Congratulations to Aoife Smith, an ESI Summer Student (2024 cohort), on the recent co-publication of ‘Quality Appraisal Tools Used in Qualitative Evidence Syntheses in Maternity Care Research: A Scoping Review.’ Aoife completed her ESI Summer Student Scholarship in 2024 under mentor Prof. Valerie Smith, based at UCD. Read the full publication here.
We are delighted to announce the ESI Training & Webinar Schedule for September 2025 to February 2026! Check out the upcoming events: Introduction to Systematic Reviews, Advanced Meta-Analysis for Effectiveness Systematic Reviews, Mixed-Methods Evidence Synthesis, Search Strategies, Systematic Review Search Methods and Core GRADE. More info here.
ESI fellow Kate O’Doherty, mentored by Prof Valerie Smith (UCD), recently published a systematic review and meta-analysis titled ‘The effectiveness of care bundles for reducing caesarean section safely‘. This research examines how care bundles can safely lower the number of caesarean sections. The review provides valuable insights for healthcare professionals looking to improve maternal health […]
Dr Elayne Ahern shared her positive experience with the ESI Fellowship. She discussed the valuable skills she gained in Cochrane methodology, meta-analysis and qualitative evidence synthesis through the review process and ESI workshops. As an Associate Professor at UL, she used her fellowship experience to secure an ESI SWAR award in 2024, collaborating on the […]
The HIET-1 trial protocol has been published in The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology: Comparison of AI-assisted and human-generated plain language summaries for Cochrane reviews: protocol for a randomised trial (HIET-1) Led by ESI team members Prof. Declan Devane, KM Saif-Ur-Rahman, Dr. Nikita Burke PhD and Dr. Tom Conway, this protocol outlines a study exploring how […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Barbara Whelan, Acting Programme Manager and Research Fellow at Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, will present at the HRB National Conference 2025. Barbara will present during Session 2: Evidence-informed policy making – What works and where are the gaps?, sharing findings from the R/ESSA project and on […]
