The CLOSER Data Linkage Working Group comprises of professionals and practitioners working to establish and/or maintain linkages within the longitudinal research community.
The group meets every four months to discuss and identify how to lower the barriers to linkages and support the coordinated development of linkage processing.
The longitudinal population studies and organisations currently represented include:
- Armed Services Trauma and Rehabilitation Outcome (Imperial College London)
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (University of Bristol)
- Born in Bradford (Bradford Institute for Health Research)
- British Regional Heart Study (University College London)
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies (University College London)
- EPIC-Norfolk Study (University of Cambridge)
- English Longitudinal Study of Aging (University College London)
- Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (King’s College London)
- Fenland Study (University of Cambridge)
- Generations Study (The Institute of Cancer Research)
- Hertfordshire Cohort Study (University of Southampton)
- Million Women Study (University of Oxford)
- MRC National Survey of Health and Development (UCL)
- Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Queen’s University Belfast)
- Our Future Health
- Southampton Women’s Survey (University of Southampton)
- Twins UK (King’s College London)
- UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration
- Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (University of Essex)
- Whitehall II (University College London)
For more information, or to enquire about joining the CLOSER Data Linkage Working Group, please contact us: closer@ucl.ac.uk