Population Research UK

[Andy]

What is Population Research UK?
HDR [Health Data Research] UK is leading the development of a new initiative called Population Research UK (PRUK) on behalf of the ESRC, the MRC, and Wellcome. PRUK will increase the insights, innovations and research efficiency of the UK’s wealth of social and biomedical longitudinal population studies (LPS) – cohorts, panel studies and record-linkage studies that all collect information from large numbers of individuals over time.

Through bringing studies and data together, PRUK will enable a greater understanding of the complex interplay between biological, social, economic and environmental determinants of health, social and economic outcomes, and address high-impact research questions that single studies cannot address alone.

PRUK will be a national data infrastructure with significant investment to support it. It will learn from and complement existing research infrastructures in an interdisciplinary way, to combine the biomedical, social and economic sciences. It will will focus on increasing access of data to new and potential users across academia, public bodies, charities and industry, and providing services and expertise to users that facilitates research. The programme will support current LPS through tackling, jointly, challenges in data curation, linkage and analytics, and create research efficiencies from doing things on behalf of the community that can benefit all.

Design and dialogue phase
To further define the requirements for Population Research UK, HDR UK is leading on behalf of the funders an open programme of design and dialogue with data owners and processors, data users and the public to develop PRUK. This scoping will put user needs at the centre of PRUK specification, and work collaboratively to learn from the existing research initiatives and infrastructures that support and deliver LPS research. Following the design and dialogue programme, it is expected a funding Call will be announced jointly between the three funders in autumn 2021 for leadership and partners to deliver PRUK.

https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/population-research-uk-email-sign-up/

 

[Invisible Woman]

The programme will support current LPS [longitudinal population studies] through tackling, jointly, challenges in data curation, linkage and analytics, and create research efficiencies from doing things on behalf of the community that can benefit all.

Let's just hope they are pickier than Cochrane when it comes to assessing the quality of evidence & the risk of bias when they're curating that data.

 

[Andy]

From an email.


We’re writing to update you about Population Research UK, a proposed longitudinal population research initiative that HDR UK are scoping on behalf on ESRC, MRC and Wellcome.

We’ve launched a short 15-minute survey to ask about your experiences of working with longitudinal population studies and your priorities for what Population Research UK might focus on. The link can be found here https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PRUKdesignsurvey

The survey will remain open until 9 April and we are very grateful if you take the time to participate.

There is updated information about Population Research UK available on the Population Research UK webpage. Here we will also publish the findings of this survey that will inform recommendations to ESRC, MRC and Wellcome on the delivery phase of Population Research UK.

You’re receiving this message as you either opted in to receive messages during the Population Research UK development launch webinar in December or have signed-up by a link.

With best wishes

The HDR UK Central team


Going by the questions they are asking in the survey, they seem to believe that only professionals would be interested in this sort of thing.