Additional Events
Previous Events
Research Development Initiative Researchers' Workshop 2010
Venue: Committee Room 1, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University
Date: Wednesday 24th November to Thursday 25th November
The workshop aims to:
- share experiences of implementing RDI projects, and associated successes and problems;
- explore examples of training practice from Round 2 and 3 projects;
- discuss issues connected with the quality of learning support, sustainability, and technology;
- update RDI researchers on the RDI scheme ;
- consider next steps for RDI project support and collaboration.
- RDIlearningsupportpractice.pdf (last modified: 16 December 2010)
Fifth Annual Conference - Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) in the Social Sciences: Methodological Advances in Experimental Research
Venue: Institute for Effective Education, University of York
Date: 20th - 22nd September 2010
The conference will be an opportunity for delegates to share expertise, interests, and concerns about conducting trials in all fields of public policy. The conference is run jointly from the Institute for Effective Education, University of York and the Trials Unit, Dept of Health Sciences.
Professor Carole Torgerson (School of Education, University of Birmingham), Professor David Torgerson (Director, York Trials Unit, University of York) and Professor Steve Higgins (School of Education, Durham University) are the conference organisers.
The programme includes a choice of two free workshops. One of the workshops, which is part funded by the RDI project, will be led by Chad Nye, Executive Director of the University of Central Florida, USA, Centre for Autism and Related Disabilities and Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. The workshop 'Assessing Methodological Quality of Randomised and Quasi-Experimental Trials' will use an example of a systematic review of RCT's and QED's in the field of speech/language pathology to provide a detailed analysis of the methodological quality of experimental and quasi-experimental group designed studies in the area.
To be added to the conference email list or for more information about the 2010 conference, pleae email RCTs-conference@events.york.ac.uk or visit the University of York website for a conference brochure.
Systematic reviews and policy transfer for Scotland
Venue: The Scottish Government, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh. EH6 6QQ
Date: Monday 15 March - Tuesday 16 March, 2010
The Government hosted Seminar ran over 2 days and comprised an academic debate hosted by the University of Edinburgh Public Policy Network and applied training opportunities. The event was part of an ongoing dialogue between Government, ESRC Investments and the Campbell Collaboration on knowledge transfer and research impact.
Organised by: The Scottish Government, ESRC Researcher Development Initiative in Quantitative Synthesis, and the Campbell Collaboration
Public Lecture by Professor Larry Hedges (Northwestern University, USA)
Title: 'Context Effects, Experiments and Generalization in Educational Research'
Venue: Elvin Hall, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
Date: Monday 7th June, 2010
Time: 6.00 pm to 7.15 p.m.
Professor Larry Hedges delivered a public lecture on 'Context Effects, Experiments and Generalization in Educational Research'.
The lecture offered a rare opportunity to learn from an acknowledged expert in the field of educational statistics and evaluation. Professor Hedges’ research straddles many fields and is perhaps best known for his work to develop statistical methods for meta-analysis in the social, medical, and biological sciences, which is a key component of evidence-based research and policy.
About the lecture:
Did it work? Will it work here? If so who will benefit and by how much? These are key questions that education research users want education researchers to answer. Meta-analysis may provide a strong basis for providing robust answers to the ‘did it work’ and ‘will it work here’ questions but traditionally these approaches have been viewed as lacking when it comes to the ‘who’ and ‘how much’ questions which are so crucial to transferability. This is partly because the individual studies often do not use true probability samples and often fail to show how impact varies with social context. This talk discussed the issues that complicate generalization across contexts and demonstrated how the notion of the distribution of treatment effects can be used to estimate the potential effects of any intervention when applied to another setting.
ESRC Research Methods Festival 2010
Venue: St Catherine's College, Oxford
Date: Monday 5th to Thursday 8th July 2010.
The Research Methods Festival has run every other year since 2004. It is now a flagship ESRC research training event, attracting hundreds of research students plus academic and government researchers.
Professor Steve Higgins, School of Education, Durham University led a workshop at the Festival entitled 'What is Meta-analysis'. A copy of his presentation is available to download. A podcast is also available.
- WhatIsMetaAnalysis2.ppt (last modified: 9 March 2011)
