University of Malta
Faculty for Social Wellbeing
Department of Family Studies
Conducting Systematic Reviews
5th to 9th May, 2014.
The Department of Family Studies within the Faculty for Social
WellBeing at the University of Malta announces a five-day
training workshop on systematic reviews.
The purpose of a systematic review is to sum up the best
available research on a specific question. This is done by
synthesizing the results of several studies and it is currently
being considered as the gold standard in research.
This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to learn
about as well as practice skills required to conduct systematic
reviews. The course will be taught by two eminent scholars
with extensive experience on the matter who will be
supervising the course participants carry out/conduct an actual
systematic review.
The Department of Family Studies would like to invite
academics as well as professionals in the areas of family
therapy, psychotherapy, psychiatry, counselling, psychology,
social work, health sciences and medicine to attend. Students
in these areas at Master’s level are also welcome.
The course will be held at the University of Malta Main Campus
at Msida and it shall run from 9am to 1.30 pm. (10am to 2.30
pm on 8th May) Venue: IT Services TR003
The cost for the entire course is 225 euros per participant.
To book for the course, kindly contact Ms. Kerry Chetcuti at
events-familystudies.fsw@um.edu.mt
Paul Montgomery is Professor of Psycho-Social
Intervention and Co-Director of the Centre for
Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford.
Prof Montgomery specialises in furthering the
understanding of what interventions are actually
effective in tackling complex psycho-social
problems. His work encompasses a wide variety of
different psycho-social problems affecting different
population groups, from learning disabled children,
through groups at risk of HIV to the demented
elderly with sleep problems. He is an expert in the
evaluation of psychosocial interventions for realworld practice using randomised trials, systematic
reviews, and other evaluation designs. He is a
former Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration
Social Welfare Group, and an editor for the
Cochrane Collaboration Developmental,
Psychosocial, and Learning Problems Group. He has
conducted numerous systematic reviews and
randomised trials related to behavioural change and
psychological interventions, and is the primary
investigator for many research projects developing
methodological guidelines, such as guidance on
empty systematic reviews for the Cochrane
Collaboration and reporting guidelines for
randomised trials of social and psychological
interventions via an extension of the CONSORT
Statement.
Sean Grant is a researcher and Doctoral Candidate
at the Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention,
University of Oxford. Sean's research focuses on
intervention research methods as well as
psychosocial interventions for alcohol abuse. He has
several current and completed systematic review
projects in the area of complex intervention
research, and he has also worked on several primary
evaluations of psychosocial interventions. He is
currently the Managing Editor for the Education
Coordinating Group of the Campbell Collaboration
and Project Officer for the development of a new
reporting guideline for social and psychological
intervention trials: CONSORT-SPI. Sean also has
several years experience delivering interventions to
university students at-risk for alcohol abuse.