The ESG Best Practice Working Group in Automation and Technological Advancement is chaired jointly by James Thomas (LACES) and Alex Sutton (@CRSU).
The group's activities fall into three main areas:
- Meeting on on a monthly basis to share tools, experiences and ideas and to further understanding across ESGs
- Sharing tools and resources on this web page
- Developing and sharing templates for studies within a review (SWARs) for ESGs (and others) to use
The agenda for meetings in 2024-5 (1pm on 3rd Thursday in the month) is as follows
(Click on hyperlinks where available for the slides)
2024
2025
- January 16: Tool demo and discussion: Nested Knowledge*
- February 20: How do we validate tools for use?
- (Including what are the key uncertainties in our area for SWARs?)
- March 20: Tool demo and discussion*
- April 17: Guidance for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis (RAISE)
- May 15: Tool demo and discussion*
- June 19: Implementation and adoption of technologies
- July 17: Tool demo and discussion*
* we will invite individual tool developers to present and discuss their tools
Meetings are open to anyone in an NIHR ESG. Please contact James Thomas if you would like to be added to the calendar invite list.
Resources
Database of digital evidence synthesis tools
A list of useful tools to try out
Screening tools to try / evaluate / use (from Andrew Booth's talk in June 2024)