SRN training reaches researchers across eight countries

When the Systematic Reviews Network began, the work was measured in single courses: a room of researchers, a week of teaching, a set of protocols that might or might not turn into finished reviews. The measure has changed. Across webinars, hands-on workshops, and a paired mentorship programme, SRN's training now reaches researchers in eight countries — and, more importantly, the reviews keep coming after the trainers have gone home.

Skills that stay

The network's premise is simple: a systematic review is only as trustworthy as the method behind it, and method can be taught. Each programme is built to leave something behind that a researcher can use again without supervision —

• a research question framed well enough to protocol,

• a search strategy that another person could reproduce,

• and a protocol registered in the open before data extraction begins.

That is why reach is counted in people who can now run their own reviews, not in attendance. A researcher who leaves a workshop able to register a protocol and design a reproducible search has gained something that does not expire.

Where it goes next

The countries already on the map are a starting point, not a ceiling. Every new partner university, sponsored place, and hosted workshop extends where evidence skills can take root — and each researcher trained becomes someone who can, in turn, teach the next.