Harnessing evidence to tackle health issues | RFTRW: S13E03
14 February 2022
Keeping on top of emerging research evidence can be tough - that's where research synthesis and the work of the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre comes into play.
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Dr Laura Outhwaite chats to Professor David Gough to learn about research synthesis to look beyondÌýindividual study findings in order to respond to the bigger picture, and a new frontier: whyÌýresearch is - or isn't - used in practice and decision-making.
And in what's become an infodemic as well as a pandemic, Professor James Thomas has been working on a living map of systematic reviews to help researchers and policy makers keep up to date with huge volumes of shifting Covid-19 evidence.
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Links
- Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre)
- Social Science Research Unit
- Research for the Real World podcast
- IOE Podcast