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Quantitative Evidence Synthesis Workshop

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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Register for the Quantitative Evidence Synthesis Workshop

We are delighted to invite you to the Quantitative Evidence Synthesis Workshop, hosted by the Department of Organizational Psychology's Quantitative Research Group. The event will take place on Friday 16 June and will run from 1.30pm-5pm at Birkbeck's Main Building in room G14. 

The day will feature a mix of presentations and panel discussions by academic staff and external speakers. 

 

Timetable 

13:30 Welcome & Introductions 

13:45 Research presentations: novel results and lessons learned

In these presentations, researchers from Birkbeck and neighbouring institutions will share the results of recent meta-analyses regarding the world of work, as well as their key lessons learned in the process. 

  • Dr Kevin Teoh, Birkbeck Organisational Psychology - Doctors' perceived working conditions, psychological health and patient care:
    a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
  • Dr Bora Yildiz, Birbeck Organisational Psychology & Istanbul Universitesi, Management - Counterintuitive consequences of COVID-19 on healthcare workers: A meta-analysis of the relationship between work engagement and job satisfaction
  • Prof Shoshana Dobrow, LSE Management - Calling and the good life: a meta-analysis and theoretical extension
  • Dr Yi-Ling Lai, Southampton Business School- The effectiveness of workplace coaching: a meta-analysis of contemporary psychologically informed coaching approaches
  • Dr Pedro Gomes, Birkbeck Economics - Initial findings from a meta-analysis of the public-sector wage premium
  • Dr Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck Organisational Psychology - When does team diversity influence team performance? Initial results from a registered report meta-analysis

15:15 Coffee Break 

15:30 Tutorials & methods 

These presentations and mini-workshops highlight methodological challenges and introduce tools that make evidence synthesis easier and/or more robust.

  • Prof David Shanks, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences - Publication bias in meta-analyses: why it matters and how to address it
  • Trevor Riley, NOAA Central Library - CiteSource a web app to select, evaluate and report on databases and search methods
  • Dr Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck Organisational Psychology - Evidence synthesis in the age of Open Data - implementing individual participant-data meta-analyses in the social sciences
  • Prof Almuth McDowall Beyond the protocol: Taking synthesis and epistemology seriously

17:00 Close and networking drinks

 

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