to enable them to assess the suitability of each study’s data for different types of research questions across the full spectrum of social, economic and biomedical sciences.