Research Awards for Cochrane Contributors

The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology presents awards to Cochrane Contributors

The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology supports and promotes the development and use of innovative and robust methods of research synthesis. At their 2016 Annual Meeting, held in Florence, Italy from 11-13 July, the Society recognized the important contributions of Tianjing Li and Julian Higgins. See here for more information.

Two major research awards to Julie Glanville and colleagues

Congratulations to Julie Glanville (Co-convenor of the Information Retrieval Methods Group (IRMG)) and her co-authors who have been awarded First Place for their Embase paper at Mosaic ’16 (i.e. the joint conference of the US Medical Library Association (MLA), the Canadian Health Libraries Association and the International Clinical Librarian Conference)  held in Toronto in May 2016).   

“Improving Access to Reports of Randomized Controlled Trials in Embase: Innovative Methods Enhance the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)”

  • Julie M. Glanville, Associate Director, York Health Economics Consortium Ltd, York, United Kingdom (IRMG and Adverse Effects Methods Group)
  •  Gordon Dooley, Director, Metaxis Ltd., Curbridge, United Kingdom (Statistics Methods Group)
  •  Anna Noel-Storr, Trials Search Coordinator, Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, Oxford, United Kingdom (IRMG and Bias Methods Group)
  • Ruth Foxlee, Information Specialist, Cochrane Editorial Unit, London, United Kingdom (IRMG)

Julie, and other co-authors, has also been awarded the Best JMLA Research Paper Award for 2014–2015 by the MLA Research Section for their paper on searching ClinicalTrials.gov and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP).

Glanville JM, Duffy S, McCool R, Varley D. Searching ClinicalTrials.gov and the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform to inform systematic reviews: what are the optimal search approaches? Journal of the Medical Library Association 2014;102(3):177-183. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.102.3.007.

3 Aug 2016