Library Research

Knowledge Synthesis Workshop Series: Getting Started and Structured Searching

May 8, 2025, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Prubjot Gill and Katherine Miller
Location: Online

This workshop will help set you up for success when embarking on a systematic review/knowledge synthesis project. Topics to be covered in this session:

  • Understanding the review process 

  • Defining your question

  • Resources for developing a protocol 

  • Identifying and analyzing seed papers 

  • Creating a rigorous and reproducible search strategy

There will be time to ask questions throughout the workshop. Please bring any questions you have! 

We encourage you to join this workshop using a laptop or computer, rather than a mobile device as there will be opportunities to practice advanced strategies to search databases. 

Zoom link will be sent to registrants one day before the event

If you have any questions, concerns, or accessibility needs, or are having trouble registering, please email wd.ref@ubc.ca 

Can't make it? Contact your subject librarian http://directory.library.ubc.ca/subjectlibrarians/ 

Campus/Source
UBC Library–Vancouver

https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3897115

  • Library Research
  • Research Commons
  • Systematic / Scoping Reviews

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC's two main campuses are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xwmə0– kwəyˇəm (Musqueam) and Syilx (Okanagan) peoples, and that UBC’s activities take place on Indigenous lands throughout British Columbia and beyond.

Research Data Management @ UBC

UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan
UBC Library | Office of the Chief Information Officer | Vice-President, Research and Innovation,
Website rdm.ubc.ca

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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