Why am I so pleased to be leading UCL’s MSc Social Policy (Evidence Synthesis)? www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

🔊 Published today, our new Cochrane review on the impact of calorie labelling on people’s selection and consumption of food (including non-alcoholic drinks) and alcohol: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... Short thread below 👇

Our new blog on a political economy of evidence-informed decision making emphasises the importance of local context conditions -where and who and how evidence is used, as well as institutional, political and economic factors and the interactions between them. bit.ly/3Oy2Ivq @eppicentre.bsky.social

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

*Don't miss out - early bird rate ends 30 November!* Join us in Exeter for 2-day, in person course on systematic reviews of quantitative and qualitative research and mixed methods evidence synthesis. #academicsky #systematicreviews More info here: www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/hl...

Couldn't find a starter pack for the #EvidenceSynthesis community in health and care research and beyond so I created one. If you're not on this and would like to be and/or have suggestions of others to add let me know. Or indeed if you know of a starter pack I've missed. go.bsky.app/79wrV7Y

If you think that describing this article as the first part of a series is pretentious, just wait until I describe the second review as part 2 of a trilogy. Collaborative Policymaking: a qualitative systematic review of advice for policymakers: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-2...