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Call for Campbell methods papers: How can we shift from rapid reviews to living evidence synthesis?
Globally, decision-makers are increasingly seeking timely evidence to inform their decisions. Often, the evidence is needed in less than a week to meet a “window of opportunity”. There is global enthusiasm and commitment that a step-change is needed to make evidence synthesis faster, cheaper and more useful, endorsed as part of the Cape Town Charter of…
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Join the board of the Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration is a global 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, policy makers, and practitioners, producing evidence synthesis. That includes systematic reviews that look at all the research on one question, test it and summarize it;…
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Digital Evidence Synthesis Hackathon in Potsdam
Dear colleagues, 🌍 Join Us for the First DEST Hackathon on Living Evidence Synthesis! 🌐 📍 Location: Telegrafenberg campus, PIK – Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam📅 Date: July 10–11, 2025 We’re excited to invite you to the first DEST Hackathon, co-organized by the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) and…
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Campbell Collaboration: Request for proposals for a publishing partner
Objective: Partner with a publisher for the journal Campbell Systematic Reviews Deadline: May 15, 2025 The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network established in 2001 to support the production and use of high-quality systematic reviews in social sectors including policing, education, social welfare and international development. To support these goals, Campbell manages the peer-reviewed,…
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The Relevance of Evidence Gap Maps for Evaluation and Decision-Making
By: Sheila Agyemang Oppong, Clarice Panyin Nyan, David Sarfo Ameyaw In an era where policymakers, practitioners, and researchers increasingly rely on evidence to inform their decisions, Evidence Gap Maps (EGMs) have emerged as essential tools for synthesizing this evidence. At the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED), we recognize the critical role that EGMs…
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Campbell Collaboration priorities for building an evidence synthesis infrastructure 2.0
By Vivian Welch, Ruth Garside, Santina LeBrun, Sarah Miller, Darren Moore, Gavin Stewart, James Thomas When we travel to work or take our kids to school, the “bricks and mortar” infrastructure of trains, railways and crossings allows us to get there efficiently and safely. It takes many years of planning the public transit infrastructure to…
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New AI Methods Group to spearhead adoption across four leading evidence synthesis organizations
We are delighted to announce a new, joint Methods Group between the Cochrane Collaboration, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in evidence synthesis. The rapidly growing evidence base and the increasing complexity of methods makes completing timely, high-quality, and comprehensive evidence synthesis, more and…
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How organisations should deal with child protection: what the evidence covers and what it says
Caroline Fiennes, Director, Giving Evidence (Twitter: @carolinefiennes) In most sectors, some well-intentioned interventions will succeed in making things better; some have little or no effect; and some may make things worse. Clearly children deserve better than adults to use the ‘strategy’ that we call “guess and hope”, so decisions relating to child protection should be…
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Request for proposals for evidence synthesis on countering violent extremism
Proposals Due Oct 3, 2024 Background The Campbell Collaboration Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) evidence synthesis programme is a global research initiative to use rigorous and relevant evidence to inform policy and practice. The programme produces high quality evidence reviews on About the proposed reviews We are seeking teams with experience in conducting evidence synthesis and…
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New Co-chair for Campbell Climate Solutions Coordinating Group
We are pleased to announce the election of Hugh Sharma Waddington as Co-chair of the Campbell Climate Solutions Coordinating Group (CSCG). Hugh is Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the London International Development Centre (LIDC) in the UK. He has led commissioning and quality assurance of over 100 systematic reviews…