Systematic Reviews: diversity, design and debate

This course will provide you with an introduction to systematic methods for conducting reviews of research literature and to the uses of research in policy and practice in a variety of sectors and disciplines.

Sessions will cover the following:

• the variety of systematic approaches to reviewing research
• questions and conceptual frameworks in literature reviews
• methods for interrogating research studies
• searching for evidence (with hands-on work with bibliographic databases)
• extracting, analysing and presenting data from research studies
• quality assurance and management of literature reviews
• the use of systematic reviews within public policy and practice