BozenaWe’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to respond to the theme of ‘communicating/translating data-driven research’.
In this post, Bożena Wielgoszewska reflects on the importance of good communication in her collaboration on the Covid-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study, a project that is generating new data-driven insights into the Covid-19 furlough scheme.
Could you tell us a bit about your canada rcs data current research project, and which data underpin it?
Over the last few months, together with many other researchers across various UK institutions, our team have been working on the Covid-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study project, part of the larger National Core Studies programme funded by UKRI. The aim of this project is to understand the health, social and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic to inform policy.
We aim to do this though uniting established UK population cohorts and national anonymised electronic health records, including the cohorts we host at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). These datasets, which include the National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study, Next Steps, and the Millennium Cohort Study, are available to researchers via the UK Data Service. We have also utilised data from other longitudinal population studies, such as Understanding Society, the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, Generation Scotland, and Twins UK. The first two are also available from the UK Data Service.