Author: Campbell Collaboration
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Summary of a Campbell evidence and gap map on interventions for improving informal support for victim-survivors of domestic abuse: a small but useful evidence base
by Karen Schucan Bird Domestic abuse is a major health and social problem, with high levels of global prevalence and serious, widespread consequences. Perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner, domestic abuse refers to a wide range of abusive, controlling or threatening behaviours. As a complex, difficult and seemingly intractable problem, domestic abuse warrants…
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AI-Driven Evidence: Meeting the Climate Crisis with Rigorous Solutions
The DESTINY project will leverage artificial intelligence to create new digital tools aimed at improving research synthesis for policymakers. Campbell is internationally recognized for producing evidence syntheses in the social sciences and hosts the Climate Solutions Coordinating Group as part of its open-access journal. Building on this expertise, Campbell will collaborate with Cochrane to co-lead…
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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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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…
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Effect of librarians being trained on evidence synthesis
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By Alice Cann, Academic Liaison Librarian for Business at Brunel University London This is the fourth and final post in a blog series of blog reporting on an Evidence Synthesis Institute (ESI) delivered by the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon University. These posts expand on a post originally on Alice’s Researcher Librarian…
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An Evidence Synthesis Institute for librarians
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By Alice Cann, Academic Liaison Librarian for Business at Brunel University London This is the third in a series of blog posts reporting on an Evidence Synthesis Institute (ESI) delivered by the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon University. These posts expand on a post originally on Alice’s Researcher Librarian blog. What the…
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Stepping up evidence synthesis: faster, cheaper and more useful
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This draft is to seek feedback from across the collaboration and the wider evidence synthesis community as the Campbell Collaboration prepares our 2024 plans. The need It should be as natural to find out the state of the art in evidence about how to tackle the world’s most important social challenges as it is to…
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Having police in schools does not improve school safety
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By Benjamin Fisher, Associate Professor of Civil Society and Community Studies, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison The question of whether to have police in schools is a controversy that has existed for years. Do they make schools safer? Do they make arrests that fuel the school-to-prison pipeline? Do students feel safer with police…
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One librarian’s systematic review experience pre-Evidence Synthesis Institute
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By Alice Cann, Academic Liaison Librarian for Business at Brunel University London This is the second in a series of blog posts reporting on an Evidence Synthesis Institute (ESI) delivered by the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon University. These posts expand on a post originally on Alice’s Researcher Librarian blog. Business librarian…
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Librarian involvement in evidence synthesis
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By Alice Cann, Academic Liaison Librarian for Business at Brunel University London This is the first in a series of blog posts reporting on an Evidence Synthesis Institute (ESI) delivered by the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon University. (Here’s part two, part three and part four.) These posts expand on a post…