SAVE THE DATE: ESI SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
Evidence Synthesis Ireland is delighted to announce the upcoming event Summer School 2025 – Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Synthesis.
Deputy Director of Evidence Synthesis – Dr Linda Biesty
Linda is the new Deputy Director of Evidence Synthesis Ireland. Linda is also co-lead of the QES strand within ESI, teaching faculty and a member of the steering committee.
The People’s Review: a Systematic Review Powered by the People
In this blog, Éle Quinn, PhD student with Evidence Synthesis Ireland at the University of Galway, explains what her project – The People’s Review is all about. It is difficult to make health decisions. We are exposed to a huge amount of information available 24/7 on our smartphones. It is easy to find all sorts […]
ESI PhD Update: Xuenan Pang
Xuenan Pang is a PhD candidate in Health Studies at the University of Galway. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Henan University in 2020. She then pursued a Master of Medical degree in Nursing from Central South University, which she completed in 2023. Xuenan’s research focuses on Artificial Intelligence in evidence synthesis.
ESI Fellow Travel Bursary Awards – GES 2024
Congratulations to the following fellows who were recently awarded travel bursaries to attend the Global Evidence Summit 2024 in Prague in September 2024. The conference will provide an opportunity for our fellows to learnhow best to produce, summarise and disseminate evidence to inform policy and practice.
Driver Eyesight and Traffic Safety in Developing Countries: Exploring the Link
In this blog for anyone interested in traffic safety, Prabhath Piyasena, a research fellow in global eye health and his team at Queen’s University Belfast, look at the latest evidence on the association between poor eyesight and road traffic crashes in developing countries, which has not been studied before. Do you know the number one […]
2024 Cohort of ESI Summer Scholars
This year, we have been lucky to have a bumper crop of ESI Summer Scholars. They are placed at University of Galway, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, and Queens University Belfast who are partner institutes of ESI. If you are an undergraduate student at any of these locations, and would be interested in summer […]
Radiotherapy for breast cancer: moving with the times
In this blog for people with breast cancer and their families, Dr Niamh Kilgallen, a Senior Researcher with the National Cancer Control Programme in the Health Service Executive, looks at the latest evidence on radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer and asks if the treatment time for radiotherapy can safely be reduced to one week. […]
Evidence Synthesis Ireland SWAR Award June 2024 – Now OPEN
The latest Evidence Synthesis Ireland SWAR Award scheme round has been launched. We are pleased to announce that lead applicants can be from any Higher Education Institute in the world but must include a co-applicant from the island of Ireland. A SWAR can help provide evidence to inform decisions about how we plan, do and […]
ESI SWAR Awards 2024
Congratulations to the recipients of the SWAR Awards 2024. Dr Aoife O’Mahony (UCC), Prof Margaret McGrath (UCC) & Dr Elyane Ahern (UL) & their research teams will receive support to conduct a SWAR. What is a SWAR? A SWAR is a research study that can help provide evidence to inform decisions about how we plan, […]