Recent Campbell Posts

By Maren Duvendack and Philip Mader The impacts of financial inclusion and microfinance in developing countries have been hotly debated for many years. With so many systematic reviews having been published over the last decade, it is hard for anyone to keep an overview, let alone come to a summary conclusion. With thi....

Interview by Tanya Kristiansen, Web editor, Campbell CollaborationDr. Trine Filges has authored and coauthored 13 Campbell systematic reviews published since 2012,  with three of these published this year. A Dane, Trine has a PhD in economics from the University of Copenhagen, and works in the city as senior resea....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationSome people are speaking of a crisis in Cochrane.  This so-called ‘crisis’ arises partly from the treatment of conflict of interest issues.  Dealing with conflict of interest is an important issue for the evidence-based policy and practice. Cochrane is currently re....

By Emily A. Hennessy & Andrew J. FinchIn principle, secondary schools and colleges should be substance-free learning environments. However, research has demonstrated that, especially in the United States, students are offered alcohol or drugs on school grounds. Our own research with youth in recovery from substance....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationIn the movie I Robot, Detective Del Spooner, played by Will Smith, dislikes the ever-present robots because a robot rescues him from a car accident instead of saving an 11-year-old girl. The robot chose the detective as he had the greater chance of survival. But, as S....

By: Vivian Welch and Julia LittellThe Campbell Collaboration is committed to informing social policy with high-quality systematic reviews, through our peer-reviewed series of Campbell Systematic reviews. Analysis of our citation rates using Google scholar show that we have an excellent academic citation rate.Our google....

By Richard Weston, CEO of The Healing Foundation, Canberra, AustraliaRichard Weston is a keynote speaker at the Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018, being held from 22-24 October in Melbourne, Australia. In this blog post, Richard describes how The Healing Foundation is using evidence to better under....

Written by Ashrita Saran, Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell CollaborationIn principle, children in India are protected by using preventive strategies such as laws on ‘child labour’ and ‘education for all’ and ‘incentives’ for free education. But in the course of my research while travelling throughou....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationWe play a New Year’s Game at Campbell:* each staff member sends round an email with their top book, music and movie from the year. I have learned it best to keep a mental note of my frontrunners as I too easily forget what happened last week, let alone within the last ....

Keynote Speakers shown aboveThe Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018 is now less than two months away! Being held in Melbourne, Australia from 22-24 October, GEIS 2018 will bring together experts from across the world to talk about their experiences in generating and implementing evidence for better po....