Plain language summaries: Improving the reach of your systematic review.

Webinar overview: Campbell Systematic reviews tell us important and interesting things, in detail. Campbell authors have an important responsibility to share these findings in a way that is accessible to the public through a Plain Language Summary (PLS). This webinar will cover the why, the how and the where of writing accessible PLS’s. Biography: Dr Ciara Keenan is a Research Fellow at Campbell UK & Ireland (QUB) with an established international reputation in evidence synthesis methodology. Ciara’s MSc (distinction, 2013) and PhD (2018) both used evidence synthesis methods and she has since co-authored reviews in the areas of health (to inform NICE guidelines), social welfare, disability, and education. Ciara is most committed to capacity building in evidence synthesis which has led to her work as Founder and Editor of the meta-evidence blog and twitter’s @evidencerobot and @COVID_Evidence. Ciara provides regular training and workshops across various evidence synthesis topics and is currently leading review teams on several projects including a network meta-analysis. Ciara is Co-Convenor of the Campbell Collaboration’s Information Scientist Network, a Methods Editor and Information Retrieval specialist for Campbell’s Education Coordinating Group (ECG).