Recent Campbell Posts

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationOne goal of Campbell’s strategy for 2015-18 was to do more to promote the use of reviews to inform policy and practice.How are we doing?This is not something we were tracking before. We have now compiled a list of ‘policy influence stories’, which has identified in....

By Cara C. Lewis, PhD, Associate Investigator, The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA. Dr. Lewis is a clinical psychologist whose research seeks to identify how providers and care teams can optimize patient outcomes by leveraging data an....

What can child welfare professionals expect from Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018? We asked the GEIS sector co-lead and Campbell editor Aron Shlonsky, Professor of Evidence-Informed Practice at the University of Melbourne, to share his thoughts on why this summit is both valuable and timely.How is ....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell Collaboration | June 2018    The international community has committed itself to ending violence against children, sexual exploitation and trafficking.The international community is also committed to basing actions on evidence. Billions of dollars are spent each year on programmes....

As a non-profit, how should you report impact to donors? Caroline Fiennes, Director of Giving Evidence, a UK-based organisation that promotes charitable giving based on sound evidence, provides her insights about evidence of impact.“We often talk about ‘what is your impact?’ In a way, this is a very boring questi....

Written by David B. Wilson, Iain Brennan and Ajima OlaghereA first arrest is a pivotal moment in the life of a young person. The outcome of the arrest can have profound implications. In some cases, criminal charges can be the first step on a path overrun with reduced opportunities, further criminal behavior, and victim....

Written by Alexander Krauss, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Lecturer, University College LondonAll randomised controlled trials are to some degree biased. While trials are often used to help inform our decisions in public health and social policy, I argue in the study Why all ra....

Text and photos by Ciara Keenan, Systematic Reviewer, Campbell UK & Ireland Centre, and blogger (Meta-Evidence) The 10th Biennial Joanna Briggs Institute Colloquium was held in Antwerp last week. The colloquium was an inquiry into the ‘successful implementation of evidence-based practice: Hard work or good luck....

The Campbell Collaboration hosted an event yesterday in New Delhi, India, that focused on bring researchers and funders together to discuss strategies and problems facing them in brokering evidence to policymakers. You can read more about the line-up here: Evidence uptake to action: Funder and researcher perspectives,....

By Howard White | 3 May 2018The evidence revolution has led to growing amounts of evidence being generated about what works across a range of sectors. Homelessness is no exception. The number of rigorous studies published grew from an average of seven a year in 2000-05 to 17 a year from 2011-17. But all this research ....