Author: Campbell Collaboration
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2023 Campbell Awards Announced
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…
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Request for proposals for a qualitative systematic review of focused deterrence
On behalf of the Youth Endowment Foundation (YEF), the Campbell Collaboration intends to commission a systematic review of research on the implementation and delivery of focused deterrence (FD). The proposed review will include a range of literature to address the following research questions: How are the three core components (enforcement, support, community influence) of FD…
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Teaching children in the language they understand best improves their reading skills
This article is adapted from a blog post published on the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) website. The original article contains references to other research papers, with links. When schools teach pupils in their mother tongues, it helps their reading in their own languages and may also improve their reading in…
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Campbell board member Zulfiqar Bhutta recognised with more accolades
Campbell board member Zulfi Bhutta has been awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) in recognition of his lifetime of exceptional contributions to Pakistan. Dr Bhutta is co-director of the Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada, and founding director of the Institute for Global Health and Development…
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Climate Solutions Coordinating Group seeks a Co-chair
Co-chairs of Campbell Coordinating Groups (CGs) are responsible for strategic and intellectual leadership of the group, as well as advocacy and fundraising. The new Co-chair of the Climate Solutions Coordinating Group (CSCG) will participate in monthly meetings which he or she will manage jointly with the incumbent Co-chair, Jan Minx. You will find a description…
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Does Montessori work?
By Angeline S. Lillard, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and Justus Randolph, Professor of Nursing at Mercer University Montessori education’s impact on academic and nonacademic outcomes Montessori education has lasted for over a century, and is by far the most widespread alternative to traditional, teacher-centered, age-graded and grade-based education. And yet we…
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Advancing openness in research and peer review
By Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Manager, Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics, Wiley This article was first published on the website of the Wiley Network on 26 July 2023. Campbell Systematic Reviews is an open access journal under the editorial control of the Campbell Collaboration. The journal introduced transparent peer review earlier this year. We caught up…
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Campbell Systematic Reviews journal receives Impact Factor of 3.2
The open access journal of the Campbell Collaboration, Campbell Systematic Reviews, has received its first Journal Impact Factor. Campbell Systematic Reviews publishes evidence syntheses on social science topics and methods research papers. The journal’s Editor in Chief Vivian Welch said, “We are delighted to announce our 2022 Journal Impact Factor of 3.2. This is a…
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Launch of World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2023
International coalition champions global health equity JBI, Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, GIN, the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and NICE have partnered to launch the 2023 campaign for World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day, ‘Evidence and Global Health Equity’. The 2023 campaign aims to examine how the global evidence community can foster…
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Join the board of the Campbell Collaboration
Recruiting new Campbell board members, call for expressions of interest The Campbell Collaboration is a non-profit research network offering the most complete answers to some of the most important questions the world faces. We’re an international collaboration of researchers and – increasingly – policymakers and practitioners, producing systematic reviews that look at all the research on…