The winners of the five annual Campbell awards were celebrated last week. At the Campbell Members Meeting on 18 October, Jeremy Grimshaw, President of the Campbell board, made the presentations for the Robert Boruch Award, the Farah Jamal Award, the Frederick Mosteller Award and Leonard E. Gibbs Award.
The Robert Boruch Award for distinctive contributions to research that informs public policy went to Peter Neyroud CBE QPM CCMI in honour of his contributions to policing around the world. “Bob Boruch is one of my icons in this field, so it is doubly delightful and also humbling to receive an award with his name attached,” Peter said in a recorded message to the Campbell Members Meeting.
The Frederick Mosteller Award for distinctive contributions to systematic reviewing was given to James Pustejovsky for his significant contributions in meta-analysis. “The Campbell Collaboration has been such a lode star for my work on meta-anaysis methodology. I look forward to future conversations and collaboration,” James said.
The Leonard E. Gibbs Award is given to the authors of a Campbell systematic review or evidence and gap map that contributes to evidence-informed practice in social welfare. This year’s recipients are:
- Technology-based and digital interventions for intimate partner violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis [https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1271]
Chuka Emezue, Jo-Ana D. Chase, Tipparat Udmuangpia, Tina L. Bloom - Exploring the effect of case management in homelessness per components: A systematic review of effectiveness and implementation, with meta-analysis and thematic synthesis [https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1329]
Alison L. Weightman, Mark J. Kelson, Ian Thomas, Mala K. Mann, Lydia Searchfield, Simone Willis, Ben Hannigan, Robin J. Smith, Rhiannon Cordiner - Information and communications technology use to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in low- and middle-income countries: An evidence and gap map [https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1277]
William Philbrick, Jacob Milnor, Madhu Deshmukh, Patricia Mechael
The Farah Jamal Award for early career researchers aims to recognise scholarly work that ensures historically marginalised and under-represented voices are heard. This year’s recipient was Laurenz Langer. Laurenz remembered Farah Jamal as someone who cared about using reviews for improving lives. He said: “We fairly quickly discovered that what really connected us was a commitment to use research to do something about inequities – in her case health inequities in the schooling system and now our case in South Africa, lots of different inequities. She would want us to keep going, to keep things relatable, not get lost in the geekiness, and to make a difference through evidence synthesis”.
The John Westbrook Award was announced by Cindy Cai, Co-chair of the Knowledge Translation & Implementation Coordinating Group in a special session of the What Works Global Summit 2023. The recipient, Cara Lewis, is Deputy Director for the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science at the National Institutes of Health. The award recognises her significant contribution to using knowledge translation and implementation science to make research syntheses more relevant and useful for policy and practice.
Last year’s recipient Melanie Barwick, Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, delivered the John Westbrook Lecture during the session.
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The Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network. Campbell groups coordinate the production and promote the use of high-quality, policy-relevant evidence syntheses such as systematic reviews and evidence and gap maps which are published in our open access journal, Campbell Systematic Reviews, and used by policymakers around the world.