CEI has had a busy start to the year preparing for the Evidence and Implementation Summit alongside our co-hosts Monash University. The Summit is now just under one month away. We are thrilled with the depth and breadth on offer in the #EIS2021 program, which is now available online. Register to secure your spot at the Summit and one of the several free-to-access pre-conference workshops with evidence and implementation science experts.
Globally the CEI team continues to use evidence and implementation science to achieve impact for vulnerable communities, from supporting research on how teachers use evidence in Australian schools to collaborating with one of Singapore’s pioneering self-help organisations to developing communication tools in the UK targeting problem-solving skills for youth with depression. We’ve also turned our hand to video production, with a new animation focused on common practice elements.
Read on for details of these and other activities in this month's newsletter.
Evidence and Implementation Summit 2021: Just weeks left to register - view the full program today
The Evidence and Implementation Summit 2021 is now less than one month away! There are 30 countries represented across the full program and attendees from more than 70 will participate online. Nine noteworthy speakers will deliver live keynotes, while 24 panel presentations, 16 discussion groups and over 40 hours of searchable, pre-recorded content (delivered to Summit registrants March 15) are also on offer.
We encourage you to consider the full program, downloadable from the #EIS2021 website. Time zone-specific programs have also been included on the website to help you envisage which sessions you can comfortably attend live.
Your registration also includes access to pre-Summit workshops alongside networking options and opportunities to interact with evidence and implementation science luminaries. We look forward to seeing you there.
Keynote Speakers #EIS2021
Two new CEI videos unpack evidence-informed approaches
Understanding practice elements: building blocks for intervention and program design
One of CEI’s core approaches to make evidence more ‘implementable’ is by using common practice elements as the building blocks for intervention and program design. But what are practice elements exactly? And how do we design programs with good implementation in mind from the start, all the while maintaining a commitment to building the evidence through robust evaluation? A new animation from CEI unpacks the practice elements approach. You can watch the video here
Video teaches 14 year olds problem solving therapy to assist with depression
CEI completed a review of evidence on the effectiveness of problem-solving interventions for adolescents and young adults in partnership with Wellcome Trust, then produced a video on problem-solving therapies for depression in young people. Problem-solving therapy teaches individuals to solve problems by seeing them as challenges rather than obstacles that make them feel stuck. The animation runs through the seven steps of problem-solving to establish how this evidence-based therapy can assist with depression.
Getting Evidence Moving in Schools (GEMS) report explores how schools mobilise research
Despite a growing commitment to using rigorous evidence to improve student learning outcomes, how evidence is used and applied in Australian school settings is still poorly understood. As part of a three-year project led by Evidence for Learning, CEI carried out a research investigation exploring how schools mobilise literacy and numeracy research through professional learning providers. The report presents eight key insights that can guide policymakers, educators and practitioners keen to see cutting-edge education research taken up in school settings.
Strengthening impact in Singapore: Tailoring an impact evaluation framework for Yayasan MENDAKI
CEI has worked closely with Yayasan MENDAKI, a Self-Help Group in Singapore set up in 1982, to review and update its evaluation methods in order to enhance its impact. CEI supported MENDAKI to tailor its impact evaluation framework, and plans are in place to pilot the use of the framework in 2021.
Coming soon: rapid evidence review in partnership with Australia’s Disability Royal Commission
CEI, along with Monash University, have been partnering with the Disability Royal Commission (DRC) to conduct a rapid evidence review of the published literature to address the gap in our understanding about the particular contexts in which violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation occur against people with disabilities. The review will also identify the risk factors for abuse and pinpoint protective factors that may exist to prevent maltreatment. This review will be one of the keystones of the work of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Examining the feasibility of implementing the global health education campaign Choosing Wisely™ in Singapore
CEI has embarked on a new project under the Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore), which CEI has helped to establish. This project will examine the feasibility of implementing the Choosing Wisely™ campaign in Singapore. Choosing Wisely™ is a global health education campaign that has been implemented in 20 countries to date. Designed to be a ground-up initiative, led by clinicians for clinicians, its goal is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.