Well done to Joshua Bryan for his poster presentation and talk at the On-Campus Internship conference on Wednesday 👏 Josh was a brilliant addition to the team over the Summer and we send a big thank you from all of the team for all of his help and professionalism @cardiffunilib.bsky.social

Last week we helped celebrate 25 years of SURE (Specialist Unit for Research Evidence) at the Senedd. A wonderful evening with brilliant speakers reflecting on SURE’s partnerships across Cardiff, Wales, the UK and globally and the real-world impact of their evidence based work. #SeneddWales

We’re currently running our @jbiebhc.bsky.social comprehensive systematic review training. This week we cover module 1: introduction to EBHC and JBI & module 2: conducting SR’s of quantitative evidence. Next week we cover module 3: evidence generated by qualitative reviews and narrative and text.

Our most recent rapid review for @researchwales.bsky.social looking at integrated care for older people or people living with frailty and waiting times/lists is now available on medRxiv: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

Our next JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training programme will be taking place in June/July. Please follow the link for further information and to book your place www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/exp... @jbiebhc.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social

A WCEBC Review undertaken with the Specialist Unit for Review Evidence (SURE) for the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre has been referenced in a @welshgovernment.bsky.social Suicide prevention and self harm strategy: equality impact assessment published on the 1st April

Our next JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Programme will be taking place in May 2025. Please follow the link for further information about the course, exact dates and to enroll www.cardiff.ac.uk/professional...

Today @wcebc.bsky.social has a stand at the Early Career Researchers Day conference in the Haydn Ellis building. We look forward to chatting to anyone at the conference and hope the event goes well. @drdeborahe.bsky.social

Insightful discussions, presentations and interesting workshops from the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre Symposium yesterday, with one breakout session presented by Judit Csontos #EvidenceWales2025 @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

A special methodology issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis has just been released. This issue includes papers on: updated textual evidence synthesis methodology; revised critical appraisal tool for assessment of #RoB for cohort studies; and more! jbievidencesynthesis.com #JBImethodology

Today we have a stand at the PGR day organised by the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry outside LT1 in the main hospital building UHW and look forward to chatting to those attending #WCEBC @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

We enjoyed presenting the first morning of the JBI Scoping Review Training today with part two taking place tomorrow. We had participants as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Trinidad & Belgium and look forward to continuing our discussions tomorrow @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

I had the privilege of giving the first seminar in the series today at the School of Pharmacy, discussing the WCEBC and all aspects of evidence synthesis. @wcebc.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social

A series of papers co-authored by @drdeborahe.bsky.social outlining the revised JBI methodology regarding the inclusion of textural evidence in systematic reviews have just been published online in JBI Evidence Synthesis. journals.lww.com/jbisrir/abst...

Today is the first morning of our @jbiebhc.bsky.social Scoping Review training and we are joined by participants from the USA, Kuwait and Norway as well as all over the UK @drdeborahe.bsky.social @clarebennett.bsky.social

Our rapid review looking at the risks associated with special procedures such as body piercing has directly informed a new Welsh Government licensing bill detailed in todays press release www.gov.wales/wales-first-...