Programme
Beginner Academy
For researchers taking on their first systematic review.
- Who it's for
- Students & early-career researchers
- Format
- Online, cohort-based
- Duration
- 4 weeks
About this programme
The Beginner Academy takes you from a first, answerable question to a clear plan for a systematic review — the foundations, taught plainly, by people who do this work. No prior review experience is assumed.
Who it's for
- Postgraduate students starting a review as part of their work
- Early-career researchers new to evidence synthesis
- Anyone who wants the foundations before joining a live review
What you'll cover
- Framing a clear, answerable review question (PICO and its cousins)
- Writing a protocol and why pre-registration matters
- Building and running a reproducible literature search
- Screening studies against explicit inclusion criteria
- What critical appraisal is, and where bias hides
- How the pieces fit into a review you can finish
Have a question before you apply?
Tell us about your work and what you're hoping to get from the programme, and we'll point you to the right starting point.
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