Our Partnerships

Generation Scotland is a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, as well as NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Grampian, NHS Lothian and NHS Tayside and Public Health Scotland.

Our team is currently based at the University of Edinburgh within both the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, and the Centre for Medical Informatics in the Usher Institute.

Partnership Organisations

We partner with various organisations to help us carry out our research and expand our impact throughout Scotland and beyond.

The following partners help facilitate data linkage for our study:

Generation Scotland is a partner in the following organisations

  • CLOSER is the home of longitudinal research, the interdisciplinary partnership of leading social and biomedical longitudinal population studies.

     

  • Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) is a partnership between 27 public, industry and third sector organisations, with core funding from the Medical Research Council. Based at Oxford University, we bring together expertise from universities, charities, and pharmaceutical and technology companies to enable crucial breakthroughs in dementia research.

 

  • Health Data Research UK Alliance (HDR UK) is an independent alliance of leading healthcare and research organisations united to establish best practice for the ethical use of UK health data for research at scale.

 

  • UK LLC | UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration is the national Trusted Research Environment for data linkage in longitudinal research, led by the Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh. It simplifies access to linked data for research in the public good, enabling discoveries through linked associations between health, social, behavioural, and economic research.

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