SPHSU/IHW Literature Review and Evidence Synthesis (LIRES) discussion group
Published: 23 September 2020
A new group has formed within the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit/IHW to provide an informal and supportive environment to facilitate discussion and learning on principles, components, and emerging issues in the conduct of literature reviews and evidence synthesis
A new group has formed within the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit/IHW to provide an informal and supportive environment to facilitate discussion and learning on principles, components, and emerging issues in the conduct of literature reviews and evidence synthesis
Purpose
Provide an informal and supportive environment to facilitate discussion and learning on principles, components, and emerging issues in the conduct of literature reviews and evidence synthesis.
Who can join?
Any member of Institute of Health & Wellbeing.
Communication
We will use the LIRES team on MS teams to share details of upcoming meetings including zoom links, and for online queries/discussion between meetings. You can join this team by submitting a request here.
Format and frequency of meetings
A one hour meeting will be held every 6-8 weeks during term time, with the potential to hold additional discussions initiated by interested parties via MS teams when useful.
The group will be self-reliant, meaning that topic ideas and material for discussion will be provided by those participating. Participants proposing a topic will be asked to prepare some brief, around 15 minute, informal presentation to the group to outline the issue or topic for discussion. It may be useful for this introductory presentation to illustrate the issue using personal experience in particular challenges encountered, solutions and also unresolved issues or queries.
The topic for the next meeting will be agreed by the group based on suggestions from participants.
An initial meeting took place in September 2020, and the following topics of interest were noted:
- How are Systematic Reviews viewed by academic peers, REF and funding panels?
- Mixed methods reviews
- Stakeholder engagement in Systematic Reviews
- Software to support systematic reviews
- Screening with collaborators
- Rapid reviews
- Critical appraisal for Non-Randomised Studies
- Reviewing qualitative evidence
- Reporting tools
- Synthesis Without Meta-analysis
For more information, please contact Hilary Thomson.
First published: 23 September 2020