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February 2026

Welcome to UK LLC Data Bulletin
Discover our latest data news in our quarterly newsletter.

  • News & updates
  • Spotlight on AIRWAVE
  • Research focus
  • Reminders for researchers
News & updates
570,060 participants from 22 Longitudinal Population Studies
  • AIRWAVE data now available (police occupational cohort study).
  • See UK LLC Guidebook for comprehensive documentation about all available datasets.
🗹 Broad range of research topics possible
🗹 Postgraduate students can apply
🗹 Currently no access charge
Spotlight on AIRWAVE
Interested in the relationship between occupational exposures and health outcomes over time? Take a look at AIRWAVE.

The most recent Longitudinal Population Study (LPS) to share its data via UK LLC, AIRWAVE was established to evaluate possible long-term health risks associated with police officers’ use of a digital communication system. AIRWAVE has monitored both cancer and non-cancer health outcomes in this occupational group for over 20 years. The study supports research into a wide range of topics affecting this group, including mental health, cognition, nutrition, and sickness absence. 

More information about the characteristics of AIRWAVE, and all the UK LLC’s partner LPS, is on Guidebook.
Research focus
Anyone who has ever worked with data collected at different times or using different methods, will know what a challenge it is to understand and recode variables so they can be analysed together.

UK LLC Research Manager, Rachel Calkin, has been working on harmonising some of the demographic data shared by our partner LPS.

Our new, harmonised, datasets provide researchers with fully documented demographic variables that are consistent across LPS.

Read more about the benefits of harmonised variables.
Reminders for researchers
  • You must only access the UK LLC TRE from the UK. 
  • The SeRP system undergoes regular maintenance on the third Thursday of each month to ensure it continues to operate smoothly and securely. The list of dates and times is available on UK LLC Guidebook.
  • Ready to file out your analyses for presentations or publications? You must adhere to your project-specific Terms & Conditions. See UK LLC Guidebook for further information.
Where to find out more
Email our Data Team:

support@ukllc.ac.uk
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UK LLC is run by the Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh, in partnership with UCL, SeRP UK, Swansea University, City St George’s, University of London, University of Leicester and Population Research UK. It originated as part of the COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study. This work is funded by UK Research and Innovation, Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council. UK LLC uses data provided by study participants and patients collected through longitudinal studies, or as part of their care and support.